STABBING CASE ON BOARD R.M.S.S. ELLORA.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1703, 19 January 1874, Page 2

STABBING CASE ON BOARD R.M.S.S. ELLORA.

A serious stabbing case occurred on board the R.M. steamer EUora, lying alongside the Sandridge railway pier, on Monday night, sth January. The "vessel ■was t° sa il early yesterday morning for Sydney, and the previous evening most of the crew had been ashore. : Everything was quiet on board till about midnight, when, without any preliminary disturb: arice; and apparently with no provocation ot any kind, one of the sailors— a Spaniard named Joseph Martinas — drew his sheath knife and attacked several of his shipmates, who were in the forecastle, i Three Mariillaraen were' the victims of /this brutal frenzy, two of thetn escaping with comparatively slight wounds, but the third * was ; very seriously in j ured'. '> iMartinas took advantage of the confusion which ; ensued to f hide himself,' a'ucl it was not till nearly. four: o'clock that he was found by the police, secreted in the jolly-boat,'-^hanging to the- davits, 1 the vessel having been several times previously searched in vain. He Was 1 at once secured, and lodged in the ■' Sandridge lock-up. Tne steamer was quite, ready for. sea, but the police objected toythe bping' taken "pn "tp' Sydney, and .as'^the ship's surgeon woul4 not gi'ye bpini'fin as to whether the wouuaed men could safely , be . removed : to the hospital, Drs Malcolrason. and .Smythe, of Sandridge, were sent for. Eventually the three men were removed to j the Melbourne "Hospital, i: of them 1 , 1 Philip; Flores, requiring. to be carried on a Btretcher. man was found to be suffering so seriously from a stab in his left loin^ihat! .latefii.'in the morning his depositions were taken

before Mr Thomas, J.P., arid in the presence of the prisoner. Florea stated that he and Martinas had always been on the moat intimate terms, and there was not the slightest ill-feeling between them up to the moment of the assault. Martinas was charged at the Sandridge -Polipe-T^CourW with,- hawng«»«ttltwf ully wounded. witU intent tp kill,, the three \ MaAillamen,' and- remanded TtiU'Monday next.^Late last night the man Flores . ■ms'"in- : 'a^ei7''iOTti«iKooiadittdhr^The *" injury must. 4iave : -been inflicted with a long narrow knife, for though the: orifice of the wound is narrow it has penetrated to a considerable ' depth, and the left kidney has been penetrated. For tbe present the medical officers of the hospital decline to. express any opinion on the* case'.'-r- .' '„'..; '„ '■.■ f \-,' . '*-,-'/ ;• f