A WILD IRISHMAN.

NZ Truth, Issue 76, 1 December 1906, Page 4

A WILD IRISHMAN.

* Mad Man-eater at a Mushery. Horrible Hart Tries to Chew Off o[>fiott6ht's Nose. Tippefary Tough from Texas id Trouble. Nose-biting; even m self-defenfce has not got much to commend it. A man who would so hideously disfigure another Tor life is a dirty swab of a toward, Whom the Law does hot Waste much time over. FranCis Stephen Hart, a wildly ed Irishman, is a iLQse-bitei\ and tMUgn fro&Hls; &* a. cl£an a,n experV bq^es ami fence?, he is a Cowardly, b?ute, and suoh the v.ejfdiefc of a jury afe the. Criminal Court on Wednesday last. That, day Halt stood his trial on an indictment. o$ thsee counts, viz-, that, with intent to do previous bodily harm to Arthur. Ware, he did actual bodily' harm j. assault, so as to. cause actual bodily harm ; and assault. It was on ihe . second count Haiti was harß.oon.ed and on the evidence nothing; else was expectedHart's onslaught was A £ARTItStJLA£LY SAVAGE one, aM on the riighi of August 10., skin and hair flew properW at Gibson's boardrng-hottse; m Gbiifte-hay-place. According to his own account Hart lias varied Career. He Ms been sol'dief in& m s&ven;ai of the South American republics, aM judging from btW remarks he. is no stranger to some of the lawless States of the tj.i3:Aj F,or Jh> past 20 years he has been wandering on. the .lace of the earth and as far as, is known m this country this, is the first time he has come \ cropper m a, criminal co.urt. On the night of August 10, he was drunk, and having located himself m the scullery, of, tli6 Gibson caravanserai, he wa,s requested fey Arthur Ware, who was i deputed by the landlady to m.ake. . the request, to go to bed. "If it's fight you're looking for," said Haiti, "yb.u'li get it." And he plugged Waie hard, and proceeded to bang him over the head with a rolling "m. They closed ami struggled on the floor, Where the infuriated Irishman bit one oi Warfe's fingers, and next grabbed, hi? nose m his teeth and inserted his shark fangs into 7 ai£'s bugle, badly. Ucer&tihg it on the left side. Other boarders came to Ware|s assistance, and one, a man hahied Thorpe, got a vicious swipe across the jaw from the inebriated Irishman which sent him reeling. When the sm,oke lifted, it was found that Ware was m a bad way, and he was taken to J),r. Mackin, who treated the injured boko,. It is now alright, excepting that it still shows the scars of the n\an-eating savage, Hart's fangs. Even then T^E BRUTISH RUFFIAN Was not satisfied, for the next morning he was Oil the. warpath again and sought Ware and invited liirn to come down arid finish it; assuring . him th.a.t- had , n;Qt. others, intervened the previous evening he might Have found his head m one pjaos and his. body m another: This st.o^y was supplements ed by the version of another, who, said that Hart .observed^ that- if he was m Amgifcsi, "andi. had a revolver he would ? |p|fe^ifl|^Sie lpt q{ them. When ,Hart :^a§>.aifrffetg4,ltjr igergeant tltttton ..he; said ; £tll the othdr boaftders had a sfit 6n him becaiise he woie a decent suit of .clothes,; ... - = '■ ■■ * When it' came to Hurt's turn iii the witness b,6x, that worthy set oR at a great pace aha trjed to" make thejury belfeve" that- he was a harmless, g<3bdnaturecl ■ chap who would - no* do -a fellow creature a. hurt, unless forced to m self-defence. In order to offer some justificatioß- f e r the cruel as^ s-ault he endeavored to brand Wa,re aa a would-be thief, saying that he pushed Ware off him ; but he came at him again, grabbled him bf tH6 throat; and forced him to th^ ground. There fie pounded his; head on £he. fibdr, knocking.. him ainiost. insensible. His ha.nds. Were m His overcoat, pockets he explained, arid he coiild apt get $6iri olit to dqfend himseit T hits he \yas forced to use h.is. teeth. Efekied to bjte 'Ware's chin, \\e admitted, but prised .sw|. got his' \tysa,l prgaj m his, mouth" instead. "I wouldn't, tell. a l.je to sa^'B TBsY'iife," was the dirty curs remark, m answer to. a, question the Crown Prosecutor piit to him about being m America • AND USIM A REVOLVER, -He denied having used a rolling pin, ajid, v w-tt.li n 'fine eject, wjien denying that fie. had dojte sq, added "as tfue. as there is a God above me," which hrQUffht from the Agn.os.tic, Judge, on the Bench the quiet remark "Yqu had better^ j\Qt use th^e- imprecations." Itighti through" .his the mad, man-eating Mick hftrped on the fact that he had travelled a\\. over the World; but the chief effect of his g-lobe-trdttirigs seemed to, have made of him an icnofant ' bjute who &i-, tempted to .. uqld^iiji .cohteinpt. his fe}lows t£ the. lab^rmg^cia^s.. "I was Studying, fox an exaniiiiatioii,'f he went on, as a preiitde tti his, -Jjircftest that }?e had hee,n 4isturUea liyliis fellows, »who had .^.ffiuch tight to.- thihou^e a&" l\s. AU hts JeUpW^ladger^ we,?o law men, arid the^r language did not suit this boko-biter, The fellow showed that he is a cowardly dastard, Uy the way he talked of h,is fellow-work-ers, and m the witness box he out a deplorable figure as he tried to de^femi hi^ cannibalistic action. Hart's, .was altogether -too weajc a tale and tjip jury did not take very long to convict him o[ assault causing aotual bodily harm, It waa a crestfallen, cowardly, dastardly soldier of the Republic that went under to await sentence till Friday. Wilh a Wild loojc m his eye Hart stood m the 4qclc yesterday morning to receive sentence. A?^ed for a reason why sentence should not be passed upon hini he repeated his assertion that he had travelled over the world and had never before done a fellow creature any harm. N o excuse, however, was forthcoming for his. disP^iislinn: and brutal assault on Ware, and the Judge, cynically observing that there we*e, no previous convictions known against the prisoner, passed a sentence of I{s months' im-lu-is-onment, a, lenient term, as His Honor remarked. It was ; a term totally incompatible with the dreadful offence of the cannibal.