Croydon’s Weekly Standard, October 8th 1882

ASSAULT CASE. At the Petty Sessions held at Stony Stratford on Friday, October 20th, before E. H. Watts, Esq., and S. R. Harrison, Esq. Robert Varney, landlord of the Carrington Arms Inn, was summoned for violently assaulting William Marlow, baker, of the same place, on the 25th of September. Mr. Shepherd, of Towcester, appeared for the complainant, and Mr. C. C. Beche, of Northampton, for the defendant. A good deal of evidence was submitted, from which it appeared the defendant struck the complainant, whom he alleged had insulted him, on the head with a pole about seven feet long, rendering him insensible. Defendant was fined £5 including costs.