The Potteries Examiner : — 1878-06-29 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

BEFORE THE NV:I'ST EATEN AT TUNSTALL.  On Thurslay, at the Tenet..lt Police-court, before H. C. Greenwood, H. T. Davenp wt, W. Adams, and R. N. Wood, MVO:, the man Herbert Holland sac. rendered to his bail on the charge of attempting to murder his wife on the 23rd lust —Mr. Hollinshead again appeared teethe defendant—The first witness called was the wife of defendant. —Elizabeth Holland said that she lived :It the Rainbow Inn, Tanstall. About ten o'clock on Sunday night they closed the house, and went and stood outside the front of the house. She was in good health, and was there only a few minute'. She then went and got supper, and did not nor a knife. She remembered the doctor being sent for. He was not sent for anything; it was only what the neighbours said, not what witness hod stated. The doctor did come to bee, but it was for nothing. There was not much blood about her at the time. She did not wish to answer any more questions. Tha doctor did not Orn: her throat up, and there was nothit,g the matter with it. He ,lid something to her chin- She told Ur. Harston that there was nothing particular done. She did not receive any injuries to her throat —By the Bench: Witness and her husband had a scuffle, and her chin was "done" during that time. She did not know whether she did it herself, or whether herb ,-band did it.—Annie Clarke, servant to the defendant, said that they stood outside the door about half an hour of icr closing time. They afterwards went in to get sapper in the kitchen. Whilst witness was getting her supper she went in the back yard for a jug of water. There was 0000 e in the house but the master and mistress. She could not say how long she was outside. The master and mistress had a bit of a quan'el before Siar went out, and she heard a setae. She then returned to the kitchen, and saw blood falling front her mistress's chin. When she saw that she went toTom Taylor's and told him. Taylor then went to the house, and also a woman. She had not seen her mistress with a knife, only when sLe woo cutting witness's supper. She did not see any broken jogs or glasses, and did not fetch the doctor sir send for him.—Thomas Taylor said he Used three doors from the defendant. About eleven o'clock on Sunday night, from what the last witness told him, he went into the Rainbow Inn and saw Mr. and Mrs. Holland, the latter was bleeding from the chin. Witness put a wet cloth over the wound to stop the blood.—Sarah Ann Britton. wife of Reuben Britton. stated she went into Holland's hoe, about elvven o'clock. When she cot there she saw the mtre te bleading from the chin. Witness asked what was the matter, and Holland said fetch the doctor.—Mr. Thomas May, surgeon, said that he was sent for about twenty minat et past eleven. The house was full of peopk and Mrs. Holland sat on a chow. She was excited, het not at all faint. She was  not bleeding when be saw her, lie examined her very partiealsrly. There was a wound *hoot two and a half inches in length, just through the skin. He put four stitches in. He did not think it could bedone by a pereon's finger nail. He suggested that a policeman should be sent for to clear away the people who crowded round the honse.—The Stipendiary said that there was no evidence to show that defendant had made any attempt to take away the life of the woman. The only person present was the woman herself, and she said she slid not know whether the defendant had caused the wound or whether it was done by herself. They might draw the inference from what had taken place in their own minds, but a jury would uot convict Cu that. Defendant would consequently be discharged.