The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

A FRACAS ABOUT A NEWSPAPER. - Edward
Attwell, a respectable-looking man, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with assaulting Mr. William
Strange, publisher of the Sporting Life.
Mr. Strange said—l reside at Osborne House,

Holland-park. Last evening I was at the Oxford I
Music Hall, when the defendant came up and spoke
to me. A warm discussion ensued between us as to
a newspaper I was connected with—the Sporting
Life—the defendant having once been engaged as a
canvasser for the paper, and I being the publisher.
The defendant made some very offensive remarks,
and said he would punch my head. Not wish-
ing to have any altercation at the Oxford Music
Hall, and as I wished to see a gentleman at the Beau-
fort Club, in Rathbone-place, I left the hall and
went to Rathbone-place, but in consequence of the
defendant following me all the way, and making use
of most abusive and offensive language, I did not
go to the club, but turned down a passage, and the
defendant then came up to me and wanted to fight,
saying "Now, you --, I'll give you something,"
and he snatched my stick out of my hand and
struck me on the hat, smashing it—(the complain-
ant exhibited his hat in a smashed condition)—and he
then struck me in the eye with the stick. I called
out " Police," and the defendant threw the stick
away, and it went through the window of a public-
house. A person came out of the public-house and
asked me whose stick it was, and I said it belonged
to me, and they then told me that it had
gone through their window. I told them
that though it was my stick it was thrown
by the defendant. On a constable coming up I
gave the defendant into custody, and before
the constable the defendant again abused me.
The Defendant—l deny the whole charge. I did
not speak to him first at the Oxford. Did you not
call me a liar, cheat, beater, and challenge me to
fight ?

The Complainant—No. I called you a scoundrel
!or what you said of me.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—What was that.

The Complainant—lie said I was a thief, a liar,
and all that sort of thing, and that I was never in
any way connected with the Sporting Life, but that
it was a Mr. Stephens. lie also said he would
" punch my head," and " let me have it."

Police-Constable James Swain, 68 E--At half-
past 11 last night I was in Rathbone-place, and the
defendant was given in charge by the complainant
for assaulting him, and seeing his eye bleeding I
took the defendant into custody.
The Defendant—He called me a liar, a bester,
and scoundrel, and he wanted to fight me
under a publichouse lamp, but I told him
him that it was too public a place, and went down
a mews. lie then said to me, " Now call me a
liar," and I did so, and he then struck me and I
struck him, and he defied me with his stick. I
never struck him with the stick, as he asserts, and
it was in parrying a blow he aimed at me that the
stick flew out of his hand.
The complainant had no witness, but a person
who was called by the defendant, and who said he
was a friend of both parties, stated that he did not
see anything of the assault, but he heard the com-
plainant and the defendant equally abusing each
other.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—l think justice will best be done
by binding over both parties to keep the peace.

11. EDITION.

SUN OFFICE., 7 o'CLocK.