NELSON.
Friday, s Florence B. Joseph was charged before the,magistrate,with indecently assaulting : a girl twelve years and six months old. The! evidence occupied till eight p.m., when the Bench reserved its decision till two this afternoon, when they committed the prisoner For trial, allowing bail. On. being released he was jchlied and seised' by several men who were present. A rope waff tied round his neck and he iris dragged, half throttled, through the streets to his shop in Trafalgar street, when Morris Lety, father of one of his victims (there are more than 7 one) attacked him with a loaded hunting crop and administered a most unmerciful hammering. - The Bishop of Nelson 'and; one or two others interfered, and the wretched man; bruised and bleeding,' with his clothes torn to rags and several teeth ontj'escaped into his shop. '
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2829, 9 March 1878, Page 2
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139NELSON. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2829, 9 March 1878, Page 2
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