Attack on a Constable

The Times September 12, 1910

At Ongar on Saturday George Day, of Waterloo Terrace, Bethnal Green, was charged with grievously wounding, and Joseph Hill, of Duckett Street, Stepney, with assaulting, Constable Henry Lindsey. According to the evidence, a party of men from the East End of London had been 'rounding up " horses in the fields at Stanford Rivers, near Ongar, and when spoken to they attacked the owner and Constable Lindsey. Afterwards they ran off to an inn. When the constable entered the house Day was stated to have thrown four tumblers in succession at him, cutting his head, car, and neck. Notwithstanding his injuries Lindsey secured Hill, who had first struck him, and locked him up in the village smithy. A crowd tried to rescue Hill, but the blacksmith, named Tyrell, kept them off with an old sword. Hill was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and Day was committed for trial at the Essex Assize.