The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-23 00:00:00

WOUNDING WITH INTENT TO MURDEII.

John Howard, a prisoner in the Middlesex House of
Correction, was indicted for assaulting, with intent to
murder, Henry Green, a warder in the prison.
Henry Green, said the prisoner was in tho tailor's shop
of the prison, and being occupied in cutting he asked for
a knife, which was at once given bim. He (witness) then
turned round to go away, when the prisoner sprang upon
him and inflicted a wound on the back part of the neck.
A brother warder came to his assistance, the knife was
taken from the prisoner, and he was secured.

The surgeon said the wound, although not of a serious
nature, was in a very dangerous part.

The jury found the prisoner guilty of assaulting, with
intent to do grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor at this moment was passing over the
dock, when the prisoner in the most violent manner
threatened and attempted to strike him.
IV_lr Baron Bramwell told the prisoner he was a perfect
stranger to him, and all he hai to do was to administer
the law. He would, however, before doing so, offer a
few words of advice to him ; but from what he had just
seen in the dock he was afraid that the day would come
when he would stand in the same position on a charge of
murder, and that he would end hie career on the public
scaffold.

Prisoner—l will if I get a chance at him (po!nting to

Green.)

Mr Baron Bramwell—Very well, then. I will do what:l
can to prevent it. I therefore sentence you to 20 years
penal servitude.

Prisoner (who on leaving the dock behaved in the most
violent manner)—lt's no more than I expected.

ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.

Michael Cocklin and Thomas Lnecott were indicted for
robbing Thomas Hind Varney of his watch and chain.
The evidence showed that the robbery was a most daring
one, the prosecutor having been to a certain extent garroted
near to Southwark-bridge-road.
The jury acquitted Linscott and found Cocklin guilty.
Six previous convictions having been
proved against
him,

The learned judge sentenced him to 10 years' penal sen
vi rude.

The prisoner seemed astonished at the sentence•

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
ExtnEzzLENLENT.
John Tawn was indicted for embezzling various sums o
money, the property of
his employer, Alexinder Gordon.
He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment,

I'OUGERY.
Theodore Ralfe, 17, clerk was indicted for feloniously
uttering a certain bill of exchange for £B, bearing thereon a
forged endorsement, with intent to defraud.
The Common Sergeant sentenced him to one years'
imprisonment, _

FO URTII COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
7'EL 10 tTsLy WOUNDING.

George White was indicted for feloniously wounding
George Peers, with intent to resist his lawful apprehen-
sion. lie was also indicted fur stealing a pair of trousers
the property of Frederick Moses, he having been previously
convicted.

The jury found him guilty.
The Recorder, in passing sentence, said the prisoner
seemed to have made up his mind to pursue a course of dis-
honesty. As he had already suffered three terms of impri •
sonment, for three,
8-x) and nine months, ho was prevented
from passing any but a very severe punishment. lie then
sentenced the prisoner to be kept to penal servitude for
seven years.

NEW COURT.
(Before Mr Justice Byles.)
Charles Eaton de Witt, merchant, and Duncan M'Lean
Wright were ind cted for conspiring together and by false
pretences obtaining from Melchor Lopez divers dock war-
rants and orders for the delivery of Wine,
the property of
G
Manuel Garcia Rubet and another, of the value of £4,722,
with intent to defraud. There was also another indictment
charging the prisoners with feloniously forging and utter-
ing
intent
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case is if billssr defraud
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tehx exchangeepse ca th expected bt
Manuel
conclude out nhe cle payment of moneys with
ludo arcia Rubet.
to-day.

T.--Yesterday d-
ALLEGED MURDER IN KEN
ward William Staples and James Turner, excava-
tors, were charged before Mr Berens and Mr Waring, two
Police, to remark to the
magistrates for the county of Kent, with causing the death
of Jas. Fisher, at Orpington, on Saturday night last. It ap-
Jones, a constable of
the by
peered from the evidence taken that the prisoners and the
deceased left the Artichoke p,ublic-house, at Orpington, a
few minutes after 12 on Saturday night,
and when outside
the 1
house
ivsetiheeiedn ofeceaed washeard
Metropolitan
prisoners that he had been engaged on the line of railway
near that neighbourhood fifteen years ago. This led to
an angry feeling, the prisoner Turner denouncing the
deceased as a liar, and the deceased, who had threatened to
strike Turner, pushed him violently. The constable and
another officer who came up during the altercation then ad-
vised the deceased, who lived at Bromley,
to go home, and
he proceeded to do so, at the same time bidding the con-
stables " Good night." The prisoners, who stayed behind
some time, were afterwards observed to start off hurriedly
in the direction the deceased had taken. Both officers fol-
lowed, avid when some distance off they heard some one
calling out "Get up, you —," and on proceeding about
100 yards further on they found that Turner was holding
the deceased by the neck, while Staples had hold of his
legs. In answer to the constables, Turner, making use
of a coarse expression, said the deceased had fallen down,
and they were picking him up. The deceased was then in-
sensible, and his face covered with blood, The prisoners
were at once secured, and on Mr ',Ocher, surgeon, of Or-
pington being called to the deceased, he found him bleeding
from a wound over the left eye (The orbit ot which w
pletely destroyed), and also from the nose and mouth, the
inj cries having evidently
.been inflicted by violent kicks.
The deceased remained insensible up to the time of his
death, which took place late the previous night, the injury
over the eye, in the opinion of the medical man, being suffi-
cient to account for death. The prisoners were remanded
pending the inquiry before the coroner of the district.