The Sun. — 1851-07-19 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET. Mehemet Abraham, a thin, sinewy East Indian, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with the following murderous attack upon another East Indian, of the same surname : It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor, who seemed to have been terribly injured, that he and the prisoner came over together in the same ship from the East Indies, as servants in families, and had known each other for three years. They lived in adjoining houses in George-street, Whitechapel, and while the prosecutor was quietist smoking his hookah in his own apartment at eleven o'clock at night on the 9th instant, he received a message that the prisoner wanted particularly to see him. The prosecutor is totally blind, and groped his way up into the prisoner's place, which, as soon as he had entered, the prisoner called out in broken English, " What for you come my room when I out?' Prosecutor said he was tired, and was about to explain more, but before ho could do so the prisoner struck him such a violent blow upon the right side of his head with some heavy blunt instrument, that he instantly dropped to the ground, then seized him by the hair, dealt him a second heavy blow between the shoulders with the same weapon, and the prosecutor became entirely insensible, and did not recover consciousness until he found himself in the street some time afterwards, bleeding profusely, and his clothes perfectly soaked with blood. He had not struck the prisoner, was totally at a loss to account for such an outrageous attack being made 'upon him, had suffered excruciating pains in his head and back ever since, and was still doing so. A man named Smith, a cook in Wentworth-street, who was present in the prisoner's room at the time of the occurrence, described the affair in similar terms, and stated that the prosecutor was so seriously injured that, after rescuing him from the prisoner's fury, he had literally to carry the prosecutor out of the house totally senseless. Mr. Meares, the divisional surgeon, deposed to being sent for to the Leman-street station at one o'clock on the night in question, when he found that the prosecutor was labouring under the effects of a contused wound an inch and a half in length on the forehead, close to the right temple. He was very faint and exhausted, had bled terribly from the wound, as his hair was all matted tegether, and the injury had evidently been inflicted with a heavy poker, such as had since been produced by the polio.. He had again examined the man's head that morning, and, though somewhat improved, and no serious symptoms were at present apparent, he could not say that ho was then even out of danger. Pearce, a constable of the U division, deposed to finding the prosecutor covered with blood, as he expressed it, and a large pool of it also upon the floor. On taking the prisoner into custody ho acknowledged striking the man with a poker as he had described, but said that he had previously struck his wife with a walking•stick, and he had therefore retaliated. There was a woman in the room at the time, whom he called his wife, and she had a mark on her head, bat how inflicted he could not make out. The prisoner repeated much the same defence he had already given to the officer; and, the depositions having been completed by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, he was fully committed to Newgate for trial.