Transcribed by Emily Smith. Geo. Carlisle Patriot Friday, August 13th, 1880 ASSAULT BY A LADY.—At the Warwick Assizes, on Friday, Thomas PENN, gamekeeper and land agent to Lord CLIFTON, claimed from Mrs. Ann WALKER, Warming Hall, near Banbury, damages for an assault. Mr. LAWRENCE, Q.C., for the plaintiff, characterised the assault as the most extraordinary ever known to have been committed by a lady. The defendant, a powerful woman six feet high, although 62 years of age, struck the plaintiff several blows on the face after a quarrel about some land. Plaintiff then said defendant would "hear further about the matter," whereupon the latter again exercised the new idea of woman's rights by throwing the man into a ditch, of which the mud was four feet deep, and after he had scrambled out, getting his head in "chancery" and punching and pummelling him to her heart's content, and until she had blackened both his eyes. Owing to the injury sustained plaintiff was confined to his bed for three days, and for three weeks continued under medical treatment.—In summing up, Baron HUDDLESTONE said that juries were always ready to favour petticoats, but they ought to draw the line at such a violent virago as defendant, and give reasonable damages.—Verdict, £50. -- Emily Smith