The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUG '$T 15, 1863.

time to say that he would kill his wife "if he got hung for
her." The woman threw a bucket of water over him and
attempted to escape, but the prisoner followed her, and again
wounded her in six places with the chisel. Sho was at-
tended by a surgeon, and was for some time in a dangerous
state.

For the defence it was urged that the prisoner did not
intend to inflict grievous bodily harm, and that being in a
state of intoxication, the crime might fairly be reduced to
unlawfully wounding.
The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced
to 15 years penal servitude.
John Knowles, 20, was indicted for feloniously wounding
Benjamin Hall, on the 23d October, 1862, on board the ship
Clan Gregor, then lying in the Old Calabar river.
Ihe prosecutor was clerk and the prisoner steward on
board the vessel, and a dispute had arisen between them as
to the genuineness of some yams. The prisoner became
very excited, and struck Hall on the face. Nothing further
took place then, but the prisoner subsequently rushed into
the cabin, and returning with a carving knife, gave the pro-
secutor such a dreadful wound in one of his eyes that the
sight was entirely destroyed, and the other eye most seriously
impaired.

For the defence it was urged that the prisoner did not
know what he was about, as he was in drink at the time.
The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to 10
years' penal servitude.

NISI FRITTS COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Mellor.)
PARKER V. BRADFORD.
This was an action brought by a clerk and traveller on
commission residing in Johnson-street, Manchester, to re-
cover compensation for a false imprisonment. Mr. James,
WI., appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Pope for the de-
fendant.

The plaintiff's case was that he was quietly walking along
a street in Manchester, when the defendant, a washing-
machine maker in London and 3%1 anchester, met and stop-
ped him, and asked him his name and address. The plain-
tiff asked what business that was of Bradford's, and after
some altercation accompanied him to a public house near
at hand, and referred him to the landlord, who knew him,
as he had been there two or three times. Plaintiff offered
to go to the Ducie Arms and other places where ho was
well known, but defendant refused to do so, threatened to
send for a police officer, and said, "It you will put down
£5O and the gold coins, and the will, you may go." Par-
ker took Bradford to be a madman, and he told him so.
Bradford sent for two police officers and gave the plaintiff
into custody on a charge of having stolen from his estab-
lishment in Fleet-street, London, a cashbox containing £7O,
some ancient gold coins, and a will. Plaintiff denied that
he had ever been in London in his life, and now seeing that
the defendant was in earnest desired him to accompany him
to several persons who could prove his respectability. De-
fendant declined to do so. Parker was conveyed in a cab, Jta
custody of a policeman, to the police-station, where he was
locked up until next morning ; he then conclusively proved
that ho was not in London on the day when the robbery
was committed, and the magistrates discharged him.
The defence was that, on the 27th of July last
year, two men entered the defendant's London establish-
ment while he was engaged with a customer, and after
being there a short time suddenly went away; that imme-
diately afterwards the cash-box was missed ; and that when
the plaintiff was given into custody the defendant fully
believed him to be one of the men.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £6O.