A. case of singular brutality was investigated at Guildhall on
Saturday. Arthur Windett sometimes acts as conductor to his own omnibuses, and on Friday stopped in Moorgate Street to take up a paralytic passenger. This gentleman was accustomed on -account of his infirmity to have the door seat, then occupied by a Mr.-James Johnson, of the Park Road, Islington. The conductor asked Mr. Johnson to move three times, but he refused, though the occupant of the opposite seat offered to give him his. The conductor then told Johnson he was no gentleman, and tried to lift his sickly passenger into the omnibus, when Johnson, reaching over the sick man's head, thrust the ferule of his umbrella into the conductor's eye, totally destroying the sight, and at the police- station declared he would serve any other man the same. This statement was supported by, three witnesses, and Johnson was committed for trial, but released on bail.
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