The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-28 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

THE 'KNIFE AGAlN.—llenry Smith, an elderly
man, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with beg-
ging, and also with wounding Samuel Buckley, a
tailor, residing at No. 35, Marshall-street, Golden-
square.

The Prosecutor said—On Saturday night about 9
o'clock I went into the Bird-in-Hand Tavern,
Oxford-street,with my wife, and while there prisoner
came in and begged, and because the persons there
would not give him anything he set to abusing
them. I told him that he ought to be ashamed of
himself, and had a few words with him, when he
seized me, got me out of the house and dawn on
the pavement, falling on the top of me, and on my
afterwards getting up I found that my hand had
been cut and was bleeding. A constable took me
to the Middlesex Hospital, and the surgeon there
bound up my hand.

Richard Stevens, a young man living in Crown-
court, Soho, said—While in the Bird-in-Hand
Tavern onSaturday night I saw the prisoner come in
and beg, and the prosecutor said he had quite
enough to do to keep his own family, and the pri-
soner then began to abuse him and there were a
few words between them. The prisoner then took
a knife off a plate on the counter, and seized the
prosecutor, and pushed him out of the house, and
fell on him, and when the prosecutor got up I saw
the blood spurt from his hand.
George Hartley, of Sutton-street, Soho, after
giving similar evidence, said that he saw the knife,
which belonged to the landlord of the tavern,
picked up where the prosecutor had been thrown
down on the pavement by the prisoner.
Police-constable Wilt, 67 C—l took the prisoner
into custody, and on the knife being picked up the
prisoner said that it did not belong to him, and that
he had one of his own. The prosecutor at that time
was smothered with blood, and was taken to the
hospital to have his hand dressed.

Mr. Tyrwhitt having cautioned the prisoner,
asked him if he wished to say anything.
The prisoner said that he certainly begged in the
house, but all the persons there were drunk.

The constable said that the prisoner was himself
drunk.

Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for trial.

WESTMINSTER.

CAUSE AND EFFECT.—Joseph Lloyd, a very re-
spectable-looking man, was charged before Mr. Selfe
with being drunk and incapable of taking care of
himself.

Police-constable Hanrahan, 189 B, said that on
Saturday evening he found the defendant drunk and
incapable in Rochester-row, and conveyed him to
the station.

Defendant—l remember perfectly well going into
a house at the end of Rochester-row for refresh-
ment. I was there illused by somebody, and really
hardly know how I got into the street, where, it
seems, I fell.
Mr. Selfe—They say you were drunk, which may
account for your not having very clear views upon
the subject.

Defendant—l really must assure you that there is
a mistake somewhere in that respect.

Mr. Selfe—Then you were not drunk?
Defendant—Drunk ! No, sir, certainly not. I
had only had six glasses of ale.
Mr. Selfe—Only six glasses of ale. If you were
used to Westminster ale you would have a different
opinion of the effects of six glasses of ale. We hear
of people getting drunk upon less than that fre-
quently.
Defendant—lt was insensibility, not drunkenness.
After I was ill4reatcd I fell, and they took that to
be drunkenness.
Mr. Sdfe—So it seems.
Defendant—But it really was not so.

3lr. Selfe--It's quite clear that you have mistaken
cause for effect, and must take the consequences.
Your drunkenness made you fall. It has that awk-
ward tendency. You are fi:ied 55., or five days.