#violent assault

“Victim Too Dirty To Go To Hospital,” Toronto Star. April 15, 1930. Page 01. ---- Cottage Where Fatal Fight Occurred Very Filthy, Says Dr. Esser ---- WAS DYING, ANYWAY --- John Jackson, Adelaide St. W., today pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter and wounding arising from the death of Patrick Shearn, 75, in Toronto General Hospital on Feb. 10 last, as the sequel to a fight in a Centre Ave. cottage three days previous. The case is being tried before Mr. Justice Kelly and a jury in criminal assizes court.

A small, depressed fracture of the skull found at the autopsy was not sufficient to cause death, stated Dr. W. J. Robinson, pathologist. Dr. Robinson ascribed Shearn’s death to a virulent infection of the wound, which had been given access to the brain tissues by the break in the skull. Shearn was five feet four inches in height, and only 130 pounds in weight, he said. ‘Death was due to meningitis,’ Dr. Robinson concluded.

Dr. Robinson doubted that even immediate medical attention would have saved Shearn’s life.

“Fifteen Lashes Given To Lad of Seventeen,” Toronto Globe. April 5, 1917. Page 02. --- Meet Punishment For Attack Upon Eight-Year-Old Orphan Girl. --- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) London, Ont., April 4. - The cat-o’-nine tails was sued in London Jail to-day for the first time in many years. Fifteen lashes were received by a youth found guilty last week of criminal assault, the sentence being imposed by Judge MacBeth. During the past few days a storm of indignation has been aroused by a story to the effect that the prisoner was an undersized, delicate boy of fifteen years, whose environment before and since leaving England was such that he was a victim of society. Sentiment was thus aroused against the Court’s decree, and so many protests were voiced that Mr. S. F. Glass, M.P., consented to represent these opinions to the Department of Justice, and he wired the Minister this morning and asking him to order the flogging delayed. The Sheriff has received no instructions from Ottawa this afternoon, and the punishment was duly meted out to the boy, after which various rumors were circulated that the boy had been brutally beaten.

"GALICIAN ROW HAS A FATAL TERMINATION," Winnipeg Tribune. November 12, 1913. Page 1. --- Michael Busch is Killed by Blow from Club in Hands of Compatriot ---- Michael Busch is dead, and Steve Chic, Host Byshok, and Paulo Lychkum are held by the police, suspected of being connected with the man- slaughter as a result of a row which occurred last evening at about 11.30 o'clock, just as the four men were leaving a Galician house on Derby street, where a celebration had been held. The three suspects were arraigned before Magistrate Macdonald at the city police court this morning. and no charge being as yet laid, they were remanded until tomorrow. This afternoon Dr. Gordon Bell will hold a post mortem examination on the body of Busch, and tomorrow evening at the central police station Coroner Dr. William Rogers will hold an inquest into the fatality.

Started in Horse Play The trouble is said to have started with ordinary horseplay which the men, being all slightly under the influence of liquor, began to indulge in as they left the house.

As is often the case among this class of foreigners, the fun became riotous in a few minutes and the amusement degenerated into a free fight. Lychkum is alleged to have struck Busch in the face with his fist, so violently that the latter fell to the sidewalk. The others were fighting above him. when one of their number slipped away into the darkness. A resident of the vicinity declares this was Steve Chic, who shortly returned with a stick of cordwood with which he struck the prostrate man over the head. Busch collapsed and it was not for a few minutes that the others saw that he was lying absolutely still on the sidewalk. Neighbors at this point intervened.

They picked up the injured man and carried him into a nearby house, and called the police and Dr. Grieveson. Before either the physician or the роlice could arrive, Busch was dead.

The three companions scattered on hearing that Busch was dead, but within a couple of hours, they had been rounded up by the officers.

All four were were men of the laboring type, Galicians, unmarried, and not more than twenty-five years of age.

"CHYC SENTENCED TO FIFTEEN YEARS IN PENITENTIARY," Winnipeg Tribune. December 5, 1913. Page 1. ---- Declaring that there were conditions in the north end of the city which were a scandal and an outrage to any community, Mr. Justice Prendergast this morning sentenced Steve Chye to fifteen years in the penitentiary for the manslaughter of Mike Bruse on the night of Nov, 11 at the corner of Derby and Jarvis, Paulo Lychkum, who with Chyc was charged with the wilful murder of the deceased, was acquitted.

This was the last case to be disposed at the fall assizes and the jury that had considered it - they were locked up all night bringing in their verdict shortly after eleven o'clock - and all the other jurors were discharged.

Painful Scene On the reception of the verdict a painful scene was witnessed by the crowded court. Immediately they heard it the mother and sister of Chyc broke out into loud cries and so disturbing and distracting were they that they had to be helped out while the session was suspended for a quarter of an hour. This was the only time Chyc had shown any strong symptoms of emotion. Sobbing as if he had lost control of himself he remained bent and convulsed with weeping while his counsel was pleading with the court for leniency and his lordship was passing sentence.

Percy Hagel, who represented him, commented upon his youth and the fact that during all the nine years he has been in Canada he had not been in trouble of any kind. He had borne, said counsel, the best possible reputation and whatever he had done this night was done on the impulse of the moment.

Sentence of Court. Mr. Justice Prendergast said that although, considering the nature of the evidence, he regarded the prisoner as having been fortunate in not having been found guilty of murder, he was disposed to leniency but for the fact that there was in the north end of the city a certain district, of which perhaps the section about Derby street and Dufferin avenue was the centre, in which there were conditions that were an outrage and scandal in the community. "That," declared his lordship, forbids me extending to him the leniency which perhaps otherwise might have extended. The sentence of the court is that he be imprisoned fifteen years in the penitentiary."

Chyc, who had nothing to say when asked either after the verdict was brought in or before sentence was passed, was then removed from court and Lychkum released from custody.

ONE GUILTY AND OTHER IS NOT Steve Chyc, who was sentenced by Judge Prendergast this morning to fifteen years for the killing of Mike Brusc.

Paulo Lychkum, who was found not guilty of causing the death of Miko Brusc by a jury of the assizes court this morning.

"CONSTABLE TESTIFIES AT ASSAULT HEARING," Toronto Star. October 28, 1943. Page 8. --- Brampton, Oct. 28 - Constable Stanley Welles, Port Credit, testified yesterday in the assize court trial here of Pte. A. E. Young. charged with assaulting a Port Credit woman. He said he was summoned on the night of the alleged assault by the woman's husband and when he confronted accused Young's hat was missing. Taken to the scene of the alleged assault, Constable Welles said accused remarked: "If my hat is here, I must have been here. But I do not remember, and I would not have believed it, were it not for the hat." Constable Welles said the soldier had evidently been drinking, but was not intoxicated.