Carlisle Patriot, 23 Oct 1824 - Carlisle City Sessions

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Saturday 23 Oct 1824   (p. 4, col. 1)

 

CITY SESSIONS.

 

The Michaelmas Sessions for this City and Liberties, came on at the Town-Hall, on Monday last, before John HODGSON, Esq., Mayor, Thomas BLAMIRE, Esq., William HODGSON, Esq., and the Rev. Dr. LOWRY, Aldermen.

 

The Grand Jury (of which Thomas ATKINSON, Esq., was foreman) found a true bill against a man named Daniel JACKSON, a stranger from Whitehaven, for petit larceny, and were then dismissed.

 

John ARMSTRONG, constable, was charged with having, on the 24th day of April last, committed a violent assault on Ann GRAHAM, wife of Thomas GRAHAM, of St. Cuthbert's Lane, by striking her between the eyes, and on the ear, by which her ear-ring was broken; and also by knocking her down, and repeatedly striking and kicking her, by which two of her ribs were broken, and one of her legs severely bruised. ARMSTRONG was held to bail at last Easter Sessions, and traversed. Thomas GRAHAM, the husband of the prosecutrix, it appeared, stood indebted to the parish-officers to the amount of 13s. for poor-rates; a summons was sent, which not being attended to, a warrant of distress was levied upon his goods to that amount, and for costs. GRAHAM (unknown to his wife) then gave ARMSTRONG a written order (which was produced in Court) to take away every thing from the house, and to expel her from it; and after having removed a feather bed, he began to take the wearing apparel belonging to the prosecutrix: she remonstrated; but when ARMSTRONG attempted to carry off her umbrella, she opposed him—a struggle commenced, and ARMSTRONG then threw her down, and committed the assault with which he stood charged. YOUNG, another constable, was in the house at the time; but he did not go up-stairs, where the struggle took place, and therefore did not see ARMSTRONG ill-use the prosecutrix. A Mrs. LOWES was the only person present, up-stairs, when the assault took place,—but though called upon, she did not appear; nor was Dr. WHARTON, the medical attendant of the prosecutrix, called to state the injury she had received from the assault. GRAHAM and his wife had evidently not been living on the most harmonious terms; complaints had arisen on both sides; and as he had alleged to ARMSTRONG, who is related to him, that they could not live together, he also gave him his authority, independently of the warrant, to take away every thing from the house. Mr. PEARSON, who conducted the prosecution, said he remembered when the prosecutrix preferred the bill of indictment against ARMSTRONG, she appeared before the Court with two black eyes, the consequence of the blows she had received. Mr. PEARSON ventured to ask GRAHAM, whom he supposed to be no venerator of wives, if he did not once sell a wife publicly at Brampton, to which the old man returned an indignant negative. The Jury, after a short consultation, found ARMSTRONG guilty; and the Court sentenced him to pay a five [sic] of 20s.; to be imprisoned in Carlisle gaol for six weeks, and kept to hard labour.

 

Daniel JACKSON (a stranger who had been employed in a menagerie which visited Carlisle for a short time in August last) was charged with stealing one horse-brush, and one curry-comb, belonging to Robert BARRICK, a private in the 1st regiment of dragoon guards, then stationed in this city. It appeared that BARRICK, who was quartered at Mr. STORY's, Black Bull Inn, in Scotch-street, was in the stable dressing his horse on the 30th of August last; and having occasion to leave it for about 15 or 20 minutes, when he returned, he missed the two articles now produced: he went in search of them, supposing them to have been stolen, and met with a person of the name of John SCOTT, a servant to Mr. SCARROW, who had purchased both the articles from the prisoner, in the presence of a young man named ARMSTRONG, a servant in the employ of Mr. DONALD, of the King's Arms Inn. MULLENDER, the constable, apprehended the prisoner on the Sands, at the menagerie. He denied all knowledge of the charge; but the soldier identified the articles as his property, and both SCOTT and ARMSTRONG swore to JACKSON as the person of whom the former purchased them for 1s.; he, at first, asking 3s. for them. The Jury, without hesitation, pronounced the prisoner guilty. A person in the back part of the Hall, here came forward and spoke in behalf of the prisoner's character. He said he knew JACKSON when in Whitehaven; he had been bred to the sea, and had always borne an honest character, and appeared respectably; but he had known nothing of him for the last seven years. The Court sentenced him to be imprisoned to hard labour in the House of Correction at Carlisle, for three months.

 

Nothing else came before the Court.