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ATTACKING MR. MEIIvLEJOHN.

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ATTACKING MR. MEIIvLEJOHN. The police report in the Morning Advertiser is to the following effect:— Wandsivorth.—Ex- detective Meikl'john as a Prosecutor.— William Middleton, 35, hawker, was charged with assault- ing the prosecutor, and, in company with two men not in custody, stealing from him a watch and chain valued at £ 35. The prosecutor, who appeared to have been very badly treated and wore a shade over the right eye, stated that he was a private inquiry agent, residing in Heaver- street, Battersea. On Friday night, the 12th of June, about 11 o'clock, when standing opposite a fish stall in Falcon-road, looking at some salmon, Middleton pushed against him. He told him to get away and leave him alone, and he passed on. Prosecutor was in company with a friend, and was parting with him before turning down a bye-street to go to his own home, when prisoner came up again, and wanted to fight him, and squared up. He, prosecutor, struck him on the chest and knocked him over, and he got up and went away, and prosecutor saw no more of him till just as he was going in at his own door, when the prisoner suddenly faced him, and struck him a violent blow in the eye. As prose- cutor attempted to seize him, two other men hustled him from behind, and stole his watch and chain. He caught hold of the prisoner, who struggled most desperately, and they both fell on the ground. While rolling over with him, some- one kicked him twice on the head and again on the shoulder and back. The prisoner said he was innocent, and that the prosecutor was drunk. The prosecutor replied that if such WHS the case he could not have held him, and Endicott, P.O., said that the prosecutor was perfectly sober. The prisoner was remanded for a week. Now, I am not at this stage of the inquiry going to comment on this case any further than to ask if these things are done in the green tree what may be done in the dry, or how a small weakly man, walking alone in an out-of-rhe- way street at night, is likely to fare, when one, certainly of more than ordinary robust physique and strength, and accustomed all his life to tackling the most desperate characters, can thus be successfully operated upon at his own door ? I now see that it is impossible to guard against ¡ any such attack. It comes as unexpectedly as a flash of lightning, and identification is almost impossible, for, after a severe blow in the eye, as most are aware, for half a minute or so one can see nothing but "fireworks." I have no idpa what the two who got awav were like, but I will do the prisoner the credit to say that, though a much smaller man than myself, of all the demons and tartars I ever tried to detain, ¡ I think he offered the most stubborn resistance. I am confident that, powerful man as I am, if I had been ignorant of certain tactics known to the police, 1 could not have succeeded in retain- ing my hold of him. The fishmonger informed me that he observed him eyeing my chain when he pushed against me at the stall. It would be worth J £ 14 after a wagon wheel ha.d passed over it, M), no doubt, it excited his cupidity. S4 10s. in gold in the same pocket as my watch they did not succeed in getting.

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