THE RECENT STABBING CASE.

Colonist, Volume XXV, Issue 2932, 13 August 1881, Page 3

THE RECENT STABBING CASE.

', At. the^ Magistrate's Court, on July J21,: before H*. E. Curtis and B. Levien, Esqs., .J.^P., ~-.r.,,.....•; "' Samuel Tboiiajen, whose name has previously appeared at Johnson, was brought up on remand, chtrgad with unlawfully and maliciously wounding Joseph Guihria with a pocket knife. .

Inspector Atcheion oenduoted the progeeulion, and Mr Bunny appeared on behalf of , the accused. .Mr At.cheeon briefly opened the case, »nd then called the prosecutor, Joteph Guthrie, cook-on board the b(earner Murray, who de-. , poied,: On the evening of the, 9th July, he Wat the port between 10 and 11 o'olock,. »>d went into tht Ship Hotel, when the

prisoner and several others came in., ; The, prisoner pushed against, .him,, whereupon he 'said,".Hold hard, old toucher, don't be too heavy." Tho prisoner used insulting language towards .him/and he tokl him to go aboard. -The prisoner t in reply said he woUld wait out all .night for,'witness. He, there-, 1 upon took his coat off and followed Thomagon out, and they fought. Ho happened to get down the third round., >and as soon as he was down ho felt a knifo or.someib.iug sticking in the back of his head. The prisoner was on him, aud no one else was near., He put his hand to the'wound, and finding' a lot of blood he ran on one side and add he had had enough. The prisoner then rushed up and struck him on the right eyebrow. He felt, something go in, and the prisoner said." You ■ ", that will do for you." He (witness) called out, "My God, are tho re no Englishmen'here to see me stabbed in this manner," and some of his own mates then took hitn on board. He was afterwards ordered to tho Hospital, and had been'there ever since, • -. ■ " ' Gross-examined: He saw no jenifo. ..Duriog the evening of tho 9ch ho was in town before going into the Ship Hotel, and he' had only had tbree'small glasses of beer that evening, and he had only one at that house. He was standing at tho counter when the men came in. He had never seen the prisoner before. He w>iß sure it wna the prisoner who pushed against him. He loft the-bar ta 'fight 'the prisoner ; he was not asked to leave tho bat by two fepnaleß, or not to go into a room where prisoner and his mates were. He had no knife on him that evemng. He recolldcted everything that took plaoe, and he was quite, sober.

By the Court: The whole quarrel took about five miuutes. The prisoner fell with him at the third round,' but the prisoner remained ou top of him for about a, second. The prisoner was a little the worse for liqaor. When the prisoner said he would wait outside he understood it to mean a challenge to fight.