John Cim-ii! : I. run a legally-qualified medical practitioner. I saw tho prosecu tor at tho Spanish Restaurant. Ho had been injured : lie had a deep, incised wound at the back of tho head. _ It was such a would as might have been inflicted by a blow or a fall. He was very much confused ; that might ba caused by tho shod; to tho brain. " Tho deafness and the giddiness, I believe, wore caused by the shock. Constablo Fair : The prisoner cauio to me about a quarter io twelve on Tuesday night. He t<aid that rather a strange oc currence had taken place about half an hour before in Maitland .street ; and I asked him wha* it was. Ho said that ho and his inaio wore walking in Maitland street, his mate being a few yards in ad vance of him when some person hit his mato with a stone and knocked him down. He then said that his mate had got away

from him; his statement was very ■con fused. I said it was strange ho should leave his mate. He said he had come to mo for fear his mate was dead. I then

asked him how his mate got away from him. He said that he had left him to get a hat belonging to him. Ho also said that ho had lost his owi. hat-that it had been blown off. 1 brought him to tho station, and went for the prosecutor. 1 found tho latter at Dr Curiie's; und from tho statement ho made, I arrested the prisoner. When tho prisoner first Hpoko to me lie was very much excited. H<i gave different versions of liis story, and I noticed that there was Wood on lm hands. I went with the prisoner to the spot where he said the accident had occurred. I foucd tho .cap which11 produce on tho edge of th&

I quarry, and the prisoner, said ifc was fn». I It was covered with clay, and appeared to I have been trodden upon. The ground [ bore the appearances of having been tho scene of a struggle. The soil wasquitofresh; there were boot marks heavily pressed in tho earth; there wero long "scrapes," as if from the too of a boot; and there waa blood on a flax bush. 