The Sun. — 1862-08-18 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER IN SHAD WELL.  Walter Hill, a man of colour, who has been in custody three weeks, was brought up on remand, before Mr. Selfe, at the Thames police-court, on Saturday, charged with cutting and wounding Laura Myers, alias Honora Morris, with many other aliases, with intent to murder her or do her grievous bodily harm. The prosecutrix, who is a most incorrigible thief, and has been in custody 50 times for various offences, .vas brought from the London Hospital to give evidence. She was in a very weakly condition, and it was quite wonderful that she had survived half-a-dozen stabs in different parts of her body and the great loss of blood she had sustained. On being sworn, she stated that at the time she was assaulted by the prisoner she was intoxicated, and could not recollect what the prisoner did to her. She was in the London Hospital when she came to her senses, with a good many wounds on her back, arm, and shoulder, and belly. She met with the prisoner on the night of the 26th of July, and he went home with her. On the following morning early he charged her with taking his boots and trousers, and she said she had taken them. She was then stupid with drink. James Harwood, a labourer, of 15, Victoriastreet, Bluegate-fields, Shadwell, said that on the morning of the 27th of July, about seven o'clock, he saw the prisoner and the woman Myers, whom he knew as Irish Norah, in Victoria-street. The woman's face was all over blood and dirt, and she was crying and screathing. She ran away, and the prisoner went after her and seized her, and, after turning her round, stabbed her repeatedly with a shoemaker's knife, and left her bleeding on the ground. The prisoner then ran away. Mr. David Hyman Dyte, house surgeon at the London Hospital, said that the woman Myers was admitted there on the morning of Sunday, the 27th of July, at half-past seven o'clock. She had a ,)tinctured wound on her shoulder, in which a shoemaker's knife was firmly embedded, the whole length of the blade, which was four inches by measurement, being quite buried up to the handle. The knife penetrated the bone, and required the application of very great force before it could be pulled out of the shoulder. There was an incised wound of the back 11 inch deep, a smaller wound of the same kind a little below that, a wound in the right loin, and two other wounds. The patient was extremely ill when admitted, and suffering much from the shock and from exhaustion. The wounds were calculated to do grievous bodily harm. The woman had been under medical treatment ever since, and was not entirely recovered. Poli3e-sergeant Edward Dillon, 19 K, stated that on the morning of Sunday, the 27th ult , he was called to Blucgate-fieids, and saw the prisoner' and the woman Myers there. Hill had nothing on but his shirt and stockings, and said he had been robbed in the house No. 2 Victoria-place, of all his money and'his clothes, and that Myers was the thief. She denied having robbed him, spat in his face, and called him a black-lookingP nigger. She was proceeding to more violence when he separated them, and told the prisoner to go home and obtain some clothes, and when he had put himself into decent trim to return to him, and he would look after his property. The next thing he heard of the parties was that the prisoner had murdered the woman, He went and took him into after the p risoner, custody. The prisoner said, " Whatever has happened, I didit."The witness then produced a shoe • maker's knife, the blade of which was covered with blood. Sergeant Dillon also said that the prisoner walked a quarter of a mile to obtain the knife, and said he intended to kill the woman. The prisoner, a West Indian, about 25 years of age, on being called upon for his defence, said—The woman robbed me of everything. That is all I have r got to gay. She met me and asked me if I Would