The Sun. — 1846-08-07 (London, England)

MURDEROUS ATTACK BY A RAILWAY POLICE-SERGEANT. ETON, WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday evening a man named Anthony Thomas Rymes, about forty years of age, the police-sergeant at the Maidenhead station, in the employ of the Great Western Railway Company, was brought before the Rev. Thomas Carter, the sitting magistrate, in custody of Daniel Sexton, the Maidenhead constable, charged with having inflicted a serious, and, it is feared, mortal wound, upon the body of Mr. Henry Plumb, an articled clerk to Mr. William Ward, solicitor, of Maidenhead, between nine and ten oclock on Monday night. Mr. J. J. Williams, barrister-at-law, and Mr. Ward, solicitor, attended on behalf of Mr. Plumb, who was in too weak and dangerous a state to be present. The following certificate from Mr. Dellis, surgeon, was handed to the magistrate:-" I hereby certify that Mr. Henry Plumb is not able to attend the magistrates, in consequence of having a punctured wound in the back." The prisoner, upon being placed at the bar, appeared perfectly cool and unembarrassed. Mr. John Mahon Williams (a son of Mr. Williams, the barrister), who was on a visit at Mr. Ward's, at the time of the unfortunate occurrence, deposed as follows :—I was taking a walk with Mr. Plumb on Monday evening, at about half-past nine o'clock, and as we were passing the Dumb Bell public-house, which is opposite to the Maidenhead station, we heard some music, which induced us to stop outside to hear it. A boy (who it has since been wasascertained e the son of the prisoner, and who is a page in the service us: a family in the neighbourhood), who was standing n looked up in Mr. Plumb's face and laughed and walked towards him. The boy then "Father,ran aw they have been si Plumb then remarked, "That's the famous Buttons." I upada,; oh, the is roadit? towards Maidenhead, calling out, licking me." We ran a little way after stopped. The boy turned round, nthhee boy,and then got near the prisoner's house, and said, "You ou come here, and we will give opposite the prisoner's h ouse, Maidenhead. Just as we got _ it you." The boy then went in, and we walked on towards. evidently mistaking uswas in the the boy hallooed out two foror tpirre.evvtanrnde,sa,sonit.'s young .Ward," garden with his mother. then saw the prisoner run into the house, and taking something from off the place on which a candle was standing, immediately run out again and jump over the gate into the road. The prisoner's wife called after him, " Make haste, give it them well. ' Plumb ran away as h stayedw as coming until soon asp the d oprisoner gcaamtee; outb ofl htehne sa house.w after us, I ran away as fast as I could. Prisoner followed, and when I found he was close ume I ran across the road and jumped over the fence into the ground next to the railway. Prisoner followed Plumb, calling out to some men in the road, "Stop the young blackguard." I heard one of these men say, " I shall not stop him; what has be done ? ' Almost immediately afterwards I heard the cries of Plumb. I heard him distinctly say, " Have mercy on me, and don't hit me with that." I Len ran across to the railway on to Mr. Ward's house for assistance, and returned with Mr. Ward's man-servant. On our return we found Mr. Plumb at the King's Arms Inn, Maidenhead bridge, attended by Mr. Bellis, the surgeon. As soon as I saw Plumb, and the dreadful state he was in, t fainted away. The :hire, waistcoat, trousers, c'at, worn by Mr. Plumb at the time he was at444ed produced by Sexton the eo,n4table. The the prisoner, were lower part of the Wai4tc94t 4.144 4411 Pci tie tryttorof froal was to bowl