The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1908-05-20 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ASSAILANT AT THE ASSIZES. VERDICT AND SENTENCE.  On Saturday the closing chapter was 'reached m connection with one of the most dramatic and startling episodee_in the recent annals of Liverpool, when ham Stanley Vaughan. aged 85 was arraigned before Lord Coleridge at the Liverpool Assizes on a charge of wounding Mr. J. W. Aloop with intent to murder him. Mr. Alsop is a well-known Liverpool solicitor, being a member of the firm of tla.rtii,Ztevenis, Crooks and Armstrong, set. He is a member of the Liverpool City Council and resides in Oirton. His alleged assailant is described as a furintare broker, but is better known as an artist. The case was concluded on Baturday and the jury found prisoner guilty uf wounding with intent to murder. His lordship deferred sentence until Monday, wheil Vaughan was sent to penal servitude for Pre years.  G. C. llamas, who examined Mr. Aleop at the David Lewis Northern Hospital, described the gunshot wound in the whew vswwhas,a asme was caned. ha left arm. The ballet had entered from stepped brskly into the dock. Re was behind, about the middle of the upper wearing a light grey overcoat. Vaughan arm, and was lying immediately under the skin. Witness extracted the bullet, which appeared to be singularly little oppressed by the gravity of his position. He maintained Was flattened in oonseqnence of haring struck the bone. MO bullet must have a calm, unmoved demeanour throughout. Before the ease was commenced, whilst Dewed between the bone and the large bloodvessele and nerves of the arm; it oarthrough, preliminaries were being gone rowly escaped the bloodwesels. It it bad through, Vaughan chatted with one of the counsel, and when Mr. Sanderson. LC., struck the bloodveasele it was very likely rose to open the case prisoner took out that Mr. Alsop might have bled to death pencil and paper and commenced taking before assistance could have been rancopious notes. dared. Mr. Sanderson, LC, and the Hon. John Addressing a final word to the jury, Mr. Manafield were counsel for the prosecution Sanderaon said he did not want to use and Mr. Madden and Mr. Sibley (instructed strong lalignage, but he did not think he by Mx. W. H. Quilliam) represented pri- would be doing his duty as Counsel for the Sonar. Crown unless he put it before them that In opening the case for the prosecution, there was 80 other case here except that Mr. Sanderson said the charge against the of wounding with intent to murder. When prisoner was a serious one—that of wound- a man fired two revolver shots at another mg with intent to murder. There was also MSB who was quite close to him, so that a charge of wounding with intent to do the first one only just missed his head and hit a telephone box almost in a line with grievous bodily harm. The facts might be very shortly stated. At five o'clock in the his head, and so that the second shot hit afternoon of the 13th February of this a man in the arm and made the wound year Mr. Alsop was in his private room described by the doctor, he (counsel) sub. in his office. He had occasion to go to the raided it was done with intent to murder telephone, and to do so he had to cross the him. general office. Mr. A loop went straight to