The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-10 00:00:00

-ONE MAN NEARLY KILLED.-TWELVE
TO

NDED TO THE BOROUGH GOAL

Yesterd

n was first called

The prisoner Catl
with a brick. ..
Rafferty out of Cubin's house by the le
pok,
Ca,

The crowd ran down t

arid Malone asked witness, if on his oath, he saw
them strike, and he affirmed that he did.
Mary Bewley sworn.—l live in Lace-street with my
brothers. There was a crowd, and Rafferty was beaten. He
was afterwards taken into a house for shelter.
Elizabeth Haney called —I live at No, 1, Lace-street, at
the top. I saw Watierty abused, and heard cries of " Don't
murder the man !" He came up the street with his face to
those striking him, and his hands up to save himself.
Michael Freeman, Tommy Gallagher, and Hugh Coin, (not
nere) struck him. They had all sorts of weapons. In getting
into the house for shelter, he strove to catch the panels of
the door, but fell into the house. If he had not fallen I be-
lieve he would have been killed.
John Griffith sworn : I am a labourer and live in the street.
About half-past nine yesterday morning, the prisoners, Pat-
rick Malone and Michael Moran, were going up and down
the street. Moran had a poker. Two men, named Galla-
her, and several others (not here) were also amongst them.

ho would come against him

They were
1 Freeman (not in custody) ran into the
r, and joined them. After that they all
a. Thomas Rafferty (the brother of the
e down the street, about ten o'clock, with
vi eisn. Thomas Gallagher came into the street and
James Welsh. Rafferty (the brother) made his escape.
rat, Mark Burns and two more were going to work at
The prisoner, James Waldron, came up and
struck Mark Burns on the temple, and he and his companion
made their escape. There was a second attack about two
o'clock. Patrick Malone and a man named Hornsby came
out and attacked Rafferty, Malone with a whip. Winny
(Winifred) O'Brien came up, and said to Rafferty, " You
may fetch your coffin with you." Winifred O'Brien struck
him with, I think, something she had in her hand; but of
this lam not quite sure. When he was going into the house,
Malone seized him by the leg, and Hornsby by the collar.
He was beaten by them. I went away. Patrick Malone
said that they had had the street too long to themselves, and
it was time they (his party) should have it to themselves.
Mark Burns said :—I was going to work at tide work at
about two o'clock on that day. Pat Malone and others were
in the street. I went on the other side. The prisoner Wal-
dron came behind me and struck me.
Warburton.—Did you not come up with a spade to my
bouse'and strike me?

The witness replied in the negative.
Honour Tully sworn:-1 saw the old woman (a prisoner)
come up with two or three bricks, which she put on the road
in readiness. She threw them at Wm. Fanegan, and would
not let him pass till the crowd came up. I saw Margaret
Bolton and Catharine Casey. Mrs. Casey said that she'd be
revenged for the muney she had lost, and would wash her
hands in Rafferty's blood. Margaret Nicholson said, " I'll
be revenged for the money that's lost," and she struck Raf-
ferty with a brick. Her husband came up and struck him
with a poker. 1 saw Mary Moran. She came up with a
small scuttling spade, and struck Rafferty's wife. Margaret
Bolton told the crowd to keep together. Thomas Costello,
the lame man, had his crutches, and said, " If I get a blow at
Rafferty with my crutch with the ferrel on, it will put him
a-sieep." He gave the two other men (Gallagher and Horn-
by,) two sticks, and said to them " Fight like men, and have
one of their lives."

The parties implicated by the last witness were called to
put any questions, but asked nothing, eliciting answers in
their behalf.

Thomas Burns spoke to seeing Rafferty about ha-past
two, and every one of them striking him. Costel:o wanted
to give Rafferty a blow when he was down, and said, if he
got it that would be enough.
Biddy Rafferty (the wife of the injured man) being sworn,
was questioned by Margaret Moran as to attacking her with
a scuttle spade. The witness said, she was struck and tum-
bled into the channel, and her cap was torn from her head,
but she did not say by whom. They wanted to take her life,
as well as her husband's.

Several police-officers were then examined. None of them
had seen the fights, but they had been frequently called to the
street, and had three times dispersed the mob, and, appa-
rently, restored quietness. One of them, Alexander Suther-
land, found Rafferty a little before three o'clock in a cellar,
in an insensible state. John Burn pointed to Warburton as
one of the men who had struck him. The witness produced
a bar of iron, somewhat fashioned like a poker. It was about
a yard long.
On each witness being examined Mr. Rushton enquired
what witnesses they had in their behalf, and their names were
taken down. They were all now called iu and examined.
Their testimony did not go to invalidate the evidence against
the prisoners ; but in one case, that of Michael Moran, some
time was to be allowed to produce Mr. Teal, sen., and Mr.
Teal, jun., who have the management of the cleaniii4 of ;he
Clarence Dock and Basins, by whom he said he was employ, d,
and had worked for two tide ways—including part of the
afternoon in question— which, if it covered the afternoon in
question, would, of course, amount to an alibi.
Mr. Rushton addressing the prisoners, said, that they had
all been clearly proved to be present when the violent assault
was made upon the individual who was now lying danger-
ously ill. It became, therefore, his duty to remand them to
the Borough Gaol until the fate of that unfortunate individual
became known by the resua ; and should that be fatal,, they
would have to abide their trial by another tribunal.
Mr. Teal, sen. and Mr. Teal, jun. afterwards appeared in
court and stated that Moran had worked two tides in the
sewerage of the Clarence Dock on Sunday, and that he re-
turned to the second tide-work at about half-past two in the
afternoon.

Mr. Rushton said that he was glad the prisoner stood clear
of being present at the principal assault; but as he was sworn
to as one of those present at the first riot in the morning, be
could not release him without bail—himself in £lO and two
sureties in £5 each.

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* We think the Dock Trustees might dispense with men
working in the docks and basins on Sundays.

The Grand Jury at the Stafford Sessions, on Thursday,
returned a true bill against George Wynn, the registered
proprietor, and Alfred Jolly Caldicott, the publisher of the
Staffordshire Examiner, for publishing in that paper an
article inciting the populace to riot at the Conservative ban-
quet held at Easton on the 7th of August last.—Wolver-
hampton Chronicle.

A PROLIFIC Sow.—Mr. Birchby, of the Red Lion Inn,
Euxton, near Chorley, a tenant of J. G. Wainwright, Esq.,
has a sow, (which we noticed in April last) of the Shropshire
breed, that farrowed a few days ago sixteen pigs. This is the
fifth litter, and the total number of the five litters is eighty
The first two litters she had seventeen each, and the third and
fourth litters were fifteen each.—Preston Chronicle.

DEATH OF GENERAL BLlGH.—Lieut.-General the Hon.
Edward Bligh died on the 2d instant. He was born in Sep-
tember, 1769, and was grand-uncle of the present Earl of
Darnley. The only record, we find of his services in " The
Royal Military Calendar,is as follows :—" This officer was
a lieutenant-colonel on half-pay of the 107th foot, the sth of
March, 1794 ; colonel in the army the Ist of January, 1798 ;
nera
majl
the 4th of June, 18]1or-general the lst of January, 1805 ; and lieutenant ge-

1 FACT AND SENTIMENT.--A gentleman, partial to romantic
associations, being informed that a slip from the willow which
has for many years over-shadowed the grave of Napoleon,
was growing in the garden of an inn near Bristol, made a
pilgrimage to the spot. His inquiries after the object of his
search was at first unsuccessful; but on accosting a laboureron the premises, the reply was—" Oh, yes! you'll find it
growing, on 'tother side o the garden—right against the
pigsty.;

THE ROYAL CHEESE.—This celebrated produce of 750
cows progresses rapidly hi ripeness and perfection at the farm
of Mr. Dunkerton, of West Pennard, and still continues to
attract. visitors from all parts of the country. No precise
reisxed for its preeentation to the Queen, nor is it yet
4.Pemined in what manner it is to be conveyed to London ;
bait it is in contemplation that it shall be drawn thither by
eight of the finest and most beautiful cows the West of Eng-
land can produce.—Bath Chronicle.

NORTHALLERTON SESSIONS.—Last week a deaf and dumb
man was tried for felony, and found guilty. The prisoner
will have one advantage—the silent system will not interfere
with his usual organs of speech.— Tyne Afeeertry.

_ , at the Police-court, the following twelve pri-
soners were placed before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Hardman
Earle, on a charge of rioting in Lace-street, on Sunday, and
attacking a man named Patrick Rafferty, in a manner so
brutal that his life is in imminent danger :—viz. James Wal-
dron, Thomas Costello, Patrick Malone, Michael Moran,
Thomas Henry, Harry Moran, John Sweeney, Margaret
Nicholson, Catherine Casey, Margaret Bolton, Catherine
Butler, and Winny O'Brien. The whole of the parties were
of the humbler classes—as might be assumed from the locality
of the street ; and they appear to have been actuated by that
spirit of desperate feudal hostility which has frequently ma-
nifested itself in faction tights between the northerns and
southerns in the sister isle.

e said—l keep a
in Lace-street, in a court.&i I was standing at
my door when Patrick Rafferty, a hod-carrier, came out with
his hands in his coat pockets It was about two o'clock.
The prisoner Whiny O'Brien, caught him by the collar.
She said—" I'll have my rev. nee out of you ;" and then she
took up a big stone and struck him on the ear. The prisoner,
Margaret Nicholson, then came and struck him with a brick
in the face. The elderly prisoner, Catherine Butler, then
came up and threw attach in his face. Hugh Cowen and
Harry Allison (not in custody) then came out, and both
struck him, the first with a stick anu the other with a poker.
Patrick Malony next caught hold of him, and said—" If he's
not done, we'll do for him," and he then struck him on the
head with a loaded whip, and he (Rafferty) fell down. The
magistrates then had the parties accused by the witness
brought to the front of the dock, and asked them separately
if they had any questions to ask. They all entered into
statements, and elicited nothing favourable to the few ques-
tions they put.
Michael Gilmore, a boy, being sworn said,—l live by
things at the docks. Yesterday, about half-past two
Rafferty in the street. Two men came and,
with a poker and the other with a stick.
Casey -rie out and struck him
I saw Pat.'-my afterwards pull
Harris had the