From The Cork Examiner, 17 August 1878 - POLICE OFFICE--YESTERDAY. ------------ (Before Messrs. [sic] A. M'OSTRICH.) SERIOUS ASSAULT. CATHERINE CUNNINGHAM was sent to gaol for one month with hard labour for having committed a grievous assault upon Robert Burleigh, by striking him with a hammer on the temple. TRAMPS. Two men, named John Collins and John Murphy were put forward by Head-constable Shea, who said that they had come to the bridewell on Thursday night saying that they had applied to the Workhouse for admission as they were starving and weary, having walked from Conna, and they were refused admission. Head-constable Shea said that he had given them a night's lodging and their supper and breakfast. Mr. M'Ostrich thought it was very hard that these poor men should have been treated in this way at the Workhouse. As there was no charge against them they were discharged. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.IrelandOldNews.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -