John Buckley was tried on Friday last at the Middlesex
Sessions, before Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-Judge, for assaulting James Blake. Blake was landlord of a public-house, and tried to pre- vent Buckley hitting a guest. Four men then set upon him, beat- ing him unmercifully, and, as he escaped their hands, Buckley dug a chisel into his head two and a quarter inches, then dug it in again, and then dug it into the landlady. No defence was produc- ible, and the judge, observing that the outrage was one of the most scandalous he had everheard of, sentenced the ruffian to six months' hard labour. A few hours afterwards Mr. Payne, in the same court, sentenced a woman convicted of stealing a piece of limey to precisely the same punishment. A man's life is said to be worth that of many sparrows, but the Assistant-Judge evidently holds it worth very little wool.
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