Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1875-06-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDEROUS ATTACK IN A PUBLIC - HOUSE  AT MIDDLESBROUGH. On Wednesday, at the Middlesbrough Police Court, before the Stipendiary and Thomas Brentnall, Esq., Patrick McGowan, labourer, Thomas Darcy, sad Matthew Dolan, were charged on remand with inflicting grievous bodily harm on David Conway, metal carrier, on thk 7th inst. Mr Bainbridge appeared for the defendants, and Mr Stubbs for the landlord of the Golden Lion, where the attack on the prosecutor was alleged to have taken place. From the evidence of Conway, who lives in Lime-street, it appeared that on the night of the day in question he and a man named Hanlon went into the Golden Lion, and prosecutor called for half a gallon of ale, which he paid for. The prisoner McGowan threw a glass, and it hit Cooney on the top of the head. The prisoner Darcy then threw another glass at Hanlon. The latter and Cooney went up to the men and asked why they had thrown the glasses, and they made no reply. One of the men struck at Hanlon, who fell, and while he was upon the ground all the men kicked him. Cooney went to Hanlon's help, and they began a row amongst themselves. Conway left the house to seek a policeman, and on his return, Hanlon laid hold of him by the collar and pulled him into the house. McGowan then pulled out a knife and struck Conway with the blade across the right eye, inflicting a severe wound, from which blood issued freely. The blow was aimed at the body, but in bending to ward it off, he received it on the eye, falling into the arms of a Mrs Gallagher, who, said prosecutor "began to punch him on the head with a glass," and he fell. While on the ground the three prisoners began to kink him about the body and head, and he had suffered great pain from the injuries received. Darcy shouted "The b— is dead I" and another shouted 'Chuck him outside." Prosecutor was afterwards confined to his bed, and had not yet recovered from the injuries. In crose-examination, Conway admitted having been convicted of attempting to shoot and of assault. Dr T. J. O'Kelly stated that on the 9,h inst., he was called to see the prosecutor Conway, and found him suffering from a wound at the beck of the head, several small wounds on the forehead, and a wound from the angle of the right eye extending half way down the cheek. It was a clean cut, which might be inflicted by a piece of sharp glass or a knife. The wound on the top of the head was an incised one, and such as would be inflicted by a man's boot or a kick.—Dr McKenzie said he bad also examined Conway, and found au incised wound in the region of the right eye, a wound extending down the cheek, and an incised scalp wound at the back of the head. The wound could not have been inflicted with a bhint instrument.—Dr Bleightholme, of the Cottage Hospital, spoke to the admittance of Conway to that lustitution, and gave corroborative evidence as to the nature of the wounds. —John Cooney also charged Darcy with assaultiug and inflicting grievous bodily harm upon him at the Golden Lion on the 7th inst. The ease of the prosecutor, which was borne out by the evidence of Harrison Hughes, was to the effect that when Hanlon was attacked by Darcy he struck the latter, and the men then knocked Hanlon down and kicked him. Darcy threw a glass at Hanlon, and it hit him on the temple. A general row then took place, and the . three prisoners, some other men present, and a woman attacked Cooney, Hanlon, Conway, and one James Dorkin. Pots, glasses, and boots wete used freely by the prisoners. Hanlon caught Cooney, and while he was being remeved, apparently insensible, Darcy, for the second time, threw a glass at Cooney'a head. This occurred just prior to the return of Conway • le Mr Bainbridi.,'s defence was that the prisoners acted merely in defence of their own persons, and that the prosecutors were the aggressors. The Stipendiary remanded the case until Friday, in order that the evidence of the various witnesses might be sifted, as be did not approve of the binding over of a large number of witnesses whose evidence might go to prove nothing. The prisoners' bail was then renewed.  Erra's Cocoa.--