Stabbing (1884)
Post date: Apr 09, 2013 10:44:4 AM
Extract from South eastern Gazette 10th January 1885 reporting on West Malling Petty sessions.
John Chapman was charged with unlawfully wounding his brother Thomas Chapman, at Wateringbury, on the 27th December. On the night in question the prosecutor met his brother at Wateringbury and quesÂtioned him why he had been insulting his mother, when a fight occurred during which prisoner drew a knife and stabbed him in the thigh, inflicting a wound half an inch deep and four inches long. Prisoner, who had
nothing to say, was committed for trial.
He received a sentence of 9 months hard labour at the subsequent West Kent quarter sessions at Maidstone.