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ASSAULT CASE INVOLVING RICHARD RAMPLING
"Judith, wife of Robert King, of the White Horse Inn, was charged with assaulting Richard Rampling, bill-poster, on the 18th instant.
Mr. Kent appeared for the defendant.
The Complainant stated that he was sitting on his door step in the evening, when a man named Fullar went down the street, the man being the worse for drink, and wanting to go into the defendant's house for a half-pint of beer, which the woman persuaded him not to do. Some one in the house threw a pint of water out at the man, and then the pint measure; the woman picked the measure up and pitched it in-doors again, when it was thrown out a second time, and the woman then said, "We had better be going, or we shall have our heads cut to pieces with pots." Complainant stepped across the road, as he thought he could get the man away; at which time Mrs. King rushed out of her house and pushed the woman very sharply, which he told her she had no right to do , and with that the defendant "went for him", and she did so a second time, and he also got a blow from her son.
Mr. Kent objected to that being mixed up with present case, as there was a separate charge against the son, which he must ask to have postponed, as the son was obliged to go to sea after the summons had been served, being under an engagement.
The Complainant stated that defendant and her son had both offered him money to make up the matter, but he had objected.
Mr. Kent hoped the bench would take that fact into consideration, together with admission that had been made of the assault, and deal with the case accordingly.
Defendant was fined 15s, including costs, which was paid".
The Ipswich Journal and Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire Advertiser Saturday July 23rd, 1870.