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CRIMINAL COURT—(`Z.bis Day.)

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Williar s.)

THE RAILWAY STABBING CASE.

William Webb, alias Philip Cohen, 13 years of age,
butcher, was charged with feloniously cutting, stabbing,
and wounding Alfred Buckler, with intent to murder
him. There was a second count charging him with
intent to do him sonic grievous bodily injury.
Mr. J. Paine prosecuted. Mr. Sleigh defended the
prisoner.

Mr. Alfred Buckler deposed that he resided at Poplar,
and was a dtaper's assistant. ' Oa Sunday evening, the
sth March, about-a quarter past eight o'clock, he went
to the Poplar station and took a ticket for Hampstead•
road. There were several passengers in the carriage, and
when they -arrived at -the Camden. Town station they
left. Just as the train was going to start again the
prisoner looked in, opened .the door, and got into the
carriage. Prosecutor was sitting in one of the corners,
and the prisoner, who -was a -stranger to him, sat in the
middle of the seat opposite. Prisoner. asked the proae-
cuter the name of the next station, and be replied
Hampstead-road. Prisoner said "That's right," and
moved directly opposite the prosecutor; saying, "It's
about half-past 8 o'clock, isn't it—what's the time 1"
Prosecutor,,. took out : his Watch; and said it was 25
minutes past, all but a minute, and put the watch back
into his pocket and turned his head to look out of the
window. He immediately felt a •violent blow on the
neck, and sprung to his feet, and then he felt himself
struck in the arm-in the .earne:manner. He grappled with
the prisoner and nearly overpowed him, when he saw the
blade'of a knife in his left hand. Prosecutor caught hold
of the knife by the blade with his right hand, and he felt
blood was flowing from his riebk and arm. He caught
the prisoner by the right wrist with his left hand, pushed
it against his throat, and pressed him up in the corner,
and called•eut murclei i,everal times, the train being in
motion at the time. Whilst be held the knife by the
blade the prisoner attempted to draw it from him, and
he felt it cut deeper, but in consequence of ,the blade
near the handle being: rather blunt it did not 'hurt his
hand much. The prisoner was unable to get the knife
from him, .and struggled very much to get away, but
the prosecutor held him fast, the speed of the train
then- becoming slower and slower in consequence of
their- near .approach .to tha:station. When the train
stopped he again called out murder several times, and the
door was opened immediately by a guard or a porter.
The prisoeer let, go the knife• immediately the door was
opened, and said, "The knife is not mine. This gentle.
man tried to stab me,-and in self defence I stabbed him."
Prosecutor gave the 'knife to the porter. He did not •i
make any, attack on the prisoner before be stabbed him.
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—He bad nothing to
drink after tea that evening. Ile did not speak to the

prisoner angrily. ...
By the Judge—lt'was about two minutes from the

.me he was first struck before the train stopped.
William Sandford, porter on the North London

Railway, 'deposed that as be Was standing on the evening
of the sth March by the signal post, watching the ar-
rival of the train, he• heard, as the train approached,
cries of "Murder,"' and "'Help." When the train
stopped, he jumped across the buffers and went to the
carriage from whence the cries
.proceeded, and there he
saw the prosecutor and primer struggling. The pro-
secutor had hold of the Made, and the prisoner the
handle, of a knife. Oa seeing witness prosecutor said,
"This Mali has been" trying to murder me ; take the
knife." The prisoner then let go the knife, and prose-
cutor gave it to wetness. The knife was dripping with
Mood, and blood was'onzing out of his neckcloth, and he
appeared to he in a fainting state. Witness secured the
prisoner till a policeman came up,. and he was given into
custody. 'Prisoner raid, " The knife don't belong to
me, but to the gentleman ; he tried to stab me, and I
took it away aria stabbed him instead." The knifeino-
duced —a butcher's dressing knife—is the same. Prose-
cuter said the prisoner's statement was false. He was
led away, and attended to by a surgeon.

James Webb, police sergeant of the S division, de-

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posed that.when the prisoner was brought to the police-
atation in Albany-street, about a quarter past 9 o'clock,
he gave the name of William Webb, and that he was a
sailor, but ho refused to gi4e his address because he did
not wish his parents to know that he was in trouble.
He said that "the pntletnan attempted to stab him,
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and be took the knife from him- and stabbed him in-
steal." Witness took the prisoner back to the railway
station, and the prosecutor identified him as the man
who had stabbed hiap,. On his return with the prisoner

,o the police-station he noticed that his hands were

covered with blood, and that blood was on his face, but
that there were no wounds that corresponded with it.

Prisoner said that in eudeavouring to take the knife

from the prosecutor' he cut his hand, and pointed to a
small wound on the middle finger of the left hand and a
scratch on the lower part of the thumb. Witness
examined them, and said they had not bled. Prisoner
made no reply. Witness searched the prisoner, and
found on him a duplicate, a few lncifer matches, a half-
,

penny, and some other trifling things, but no railway
ticket. :The knife appeared to be new, and was a but-
cher's dressing-knife.
Mr, Stephen Alford, surgeon, of Haverstock-hill,
Hampstead, deposed that he attended the prosecutor on
Sunday evening, the sth March, at the Station, between
8 and 9. o'clock in • the evening. Ile found- him in a
fainting state ; his cbthes were much saturated with
blood, and he bad a handkerchief fastened round his
neck. On removing the handkerchief he found a wound
on the left side of the neck, about two inches from the
car. It was about one inch in length, and the same in
depth. The edges • were -smooth, as if they had been
made by a sharp instrument such as the knife pro-
duced. The wound,. was inflicted by a stab, and was
within half an inch of the carotid artery. On the out-
side of the left arm, just below the shoulder, there was
a similar wound, but deeper. It was about two inches
in depth. Both wounds inclined upwards. On the
right side, at the back of the neck, there was a bruise ;
and there was also a. scratch over the right side of the
brow, and also on the right side of the chin. There were
two slight cuts between the fore finger and thumb of the
right hand. .

By the Judge—lt required much violence to Wild
chi wound with the knife produced.
The prosecutor produced the clothes he had on when
he was stabbed. His shirt and neck-tie were saturated
with blood. His neck-tie, which was four times double,
and his collar, were cut through. He had on an over-
coat, and he received four stabs on the collar of the coat,
the marks of which 'were distinctly visible, and two
61 2 I others on the arm, before he -was cut.

. .
Mr. David Myers, butcher, of Whitechapel, deposed
that the prisoner lived with him about seven months
ago, and that his name was Philip Levi. •
Cross-examined by Mr. Sleigh—Tbe prisoner was not
addicted to intemperance, and he was a kind, humane,
well-behaved lad when in his service.

This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Sleigh, in addressing the jury for the prisoner,
called upon them to acquit him of the capital charge of
intending to murder, because, if they found him guilty
of murder, his life would be forfeited ; but to find him
guilty ef, wounding only if they considered the facts of
the case warranted them in so doing.
The learned Judge summed up. It was for the jury
to say if they considered the prisoner intended to murder
the prosecutor, or :to overpower him to rob him of his
watch.
Tne jury found the prisoner guilty on the second
count of wounding with intent to do bodily harm.
The learned Judge, in sentencing the prisoner, said
that the jury had acquitted him of any intention to take
away the prosecutor's life, and bad found him guilty of
wounding with intent to do bodily harm. He must say
that in the whosle course of his experience that this was
by far the worst case of its class that he had ever met
with. The savage attack which the prisoner made on
the person of the prosecutor, no doubt to plunder him,
was a crime in its nature so heinous and from
the tirue and place and circumstances in which it was
committed calculated to create alarm in the public mind.
that he (the learned Judge) would be guilty of a great
dereliction of duty if he did not sentence him to as severe
a punishment as the law allowed, and he therefore sen-
tenced him to be transported for life. His lordship then
addressed the jury, and said that their finding the pri-
soner guilty on the second count had made no difference
in the sentence. Had they found him guilty on the
first count he should have recommended him to mercy,
which would have been commuted to transportation for
life.

SWINDLING. BY WHOLESALE.---A. moustached foreigner,
styling himself Captain John Jonsen, a Hungarian, at
Birkenhead, has for the past week or so been ordering
goods from every one who would give him temporary
credit in that town and Liverpool. On Tuesday Captain
Jonsen attended a public sale, and had knocked down
to him goods to the value of 4E., for which, however,
as for everything else he had ordered, he did not pay.
After his departure from the sale-room two valuable
cups were missed, and he was traced by a detective to hi
lodgings, where, on his pockets being searched, invoices
for goods which had not then arrived were found to the
amount of about 3001. He was taken before the
magistrates yesterday and committed for trial.