EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1058, 11 July 1883, Page 2

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT.

At the Liverpool assizes Fredric Scott, a negro, aged thirty, who was found guilty of shooting at another negro named „ Alfred Haines, was brought u-p for sentence. His lordship said it was one of the worst cases of shooting with intent to ✓murder that he had to deal with. There was not the sligthest provocation. The Prisoner—l know better ;he had a pistol in his pocket. The Judge—And you. wont out. and pawned your watch to buy a pistol. The Prisoner—Certainly I did. I told him so before. I would fight you with a pistol any time you like. The Judge—You fired at him as though bo were a brute beast. The Prisoner—lf you like to get :-,a pistol, I would fight you. • The Judge—lt is to he considered that you are a foreigner. The' Prisoner—l don’t belong to your society at all. I will just tell you I’m as good a man as yon are. I want yon to understand that. . The Judge—Had yon not been so, I should have passed upon you the sentence which your lawlessness • The Prisoner—What do you mean, by calling us lawless ? His Lordship—Taking into consider*- - tiou that probably , you have not been brought up under circumstances calculated to teach you respect forthe laws and your fellow creaturesMives, and that you really knew but little better, "1 h&agMß determined not to sentence you to years’ penal servitude. . -The prisoner then said “ I don’t care what you sentence me to. I would like to get at you,” and made a spring in the direction of his lordship. He was, however, promptly seized by a number - warders, and, after a desperate fight, ’.was removed to the cells below. „ The affair*,created much sensation, the Judge’s remarks'-' frequently being- ■ inaudible.—London News,' _ 'v ' 1