The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-10-08

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BRUTAL cRIlfESIN RNdL4ND, \
Nm and H'omea Kicked 70 Death in Ian
eus'ire4 Horrible crime of sir Lancashire
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The Manchester Guardian, of Septem-
ber LIST, published very interesting ar
ticle entitl,id "The Months Kicking"
1t may be necessary to explain that in
Lancashire, when man of the opera
tive or laboring class wishes to kill his
wife or his comrade, he does the job, not
with gun, or a knife, or club, but with
his foot, which, for this and other pur-
poses, is always shod with an extremely
heavy shoe, armed at the toe with steel
points. This weapon is in high favor in
Lancashire, and great tdexterity is shown
in the use oft. The Guardian says that
its list of "the months kicking" is far
from complete. "NO single journal can
pretend to register every blow of the
boot delivered in Lancashire. Apart
from this, a good deal even of the strictly
local kicking takes. place within the
charmed circle of home, and is never al
lowed to become q topic Of public scan
dal." Only those cases which seem es-
pecially worthy Of note are recorded.
on the 'lst of August two young men
killed third at Oldham. The two
knocked the first down and then kicked
him to death. Sentence, five years
penal servitude. On the same day some
workmen were passing their dinner hour
atIan inn. One Of them quarreled with
an old man, and struck him, 'whereupon
another remarked that 'itwas a shame"
Forthis he was killed. The method Of
Staying was very much like the one just
mentioned-it was, in fact, the Lancas-
hire method, which seems to demand
the corporation of two Or more men.
The first murderer strikes with his fists,
and, ifpossible, knocks the victim down;
the second murderer then comes on the
scene, and sets to work with the clog.
In the present instance the workman
who said it was a shame to strike an old
man received blow in answer to the
remonstrance. This was followed mo-
ment after by two or three terrible kicks
full in the face, delivered by friend Of
the first assailant; who had mounted on
a form for the purpose. The two then
kicked the PROSTATE man together The
poor wretch Crawled under he form to
avoid them, but this affor,ir him no
protection, and he received injuries Of
which he died within week. The man
who struck the first blow was sentenced
to ten years penal servitude, and his
coadjutor to eight.
On the day when these fellows were
tried in one court six young colliers were
before the magistrate in another, charg-
ed with perhaps the most fiendish afro
city of its kind ever known. They be-
longed to the district of st. Helens,
and they went out for a spree one night
in the suburb of Parr Here they made
an attack on several cottages-smashing
windows and doors-and at length en-
tered one of them tenanted by an old
man and his wife, the former over eighty
years of age. Their first care was to
strike a light, their next to knock one Of
the old mans eyes clean out of his head.
The old woman was at the same time
kicked and beaten savagly, but she man
aged to slip out of the house for help.
Meantime there lay the one old man
and the six young colliers had by no
means done with him. Looking round
the house, they found a bucket of lime,
and it occurred to them that it would be
a pleasant thing to force some of the lime
down the old mans throat. This was
accordingly done. What followed it is
not easy to relate without harboring
thoughts against the six young colliefs
well nigh as diabolical as their own crime.
They filed the bleeding socket ofthe eye
with lime, and then emptied the con-
tents of the bucket on the old mans
head. ...
On the Sd of August two men were
tried at Stafford for killing another, The
affair occurred in the street. The MUIR
dered man was knocked down and his
two murderers finished him. They did
not give him the kick simple, but the
running punce," that is to say, "they
fetched circuit round the crowd and
then legged their man full and fair on
the head.n One of them was acquitted,
the other got ten years. On the same
day Richard Morgan was kicked TO death
in Liverpool by three men, His offence
was refusing to give slxpence to his
murderers. On the 9th of August there
were two kicking cases, neither ofwhich
were fatal, but on the next day two other
kickers were convicted of killing women
and sentenced to fiyeyears' penal servi-
tude, the same sentence, by the way,
that is often given for the theft Of IA
chicken or a loaf of bread, On August
11th man was kicked almost to death,
and a woman, aged sixty, expired under
the same discipline administered by her
husband. On the 10th a young Wigan
collier was sentenced to ten years Ior
kicking an old man of eighty-four. In
the report of this case there are some in
dications-not perhaps sufficiently taken
into account at the trial-that all was
done in play. For instance, John Clio
yer had no cause for animosity whatever
LOWdTuS DhIDJ JSllAiCi tllC Olu llidlls plp-
yer had been drinking with some other
young colliers, and he went home very
much disposed to geniality and fun.
Darbyshire lodged in the same house
with him, and was paralytic. 1t seems
to have occurred to Glover that he could
kick Darbyshire, and he did so; but en-
terely without malice, for when he had
quite done with the old man he recon-
mended him to the care of a matron in
the house, telling her that he had been
"purring daddy and was afraid he had
done him some harm. Daddy was found
living in pool of blood which had run
from two wounds in his head averaging
each some three inches and a half in
length and penetrating the bone.
On the 18th there was very bad case,
but not fatal; on the 21st and % there
were two othersSand on the 26th an ex-
ceptionally bad one, the victim being a
child of six years; and the remaining fiEe
DAYS ofthe month were enlivened by SIX
oosos % ffI, toki kin1 ~ tha ftyicfffnaf In fh rna