The Northern Daily Times. — 1857-01-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TEMPTED MURDER BY A YOUTH.  Considerable excitement prevailed on Saturday morning, in Westminster, London, owing to its becoming known that a most determined attempt had been ma'e a few hours previously upon the life of Mr. Thomas Alexander Young, brewer, resident at Messrs. Thorne'a brewery, Park street, Horseferry road, by Gen Thomas Lambrook, a youth 18 years of age, who had been for some time past carrying on an intimacy with Air. Young's servant. The accused, a person of sullen appearance and middling stature, was in the course of the morning placed in the dock of the Westminster police court, before Mr. Arnold, upon the charge, which he appeared to trPat with considerable indifference throughout. Mr. Young said : Between six and sevenon Friday evening I was walking up and down the gateway of the brewery, after having paid the men their wages, when I saw the prisoner coining, as it appeared, from my private premises. I asked him what he had been doing there ; when he replied that he had been to the kitchen to wish Susan, my servant, good bye. I replied, " You have no business to go into my house, as you have been previously forbidden," and he then rejoined, " Well, I have been, and without leave." He had no right there, but was employed about the premises as a labourer. Prisoner had been previously suspended for a week for insubordinate conduct, and upon his making the reply to me I have just mentioned, I told him that his conduct was very insolent, and be might consider himself discharged. He then threw himself into an offensive attitude, and, taking a knife out of his pocket, opened it. Ile rushed ❑pon me, and made a stab at me. I stepped back a pace or two as be advanced, and caught hold of his arm in the centre joint, as the knife was pressing against my side. I shouted for help, and struggled with the prisoner up against the wall. He then made another stab at my belly, but throwing myself hack I avoided it. Mr. Arnold : Is the knife produced ? A formidable sharp pointed clasp knife was here produced, and inspected by the magistrate. Mr. Arnold : What do you consider would have been the effect of the first thrust made by the prisoner, but for your having seized him by the arm ? Prosecutor (exhibiting his coat and waistcoat, pointed out a cut in both, opposite the lower part of the heart.) The point of the knife has gone through both these, and if I had not had the good fortune to seize his arm as tightly as I did, the whole length of the blade must have passed into my body. Mr. Arnold : What would have been the probable effect of the second attempt, had not you moved ? Prosecutor • In all probability, from the direction of the aim, it would have ripped my stomach op. After this, I still retained my hold of his arm, and although a man named Stevenson had come to my assistance, be was so determined to get at me when r ran away a few paces, which I did, that he literally dragged Stevenson with him. He made a third back handed blow at me previously. I called for more assistance, anti prisoner dropped the knife, half open, near the ladder. The knife was picked up by a womon who was in the lodge. I have omitted to state that when the prisoner first rushed upon me with the knife he said, " I may as well do it at first as last," or " may as well as be starved." James Stevenson corroborated the latter portion of the above statement, and Caroline Foreman, the woman, attended to prove that when she picked up the knife, the accused said, " If you go and swear that knife was open, I'll do something for you when I get my liberty." The prisoner was remanded for a week.