The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

STABBING THE " FLYING MAN."--Claude N. Laurent,
a Frenchman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold,
charged with cutting and wounding Victor Julien, the
" Flying Man," with intent to do him grievous bodily
harm.

Isidore Mayse, having bean sworn to act as interpreter
for the prosecutor, who does not understand English, and
through him
Viet r Julien said—l am an artiste sal- le trapeze. I
live at 13, Wellington-square, Chelsea, where the prisoner
is a servant. For four or five months he has been making
indecent proposals to me, and I have told him I would de-
nounce him. I told him so yesterday morning, and at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon I was dressed ready to
go out, and was going down the staircase, when the
prisoner stabbed me in my stomach. I turned
round, or else the knife would have gone right
through my stomach, and it went into one side
above my hip and passed out the other side. I
had not said anything to him. I then told him if he did
not stab me again I would say nothing, and I went into my
room, for 1 was afraid he would stab me again. I went to
the Alhambra and performed there, and after I had per-
formed I told my father, who had previously put inquiries
to me. He came home with me, and then gave the pri-
soner into custody. I never told my father he made inde-
cent proposals to me. I went to no doctor till I saw Mr.
Webb. I went into a chemist's shop soon after I was
stabbed and bought some plaster, which I put over the
wound and stopped the bleeding. I bled very much, and
am very weak. I saw the blade of the knife used in stab-
bing me. It is like that now produced. (The knife was a
weapon nine inches long and jagged, and is described as a
French amputating knife.)

Mr. Edward Lowe Webb, surgeon, living at 9, St.
George's-road, Pimlico, said—At three o'clock this morn-
ing I was sent for to Cottage-road station to attend Mons.
Julien, who had been stabbed. I found a wound on the
hip, with a plaister over it, and on removing this I found
a wound above the left hip two inches wide. On probing
this I found the probe entered laterally two and a-half
inches with great ease. The width where the knife had
entered was about two inches, and it had passed through to
the ether side, where there was not much more than a
scratch. I also probed this, and here again, after slight
resistance, the probe entered over two and a-half inches.
The wound ran laterally between five and six inches, the
track of the knife being distinguishable all the way. Such
a wound would be produced by this knife. No vital part
was touched, and the wound, from the position in which it
was, was not dangerous.
Sergeant Perkins, 8 B, was called to the house 13 Wel-
lington-square this morning at one o'clock, where he found
the prisoner in bed. The charge was told to him, and he
said he did not mean to do it. Witness found a shirt, pair
of trousers, and a coat in the house, all of which had been
cut through, as with a knife, on the left side, and all the
marks corresponded. The shirt had been washed and also
the trousers, the hole made by the knife having been

sewn up.
Prosecutor having been recalled, stated that he had not
touched the clothes since he had taken them off, the shirt
had been covered with blood.

The prisoner, who stated that he did not intend to hurt
Victor Julien, but to stab himself, was remanded for a
week.