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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-10 00:00:00

urn and will not of

among the just if he'l be
they gard him for a year he'

well bring for whin we'l lift him again, we'l w'l not lay
visible arise ye dead and come to judgment"
What a mass of barbarity, ignorance, and crime, ha
priests of Ireland to answer for !

DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH A POACHER,

At the Christmas General Quarter Sessions of the Peace
for the West Riding of Yorkshire, held at Knaresborough
on Tuesday, James Tomlinson was indicted for poachine
The gamekeeper, who was the principal witness,
following account of his fearful struggle with the prisoner .
I am gamekeeper to Mr. Garforth, who lives at Coniston
Bold, in the parish of Gargrave. I know Frederick Riley.
On the morning of the 23d of November last he called at uis,
window. I directed him to go to a green gate, and said I
would go to the Gill Plantation, belonging to Mr. Garforth.
When I got within the plantation I saw a man about 40 yards
off. I advanced about 30 yards, and said to him, " You
have got to work soon this morning, my man." He then
stepped back, and said that if I did not keep my distance, he
would shoot me. I said, I think not," and he said, " I
will." I said, "If you will shoot, then, shame on von." I
then heard him knock the stock of his gun, as sportsmen do
before firing, at the same time saying he would shoot me. I
said, "If you escape me, you cannot escape justice." He
then put the gun to his shoulder, but did not pull the trigger
that time. I then shouted to Riley, "This way, this way."
The man then went off, and I ran after him. When I was
within about five yards, he turned, and pointed the gun at
me, and pulled the trigger. He did not put the gun to his
shoulder. The gun missed fire. I then rushed fcrward, and
seized both him and the gun. To the best of my knowledge
the copper cap went off. There was a small report. A strug-
gle took place after that, and I felled him, several times
calling out, " Fred" to Riley. Whilst I was holding the
man, he tried to get his hand into his pocket. 1 then triee
to mend my hold, but I lost it. We then struggled much
and he was rometimes uppermost and sometimes I. At lens
I got his finger, next to his little finger on the left
my mouth, and bit it with all my mien`
his hand by biting me
a little time longe-
me. He was to,. on, but befor
I could get up I was nit twice on the head. I could not tel
what it was with, but before the third blow, Lsaw the gun•
stock coming. I was unable to make further resistance after
the first blow. He struck me four times on the head and
twice on the body, and then he went away. My cap way
gone when I came to myself, and Frederick Riley found ano-
ther. I had not known the prisoner previous to this tran-
saction, but have not the least hesitation in swearing that
he was the man. When the prisoner appeared before the
magistrates he had his hand tied up, and Mr. Marsden, of
Skipton, said, in his presence, that it had been bitten. The
Gill Plantation is about
Sufficient evider-

gave the

and once he was in t
uppermost. I threw

Let of stranglir

prisoner's guilt unquestionabl
transported for the term of sew

THE CIIURCII.—The followi
Rectory of Doddleston. Chesh