The Archive · 1878

R, (Police) v. Cartes Couns

The charge of Gutting and Wounding

'This case was adjourned from the previous day, for the evidence of the second officer of the' steamer Patroclus, whose knife it was supposed to have been with which the prisoner inflicted the wound on the Chinaman, if he sed a knife at all.

The second officer now appeared and produced his knife, which waa very similar to the one found in the street shortly after the pri-sion. He also gave prisoner His Wonsmr gave prisoner the benefit of the doubt, and ordered him to be discharged.

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