Birmingham Journal, 26th November 1831
Birmingham Police Office. Monday, November 21. (Before I. Spooner, Thos Lee, and J. F. Ledsam Esqrs) Frederick Fenton was brought up charged with violently assaulting Mrs Parker’s of the Nelson public house, in Weaman Street. Mrs Parker’s stated that on Saturday night the prisoner came into her house and requested her to fill him a pint of ale, but it being then after twelve o’clock, she refused to comply with his request. Soon after, having occasion to go into the street, Fenton came up to her and struck her a violent blow. The prisoner in his defence admitted, that he might possibly, as he was intoxicated, have committed the assault. The magistrates convicted him in the penalty of 20s., and in case of non-payment, ordered him to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for twenty-one days. William Reeves was charged with creating a disturbance in the house of Mr Hall, the public house known by the sign of the Cross, in Weaman Street. The circumstances of the case were similar to...