− | the time; he was standing at the end of the bar inside when I paid him; I grappled with him after he struck me, but he succeeded in jabbing me on the face and scalp several tines with the jagged end of the neck of the bottle he made several wounds, one on the chin, one near the eye and several near the scalp I had done nothing whatever to provoke this assault further than telling him he had to go for his insolence; his intention was to murder me; it could not be anything else; when I grappled with him I overpowered and threw him on the floor just outside the partition going into the reading room; I kept him there till Mr. Richardson came back and asked him to take him away, which he did; I then went upstairs and have been under the doctor' s care since.
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