MAYOR’S COURT.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2652, 17 August 1871, Page 2

MAYOR’S COURT.

This Day. (Before bis Worship the Mayor.) DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Joseph Morris, for this offence, was discharged with a caution. ASSAULT. Christopher Larga was charged, on the information of John E. Saunders, with maliciously cutting and wounding him, with intent to do him serious bodily barm. SubInspector Thompson conducted the prosecution ; Mr Stout for the prisoner. John H. Edwards, the prosecutor, said he was a butcher in the employ of the City Company. At 1.30 yesterday, the prisoner being in the sausage house, charged witness with telling Mr Gall that he did not do his work. Witness replied it was false, when some wer Is passed, and prisoner tried to strike him with a marrow hone. Witness went out of the sausage house, and the prisoner rushed after him with a ling arm and struck him on the aide. A struggle then followed for possession of the ling arm, and the prisoner losing possession of it, assailed witness with a knife, and wounded him slightly on tho hand and wrist. A woman interposed and threw hers If upon the prisoner. The prisoner was closely cross-questioned by Mr Stout, who elicited that the prosecutor himself sought to quarrel with and chall. nged the prisoner to light, and that after leaving the sans age house he returned to it agan, when the quarrel was renewed. Catherine O’Brien, servant at the Empire Hotel, while iu the kitchen, about 1.30, heard a noise in the right-of-way, and, going out, she saw the prisoner and Saunders, the latter of whom had hold of the collar of the other’s coat. The prisoner was in the sausage house, and she laid her hand on Saunders’s shoulder, and said, “ Do not hurt him”—meaning the prisoner—“ he is an old man.” Saunders let go, and the prisoner shut the door. The Court thought that, in the face of the evidence given, the most serious charge should be withdrawn. The charge was amended, and the prisoner was then charged with a c unmon assault. The evidence already adduced was acceptedi Witnesses « ere called to character, and th& ■Sub-Inspector stated he had no desire to press tbo case, which was dismissed. Mr Stout app’ied for a cemlic ito for the protection of Larga, which was granted.