Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 27 January 1882

A “Flare-up” in the “Cottage of Content,” West Melton

A Corton Wood miner, named Frederick Nobles, was summoned for assaulting a Manvers Main collier, named Henry Goodwin, in the “Cottage of Content,” West Melton, on the 16th inst.

The defendant went into the inn in question with a smutty face, and he was jocosely asked “to look in the glass.” Having done so, he became infuriated and, picking up a glass, dashed it across the room. It just passed the complainant’s features, making a deep gash in the framework of the window.

Defendant said the complainant himself and a number of others had been drinking together. They went to the public-house as it opened in the morning.

The Chairman fined defendant 20s., including costs, observing that the man seemed, according to his remarks, to be earning more money than he knew what to do with.