The Sun. — 1845-11-19 (London, England)

QUEEN-SQUARE. UNPROVOKED MURDEROUS ASSAULTS —Thomas Howard, a powerful fellow, was charged before Mr. Bond with a succession of assaults of the most desperate character. There were no less than four distinct charges of feloniously assaulting and wounding clearly proved against the accused, independently of another in which the injured man could not be found. Henry Tyne, a labourer, stated that on the evening of the 21st of last July, he went in company with three other men into the Colville Arms, King's-road, Chelsea, where he saw the prisoner, who on his entering the room immediately asked him if he would fight, and on his refusal declared he would knock him down. Prisoner then advanced towards him and struck him on the head with his hand, and then, seizing a quart pot from the table, threw the beer it contained away; and gave him a violent blow on the head with the pot, which felled him to the ground, and whilst in that defenceless condition the prisoner kicked him desperately in the eye. The blow the prisoner inflicted with the pot cut bis head open, and it was found necessary to take him immediately to the hospital. James Foreman, another labourer, after confirming the account given by the last witness, said that on going to his assistance when on the ground, prisoner gave him, without the least provocation, a desperate blow on the head with a quart pot, which knocked him down. He got up and defended himself as well as he could, until he became senseless from the loss of blood. The wound in his head was five inches long, and he also received a very severe injury in the back. He was taken to the hospital, where he remained ten weeks, and never expected that he should get up again. Witness, on concluding his statement. said, .‘ I was se injured, that I shell never be the man I was before." Jesse Taylor said that on seeing Tyne on the ground, and the prisoner kicking him in the head, he went to pick him up, when the accused knocked him down with the quart pot, and kicked him with such fearful violence as to dislocate his shoulder. Witness on partially recovering was about to leave the place, when the prisoner rushed into-the room with an axe in his hand, which was fortunately taken from him by a man who stood by his side. Benjamin Goodal said he was in the street advancing towards the house, when the prisoner struck him a violent blow with his fist, which knocked him down. He then threw two large flint stones at him, which cut hishead open, and he was also conveyed to the hospital, where he remained for a month, and was afterwards an out-patient for five weeks. He never spoke to the prisoner before he struck him. JamesCobbetts, foreman over the men emploped in making a sewer in the King's-road, proved the dreadful condition in which he found the victims of prisoner's brutality, On hearing that some of his men had been treated with great violence, lie went into the Colville Arms, and found three of them on the floor, weltering in their blood. He immediately put them in a cart, and had them driven to the hospital. In the course of a long, rambling story, -prisoner said that Tyne wanted to fight, and lifted his hand as though he would strike, when he (prisoner) gave him a blow with his hand, and after that he took his part as well as he could. 14tr. BOND committed him for trial on the whole of the above charges at the Central Criminal Court.