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Assault in the Evening Journal, 1900 & 1920

City Court Notes

Item

Title
City Court Notes
Date
February 18, 1880
page
4
Identifier
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82015483/1880-02-18/ed-1/?sp=4&q=assault&r=0.345,0.139,0.113,0.125,0
Crime
Assault
Subject
drunk; wife
Gender of alleged offender
male alleged offender
Gender of alleged victim
female alleged victim
Stage of the Legal System
sentencing
Location
In State; New Haven
Length of story
57
Description
In the City Court yesterday morning Ashbury
Jobes was charged with drunkenness, assaulting his
wife and with a general breach of the peace. His wife
testified that he threw her sewing machine down
stairs and broke it. He was discharged on all the
counts except that for drunkenness, and on this he
was fined $10 and costs.