Yesterday, a lad named Joseph Frieman, eleven years of age, was
charged before the Liverpool magistrates with cutting and wounding
his brother, a child six years old. It appeared that on Saturday,
during the absence of their mother, the prisoner threw the little
fellow down and wounded him with a knife in a frightful manner, and
on the return of the mother she found the lad lying in great agony
and bleeding profusely. In reply to her questions the prisoner said
that his brother "had broken a plate, and the knife slipped." The
woman stated that the prisoner was an incorrigible boy at home,
and stole everything he could lay his hands on. A few weeks ago,
about the time of the recent execution at Kirkdale, he suspended his
little sister with a rope from the ceiling in one of the bedrooms,
nearly causing death. The prisoner was remanded for a week, as the
injured boy lies in a very dangerous state.