[List-Cumbria] Carlisle Patriot, 20 Jul 1816 - County Sessions (1)

[J B]

Wow! Petra, I'm  in awe of your energy  and stamina.

I read everything you post though not found any of 'mine' yet. Most of them
are in Bowness or Penrith areas but I do have *Hedleys* in *Brampton*.

Thank you for all you do to keep us stimulated and informed.

Jenny in West Midlands

On Mon, 5 Sep 2022, 14:31 Petra Mitchinson via List-Cumbria, <
list-cumbria at cumbriafhs.com> wrote:

> *Saturday 20 Jul 1816   (p. 2, col. 6 – p. 3, col. 2)*
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> COUNTY SESSIONS.
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> The Midsummer Quarter Sessions for the County came on at the New Courts,
> on Tuesday, before J. C. SATTERTHWAITE, Esq. and a more numerous Bench of
> Magistrates than we ever recollect seeing assembled on any former occasion,
> thirty-four being present.
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> Nearly the whole of the first Day, and a considerable portion of the
> second, were taken up in the hearing of appeal causes, in some of which the
> arguments of counsel extended to great length; but there was nothing of
> public interest, or that would amuse any of our readers.
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> John LITTLEDALE, Esq. of Whitehaven, qualified as a Magistrate.
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> *Esther TYSON*, who pleaded guilty at a former Sessions to an indictment
> for an assault of a violent nature on George LAWSON, came into court and
> received judgment. She was sentenced to pay a fine of £10, and stand
> committed till such fine be paid. Several other persons pleaded guilty to
> indictments for assaults, but being of a trivial nature, and having made
> satisfaction to the parties agrieved [*sic*], they were discharged.
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> THE KING *v*. HODGSON.—This was an indictment for an assault on the
> prosecution of Edward RICHARDSON. The parties are respectable farmers.
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> Mr. LAMB, in opening the case for the prosecution, said the defendant was
> one of those men who are very often fond of *practical jokes*, which he
> took care to carry on without any regard either to the comfort or the lives
> of those he fixed on for his *practice*. The defendant was indicted for a
> grevious [*sic*] assault, the consequences of which, might have been very
> serious. The action was brought to teach the defendant the folly of such
> conduct and to prevent a repetition in future. If the defendant had made an
> apology for his ill behaviour, the case would not have come before the
> court.
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> *Richard RICHARDSON*, the prosecutor, sworn. I am a farmer, and live at
> Wormanby, in this county. On the 5th of April last, I was at Wigton fair,
> and set out on my way homewards about dusk in the evening. I had taken some
> liquor, but was not the worse for it. While I was riding along the road
> about 2½ miles out of Wigton, I was overtaken by the defendant HODGSON, who
> came galloping up to me at a furious rate; he struck at my horse without
> speaking a word. I told him that was bad behaviour; he then damned me, and
> said he would drown me in the pond—I knew no reason for this conduct.
> HODGSON also forced his horse against mine, which being a young blood
> animal full of condition, became very restive. HODGSON then said, that I
> neither should ride beside nor behind him, but that I should go before—I
> said I would ride as I chose, the road was for me as well as for him. On
> this HODGSON struck both my horse and myself—my horse reared, the girth
> broke, and I fell off into the dike on my head. I was not much hurt.
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> *Cross Examined*.—HODGSON was very drunk. After he began to strike me and
> the horse, I said that I would knock him off if he did not be quiet.
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> *John MARSHALL*, and *John METCALF* corroborated the statements,
> generally, of the prosecutor.
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> *Robert HODGSON* said he met with the Defendant on the road after the
> affray had happened, who told him that *if he had been behind he would
> have seen a bit of sport*, and defendant seemed to look on it only in
> that light.
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> Mr. COURTNEY for the defence contended that a more trumpery action never
> came into Court, and which in fact was founded on private pique. If the
> defendant would have humbled himself a little, the action never would have
> been brought, and the prosecutor himself was obliged to acknowledge that he
> sustained no injury whatever. The fact was this, RICHARDSON had been to the
> fair and got drunk, and in going home had fallen from his horse! The
> defendant's saying that he should neither ride behind nor beside him was
> readily accounted for, as all present must know how dangerous it was to
> ride in company with "a blood horse full of condition;" therefore defendant
> very properly insisted that he should go before him. He was sure that the
> Jury would scout the action and mark their sense of it by their verdict.
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> The Jury, however, without hesitation, pronounced the prisoner *guilty*,
> and he was fined 40s., which he immediately paid.
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> THE KING *v*. MARGARET TYSON.—This was an action for an assault. The
> prosecutor is Mr. A. MILLER a corn and flour dealer at Workington. The
> defendant also resides at Workington, and is a cow keeper. She was
> described as a perfect Xantippe, and one who is frequent in her sacrifices
> to Bacchus. Her whole appearance and conduct in Court indicated as much;
> never had a woman more reason to be out of temper with her looks!
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> *Mr. MILLER*, the prosecutor, gave evidence. I was in the market place at
> Workington on the afternoon of the 20th of September last. The defendant
> both struck and abused me. She came to me a second time and struck me. She
> said her husband had died suddenly; that she would rip my great g—ts up,
> and that I should die suddenly too. I never gave her any provocation. She
> had frequently struck and abused me before.
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> *Wm. BURNS*, and *Thomas LIDDEL* proved to the same effect, and that the
> defendant had recently said, that she would strike prosecutor again as soon
> as the present business was settled.
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> The defendant acknowledged herself guilty and thro' her counsel threw
> herself on the mercy of the court.
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> The Chairman bore witness to the great respectability of the prosecutor,
> who was a harmless good kind of man, and who wanted nothing but have the
> defendant placed in a situation which should preclude her from annoying him
> in future.
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> *Guilty*, and sentenced to pay a fine of £5; find two sureties at £20
> each as a security for her good behaviour for one year; and to stand
> committed till such fine be paid and bondsmen found.
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> [*to be continued*]
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