Runcorn and Widnes Examiner. — 1874-08-22 (Runcorn, Cheshire, England)

THE JUDGES ON THE USE OF THE  CLOG.  ust elsewhere, transpiredg pa h Thewysei weapon pat iloenfoo of s et.rah eje ldt et eggei nai with et bout from at wile hohgi what has hearna suppressiondj a nd ito f ate(); tatnodl lose es tbe brothers i m impunity is a r fors Wigan ec oa lbl ioeur —muor dfeereto—r iints attempted commission, involved in the th al suasion. The moral suasion e policy of mor dispensation is past and at Liverpool tgheen Weraigl be superseded by the policy of a tooth for a tooth, which it must be confessed, has— _especially in the worst regulated families, advantages for the body politic. The progress of intolerance has at last got to the point of a judicial determination to do for "puncing" what has been done for garotting ; not exactly to visit its exercise with the " cat " although it may yet have to come to that nine-tailed remedy—but to a good stiff punishment, which the assassin in clogs will be able thoroughly to appreciate. The authorities in Liverpool made their intention tolerably clear on this matter on Thursday. It seems that john Glover, aged 23, .collier, was charged with wounding William Derbyshire at Scholes, near Wigan on the 19th of July last, with at to do him grievous i ' bodily harm. The injured man was stated to be 84 years of age, and to have been nfilln for three years. He could not aprear, and his deposition was read. The prisoner, who was drunk at the time the offence wa • house where Dar *8 committed, went into the shire,y who resided with the prisoner's mother, was, and after Pulling him out of a chair in. which he was sitting, kicked him with his clogs, inflicting two wounds on his head, one of which was 4 inches long, and other wounds elsewhere. The prisoner had avowed that he would " purr " old Darbvshire to death, and after he had kicked him told some persons to go into the house, and they woull find "old daddy" dead. On their going into the house, the old man was found on the floor in a pool of blood. When the prisoner was apprehended blood was found upon his clogs. The clogs were produced to the jury, and were formidable weapons, with sharp pointed toes and irons on the soles. The jury found the prisoner guilty of the offence charged. His Lordship, in sentencing him, commented on the cowardly character of the case, This, he said, was one of a number of cases which happened up and down the country, where persons like the prisoner, without the slightest provocation with their clogs kicked their fellow creatures, utterly reckless and regardless of what the consequences might be. He had had an opportunity of speaking to the learned judge (Mr. Justice Archibald) about this case, and they were both agreed that very heavy punishment was absolutely necessary to put down this brutality. in Lancashire Whether they were judges of assize, chairmen of quarter sessions, or recordras, they were all determined, so far as punishment could do it, to stamp this offence out of this country. (" Hear, hear," from several of the jurors.) The sentence of the court was that the prisoner must be kept in penal servitude for ten years. The prisoner wept upon hearing. the sentence. Probably when Mr. Glover—in the year 1884, or thereabouts—has expiated his horrible attempt to murder an old man upwards of four score years of age, he will have wiped away his exceedingly idle tears and have resolved perhaps to live out his remaining years as becomes—not the wild beast he appears to be at present—but as a reasonable and decently behaved human being. Savage as he is, and duly caged and clogless, as it is the happiness of society to behold, the question will yet intrude. How came he to be so wild and terrible a creature, and who and what and where were his schools and schoolmasters.