A PRISONER ASSAULTS AN OFFICER.

Evening Star, Issue 2992, 20 September 1872, Page 3

A PRISONER ASSAULTS AN OFFICER.

The Argus gives the following particulars of another assault in the Pentridge .Stockade ipentinned in our telegrams the other day ! Another determined assault on an ofliccr was made at the Pentridge .Stockade on Wednesday morning by a prisoner named Bedford. Overseer Bird was the subject of the attack. He was in charge of a gang of convicts employed in building a wall around a portion of the upper prison, the prisoner ■who assaulted him being employed at digging. Bird having occasion to speak to the fellow on some matter, no doubt in connexion with his work, was immediately attacked by Bedford, who is an elderly man, with a spade or shovel, which he aimed at the overseer’s head. Bird, perceiving his intention, closed with him, receiving the blow on his arm, the weapon also catching the rim of his hat. Fortunately, Bird proved the stronger of the two, or there is no doubt from the threat used by this old hand in crime that he would have placed him beyond the power of stating what took place. The assault occurrin on the day that Mr Call, the visiting justice, attends the establishment, the prisoner was brought before him in the afternoon, and received, in addition to bis former sentence, the well merited addition of twelve months in irons. He was at qnce removed to the solitary portion of the establishment. The expression used by the prisoner was that “ Bird ipight thank God he was a stronger man than him, or he would not be able to tell the story,”