CHELTENHAM POLICE COURT.
WEDNESDAY.
Present – C. L. Harford, Esq. (chairman), and W. Jones, Esq.
YEEND AGAINST YEEND – MOTHER AND SON. – William Yeend, plasterer, was charged with wilful damage to a door, at Marsh-lane, the property of Mrs. Charlotte Yeend.
The prisoner is son to the complainant. He is married, but is separated from his wife, and lives with Mr. Cook, gardener, Marsh-lane. About a quarter to twelve complainant and her servant were in bed, and heard some one knocking loudly at the door. On looking out of the window complainant discovered that it was her son. He demanded admission, and refused to go away, and before either complainant or her servant could go to the door he had forced it open with his violence. He then threatened the former with an instrument termed a “ripper” which he had in his hand, and she had to call up her neighbours to interfere to protect her. Complainant’s husband [William Yeend (1815-1865)] had been dead only three months. She wished prisoner to be bound over, as she feared in some of these outbreaks he would do her bodily harm. He was not perfectly sober.
Prisoner maintained a perfect indifference to all that was said, and in reply to the Bench said he had nothing to offer in explanation of his disgraceful conduct.
The Magistrates ordered him to put in surties in £10 for his good behaviour for six months. The expenses, amounting to 3s. 6d., was paid by the mother, as her son said he had no money whatever.
(Cheltenham Examiner, 15th November 1865)
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