Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1872-12-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

OBSCENE LANGUAGE.— Cornelius Keefe and Eliza Keefe, his wife, were fined 15s each including costs,  I strike  , . . away.—Margaret Casey and Mrs Walsh each nised the prisoners as being present when prosecutor was found insensible, and they saw Herring kicking him. James Ward, prosecutor's companion at the time, deposed as to the nature of prosecutor's injuries, but could not recognise the prisoners.. He had brought prosecutor from the Malleable Ironworks, because he was neither drunk nor sober. Requested prodecutor to stop at his lodgings, because Paradise.street was a low place, and he might get "leathered. "Ot that time of night. Dr. Butler said, I was called to see the prosecutor, on the morning of Tuesday, the .17th instant. I went to a house in Wilson-street, where I found him lying upon the floor before the fire, bleeding. I examined him. He was covered with blood. I saw' several incised and punctured wounds upon his head. I counted seven incised wounds upon different parts of the head. I am also positive that there were eleven punctured weamds upon the head, with several contused worindrupon different parts of the body. The 44sed wounds ha , n produced by some sharp instrument, and , one of them penetrated to the bone. The largest i wound was five inches in length. There was also a triangular wound right through the right hand. It was in the shape of a bayonet. Cawley's boots would not produce the incised wounds upon the prosecutor's head; they must have been done by some sharp instrument, a fall upon the doorstep would not produce all the marks upon Murphy's legs. Sergeant Thornthwaite deposed: About half-past eleven o'clock of tLe night of the 16th instant, I went to No. 10, Wilson-street, where I saw the prosecutor. He was lying on the floor covered with blood. I then went in search of the prisoners. I apprehended them a littie after one o'click in the morning of the 17th inst. They were both in a house in William-street, kept by a person named Flannagan. Neither of them had a home there. Herring was sitting on a settle, and Cawley was standing in front of the fire. They are well-known to me. I handcuffed them, and said I should take them into custody for ill-using Patrick Murphy. They did not make any reply. I then took them to the house where Murphy was. So soon as Murphy saw them he said " They are the two boys that bate me I" I searched the prisoners. I found the knife produced in possession of Cawley. After receiving the eoctor's certificate, reharged them with attempting to murder the prosecutor. They answered "All right." Neither denied the charge. Net morning, when taking prisoners to prosecutor's house for his deposition, I noticed that Herring's cost was apparently stiff with blood between the shoulders. I had been to the house where 1 caught the prisoners previous to the time I found them, and neither of them were in.—Mr Butler, recalled, said that he examined the coat worn by Herring, and ssw that there was blood upon the back and the sleeves.—This completed the case, and Mr Fawcett then addressed the bench, arguing that the charge of attempted murder was not substantiated against Herrisg, and that Cawley was merely standing by, afraid io help Murphy in. the face of seven or eight men, wio took part in the outrage.— The bench fully committed the prisoners for trial at the next Durham Assizes, and refused to admit either a them to bail.