The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1891-10-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING ASSAULT BY A GOVERNMENT  OFFICIAL. A BMURULBLE STORY.  At the Westminster Pi;lic-e--Court, London, on Tuesday,Mr. Archibald Pivaclung,4o, a fashiouablydressed man of fine physique, described as an engineer, who gave his address at a club in Dover Street, Piccadilly, was charged before Mr. De Rutzen with seriously assaulting a young woman named Ella Gottehall, calling herself an actress, at 17, Michael's Grove, Brompton,her residence. —Mr. T. Duerdin Dutton, solicitor, appeared for the defendant, who resides in Plymouth, and is a Government Inspector of Mines, and a candidate for the appointment of the Chief of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade.—The proseoutrix was stated to be 80 badly injured and weak from loss of blood that she could not attend. Sergeant Painter, 29 B, deposed that about twenty minutes to three that morning he heard screams; of " Murder ! " and "Police !" proceeding from a bedroom on the ground floor of 17, Michael's Grove. A man named Nashan, who said he was the landlord, begged witness to burst open the door, and, after much difficulty, with the united strength of three men, the door was forced. A bed had been pushed against it, and the prisoner was holding it with all his strength to prevent the door giving way. A young woman—the proeecutrix—stood in the room bleeding from a terrible gash in the right fore-arm, and she said that the prisoner, whom she had brought home, had struck her heavily with a water-jug and broken it in her flesh. Witness produced a broken water-jug and a blood-stained triangulaz fragment of it. The latter, he said, was embedded in the arm and taken out by the doctor. Mr. de Rutzen asked what the prisoner said when he was accused by the young woman.—Witness: His answer was, " Yee, I did it, but it was an accident." Prosecutrix then gave him into my custody, and I said he must accompany me to the station. Before leaving the room he offered the girl £75 not to charge him. At the station prisoner repeated the statement that it was an aceideut.—Mr. Dutton said he would defer cross-examination, and he could only nay on behalf of the defendant that he was extremely sorry to hear this poor girl was so much injured. Ihere was a great deal to be said on his behalf hereafter.—Dr. Neville, of 123, Sloane Street, divieioual surgeon of police, deposed that at half-past three that morning he was called to the Walton Street, Chelsea, police-station, to attend to the prosecutrix. He dressed a deep, lacerated wound on het right forearm, and took out of it the piece of jagged crockery, produced. She had also two slighter wounds on the lower part of her arm.— kr. de Rutzen : You need not describe them now a- there must be a remaud. Of course you are not abie to say what the result of the more serious injury might be i'—Wituess : It is impossible to say at present what the result might be of a wound like that.—Mr. de Itutzen : Very well. The prisoner will he remanded for a wee—Mr. Dutton asked for bail.—Mr. de Rutzen said he would accept defendant's own recog,nisancee in £lOO, and one in £so.—Dr. Charles Lloyd Tuckey, of Green Street, Grosvenor Square, immediately justified as the necessary surety, and after entering into his own recognisances the defendant was liberated.  A