The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-30 00:00:00

ASSAULT BY A PUBLICAN.

Thomas Bland, publican, of Faulkner-street, was
summoned by Thomas Wearing for having assaulted
him. Mr. Cobb was for the defendant. From the evi-
dence of the complainant, which was sustained by three
or four other persons, it appeared that defendant was on
a step-ladder, -washing his windows, when the com-
iiiginaiit Add sortie friends, including a female, were
leaving his house; and the allegation was that the de-
fendant threw water on the woman, and on Complainant
remonstrating with him, the defendant struck him a blow
on the forehead with a tin can that he had in his hand,
inflicting a smart wound. The defence set up was, glat
the complainant pushed purposely against the ladder,
and when Mr. Bland spoke to him about it, he was about
to strike him, and that the can was used in his pwn de-
fence: The magistrates, however, credited the case as
made eta agaifist the defendant, and fined him £1 and
costs.

YESTERDAY.
(Before Mr. RAFFLES.)
FEARFUL CASE OF STABBING.

A very ill-looking fellow, named John Bynes, a
sailor, was brought up by Police-officer 38 on a charge
of having dangerously wounded John Walsh, a green-
grocer in Great Howard-street. The officer said—On
Saturday night, after eleven o'clock, I saw the prisoner
in one of the bye streets off Great Howard-street, going
along by some warehouse doors in a suspicious manner,
and asked him what he was doino. there ; when he re-
"lf you don't stand off, I put a knife into
you:" Immediately I heard a cry raise Ito stop hith,
and after a chase I caught lrim, Mrs. Walsh, the Wife
of the Wounded man, said—,On Saturday night the
prisoner canle in and demanded something to eat, when
my husband said there was nothing to eat there, as we
only keep a greengrocer's shop. The prisoner would
not go away, and insisted on having a herring roasted,
and in order to get rid of him my husband roasted a
herring for him, and then he went to the cupboard and
got what bread there was there, and eat it with the her-
ring. He then demanded more, when my husband
refused to give him any, and requested him to go away,
as he was going to close up the place. The prisoner
then went on the steps of the cellar and smashed a
sweeping brush that lay on the steps. My husband was
a step or two under him, and asked why he did that ?
He drew a knife, and made a blow at my husband, and
cut him along the face, and cut a part of his ear
off.' Mr. Raffles : Do you know the man at all?
—No, sir ; we never saw him before, and my
husband gave him the herring and bread to get
rid of him. Was he drunk?—Not very; he had had
some drink. , In reply to his Worship, the officer
said the surgeon at the Northern Hospital (where the
wounded man lies) told him the wound was eight inches
long, deep, and part of the left ear was cut off. Mr.
Raffles : Did the prisoner say anything when you
arrested him ? He said he would cut up any one who
attacked him the way they did.—Mr. Raffles : What did
he mean by " they ?" I don't know; but he afterwards
said he was attacked by some men, and that he was
robbed by them, and only defended himself. —Mr.
Raffles (to Mrs. Walsh) : Did 'your husband attack the
prisoner? Not at all, sir ; nothing more than what I
told you happened. Police-officer 721 said : I took this
knife from his belt, and it had blood on the handle.
The first ()Neer said the prisoner had blood on his
hands; but as there was a slight cut on his forehead, he
could not say if the blood did not come from that.
When he took the prisoner to the Hospital, where the
wounded man lies, the latter recognised him, and said,
"That's the man who stabbed me." The prisoner, in
answer to the charge, said be was attacked by four or
five men, who knocked him down and robbed him, and
he drew the knife and made a "skelp" at one of them,
and he supPosect that was how it happened. He was
remanded for a week.