Joseph Barnett

ALLEGED MURDEROUS ASSAULT AT CHESTER.

A TERRIBLE FAMILY SCENE.

At Chester Police Court, on Saturday, before Mr. L. Gilbert and other magistrates, Joseph Barnett, fishmonger, Watergate-street, Chester, was charged with unlawfully wounding his son, Thomas Barnett, aged seventeen years, on Friday morning. Mr. W.H. Churton appeared to prosecute, and the prisoner, who was in custody, was represented by Mr. E. Brassey. For the prosecution it was stated that it was a painful case. The prisoner, who had been on a drinking bout of six weeks, remained at home on Friday morning, and supplied himself with several bottles of beer. The prosecutor and his sister were in the house, and seeing their father proceed upstairs to bed followed, and succeeded in taking some money which he had previously hidden in the room. They removed the money to prevent prisoner obtaining further drink. Hearing them leaving the room prisoner hurriedly followed. Prosecutor went into the yard to mislead his father as to where he was placing the money, whereupon prisoner, seizing a coal axe, destroyed a table and a number of articles in the kitchen. Prosecutor interfered to prevent further damage, and prisoner dealt him, it was alleged, a severe blow on the side of the head, inflicting a wound an inch deep. After a struggle the weapon was wrenched from prisoner, and prosecutor's injury was dressed at the infirmary. - Prisoner was remanded until Wednesday, bail being refused.

Source: The Liverpool Daily Post, Monday July 26, 1897, Page 3

Note: This means that Thomas Barnett, son of Joseph Barnett, was born in 1880. If this was the same Joseph Barnett that lived with Mary Jane Kelly in Whitechapel in 1888, this Thomas Barnett would have been 8 years old. Could the boy who lived with Mary and Joseph be Joseph's son?

ALLEGED SERIOUS ASSAULT AT CHESTER. - Yesterday at the Chester Police Court, before Mr. Charles Brown and other magistrates, Joseph Barnett, fishmonger, Watergate-street, Chester, was charged on remand with unlawfully wounding his son, Thomas Barnett, aged seventeen years, on Friday morning last. Mr. W.H. Churton was for the prosecution. The evidence in support of the case at the last hearing was to the effect that prisoner had been on a drinking bout of six weeks, and, remaining at his house on the morning in question, supplied himself with several bottles of beer. The prosecutor and his wife were at home watching prisoner, who went to bed. Prosecutor and his sister went into the bedroom and succeeded in removing some money which their father had previously hidden in order that he should not be able to obtain further drink. Hearing them leaving the room prisoner followed hurriedly, when prisoner went into the yard to mislead his father as to where he was placing the money. Prisoner became angry, and seizing a coal axe destroyed a table and a number of other articles, and as prosecutor interfered to prevent further damage it was alleged prisoner dealt him a severe blow with the axe on the left side of the head, inflicting a serious wound an inch deep. After a struggle the weapon was wrenched from the prisoner, and prosecutor's injury was dressed at the infirmary. Mr. Churton said he had been instructed to withdraw the prosecution. Mr. Barnett had been in Knutsford Gaol three or four days upon the remand, and he had promised to abstain from drink in future. - The Chairman said the magistrates were pleased to accede to the request, and advised prisoner to abstain from taking drink.

Source: The Liverpool Daily Post, Thursday July 29, 1897, Page 6

POLICE, THURSDAY. - (Before Mr. Rooke and the Rev. J.J. Daniell.)

Charles Henry Morgan, alias Charles Henry Vivian, an elderly man, of no address, was charged with obtaining food and lodging, to the value of 10s., under false pretences, from Joseph Barnett, of West Wells, Gorsham. It appeared that the prisoner called at the prosecutor's cottage, stating that he had come from South America to Southampton, and had walked from Melksham to find them. Having been admitted, he told a tale to the effect that Henry John May, a relative of Mrs. Barnett, had died and left 80,500 pounds between the May and Hooper families, and on his death-bed he asked the prisoner to find out and make it known to the parties interested. On the faith of this the prisoner stayed with the prosecutor and his wife for several days, and whilst there wrote a letter to the cashier at the Bank of England to the effect that he had found the right parties that were entitled to the money of Henry John May, deceased, and asking that it might be transferred to Joseph Barnett, the prosecutor, but he had received no reply. Prisoner was remanded till Friday, the 19th inst.

Source: The Bristol Times and Mirror, Saturday February 13, 1897, Page 11

At Chester on Saturday, a fishmonger named Joseph Barnett was remanded on a charge of murderously assaulting his son Thomas by striking him on the head with an axe.

Source: The Liverpool Daily Post, Monday July 26, 1897, Page 5

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January 21, 1878

SINGULAR "BETROTHAL" CASE.

At the Worship-street police-court, London, Jacob Barnett, of Spital-street, Mile-end, has appeared to an adjourned summons which charged him with having made a false declaration in order to procure his marriage with one Kate Rosenblatt, a young woman only 17 years of age, without the consent of her parents. The case was before the court three weeks ago. It may be remembered that the defendant was said to have entrapped the young woman into marrying him before the registrar of the Whitechapel district by representing that they could go through a ceremony similar to the pledging among the Jews and which would only bind her for a year. To get the ceremony performed in the absence of the girl's parents, the declaration that she was of full age was necessary, and that the defendant made. The ceremony was performed according to the Church of England form, notwithstanding that the parties are of the Jewish faith, on October 28. When they left the office, however, the defendant told her she was his wife, and she thereupon, according to her statement, threw the paper she had received from the registrar at him, and ran home to her father's house. Subsequently this prosecution was commenced by the father of the girl. At the last hearing of the case Mr. Abbott, who appeared for the defendant, said that as the father persisted in the prosecution he had to apply for a summons against the girl for making a false declaration as to her own age, it being shewn on the register as 21, and her signature being appended to the entries as true. A summons against the girl was accordingly granted.

John Rosenblatt, the father of the girl, now said the defendant about three years ago, asked permission to pay attentions to his daughter, but witness told him that she was too young. She had since complained of the way in which she was followed about by the defendant. He admitted that last year, when he got into difficulties, defendant advanced him money, paid out the brokers, took up the liquidation, &c. He was never made aware of notice of marriage having been given to the registrar. It was not true that his daughter "kept company" with Barnett, and witness never gave his countenance to any such thing. Witness admitted that the signature in the registrar's book was that of his daughter.

The register of the marriage having been produced by Mr. Vallance, registrar for the district, Joseph Barnett and George Barnett, brothers of the defendant, deposed to having been present at the marriage and hearing Kate Rosenblatt give her age as 21. At the conclusion of the defence Jacob Barnett was fully committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court, the magistrate saying that he would accept two sureties of 20 pounds each for his appearance. The summons against Kate Rosenblatt, otherwise Barnett, wherein the wife was charged with knowingly making a false declaration as to her age for the purpose of procuring her marriage with Barnett, was then proceeded with. The defendant cried a good deal during the proceedings. Evidence as to the declaration made before the registrar having been given, the magistrate committed the female defendant for trial, also consenting to take bail for the wife in the same amount as for the husband.

Source: The Centaur, April 17, 1880, Page 6

CITY BETTING SENTENCES.

In two basement rooms in Philpot-lane, it was stated at the Mansion House on Thursday, a betting business had been carried on, represented by a turnover of 29,133 pounds last year, and sixteen telephones and a tape machine were found.
A group of men arrested in a police raid of the premises was brought before the Lord Mayor. Eight were discharged, and in the end Elias Israel, of Stratford, was fined 100 pounds, with five guineas costs, Joseph Barnett 20 pounds, and William Israel and Mark Morris 10 pounds each. The money in each case was immediately paid.
Henry Short and Michael de Friend were bound over in their own recognisances of 20 pounds each to be of good behaviour for twelve months.

Source: Lloyd's Weeky News, November 6, 1910, Page 6