The Newbury Weekly News dated 20th May 1886 reported the following:
BOROUGH POLICE COURT
FRIDAY
Before the Mayor (R. Ravenor Esq), J. H. Mason, and J. Absolom Esqrs.
CHARGE OF ASSAULTING WIFE.
James Quinton was charged with assaulting his wife, Sarah Ann Quinton, on the 8th May.
Complainant said she went to the “Robin Hood” to speak to her husband, when he abused her and struck her.
They had been married five-and-twenty years.
The Bench fined defendant £1 and 9s costs or 14 days hard labour. Defendant expressed himself unable to pay, but his son offered to find the money.
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