The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-04 00:00:00

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Tyrwhitt, the magis-
trate of the Clerkenwell Police-court, accompanied
by Mr. Mould, the chief-clerk, and Mr. Bayliss, the
chief-usher, proceeded to the' Middlesex House of
Correction, Cold-bath-fields, to hear a eharge against
Geo. Simpson, 24; a prisoner confined in that pri-
son for six mouths, of stabbing with intent to mur-
der Warder Henry Goodman and Warder Benja-
min Morris; on Tuesday last. The examination of
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all the witnesses, with the exception of Morris, 'was
leave his bed until that morning, and. it was news-
sition. The first witness called was
Henry Goodwin, who said—l am a warder hr.
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serving out some meat for pieces of bone whiclh
sometimes come in the meat. About 2 o'clock I
was in the dining-room of the ward in which the
prisoner was confined with the other prisoners.
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sleeve. The knife was the knife the prisonermsed
to cut his dinner.. The prisoner when he cam to
Ime said, "This piece of-meat stinks." I exam Lied
it and said, "It is sweet." I was in the act of I& ty-
ing it upon the cupboard when the prisoner strack
me a violent blow with a knife on the mouth al id-
lip. He cut my upper lip, and the wound is near ly
three inches in length. I had not seen the knife
when I received the blow. "Warder Morris came up'
and put himself between us and said, " Would yen
kill him P." I was partly stunned, and did not hear
the prisoner's reply. The violence of the 1 )low
had.forced.me on the cupboard. When I 1( Joked
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Benjamin Morris, also a warder, wk/to be very ill, said—On Tuesday last I *ea In-, I:he
dining-room when the prisoner was at dinner'. I
was standing within three yards of Goodwin vt hen
I heard the prisoner say, "It stinks." Good 'win
had the meat at the time, and put it into the p ii-
soner's panikin. The prisoner put it back on tl be
cupboard, and repeated, " It stinks, and I can't c st
it." At the same moment he struck Goodwin in tl io
face. The prisoner raised his hand and struck aE e-
cond time, when I rushed between them to in r-
vent a further assault. The prisoner then struilk
me on the right cheek, but the blow was intendo d
for Goodwin. He did not see me, as , I
was behind him. I then closed with him, when th a
prisoner struck at me, and I received a blow on the
left side of the neck. I did not feel the cut, nor did 1.
know he had a knife. I heard some one say, " The:
knife ! the knife !" and " Go away, Mr. Morris
you are wounded." By this time I had thrust the-
prisoner back against the door, when some of 'the
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r ioround I saw the knife and picked it up. I after-
wards saw myself bleeding from both sides of my
face. The knife produced, which was covered with
blood, is the one I picked up. I have been unable
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to go home. since, and I have not left my bed until
this' morning.
Mr. Henry Wakefield said—l am surgeon to the
House of Correction. On Thursday afternoon I saw
the injured warders in the infirmary. Warder
Goodwm.was suffering from the cut in his lip. The
wound extended three inches.

Prisoner—How can that be when his lip is not
three inches in length.
Mr. Wakefield—The cut extended from the lip
into the cheek, but had not , penetrated into the
mouth. I saw Morris in bed, and, from what I could
ascertain, he had lost nearly a pint of blood. He
was very faint and low from loss of blood. The
wound on the right side of the cheek, by the nose,
is about an inch in length. I examined the left
side, and found a wound extending from the lobe of
the left ear to the angle of the jaw, a distance of
ruther more than an inch and a half. Both wounds
might have been inflicted with the knife produced.
It was fortunate it did not extend lower, or it
would have gone near the jugular vein, and been
attended with very serious consequences. I did
not consider it safe to send Morris home.
William Morley, sub-warder, said,—On Ttiesday
afternoon, about 20 minutes past 2, Warder Good-
win asked the prisoners if they had anything to
exchange. The prisoner was sitting on the front
seat, which he left, and as he passed me I noticed
he had a piece of meat, about an ounce in weight ,
in his pannikin. The next thing that drew my
attention was the sound of a. blow, the other
prisoner calling out, " He's got a knife, sir." On
looking in that direction I saw Goodwin staggering
back, the blood pouring from his mouth, and Mor-
ris rushing to the prisoner, saying, " What would.
you do, man P" The prisoner was then brandishing
the knife over his head. I saw the knife descend
twice, and he held the knife as a dagger. On push-
ing the prisoner on one side I saw that Morris was
stabbed, and bleeding profusely from a wound in
the neck. I then seized the prisoner and said,
" You silly man, what have you done ?" He said,
" I hope he is dead ; for there are two or three more
that want settling." I took him, and the prisoner
said he would o quietly.
Prisoner—Did you take notice where the knife
was when I passed you ?
Witness—You had it in your hand.
Stgpb.en Roberts—l was a prisoner in the same
ward as the prisoner, and was having my dinner
with him on Tuesday. I was on the back seat and
heard the prisoner say "My meat stinks." The
prisoner went towards Goodwin. • I heard some-
thing knock in the panikin which I thought was a
bone. Goodwin said the meat was beautiful, there
was nothing the matter with it. The prisoner re-
plied " It is," and drew his right hand up, in which
I saw a knife. He drew it from his sleeve and held.
it as a dagger, and he was about to strike Goodwin
in the neck, when I said "He has got a knife."
Goodwin then turned round and the knife caught
him on the mouth. Morris was standing close by,
and attempted to lay hold of the prisoner, but be-
fore he could do so the prisoner struck Morris two
or three times with the knife in the face and neck.
The prisoner had his hand up about doing it again
when I caught hold of him by the wrist. I hear
the prisoner say " There are two or three of you
want doing for here," Morley said, " What a
foolish fellow you are to do such a thing as that,"
when the prisoner said " I will put their lights out
in about a minute."

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did you see the knife before the
prisoner struck the blow ?
Witness—No, he had it up his sleeve.
Walter Dunn, another prisoner, said—Warder
Goodwin, on Tuesday afternoon, was engaged weigh-
ing meat, to see that the prisoners had full weight.
Prisoner went about 12 yards to Goodwin and com-
plained of his meat not being sweet. Goodwin exa-
mined it, and said he would not change it. With
that, the prisoner struck Goodwin on the right side
of the face, moving his right hand as if he was
shifting something from his sleeve and then made
another " job" at Goodwin with a knife. At the
same time the prisoner said, " You , I
will
put your light out of you if you do not give
me what is right." Morris ran and seized the pri-
soner, when the prisoner caught hold of Morris and
I saw him distinctly job at him four times with his
right hand, while he held him in his left. When
the prisoner was seized Morley said, " You will be
very sorry for this," when the prisoner replied,
" No, I shan't ; for there are one or two of you
want settling." When Mr. Lockyer came in the
prisoner said he would be quiet, and would go with
him.
Peter Tatton, also a prisoner, said—l was at dinner
on Tuesday last, the prisoner was next to me. I saw
the prisoner while he was sittineagedkdaeoytwn
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thdknamyifar)e, adunps dGfiheard Goodwin say to the prisoner, " You
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Goodwin then went away, when thd*,
ehymmoner used
an opprobrious term in reference to
The prisoner here said he did not sit next to the
witness on Tuesday. He should like to have one of
the other persons called, because he could prove
how the knife really was in the pannikin.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said any witness the prisoner
wanted should be called, upon which
George Fordham Collier said that when the pri-
soner got up from his seat on Tuesday with his pan-
nikin he had the knife in it, and not up his sleeve.
Prisoner—That is true, and I had the knife in
the panikin when I passed Warder Morley. The
warder spoke to me first.
Mr. Tyrwhitt, having cautioned the prisoner in
the usual form, asked him what he had to say in
answer to the charge, telling him that what he did
say would be taken down in writing, and might be
used in evidence against him at his trial.
The prisoner-4 will say what I have got to say
when I go before a jury ; for I do not know that
what is taken down will not be altered.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner to New-
gate for trial on the charge of cutting and wound-
ing with intent to murder.
-The prisoner asked when he could have his hand-
cuffs off. He had had them on 72 hours, and was
in dreadful pain.
The governor said he would .see to it, and the
prisoner was taken back to his cell.