Show THE STABBING CASE The Hearing Before Judge Pyper Yesterday In the afternoon yesterday in the Police Court the hearing of the case against Charles Larson for stabbing Alvin Wilcox on Monday evening was had The audience which assembled to listen to the proceeqings gave the court room the appearance of a school room the majority of those present being children ranging from 10 to 14 years of age The young spectators were invited to vamoose before the proceedings pro-ceedings began and the benches were soon cleared The prosecutions chief witness the boy who was injured went to show that the cutting was the result of a bit of a crimmage in which he and the defendant defend-ant and several other boys participated Wilcox admitted having struck Larson a couple o limes before being stabbed The defendant gave his version and made a statement similar to that given in THE HERALD Tuesday morning to the effect that he was set upon by a crowd of boys and had used his knife in I selfdefense The arguments of the counsel were brief that for the defense going to show that the case was one of selfdefense Judge Pyper took the matter under advise ad-vise men t and will render his decision today |