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CASE OF WOUNDING INVOLVING THOMAS KENTLETON
Marlborough Street Police Court
"Outrage in Hyde Park:- Norah Fitzgerald, a young woman with a baby, was charged on Monday with wounding Thomas Kentleton, lathrender, Harwoood-terrace, Sand's-end, Fulham. Prosecutor, whose left arm was bandaged, said that shortly before seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, as he was walking home across Hyde Park, and when near the Marble Arch, he was accosted by the prisoner, who asked him for money. Other women were near to her at the time. He told her he had nothing but a few coppers, when two of the others came up, and as they surrounded him the prisoner stabbed him in the left arm. On getting his coat off he found that a long needle or pin had been thrust through his arm below the elbow, and was still in it. He called out "Police !" and a constable came and took him to hospital. The woman ran away, and a warrant was issued for the arrest of the prisoner. Mr. Crowle, house surgeon at St. Mary's, said the prosecutor, whom he had examined, had a bonnet pin transfixed through his left arm. Witness had to cut into the flesh before he could remove it. Police-constable 117 D said he took the prisoner into custody on suspicion of being the person wanted. On the way to the station she said there was a dispute about money. She called out "Murder!" and "Police!" and the man struck her again. They struggled, and that was how the pin got into his arm. The prosecutor denied the prisoner's statement, and said that she followed him. The prisoner was committed for trial."
Reynold's News Sunday 13th November, 1887.