Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Whiting, son of Congressman Whiting, of Massachusetts, has been fined $57, for an assault on Harry B. Osborne, a fellow-student at Williston Seminary, Northampton, Mass. Osborne was a new student, and Whiting insisted on his treating all hands. When Osborne refused, a fight ensued, and Whiting broke Osborne's nose and otherwise damaged...
...Vice-Chancellor of Oxford has had to inflict a fine of ten pounds on some undergraduates who had been guilty of an offence which used once to be described as "dusting a bobby," but which in these days is no longer spoken of in jocular terms. A spiteful assault committed by several young men upon a solitary policeman is, in fact, not a funny thing at all, but it is a comfort to observe that such unmanly freaks have grown comparatively rare of late years...
...Fugitives endeavoring to escape have a Will but have lost the Way - Aggravated Assault by a former Servant - Arrival of the Officers - Capture of Everybody...
Lady Florence Dixie has made a circumstantial statement concerning the assault made upon her on Saturday. She does not think it was committed by Irishmen...
Judge Lilley was worse yesterday. If he recovers he will prosecute Dorsey for assault; if he dies Dorsey will be arrested for murder...