Dr, Lyon said that on his arrival fat the Roman Catholic Hospital at 3.40 a.m. he found the sergeant in f collapsed condition and bleeding, profusely from the houd, body and legs, Witness recognized him the No. 1 Sergeant and asked hi what had happened, but unable to answer, Witness put him on the operating table and Proceed, assisted by Mr. Joseph Wong, to make a thorough examina tion. As the hemorrhage was profuse and he was suffering a great deal of pain, he was chloroformed. He had one wound, four inches in length on the head, which had frac~ tured the jaw bone. Two wounds were inflicted on his left leg.
yeh gash was ripped across his chest, four inches of it being to the depth of his ribs, the remaining: six inches being only skin deep. His shoulders and back bore nine wounds and 12 scratches, Both The sergeant was in a very weak state after the operation, and it was feared that there might be a per~ manent paralysis of the muscles that were severed in the jaw. The bone was wired and the result satisfactory. Two large blood eeoele bad bean ent In the four The Defence.
Mr. R. A. Frost stated that the case was peculiar in that he Had only one witness, the accused, whom he wished placed in the witness box.
Accused, in evidence, stated that)
was awakened by cries "Murder" on the early morning of the June 10 and proceeded to the sergeant's room where the cries came from. He was accompanied by Constables 19 and & There he. found the sergeant bleeding from several wounds, and he took him by the arm and led him to a chair. He said there was no enmity between him and the sergeant, only. that, the sergeant had reprimanded hima few days previously for not handling. traffic properly when he was on point duty. The blood on his clothes must have come from the sergeant when he was leading him to a chair, When questioned as to, some of his statements fu the lower court about the sergeant telling the other constables to bring accused to him 0 that he could rub some of his blood on his clothes, and that the Sergeant wished to lay a false acensation against him he replied that this was a mistake. Accused made, the same reply when it was pointed out to him that in the lower court he said that he saw the Sergeant sitting in a chair in a wounded condition,'and that now he said he found him standing and helped him a chair.
In his closing address, the Crown Advocate said there seemed little doubt but that this attack must have been made from the inside, as witnesses had pointed out there was a man constantly on duty" at the entrance gate and other two in the charge room. It was unlikely that outsider could pass the without Further there was no was the only route an assailant could enter by. They had the direct evidence of several constables that they saw the No. 1 Sergeant grappling with the accused—when they first entered the Sergeant's quarters. The injured man himself recognized his assailant. was extraordinary if this charge had been a put up job, as the cused had hinted, as none of the police in the force had backed up the accused in this. In view of all jel for the prosecution the charge of "intent to murder" be brought in rather than the lighter offence of "doing bodily: harm."
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