I don't know who this Stephenson is , I just liked the story, that's why I put it on
Tamworth herald
Saturday 10 January 1885
Drunken Pugilists.—Thomas Murray, private in the South Staffordshire Regiment, stationed at Whittington, and William Stephenson, hawker of salt , residing in Aldergate were summoned for being drunk and riotous in Lichfield Street.—lt appeared from the evidence of P.C, Willis, that late Saturday evening, the defendants were fighting in Lichfield Street, and creating a great noise. He ordered them away, and they left quietly.—The Bench said that as the defendants left the streets when ordered they would be discharged on payment of the costs of the court.
Tamworth herald
Saturday 8 august 1885
TAMWORTH BOROUGH PETTY SESSIONS.
Wednesday.—Before Mr. Alderman Clarson and Mr. Alderman Flare. Breach of the Peace.—William Stephenson, hawker, and Francis Wileman, collier, both residing within the borough, were charged by Inspector Dodd with being guilty of a breach of the peace by fighting together, Both defendants pleaded guilty.—lt transpired that on the day in question, the two defendants, who were stripped to the waist, and were fighting one another in the public street, opposite the Bell Inn. Twenty or thirty rounds were fought, with alternate success sometimes one being knocked down and sometimes the other. A crowd of more than a hundred people gathered round the combatants, who did not separate until the police were sent to them. —Seven previous convictions were against Stevenson, and 10 against the other. The men were each bound over for six months, and each to pay the costs