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| Aged 4; living in Portobello, Willenhall, Staffordshire; shown as Scholar; shown born Portobello, Staffordshire @ census 7-Apr-1861.1767 Aged 15; living in Primrose Street, Willenhall, Staffordshire; shown as Pitt Bank Laborer; shown born Portobello, Staffordshire @ 2-Apr-1871.1768 Aged 24 @ census 3-Apr-1881.1690 Birmingham Daily Post Tue 10 Oct 1882 OPENING OF THE CORONERS' NEW COURT Page 4 Article Police Court, yesterday, Maria Jones (27), married, but living apart from her husband, was charged on remand with assaulting her father, Henry Skitt.-The prosecutor stated that he was a miner, and lived at Portobello, and that on the night of Saturday, September 30, he was sitting on a bench near the fire while the prisoner and another daughter were in the house. Prisoner was drunk, and broke some plates and a jug, and on his attempting to prevent her she struck him with a knife in the corner of the eye. He also received blows about the head. His daughter was soon afterwards given into custody.-Mrs. Everett, the sister of the prisoner, corroborated her father's evidence.-Mr. Joseph Tonlf, surgeon, stated that the wounds the prosecutor had received were serious. Prosecutor's life, however, was not in danger, and he was recovering satisfactorily.-In answer to the magistrates' clerk, prisoner denied that she stabbed her father, and said that he had struck her with a poker about the legs, and fell on the knife whilst she was eating her supper, -She was committed for trial at the Assizes. | ||||||||
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| Aged 26 @ census 3-Apr-1881.1690 | ||||||||
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