Widnes Examiner. — 1886-02-13 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

TJARY 13,1  MURDEROUS ATTACK ON A CONSTABLE. At the Warrington Borough Police Court, on Monday, a powerfully-built man named Michael Connor, who is well known to the police, was brought up and remanded on a charge of violently assaulting P.C. Hennessey, a memberof theborough police force, with intent to murder him. The assault was committed at Market Gate on Saturday night, and Chief Coittable Hunt, in detailing the circumstances, said that at 5-30 o'clock on Saturday evening, Constables Singleton and Hennessey were on duty at Market Gate, when prisoner and another man yet at large—named Michael Hennessey and. also well known—came up. The one not in custody said to Connor "Here's the 1)-- slops," meaning the constables, and prisoner said "Yes, that big headed b--; I would like to punch his b guts in." Singleton said to them that they did not want fly bother and asked them to go about their business. Prisoner and his companion went down Horsemarket-street, and when near the Griffin prisoner dared the officers to come forward. They then went into a public-house on Town Hill, and Singleton told them that they would be reported. At 6-10 the same evening prisoner and his companion returned to Market Gate. P.C. Hennessey was answering the inquiries of some persons regarding the time the next 'bus would leave when Michael Hennessey pushed against him, and at the same moment prisonerwas seen by two witnesses to take from out of his left coat sleeve a short poker, with which he struck Constable Hennessey a severe blow on the head. Prisoner and the other man ran away, and it was ascertained that they had gone to Manchester. Two constables were sent to Manchester and at about two or three o'clock on Sunday morning, with the assistance of the Manchester police, Connor, who is known in Manchester as " Wallington Mick," was arrested in a brothel. He (Mr. Hunt) believed that prisoner had disabled one or two of the Manchester police, and that he had bit, one man through the thumb. He wasperfectly satisfied that the assault committed on the policeman was premeditated, and asked for a remand until the Ifollowing Monday in order that efforts might be masle to arrest the other man concerned. After formal evidence had been given prisoner was remanded accordingly. At the Borough Court, on Thursday morning, Michael Hennessey, the man who escaped, was brought up in custody and charged with taking part in the assault on the officer.—Mr. White (magistrates' clerk) : One prisoner was remanded on Monday on the same charge, and prisoner has been apprehended since.—P C. Hennessey said that prisoner seized him by the le.. at tlie moment the other prisoner dealt him the blow on the head. The present prisoner appeared to him to be the most deternained and more inclined to do harm, both before and after the attack.—Mr. White: Dr. Starkey Smith says that but for the helmet the blow would probably have killed him.—Major Litton: It is evident it must have been a severe blow.—Prisoner said that he was entirely innocent of inflicting any harm on the officer. He never used violence, but was in drink He admitted being there, but denied OM he acted in concert with the other prisoner.— He was zenaanded until Monday next, when he will be brought up and charged in conjunction with Connor.  • BANK QUAY MISSION caATEL: On Sunday the Workingmen's Mission Chapel ! at Bank Quay, Warrington, was re-Opened after undergoing extensive alterations, collections towards the expense thus incurred being made after each service. Mr. E. Johnson, of Manchester, occupied the pulpit at the morning and evening services, and the