The Sun. — 1844-11-23 (London, England)

GUILDHALL.  On Thursday Walter Bennett, an errand-boy, about ,hirteen years of age, in the service of Mr. Graham, an ivory-turner, in Bride-lane, was brought before Mr. Alderman Humphery, charged with stabbing Edward Ingram, an apprentice working for the same employer. A surgeon's certificate was put in that Ingram's life was in danger. Ingram's sister attended as complainant. She said she was not present at the time the assault was committed, nor when her brother was brought home. He was first taken to a surgeon, who dressed the wound and sent him home to his lodging in Parson'scourt, Bride-lane. She believed he was dying. She understood he was wounded about six o'clock on Tuesday evening. John Speakman, City police-constable 329, stated that the prisoner was given into his custody on Wednesday evening by the mother of Ingram. The wound was at the top of the abdomen. He produced the tool, a gouge, about eighteen inches long. Mr. Alderman HUMPUERY asked the sister how old her brother was ? She said .he was about twelve. Mr. Alderman Humenuav asked her if she had heard what led to the assault ? She said the prisoner anti her brother had words. The prisoner said the apprentice had extinguished his own light by spitting on the candlewick, and finding a difficulty in lighting it again, he put prisoner's candle out in the same way. Having got a fresh light from a neighbour, the prisoner attempted to set fire to his hair, and prisoner in return tried to burn his shoulder. This made the apprentice cross, and he struck prisoner over the arm. Prisoner in return threw a gouge at him. Mr. Alderman llummumy did not believe the tool would pass through the clothes and pierce the body if it had been thrown. it must have been pushed at him. The prisoner said it was. Mr. Alderman HUMPHRRY asked if any one was present at .the time ? The prisoner said there was another boy. The prisoner's father put in a certificate from some person that the prisoner WIN an inoffensive, mildtempered boy, and the father asked if he might be admitted to bail. Mr. Alderman HUMFUERY said he could not admit to bail a person who might be charged with murder. The father smiled at the observation, and said it could not be murder. Mr. Alderman HUMPITERT asked him what he called it ? It was impossible that he could be a mildtempered boy, or he would not have seized a sharp instrument and thrust it into the body of the apprentice. It was very indecent for the father to be laughing while the son was about to be charged with murder.—The father said it could only be manslaughterMr. Alderman HUMPHERT said he should not ad• mit the prisoner to bail, and remanded him till Saturday. Two young men, named Johnstone and Smith, were charged with having stolen a gold watch and chain, the property of Bernard Trainer, a traveller. Johnstone was brought up on Wednesday, and was remanded until to-day, that Smith might be taken into custody in the meantime. Bernard Trainer said he lived at No. 64, Woodstreet. On Saturday he met two friends, and they proceeded to the Parr's Head public-house, in Aldersgate-street, to have something to drink. He was a little in liquor. He and a person named Callaghan sparred for some time. Previous to their fighting he took out his watch and chain, and gave it to a friend, named St. Ledger, to hold. St. Ledger put the watch on the mantel-shelf, and when they left the house they left it there by mistake. On Sunday he went to the public-house to get the watch, when Johnstone, who was potman at the public-house, denied all knowledge of it. Smith was a lodger at the house. Mary Wood, the servant at the public-house, saw Johnstone with a gold watch and chain in his possession. He told her that if anybody asked her about it, she was to say nothing. He afterwards said that he had sold it to Smith for 2/. She could not swear that the watch produced was the one he had, but it much resembled it. Smith pledged the watch at Mr. Newby's, 43, Drury-lane, for Si., and the chain for 30s.—The prisoners were fully committed for trial.