QSR1887/3/5/2

Depositions of William Russell, labourer of Everton, Thomas Tott, labourer of Everton, Samuel Edward Walker, surgeon of Potton and Thomas Vincent, police sergeant of Potton. In the case of Samuel Lawson accused of the malicious wounding of William Russell.

4 May 1887

From: 1887 To: 1887

William Russell: on the night of Saturday 4 December 1886 he had been in the Thornton Arms at Everton about 9.45pm. He was in the tap room with Samuel Lawson and several more men. He and Lawson had words and Lawson knocked him down in the taproom. The landlord then came in, stopped them and ordered them out. He left out of the tap room door and Lawson went out the front door. Outside he was talking to Thomas Tott when someone came behind him and stabbed him on the back of the head and on his forehead. He felt blood running and asked to be taken home. He was attended by Dr Walker the same night. Thomas Tott: he had been in the Thornton Arms with Lawson, Russell and others. He heard Russell and Lawson have words and he saw Lawson strike Russell. The landlord ordered them out. Lawson went out of the front door and Russell went out of the Tap Room door. He also went outside and stood near Russell and Lawson. He heard Russell shout that he had been struck by a knife. He took hold of Lawson’s arm and was given the knife. He handed the knife to police sergeant Vincent the following day. There had been blood running down Russell’s neck. Samuel Edward: a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in England, practicing at Potton. On the night of 4 December he attended the prosecutor at his house. He found him to be suffering from punctured and incised wound to the back of the head and another of less size to his forehead. The wound had been delivered with considerable force. The wound on the forehead was a blunt wound and wound on the back of the head was incised down to the skull. The knife produced would have caused such a wound. There was no great loss of blood and the wound per se was not dangerous. Thomas Vincent: a police sergeant stationed at Potton. He received the knife from the witness Tott on 5 December. Statement of the accused: he wished to say nothing.

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Lawson, Samuel,
Russell, William,
Tott, Thomas,
Walker, Samuel Edward,
Vincent, Thomas

EVERTON, wounding, assault, Everton Thornton Arms