Sheffield Evening Telegraph – Saturday 07 September 1907

Assault with a Razor.
Morning Scene at Mexboro’.

A labourer named Henry Leonard was charged at Doncaster to-day with unlawfully wounding Samuel Potts, labourer. Adwick-on-Dearne, in the Montagu Arms, at Mexborough, on Saturday morning, by cutting his hand with razor.

Prosecutor went into the Montagu Arrms on Saturday morning at a quarter-past seven o’clock and found prisoner making a disturbance, and he asked him to be quiet. Prisoner pulled a razor from his inside jacket pocket. Witness asked him to put it back. Prisoner said, “I shan’t. I’ll cut your heart out,” and struck at him with the open razor. Witness put up his left hand to protect his face, and the razor caught his hand, cutting two fingers, and he lost a large quantity of blood.

The police were sent for, and prisoner was apprehended.

Prosecutor, a cripple, said he did not give the prisoner any provocation.

Police constable Watson, who apprehended prisoner at Baron’s glass works, charged him with unlawfully wounding prosecutor, and hereplied, “It was his blame, but I’ll cut his —— head off yet-” .

Prisoner was committed to prison for two months.