The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-24 00:00:00

THAMES.

SAVAGE ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED GAROTTE Roi•
BERL—John Green, alias William Johnson, aged 26,
a powerful ruffian, well known to the police as a card
sharper, swindler, and thief, was, brought before Mr.
Yardley, charged with assaulting and attempting to rob
William Kittler, a ship's steward, of High-street,
Wapping.

The complainant, who had sustained very serious
injuries, stated that he was passing along the White.
chapel-road last night, when he met the prisoner, who
entered into conversation with him and invited him to
drink. They went into a public-house kept by a pugi-
list in the road, where they were joined by another
man. After remaining there some time and
drinking several glasses of grog, they left and
went into a night-house in High-street, White-
chapel, where they had some more grog. He was
anxious to leave and go home, on which the
prisoner said, "Oh, don't be in a hurry ; yon can go
home along with me and have half my bed." He thought
the prisoner meant what he said, and remained with
him some time longer. He left the prisoner at two
o'clock this morning, and was passing along a narrow
court, called Plough-street, leading out of Whitechapel
High.street, when the prisoner came behind him, put
his right arm round his neck, and compressed it so
tightly that he nearly strangled him, and threw him
down. The prisoner, and another fellow who was him,
then knelt upon him and attempted to drag his watch
from his fob. By a violent effort he partially released
his neck from the prisoner's grasp, and shrieked
and growled as well as he could. Fortunately, there
was a police-constable close by who heard his groans,
and the prisoner and his companion ran away.

Mr. Yardley—Did-you loseranything s -
The prosecutor.—No, sir ► but my watch was par-
tially dragged from my fob, and one of my pockets,
which contained no money, was turned inside out. My
throat is very sore, and I have been very ill all night.
The witness then exhibited marks on his neck, which
had been tightly compressed. In answer to a question,
by the prisoner, the witness said they met at a foot race
in Manchester two years ago. The prisoner brought
that circumstance to his recollection last night.
George Woodward, a police-constable, 187 H, stated
that he heard the groans of the prosecutor, and as he
approached the prisoner and another man ran away. He
seized the prisoner, but not before be made a desperate
resistance. He afterwards took another man into cus-
tody, but the prosecutor could not identify him.
The prisoner, who treated the matter very lightly, said
he was drunk last night and did not know what he did,
Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoner for a week.

"THE LIBERTY OP TIIE PRESS."-SOMETRING
LIKE A VICTIM.

Gazette

The Olasgow Gazette, late Reformers ;e, refers, in
its number of Saturday, to the advertisement of its sale
by public roup, which is to take place next week, and
says :—We have struggled on for many years in the
public service. We have been victimised by bad debts
and other entanglements, and it is perfectly right that
our creditors should attach the paper, and sell it as they
may, to the best advantage. We do not utter one syllable
of complaint on that score ; but those who have taken
advantage of our labours, and. have left us in the lurch
with bad debts, to a considerable extent, may have some
twitchings of compunction to answer for to their own con-
sciences. We shall not upbraid them, because they
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have encountered for serving the public, we have paid,
on that item alone, upwards of 3,5001., as has been suffi-
ciently attested. We question whether any other news-
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or anything approaching it. But let this pass. We could
state many other losses equally provoking and unavail-
ing. It goes hard--very hard—that after serving the
public most faithfully, in our public capacity, for upwards
of a quarter of a century, and enduring mental and bodily
drudgery to an extent which few can know, and fewer
still appreciate, that we should find ourselves in this
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But still we must
observation, and hope we may be excused for doing so,
via., that if, apart from this paper, we had devoted our-
selves with one-half the energy to any other trade or pro-
fession, the probability is that we would have realised
considerable fortunes, and been perfectly independent
long ago. Many have done so round and about us less
favourably circumstanced. Yet we are not entirely jaded
in the public service. There is still some energy and
perseverance, yea spirit, tempered, we hope, with proper
submission, about us; but should these all fail, and even
if this paper shall pass now by public roup into other
hands, and our career be thus terminated with it, we
shall unfeignedly wish our successors every encourage•
ment, and a much better share of fortune than it has
fallen to our lot to possess.