TRIPES AND TROTTERS TO WIT.- Yesterday, at the Borough Court, a dealer in tripes and trotters in Wakefield road, named Mrs. Pamela Briggs, charged Richard Harling, who has been in the employ of the corporation for about a dozen years, and is now about fifty-nine years of age, with using threatening language to her on the 12th inst., close to her own house. Mr. Berry defended Harling. Pamela said that on Friday night week, about eleven o'clock, Harling went to her shop and commenced to abuse her "shameful," using language of a threatening nature, calculated to create a breach of the peace; and she therefore claimed protection from the law. It appears that Pamela, who is forty-one years of age, and has daughters verging upon womanhood, has been courting with Harling for some time, and their intimacy has been very close indeed. In truth, he not only promised her marriage, but the banns were published, and the mysterious ring bought, but on the morning when they should have gone to church, a disagreement arose about some money which she wanted him to give her, and, as he declined, the wedding did not take place. They were, however, at Morecambe Bay on Whitsun-Tuesday, but he did not speak to her; and yet she continually hunts him up because he will not renew the old connection, though she cries out she will not have him. Last night week, he further states, he did look in at her window, and when she came out he pulled her dress, and said-"Pamela, how are you?" and her reply was, "you are a two-faced deceitful man." He then went across the road, and she followed with a bucketful of water, and hurled it at him, but it missed, and then he threatened to knock sweet Pamela down, but did not, though he called her a naughty name. She next ran at him, and pushed him against a butcher's shop, when a policeman came up and ordered him away, and he went. Which of the two deserved legal protection? The bench thought the weaker vessel, and fined Richard 10s, and 16s costs, or twenty-one days' imprisonment.
Source: findmypast - Leeds Times, 20 June 1868, page 5, column 5