Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-09 00:00:00

A FATAL AFFRAY IN THE STREET.

At the Bow-street Police-court, London, on Saturday,
' a young man, named Frederick Hildebrand, who performs
as an Ethiopian serenader at Evans's Hotel, Covent-garden,
was charged with having, on the Bth ult., assaulted a
person, named Rowland White, who bad since lain in the
hospital in a very precarious state, an 4 whose death was
hourly expected. Emma Arthur, a girl of about fifteen
years of age, stated that about half-past three o'clock on
the morning of the 28th of May, she was sitting in the
parlour of the coffee-house, 7, Wellington-street, kept
by her mother, when her attention was drawn by the
latter to what was going on in the street. The sts,n
whom she had since seen in the hospital was on the ground,
and in the act of rising. The prisoner was close to
him. Her mother called " Police !" and prisoner
left the man and walked towards witness. Witness said
"Itis a shame•to strike the man in that way." Prisoner
replied, "He insulted me first," and walked away. The
man then entered the house, and witness seeing that he
was bleeding, gave him some water to wash himself. He
said that his jaw was broken, and that the prisoner kicked
him in the jaw. William Cox, a police-sergeant of the F
division, saw Mr. White in the hospital on the 2nd inst.
He stated that on the morning of the 28th ult. he left the
White Hart public-house, in Catherine-street, about two
o'clock, and crossed over to Waterloo-bridge. In
Wellington-street some person struck him a violent
blow on the jaw, which he after wards found to be
broken. He afterwards received two more blows
and was kicked in the chest. He did nst
know who it was that struck him. He also stated that
he was not sober at the time. Jane Wicks, one of the
performers iu the " Poses Plastiques" at the Coal-hole
Tavern in the Strand, said that she lived with the prisoner
at No. 1, Thomas-street, Waterloo-road. On the morning
in question she called for the prisoner at Evans's at about
hall-pest two o'clock, and they went away together. As
they passed through Wellington-street, on their way home,
they saw Mr. White standing talking to a woman. As they
came near he said, addressing the prisoner, What the
-- do you mean by that?" The prisoner said,
"Do you mean that for me, sir ?" The man replied,
" Yes, I do ;" and at the same time knocked a pipe,
which the prisoner was smoking out of his mouth.
He then sparred up to the prisoner, and they fought
together. Several blows were exchanged, and at last
Mr. White said, "There, that will do—you may go
home." Hildebrand then took up a carpet bag, which he
had put down at the beginning of the scuffle, and they went
away. Witness heard the girl at the coffee house say, "It
is a shame to strike the man like that," and °brand
replied, "He struck me first." The prisoner said he had
been fifteen months at Evans's, and never had a word with
any one before. On this occasion ho was going home with
his " missus," when the gentleman spoke to him as she
had described, knocked the pipe out of his mouth, and
struck him in the chest. He was very firm in the chest
from the constant practice of dancing, but the blow
was so severe that " some people would have been very
much hurt." Several blows were exchanged. The gentleman
said, "That will do ; you know too much for me ; go away
home." Another Ethiopian serenader, and Mr. Nicholson,
landlord of the Coal-hole Tavern, gave the prisoner a good
character as a well-behaved, quiet man. At this moment a
constable entered the court with a message from the
hospital to the effect that the injured man had expired
shortly after eleven o'clock. Upon hearing this announce-
ment the young woman Wicks, who had been standing
near. the witness-box watching the case with evident
anxiety, fainted away, and was carried out of court in a
state of insensibility. A. witness proved that the deceased,
shortly before this occurrence, had been turned out of
Jessop's wine-rooms, a place he was in the habit of
frequenting, and where he was often drunk and disorderly.
Mr. Henry remanded the prisoner to await the result of
the inquest, but admitted him to bail. Bail was found in
the courso of the day.

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