William features in two criminal court cases. In the first, he receives a broken leg in a fight with a neighbour, William Mahoney who is subsequently fined 40 shillings. In the second case two years later, the situation is reversed. He is involved in a fight with another neighbour, Leyshon. This time, Leyshon’s leg is broken and William is fined 40 shillings.
FRACTURING A MAN’S LEG AT NEWPORT. At the Newport Town-hall on Wednesday, William Mahoney, a dock hobbler, appeared to answer a charge of fracturing the leg of William Connors. Both men are residents of Melton Square. The statement made on behalf of Connors was that early in November Mahoney and another resident of Melton-square, named Berry, had a fistic encounter. Berry had the worst of the battle, and Connors sympathised with Berry, and remonstrated with Mahoney. The latter resented the interference, and then knocked Connors down, and kicked him whilst on the ground, the result being a fracture of the small bone of the leg.—The other story as told by Mr Lyndon Moore, solicitor, was that Berry and Connors were chums, that Connors took the part of Berry, and after taking his chum into the house, he returned to Mahoney’s house and challenged the latter to fight, Connors first striking Mahoney, both men closed and fell together, and Connors cried out that his leg was injured.— A witness was called on each side to support the respective stories.—The Bench decided to fine Mahoney 40s, or a month’s imprisonment.
Cardiff Times 24 Dec 1892
A MAN’S LEG BROKEN IN A FIGHT. At Newport Borough Police-court on Monday William Connors, a labourer, was fined 40s for assaulting John Leyshon. The parties reside in Mellon-square, and on a Saturday night in July the men fought together, and in the struggle Leyshon’s leg was broken, and he is still obliged to use crutches.
South Wales Daily News – 2nd October 1894 – Third edition
Source: Welsh Newspapers Online
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