Fred Ellis, servant with Mr T. Bowman, Croome, summoned his master for an assault. Complainant stated that he was hired last Martinmas for a year, and Mrs Bowman promised him 1d per score for all the eggs he gathered. When the sum due to him amounted to about 5s, she paid him part; about this time another servant was brought on the farm and gathered the eggs and complainant could not get any more money for what he had done. On the 9th inst. Mrs Bowman reported him to his master for being saucy, whereupon the latter “collared” him by the throat, kicked him and thrashed him with an ash plant. – Defendant said complainant was a good lad up to some six weeks ago, when his father, who tramps about the country, put wrong notions into his head, and he became so bad they could not manage him. He (defendant) did give the three stripes and he should have given him three dozen if he had not got out of the way. – For taking the law into his own hands he had to pay a fine of 10s and 11s costs
April 1, 1882
Uriah STAGG, horsebreaker, of Little Driffield, was charged with cruelly beating
a mare, the property of Mr J. T. FOSTER, wool merchant. The case for the
prosecution rested upon the evidence of two boys, named George BLANCHARD and
William GARTON, who deposed to having seen defendant in a loose box on his
premises at Little Driffield and beating a horse over the head with a whipstock;
that he struck it over twenty times and the horse fell down, bleeding profusely
from the nose. It was afterwards led in a shed, where it tumbled and died. Mr
Bowman, the vetinary surgeon, discovered a fractured thigh and numerous bruises
on the head, which Mr Bowman stated had brought on tetanus and death. The bench
remarked on the fact that defendant had previously been sent to prison for a
month for a similar offence and again committed him for a like period; but
subsequently on the appeal of Mr DUNN, his defence, imposed a penalty of £6 7s
6d including costs, which was paid.
August 4th 1888
On Monday morning an inquest was held at the Red Lion Inn, to inquire as to the
circumstances of the death of Mr John Bowman, aged 78 years, formerly a vetenary
surgeon and farmer, at Beeford, who was found dead in bed the previous morning
at the residence of his daughter. After the jury had viewed the body Mrs
HARRISON, of West Promenade, Driffield, his daughter, deposed that after not
hearing him moving about on Sunday morning at 9.45, she went to learn the
reason, and found him laid on his right side with his head resting on his arm
and quite dead. The only conclusion that Peter BURGESS, M.D. could come to
without a post mortem was that death was the result of natural causes and the
jury returned a verdict in accordance.