Middlesbrough & Stockton Gazette and General Advertiser. — 1875-09-02 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BRUTAL ASSAULT AT ESTON.  On Monday, a puddler named Watson Brown Lee, was taken before Messrs Pennyman and Bewicke, at Messrs Brewster and Stubbs' offices, Middlesbrough, charged with assaulting Thomas Ellis, clerk, on Saturday night. —Sergeant Dixon spoke to apprehending the prisoner at Est, on Saturday Right, about 300 yards from where the assault took plum. The complainant was quite conscious at the time, and identified the prisoner as the man who had assaulted him. Complainant's head WM all covered with wound, and his face besmeared with blood. The officer charged the prisoner, who, in reply, said "jam drunk ; you can take me for being drank." —Supt. Macpherson said he had seen the man Ellis, whose head was olean cut in several places.—lnspector Robson said Ellis was removed to the Cottage Hospital, North Ormesby. That (Monday) morning he saw the doctor, who stated that Ellis was in such a dangerous state that he did not expect he would recover. The man had been kicked very much about his head and the lower part of his body. It was decided to go to tbe Cottage Hospital and take Ellis's deposition, and Mr R. C. B. Bewieke at once proceeded to North Ormesby. Upon being sworn, the man Ellis stated that he was a clerk. and lately resided in Middlesbrough. On Saturday last he was going to Branch End. He called at the Cleveland Hotel at Branch End. Prisoner and another man were seated in'tbe room he went into. The other man was drunk, but the prisoner was not, though he evidently had had some drink. He called for a glass of beer, and drank with the prisoner and the other man. About ten minutes afterwards the man  that was drunk went out. He told the prisoner he was going to Mr Thomas's house, sad the prisoner said he was going that way. They started off together, aid the prisoner painted to the way that led under an archway and through some fields, and said that would take them to the house. There was a man passin.q, and he (Ellis) asked him the way, and the man pointed out a direct road along the railway. Prisoner and he proceeded together along the railway side, and just after they bad passed a ditch prisoner seized him by the collar, struck him several blows in the mouth, and knocked him down. He got up, and found himself bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose, and called for assistance. Prisoner then came up to him and struck him violently over the head and neck and face. He was again knocked down, and when down the prisoner violently kicked him on the body. He called out " Murder ! Pollee!" and the prisoner said, ',lf yen shout police again, you b--, I'll kick you to death." Prisoner then left him on the ground, and went off across the line. A signalman came up, and took him (Ellis) to the policeman's house. He gave information to the police, and about a quarter of an hour afterwards he pointed the prisoner out on the raitway side as the man who had assaulted him. He was quite certain the prisoner was the man. It would be a little after nine o'clock at night when the assault was committed. He was still very ill from the effects of the assault. The hat produced by the polio:* was his property, and the one he had on when he was assaulted.—Prisoner, who did not ask any questions, was remanded for eight days.  AN 0113TINATI