ASSAULT ON MR METZ.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 143, 23 July 1914, Page 10

ASSAULT ON MR METZ.

BARTLEY BEFORE COURT.

At the Magistrate's Court this afternoon, James Bartley, alias Fulton, on remand, was charged with assaulting Phillip' Met/ at Christchutch on .June 24, with'intent to commit a crime.

Bartley, paler and more neatly dressed than when he made his first appearance in court, seemed 'unconcerned. at the grave, charge.

Dr James Cecil Palmer s;;id that on June 24, between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning he went to Mr Metz in a back rooni ;of Cook and Ross ?s shop. Met/- wasj bleeding profusely *'from wounds in fhe head, ami his clothes were saturated w-itli blood. After thoroughly cleansing and dressing tiie wounds he sent Metz home. There were four wounds on the scalp and one on the bridge of the nose. In every case the scalp wounds, had penetrated to the bone. It was some days before witness was quite certain that the bone itself was not broken. During the time he attended the patient the i'atter had suffered almost continuously with severe headaches. • :THe wound on the left side of the skull could have been caused by the instrument produced, a large spanner. Met/, was conscious at the time he first saw.him, but he was very dazed. Tie was not yet completely recovered. Bartley asked the witness no questions.

Phillip Met/ said he was a pawnbroker with premises in Armagh Street. On, Tuesday, June 2-'!, he saw -accused outside the shop looking in the window. He was there for fully fifteen minutes, aad 'jhe» he came in/and asked the price of two brooches in .the window, asking to see them. They were shown to him and he gave accused the price. Bartley said he liked one or the two, and would be in the next day. On the following morning he did return, walking straight izito tjie shop. That was between 10 and 10.;;0 a.m. He asked to see the brooch he had seen the day before. Metz came out of the back of the shop to get the article which was in the extreme corner of the window. He was just about to open it when he was struck a violeut blow on the head with some fcharp instrument. This was quickly followed by a succession of blows.

(Proceeding.)