R. v,. Gaxacorttos.
Andrew Ganacopulos," 49, Intely employed as quarter-master onthe P, & O.
Ballaarat, was indicted for feloniously stabbing Alfred Thomas Cornell and Percy George Potter, able seamen of H.M.S. Bonaventure, outside the Globe Hotel, Yanzking-pang Creek, on the 19th of April, with intent then and thereby to do them some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. H. P. Wilkinson (Crown Advocate) prosecuted, and Mr. Duncan McNeill defended; the prisoner pleading not guilty, The following were sworn on the Jury Messrs, W. B. Buyers, W. C. Murray, H. Hoard, J. D. Bentley, and George Sutherland.
Messrs. A. W. Burkill, F, Anderson, and E. J. Abraham, who had been summoned on the Jury, failed to answer to their names and were fined 850 each.
TheCrown Advocate, in opening the case, said that the charge against the necused was that without any lawful excuse ho stabbed two men on the 19th ultimo, knowing as he must have done the neces: sary consequences of that act—namely, that he would wound them. Ie should call evidence which would show that as a matter of fact two bluejackets of the Bonaventure were stabbed, and it would be for the Jury, subject to His Lordship's correction, to say whether there was or was not any excuse at all for that stabbing. As regarded the facts it would appear from the evidence that on the night in question there "were several sailors from the Bonaventure drinking in a tavern on the Yangkingpang known as
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