if he ever
got.
on his feet at all!
and that the blows must have been continued for some time after it was evident Brown was going to offer no resistance.
We wish to give Turnkey Ryan all the benefit of stating that he appears to have borne an irreproachable character for eighteen months, and that Brown seems to be the sort of man most trying to uneducated officers, what they call a "lawyer". Brown moreover appears to think that Turnkeys have been guilty of a very brutal assault.
allowing for all this, you have been guilty of a very brutal assault.
A man pulled down by six months confinement, the alleged provocation is wholly insufficient to excuse it, and has been very much Ryan's fault.
To take as an example the conversation which seems to have led to the assault Brown's remarks, no doubt in the most offensively polite way possible, that his oakum is very bad. Ryan should have taken no notice of this observation, as if he were a guest and it was no part of his duty to answer it, in fact it was not his duty to allow...
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