SAVAGE ASSAULTS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2572, 5 July 1882, Page 3

SAVAGE ASSAULTS.

THE HIGH STBEBX LA.BLIEINS AGAIN. At the Resident Magistrate's Court this morning, Mr B. Weitenra and Mr J, Marshman being an the Bench, Richard Chamberlain, 19, and Wm, Ryan, 19, wore charged with assaults. James Anderson, an attendant at the Exhibition, deposed, when returning home from his duties at about 2J5 a.m. on Tuesday last he stood to speak to two friends near the White Horse Hotel, Montreal street. The prisoners came up and jostled him. On being remonstrated with, Ryan said he was “ open to kill anyone,” and without more ado struck witness in the face, knocking him down. Witness, when rising, was attacked by Chamberlain with a stick. The rim was knocked off a stiff hat he was wearing, and ho was cut about the [head. Witness disengaged himself, and running towards) Oxford terrace was followed by the prisoners. They met a constable whom witnee'i asked to arrest the prisoners. |Tha (Constable, however, declined to do so, saying that he had not seen the assault, and recommended witness to summons them. Tho prisoners then went up Bt. Asaph street, and witness followed them in the hope of meeting some other constable who would take them in charge. When near Durham street Chamberlain turned round, and saying, “Now you b ,we will give it to you for trying to give us in charge,” struck witness in the face and knocked him down in the road. Both prisoners then kicked him severely, while he lay on the ground. He called out, “Are gou go:og to kill a man,” and cried for “help.” Djteotive Thoe. Ntil came up shortly afterwards. The result of the assaults was, as the Bench might see, his face was shockingly disfigured and his head and knees were cut, while he was badly bruised and marked on the limbs and body by the kicking he had received. He was unable to resume his employment. He was quite sober at the time, and had not given any provocation whatever. Constable Horlehy corroborated the statement as to the appeal made to him, giving as his reason for not interfering that he thought Mr Anderson was the worse for liquor, and that he and the prisoners wore a party who had been drinking together, and had fallen out amongst theme elves. He neither saw nor heard anything of the assault. Prisoners, when asked, readily gave him names, but Ryan called himself Chamberlain, and Chamberlain said his name was Kelly. Thomas Neil, senior detective, staled that at about the time named he w is in bed a t his own house. He was awakened by cries of “ Help ; good God, are you going to kill me? ” &o. Slipping on some clothes, he ran out and found Mr Anderson mopping the blood from his face, and his clothes showed that he had been rolled in the mud, Anderson told the story as given above, and pointing to a man about fifteen paces distant, said there was one of them. The man ran away. Witness and Anderson gave chase, and near the South belt overtook their man, whom they found to be Chamberlain. Witness arrested him and brought him back towards tho lock up. Boiore going far, Ryan jumped out of a gorse fence, saying “ Hallo, what is all this about ?” Anderson said “That is the other,” upon which witness, handing Chamberlain over to Anderson, told Ryan his name, and arrested him. Ryan immediately struck witness a heavy blow on the jaw. Withers cellared him, and Ryan then tried the “larrikin twist,” which witness described as a sudden drop an d twist of the body in the endeavor to wrench clear of the officer’s grip. Ryan did not succeed. Witness hung on, and the prisoner being active and strongly built, a struggle, which occupied fully ten minutes, ensued. Finally witness slipped, and Chamberlain at the same time freeing himself, both of the prisoners took to their heels and got away. They were afterwards arrested. On examination, witness found blood on the pavement, where Anderson had been beaten. Anderson was greatly excited, and at first witness thought he was tho worse for drink, but after the blood was washed from his face, and he had cooled down, it was clear to witneis that in that respect he had been mistaken. The prisoner Ryan called Chamberlain as a witness with regard to the assault on Detective Neil. He stated that Ryan did not jump out of the fence, he was walking quietly along the street, when tho detective, without saying who ha was, attacked him. The statement, however, made by Deteetive Neil as to the souffle between them was substantially true. As to the affair with Anderson, both prisoners strongly protested that he had fallen about when drunk, and hurt himself the first time, when he had attacked and knocked Chamberlain down, who did not retaliate. After the interview with the policeman, Anderson made use of some insulting language to Chamberlain, who then tripped him over into the street, but did not otherwise illuse him. Sergeant Mason stated that Chamberlain was one of the gang who in March last had committed several brutal outrages in High street, and he had then been heavily fined for his share in the transactions. Ryan had not been before the Court previous to the present occasion. On account of this being his first appearance, the Bench sentenced Ryan to the mitigated penalty of one month's imprisonment for the assault cn Anderson, and a similar term for the assault on Dstectivo Neil. Chamberlain received, for assaulting Mr Anderson, the severest sentence the law allows for common assault, viz., two months' imprisonment, both to be kept to hard labor.