Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

CASE OF STABBING.

At the Clerkenwell Police-court, on Monday, Ann Page,
a dirty-looking woman, who has been several times in
custody for uttering counterfeit coin and other offences,
was charged with feloniously catiing and wounding Henry
Johnson, a general dealer, on the evening of the 19th inst.,
at B:tldwin's-gardens. The prosecutor, who appeared
very weak from loss of blood, said : I reside at 11,
Beldwin's-gardens. On Wednesday evening, between the
hours of six and seven, I was standing in the court
when the prisoner's daughter, v, ho was coming down,
began to abuse me skint my wife. We had some words
together, when the daughter struck me twice. When
I was returning the blow the prisoner came up behind
me and struck me with something sharp—a knit.), I
believe—l bled very much, and my clothes were saturated.
I was then taken to the Royal Free H spital, where
my wound was dressed by the house surgeon. Iha
not struck the peisoner. Mrs. Sarah Louisa Sear said
that she WiS passing, and saw the whole of the transac-
tion. The prisoner went up behind the prosecutor and
stabbed him behind four times, saying, "I have served
him the same as they ch the Norfolk bullocks." Mr.
William Curren, house surgeon at the Royal Free Hos-
pital, Gray's inn-road, said the complainant was brought
to the hospital on Wednesday evening, when he was very
weak and fainting from loss of blood. Upon examining
him he found he had an incised wound at the back of the
neck, but it was of no very great depth or extent. It bled
very freely, and seemed as if done with a sharp instru-
ment. Mr. Tyrwhitt: Do you consider the wound
dangerous? Mr. Curren : No, I do not consider it
at all dangerous. The prisoner in defence said that
it was all got up out of spite, and to show how
bad the complainant was, she could state that
he was going to work on Tuesday. He and his
wife, because the prisoner had received notice to qu't, broke
into her room, de.troyed her little bit of furniture, and
saturated her clothes with water. Mr. Tyrwhitt asked
the complsinant whether he wished the case to be dea t
with summarily, or whether he would have it sent to the
sessions? Complainant: I will leave it in your hands, sir,
and I hope you will be as lenient as possible with he:.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a fortunate thing for the prisoner
that the prosecutor did not wish the care to go to the
sessions, for there she m'ght have received a heavy punish-
ment. It was no feult of hers that she had not inflicted a
very severe injury on the complainant. He should inflict
upon her the full penaly, viz., 51, or two months' hard
labour in the house of Correction. The money not being
paid, the prisoner was locked up.

Exclne.rely for Cr -O rHI 139 Y-4 frog Six '0 Twenty Yes e.
LIWIi & COMPA2•Y, itanelagiz--atreet

THE WEATIIRE AND CROPS r s SCDTLAND. —Most unsea-
sonable weather for cutting and gathering in the crop 3 of
B..otland prevailed for some days, and great bars were
enterta;ned for the results, as about one-third of the crop
only had been secured in the north. The rainy weather
has alEo increased the potato disease, and a correspondent,
who has jest travelled over the greater part of the north
of Scotldnd, says :—"lrbe loss may be estimated at one-
third ; but as the potatoes are a very heavy crop this
season, the totol Vabtity saved will, after all, be little
short of an average crop." The weather has since im-
proved, and allowed tae retnairOix harvest operations to be
completed.