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Old Bailey, juicio t18280911-33 (1828-09-11) - Breaking Peace > Wounding and asked what he wanted with him; I did not distinctly hear what answer Higgins made, as a person happened to speak to me - the first I heard him say was,"I will kill him if I can;" I then came away with the prosecutor - he did not use any words to him at all, except asking him if he was seeking for him, and spoke quite civil to him; he did not touch him - there were two or three more men between them; I saw nothing in the prisoner's hand; we walked along to Walker's-court, and stood there about two minutes, between thirty and forty yards from the public-house - the prisoner's shop is about two doors from where we stood; his shed was shut up, and the shutters put too - it was on a Friday; I happened to turn my face that way, and saw Higgins two or three steps from the prosecutor - I saw the knife glitter in his hand, as if it was fresh ground; I turned and said, "Oh, Lord! he is coming with a knife"- the sun shone bright on the knife; he came up, made a stroke at the prosecutor, and cut him on the cheek; the prosecutor stood with his back towards him - he came up behind him, rather on the right-hand side, and made a blow at him with the knife - it struck him on the cheek; he made a hit as if he chopped, not a thrust - I immediately seized the arm that held the knife, and got it down, so that he could not raise it up to make a second blow; one of my hands held his wrist, and the other the small of his…
Fuente: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (Univ. of Sheffield / Digital Humanities Institute), API dhi.ac.uk, mismo contenido que biglam/old_bailey_proceedings; CC BY-NC 4.0; https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/legal-info. CC BY-NC 4.0 (Old Bailey Online): solo uso NO comercial con atribución. Abrir la fuente
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Old Bailey, juicio t18280911-33 (1828-09-11) - Breaking Peace > Wounding and asked what he wanted with him; I did not distinctly hear what answer Higgins made, as a person happened to speak to me - the first I heard him say was,"I will kill him if I can;" I then came away with the prosecutor - he did not use any words to him at all, except asking him if he was seeking for him, and spoke quite civil to him; he did not touch him - there were two or three more men between them; I saw nothing in the prisoner's hand; we walked along to Walker's-court, and stood there about two minutes, between thirty and forty yards from the public-house - the prisoner's shop is about two doors from where we stood; his shed was shut up, and the shutters put too - it was on a Friday; I happened to turn my face that way, and saw Higgins two or three steps from the prosecutor - I saw the knife glitter in his hand, as if it was fresh ground; I turned and said, "Oh, Lord! he is coming with a knife"- the sun shone bright on the knife; he came up, made a stroke at the prosecutor, and cut him on the cheek; the prosecutor stood with his back towards him - he came up behind him, rather on the right-hand side, and made a blow at him with the knife - it struck him on the cheek; he made a hit as if he chopped, not a thrust - I immediately seized the arm that held the knife, and got it down, so that he could not raise it up to make a second blow; one of my hands held his wrist, and the other the small of his…