>From The New York Times of March 1, 1892 TRIED TO KILL THE JUDGE. DESPERATE FIGHT WITH A PRISONER IN AN INDIA COURTROOM. Bombay, Feb. 29.-A report of a sensational occurrence in a courtroom was received here to-day from Nagpur, (City of Serpents,) capital of the Central India Provinces. A murder trial is in progress there, the accused being a native of India. One of the exhibits of the prosecution was a hatchet which had been used in the commission of the crime. This implement was lying upon a table in front of the Judge's bench. The trial was proceeding in due course, when suddenly, without the court attendants having an inkling of what his intentions were, the prisoner with a bound sprang from the dock and seized the hatchet. Instantly consternation prevailed in the courtroom among the lawyers, court attendants, and spectators. Many of the spectators made a rush for the outside of the building to escape the danger they thought was threatening. Before the warders could regain their presence of mind the native sprang toward Judge Venner, who was presiding at the trial, and, notwithstanding the efforts of the latter to ward off the blow aimed at his head, the native struck him, inflicting a severe scalp wound. Before the infuriated culprit could raise the hatchet to strike a second blow he was grasped from behind by three or four of the warders. He seemed to be endowed with maniacal strength, for the warders could not hold him. The veins in his forehead and neck stood out like whipcords and his black eyes gleamed with fury as he struggled in the embrace of his would-be captors. The native still retained his hold upon the keen-edged hatchet, and had it been possible for him to have got his hands free he, no doubt, would have killed some of the warders. The latter, however, knew the danger of letting the infuriated man get his hands loose, and, though they were unable to pinion him or to wrest the hatchet from his grasp, they so held him that it was impossible for him to do more than strike short forearm blows. These sufficed to inflict a number of quite bad cuts on the warders. Finally, after a long struggle, with the aid of some of the court attendants, the hatchet was secured, and the man was securely manacled. During the contest some of the persons in the courtroom cried, ''Kill him! Kill him!'' but the warders used no more violence than was absolutely necessary to subdue the prisoner. The scene has never been equaled in the Indian courts. Though Judge Venner's wound is quite a bad one, scarcely any doubt is entertained of his recovery. ====================================== ----- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar Nagpur, India