The Weekly Gazette for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Cleveland District. — 1879-07-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

DESPERATE AFFRAY IN A DERBY POLIOE STATION.  A shocking occurrence took place in the Darby Police Station on Saturday night. A police-officer named Shirley, whilst on duty in Victoria-street, at a little before five o'clock, observed a pony and gig being recklessly driven in the direction of Ashbourne• road by a fashionably dressed man, accompanied by a woman named Annie Green, a prostitute. The officer followed them, and they were eventually o7ertaken near the Travellers' Rest. Shirley then discovered that both were drunk and incapable. A cab was procured and the couple taken to the lock-up by Police. constables Clamp and Moss. On a woman. searcher attempting to search Green, who was very violent, the male prisoner, who was quietly leaning with his elbow on the counter, placed his hand in his pocket, deliberately drew a six-chambered loaded rovolver, and firsd three shots at Police constables MOBS and Price, who were holding the struggling woman. The first shot entered Moss's side, and the unfortunate man, with a cry, fell on his knees, the blood gashing from the wound. The prisoner then placed the muzzle of the revolver el se to the fallen man's head, but in firing the shot the ball happily struck the shield-plate on the man's helmet, and passed through the upper part of the felt and embedded itself half an inch in a door. The shot struck Police-constable Pric3 in the arm, tearing through the muscles, and glancing off the bone. The man, who, it appears, by singular negligence, had not been searched on arrival at the station, was thereupon secured. A cab was chattered, and the wounded officers were at once driven to the Infirmary, where it was found that, while Prince's wound is not serious, the wound which Moss received was a fatal one. Moss, who is only 26 years of age, is an Army Reserve man, and a thoroughly good constable. The name of the prisoner is not known at present. He is supposed to be an American, but while under the influence of liquor the officers could obtain nothing from him except that his name was "Jeremiah Smith." He has been staying at the Royal Hotel, Derby, during the grerver portion of the week, and had to pawn his watch on Saturday morning to pay his bill. On being searched, lid was found upon him, and several packets of ammunition.  An inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon at Derby upon the body of Joseph Moss, 24 years of age, a borough police constable. The evidence, which was of a voluminous character, went to show that the deceased was shot in the side at the Derby lock-up on Saturday evening last by Gerald Mainwaring, and that he died from the injuries he received. After a long consultation, the jury returned a verdict of 'Wilful murder" against the inan Mainwaring, who is in custody, and will be brought up on the capital charge. The priLoner, who still wears his knickerbocker suit and blue silk stockings, maintains :t collected demeanour. Ile is the son (.1 a late county magistrate for Staffordshire, is well educated, and was originally intended for the Church. Ile recently returned from Amen a, where he led a reckless life, which he continued here.  CRUEL TetEATMENT or