The Sun. — 1857-03-16 (London, England)

MARYLEBONE.—The young man who had given his name W. Webb, and who had described himself as a sailor, underwent a re-examination before Mr. Long, on the charge of having attempted to murder Mr. A. Buckler, by stabbing him with a butcher's dressing-knife, in a railway carriage. The wounded person, whose life was at one period aonsidered to be in extreme danger, said —I am assistant to Mr. Rollick, a draper, in High•street, Poplar. At a quarter to 8 o'clock in the evening, I got into a carriage on the Black wall Railway, and there was a change at Stepney. The carriage I was in was a second-clai.•s one, and my destination was the Hampstead-road. I took my ticket at Popfar, for the Camden-town station. All the passengers alighted, and left me alone in the carriage. This was at about 23 minutes past 8 o'clock. I saw the prisoner just as the train was about to start from there, look in at the window ; ho opened the door aui took his seat opposite to me ; directly he had done so the train was in motion. He asked me which was the next station and I told him " Hampstead-road," when he remarked That's right." He moved towards me and said, "It's half-past eight, isn't it ; what is really the time 3" I took out my watch and told him it I'm tyfent7.llye.%  .minutes past eight, or about it. I turned my bead to look c ,ut of the window, when ho struck me "1' great till olence in the neck. I did not know at the roe: ment'with what instrument he had done it, and he al me o. the arm in the same manner. I sprang to feet al id grappled with hint, and when I had, after .1 struggi e, nearly overpowered him, I saw a knife in WO left hank 1,, I caught at it with my right by the blade, and succe ,tided in pushing him into the corner, where be had been sitting. With my left hand I held his rig and gran ped him by the neck, struC ll this Mr. L 011 g—find you your hand on the knife A time ?  Prose, .!utor—l had, sir. Mr. Long—Did it cut you? Prosecutor—Yea; 31r. Long—After you were struck as you have staWdi did you find that you were bleeding Pr ostn-utor—Yes, t•ir, I bled most profusely ; the,Prit soner :bttempted to draw the knife through my ha"' te-called murder as loud as I could ; we bad a deerr" strug ;le together, and I squeezed his throat with 10/ left h snd with all my might, ,jif Mr.. Long—The train was going on all this time, 11,9". 3 Pr asecutor—Yes, sir, but it had almost stopPeu bad neared the Hampstead station. I kept on el"',;(1 out murder, and as soon as the train came to Stdo the door of the carriage was opened by one of the gull' I, ',sr a porter. I then said, "this man has stabbed ird Blood was flowing fast from the wounds which bad received. The prisoner remarked, "It's not me, it Ili; tb at gentleman ; he tried to stab me. I took the fr( rm him, and, in self-defence, I stabbed him." I gado, th,r knife to the porter. It was with both our b,a°thi the prisoner having hold of the handle, and I '9' blade. Mr. Long—He says that you attacked him! What do you say to that ?  Pro;ecutor—lt is entirely false. tle' Mr. Robertson, surgeon to the police at Poplarf,..A scribed the nature of the wounds the prosecutor 's'r-received ; and, 14' Sergeant Webb said he had ascertained that the 1;04 soner was not a sailor but a butcher, and that his name was Levy. ea The prisoner, who had nothing to say, was rellOnd till Thursday next. tA . the He was then removed from the bar by Ans—d" the gaoler, and was conveyed in the Government van to House of Detention. A great number of persons e9eem. bled around the vehicle to obtain a sight of him.