The Sun. — 1849-01-29 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.  James Glyn, a well-known thief, living in Field-lane, was placed at the bar for final examination, on the charge of cutting and wounding Thomas Bresnahan, alias Brown, also a well-known thief, under the following circumstances:— Police-constable Elgar, 85, said, that while on duty on Tuesday morning last, about two o'clock, he was passing the White Horse public-house in Fann-street, Goswellstreet, when he saw the prisoner and a number of other persons of the lowest character in front of the bar, quarrelling. He went in and told the landlady she must clear the house, and at the same time ejected the prisoner, who returned into the house. He then again turned him out, as well as the wounded man, and they commenced fighting. Just previous to the fight he observed the prisoner put his hand into the right hand pocket of his trousers, and also noticed that ho kept the left hand still, and used the righ t only. He parted them, when Bresnahan exclaimed, "By G—, he has been and knifed ;" and he then saw blood flowing down his face and neck, upon which he at once took the prisoner into custody, and afterwards conveyed the complainant to Mr. Child's, the surgeon of the police force, who dressed his wounds, and he was then taken home. He saw the wounds; one of them extending along the neck under the left ear, about four inches, and the other under the cheek bone, and it appeared as if it had been inflicted by a blow struck upwards. On the way to the surgeon's he imagined the man must have lost a quart of blood. Police-constable 153 said, he was in company with the last witness, and conveyed the prisoner to the stationhouse. He afterwards returned, and found the knife produced—a small penknife—lying on the pavement, covered with blood, at the spot where the fight took place. Thomas Bresnahan deposed that he was in the publichouse in question when the prisoner entered, and for a quarter of an hour he never spoke to him, until he interfered with some one else. Witness told him ha had no right to interfere any more than himself. After drinking a pint of beer he left, and, on arriving outside the door, a girl made use of some bad language, upon which he said that if he could get near her ho would slap her face. The prisoner immediately turned round in a fighting attitude and struck him; before he could return the blow he was struck a second time, and then felt as if some hot water was thrown over him, but on looking at his hands he found them covered with blood, upon which he turned to some man and said, " By G—,;he has done for me, he has stuck me with a knife." He was afterwards examined, and had his N./clads dressed by the surgeon, and then went home. Mr. G. B. Childs, surgeon to the police force, said, I examined the wounds of the last witness, about half-put two o'clock on Wednesday morning. He was very faint from loss of blood. I found that he had received a punctured wound in the left cheek, about one inch in length. It was over the radius of the lower jaw, and extended to the bone. There was also another wound coming from behind the left ear to the front of the throat. It was superficial, but I consider it most important as it was situated over the jugular vein and the carotid artery. In my opinion, it is a clear ease of attempting to cat the man's throat, which only failed from the bluntness of the instrument used. Had it been sharp the man would have died almost immediately. The prisoner's defence was, that it was an old grudge. The ALDERMAN committed him to Newgate for attempting to murder the prosecutor.