The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-05 00:00:00

COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER.

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worth, was charged with attempting to murder his
brother, George Emmett. Mr. Grainger
appeared
for the prisoner. A number of
witnesses
were called, and from their evidence it
that two railway porters—named Watsonappeared
—were within a short distance of son and Reed
office at the Marsh-lane station, in Leeds,the booking_
time that the pistol was discharged b at the
at his brother. t y the prisoner
As Watson was r
booking-office, after hearing the explosion,returning to the
woman entering the station, and
coming out of the bookin ,-
In the prisoner was
rapidly descended the steps,g°
ce door. Prisoner
lowed him up, and captured. but Reed closely fol-
lowed
In the custody of Watson
him at the bottons9f the
was detained about 20 o ' Watson and Reed prisoneran.me
George Emmett, .mmutes and in the meantime
rothee ti
plat-
form, was me, byWho had rushed.
asked him
„ \\ilia hadanother rtaoildwoar,
replied, " Oh, William fetch n a °3,11 official, who
Prosecutor
doctor as soon as
You can •, it was my brOther who Aland." Prisoner
said to Reed, 4, you may take search me.
and do with me what you wish ;" and upon being
searched by inspector Neal, there were found upon
him a pistol, besidesapparent' newly discharged,
hthscharged, caps,
number of letters. On
powder, and shot,
hootin at his
being charged with $ .
d, g, brother by the
the Prisonrr said, twice, ' Don't name it.,,
officer,
He had previous y requested the railway officials
4, not to hurt him, saying that, "if they behaved
lik Englishmen" he would go with them anywhere.
Prisoner had purchased the pistol at Mr. Croisdale's
shop, in Kirkgate, on Wednesday. When he first
entered tho shop he told Mr. Croisdale who he was,
adding that he had been to school with that gentle-
man's son. Prisoner, after asking for ammunition,
stated that he had come from Manchester, and was
going to South Milford, where his father resided, and
that he required a pistol with which to shoot sparrows
and small birds. Shot of the No. 6 size was selected,
and he asked Mr. Croisdale to charge the pistol.
The latter did so, putting in from 12 to 13 shots, but
he did not cap it. The six shot corns taken from
the neck of the wounded man were of the same size
as those he had loaded the pistol with.
Mr. H. W. Price, burgeon, deposed, that though
the prosecutor had continued to pregress, he was
not yet out of danger,
Mr. Granger, for the defense, contended that
there was an absence of motive on the part of the
prisoner, and that his actions were inconsistent
with those of a man who was intending, to commit
murder. The brothers werethe;-
a on best terms,
and bad been together on the Thursday
day. If the prisoner had intended . and Fri-
to kill his brother
he had had frequent opportunities
of doing so with-
out prejudicing himself,
the shot in the ,as he had done, by firing
waiting-room or booking-office at a
railway station.
The magistrates committed the prisoner for trial
at the York assizes.

The Rev, H. J. Hatch, whose name was promi-
nently before the public some time ago, has been licensed
by the Bishop of Carlisle to the curacy of Pennington
ilancaahire.