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The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1879-08-23 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THR USE OF THE KNIFE AT NICSTON. —At the Neston Petty Sessions on the 15th, a man, named Francis Maclewer, was charged before Mr, Coxon and Mr. C. Bushell with cutting and wounding a lad named Henry Williams (who lives at Willaston) at Hinderton on Sunday evening. Prosecutor, whose head and throat were bound up, deposed that he and three companions, named Charles Jones, Arthur Jones, and Charles Coatup went into the Shrewsbury Arms, at Hindorton, on Sunday evening, about eight o'clock, when they saw the prisoner, who was drinking in another part of the house. Witness and his companions were all sober when they left, and while on their way home along the Old Chester-road the prisoner came up to them, and after 80010 altercation amongst them he cut Williams on the neck, and Wi lianas found the blood streaming down and tried to stop it with his handkerchief. Williams said he had had no words with the prisoner. Mr. Blonden, surgeon, Melton, said he was called up soon after one o'clock on Monday morning to sea Williams. He found him asleep in bed. He was very excited and under the effects of drink. He had an incised wound extending from the left ear, under the chin, to the right ear. It was 4i inches long. The cut was not deep, but if it had been the eighth of an inch , deeper serious consequences must have ensued. He could not answer for the result of the wound in the future. On examining the youth's clothes he found a cat in the jacket on the left hand aide, at the breast, and a slash in the right oaf. Charles Coatup and Arthur and Charles Jones severally deposed to being ' in the Shrewsbury Arms, and detailed the events of the night after leaving the house. They were none of them drunk, but were not sober.—Charles Coatup heard a Bream, and saw Williams ble2ding. He was prisoner strike Williams, but did not know in what way—The prisoner pat several questions to the witness which rather told against him. He also brought forward three witnesses in his behalf, the first of whom, Thomas Waring, proved a rather damaging one, whilst tha other two corroborated ' his evidence. —The Chairman (the Rev. M. Cozen) in committing the prisoner to the next assizes at Chester for trial, made some strong remarks upon the un-English use of the knife, and warned the p:isoner that if the case were to prove fatal he might be tried for wilful murder.—At tte close uf the case, Mr. Superintendent Egerton made an application to the bench for a summons against James Finlay, the landlord of the Shrewsbury Arms, for supplying the lad Williams and his three companions with drink, when it was proved by the evidence of Waring that tney had h d so much that they were obliged to leaves portion of their ale unconsumed, which one of Waring's companions finished off The " glasses of ale" were described as being pint glasses, of which two of each were supplied to each of the youths.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1916-05-06 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

BIRKENHEAD AND W 11.LASET ' after him. to the police station, and, after cautioning DIeTRICT MEETING to death." him, charged hint with the murder of Cor- The quarterly district meetesi el 'lll elide._ _both, peral Adams.' Prisoner made the' following Birkenhead and Wallabey District. lei' r.• a''''. statement :'dent Order of Odettellows,,Marokeste 'game* "Well. I had no intention of killing PP unity, took place on Saturday het still , him. He hit me across the eye. I was &nil Castle hotel, Birkenhead. half drunk when I atteeked bim with. The retiring P.G.M., Bro. Wahl. haTaill •ek- • the razor. .I was in a fit of passion, lie installed 13ro. C. E. Kabery in th, tiof Yk bit me for nothing. I have never said as P.G.M,. Bro. Kisbery thanked tii. de:* anything to him." ties for the honour conferred nee 14'1 He found no marks on Bell. • electing him as the first Prot-nee! 6 Later in the hut at the showground hi of the enlarged Birkenhead ond WOO •,lid a large quantity of blood on the District, and expre-e-el Ili: cletermiser -., and traces of it right along the to do all that was mediae to turtlerlet meat, on the latch of a door, and also interests of- the Order in the distret _ parade ground, had alwaye beeu his ambition. e•telw: \MUSED'S STATEMENT, he joined the Order, to foreet ii, theee,; stets of his father, who occupied theere; ray to Walton Gaol the accused, Maeter's chair many pees 4.0. ill. *airily, said, "Adams is as not wished to think., he &pair.- ler the owl; f a chap. He's about as tall moue manner in which they had aenoin vice as wide. I believe he him to this honourable elle e. , ~se 'of a boxer. I had no idea A very interestiae di-ens-kr h"'' 'et I did not know the razor' on a recommendation of the tuarege!. . It worildn't shave ill.', eDlillnittr.' to take' :...tep., far the 'Sr 18 manth: to cut my tion of juvenile lodges theeerheat Or it'w h. and short-tempered ti-let, and it ws.- decided to •.e....u1-ek-! e tl time. Ile (the de: lodge: and is.,ue tables of tentriesee:s,top 'rink, but be could benefits for the purpose ef heineinti, 11,, melte of menders tie ad til II ta ges u,ll, .„ 4 U, junior house Manchester Unity offered ei tie ~1- ec no-pit-11, said juven.re ineuranee. Kro. Itaga;ee. es estitution the Victoria Lodge. Little Sutton. -4"1,,,ii 11 of mood. benefits that had aecrued to that ;7:eigt quieision. consequenee ef the feet Celt the:..,.7..ne Wednes. menY scale had a strar 4 ji11,,,.6,-.„.;;;At 1in,r,,,, there. He himself a 11,4 an ,%;00 I mem'ier, tied he felt that a orp:,7 wee neck wee an alsolute ).-ey,ity t., . 3 ~ no iciuth wa,01041 fo male neer,- eritif ft wa.s the idyl to Pohl the lest oh dd D. • • '-' i• „ at tle e eitortet meeting at IA a .a-... .‘ ..1$ ' tam n of letienclehip I odge-rceln] a‘ ~, oft. sowe Castle Ilet.,a, Seacombe and t 'S'Mr closed with a vete l:. thole a' M. for presiding. LINTY POLICE COURT' ..... ---e--. . so tY.--Before 31eesre l• , and Jce. Delanwee e. ece "I'
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1883-03-31 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE INSPECTOR AND THE CONTRACTOR'S RIVE.  Hannah Fogg was summoned for using threatening and abusive language to James Cowan, inspector of nuisandes, at Liscard Mr. R. it. Moore appeared for the complaint and Mr. H. 11. Bartlett defended. . . .  Mr. • owan said that on the 23rd instant Mrs. Fogg opened the back door of his yard, and, entering the place, called him all the old thieves, scoundrels, blackguards, and what not she could lay her tongue to. She danced round the yard with " frightful rapidity." She was the wife of the contractor for the removal of the night soil under the Local Board, against whom he had had to make complaints. She used frightful language and threatened him with a large piece of wood, and he had to get out of her way. to escape her violence.  „ To Mr. Bartlett: I have never borrowed 30:=. of her to bet with. I don't bet. I did not call her a -- fool. I am afraid of her.  Mr. Cowan's sou, a little boy, said that defendant doubled up her sleeves and got up a large piece of wood to strike his father with. To Mr. Moore : Mrs. Fogg could easily have trashed Mr., Cowan. (Laughter.) . . .  To Mr. Bartlett: I Iw/elm:len-in tgis court before; once for stealing apples and another time for being thrown into a pit. (Laughter). I have been suununouod twice.  Mrs. Cowan deposed that she heard defendant call her husband a thief, a robber, and a rogue, and express her determination not to lie in her bed until she had acquainted the members of the Local Board with his conduct. To Mr. Bartlett: She had never had words with defendant, as she would not have words with such a woman. She despised defendant. Mr. Bartlett said that complainant had been annoying Mrs. Fogg's husband because she had refused to lend him as, to bet with. Be called defendant a fool, and, besides contumeliously referring to her Irish extraction, dubbed her a Fenian who ought to have been in Pi.conix Park assisting at the murder of Mr. Burke.  Mrs. Fogg said that she met Cowan acci dentally in the entry. Daring the coarse of the conversation he was very abusive, and expressed the opinion that every Irish person ought to be roasted. (Laughter.) She would not have any intercourse with defendant, because he was not a respectable man. She had for years bought corn and all sorts of things from him, and she had paid him as much as £2 a week.  To Mr. Moore: I used no Lal language towards him. I never saw the stick.  Amelia Wilson heard complainant call defendant a --fool and a Fenian who ought to have been in the Phceuiii Park taking part in Tom Burke's murder.  Sergeant Heap said that defendant came to his house, and complained of the way she had been treated.  Mrs. Barrow gave evidence for defendant. Mr. Cowan said the statements of Mrs. Fogg were entirely false.  Mr. Kerferd remarked that the quarrel appeared to be a trumpery one, and the ease would be dismissed.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1883-08-04 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE MURDER OF CAREY. into the scale of the noncontents and Carey, perhaps the most bated in- turned the balance. Lord Salisbury former of the present generation, sneered at the way in has which the petitions in favour of tho bill had been got been shot in cold blood. The assassin is said to be an Irishman named 11, and Lord Bramwell argued that the O'Donnell, and the tragedy was enacted bill, if passed, would increase the crime on one of the Donald Currie line of of perjury. "The law," he said, steamers, near Port Elizabmh, while "would be sure to be evaded, and he the victim and the assassin were sitting had found in his ( xperience that the in the second cabin talking and cases of perjury he had had to try drinking together. Carey was on ME) arising out of informations for the sale way to Natal, and travelling under of beer were more numerous than those an assumed name. It remains to be of any other class. The bill if passed seen whether his death was brought ought to be called an act for the about by an enthusia-,t, who worked encouraffement of bottling beer, as peoAingle-handed, or by an organisation pie would purchase on the Saturday which deliberately hunted him down, night what they wanted for the Sunday, but it is at least significant that and would try every possible mode of notwithstanding the pains the police dodging the law." The principal had taken to put people on a false scent speakers in favour of the bill were the his movements were known by his most Earl of Mount Edgecumbe, the Earl of deadly enemies. His fearful fate will Kimberley, and the Duke of Argyle. engender in the Irish mini the idea It is possible that these latter had not that for the approver there is no escape the better of the argument, but, howand that though he may be shielded by ever that may be, it is certain that the the colossal power of the Biitish Go- Upper Chamber has put another nail in vernment he must make up his mind its coffin. If the bill is really desired that his life alone will pay the penalty by the English people the English peoof his treachery. The growth of a notion plc ought to have it, whether its prinlike this is calculated to render the task ciple is sound or unsound, and it mast of governing Ireland more difficult. But be peculiarly mortifying to those who that is a circumstance which those who are interested in the cause of temper. are rejoicing because Carey has been ance to sec the votes Of their constituslain will regard with an equanimity tionally elected representatives rendered equal to the satisfaction with which they null and void by legislators who only have learned that the leaders of the hold their position on account of their Irish secret societies at least know as birth. much of the most seeret doings of the  Government as the Government does of
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1883-09-01 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

OUTRAGES ON IRISH HARVEST MEN.  It appears that in Cheshire, at the present time, the proceedings of the Irish party in Parliament, the revelations about the Invincibles, and the hatred of the English working man of those who compete with him in the labour market and consequently reduce his wages, have borne their natural fruit. There is now a kind of anti-Irish feeling which threatens to give the authorities some  trouble. The police reports of Tuesday last give a very instructive case. At the Eddisbnry Petty Sessions, on Monday, Stephen Oakes, Joseph Oakes, and Thomas Gayter, English labourers, were charged with assaulting Michael Flannery, an Irish harvestman, on the 6th instant. The prosecutor had been to Frodsham to purchase provisions, and was coming away in company with two other Irishmen, when they were confronted by the prisoners, who asked them if they wanted to fight. Stephen Oakes at the same time delivered a heavy blow on the left eye of Flannery, which knocked him down. When he got up Oakes struck him again. They struggled and fell together, Flannery being uppermost. He got up and walked away, but Oakes again followed him, and then the two other prisoners came up and joined in the affray. Joseph Oakes got behind, and pinioned ' Flannery's arms, while the other men hit him as hard as they could in the face for about five minutes. Gay ter also kicked him when he was down. His clothes were torn and his shirt nearly stripped off his back. He walked a.vay with his two Irish companions into a Mr. Davies's yard, where the prisoners followed and stoned them with macadam and paving stones. The prosecutor's face was terribly cut and his body bruised and injured. Mr. Davies interfered and drove the piisoners off with his dog. The Chairman of the Eddiebury Bench of Magistrates said it was a brutal assault, and the prisoners were sentenced to a mouth's hard labour. Mr. Tomkinson, one of the magistrates, said Irishmen who had beau brutally assaulted had been to him to complain. They had been completely driven by terror out of his district. Now, no one with average intelligence will defend for a moment the conduct of the English labourers ; but, without defending it, it may be pointed out that such conduct on the part of ignorant English peasants is the inevitable outcome of the proceedings of Irishmen themselves. There are two sides even to the question "Ireland for the Irish." Irishmen cannot have their cake and eat it. They must not expect to be made comfortable in England if Englishmen are to be made uncomfortable in Ireland—are to be " potted " from behind hedges, murdered in the public parks, and abused like pickpockets everywhere. As Mr. Gladstone pathetically pointed out a week ago, Irishmen in Parliament and out of it are incurring a grave responsibility by the manner in which they are stirring into activity national jealousies and prejudices which it would be best for both countries should be forgotten.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1894-04-14 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE HEROISM OF CATHERINE DOUGLAS.  Was there time? Would ever the board yield? Was there any guard in the passage, or had the sentinel there, too, deserted his King, when a moment's resistance might save his King's life? With all the strength of frenzy James tore at the plank, now with the tongs, now with bleeding fingers, while the distracted wife knelt and prayed beside him. In half a minute more it would be too late, and through the unbarred doorway the murderers would swarm in. There was a second clash of steel in the passage, Thank God, Walter Straiton had been true to his post, though his fidelity must cost him his life. As the swords rang without, inside the chamber the plank gave way with a groan. James wrenched it back, and a blast of cold wind swept up the opening and poured into the hot room. With one last kiss and whispered farewell to his wife, the King squeezed himself through the aperture and dropped into the crypt below. Hurriedly they pressed down the board, and tried to male smooth the flooring so that no marks could us seen. But it was too late. Another clash and a groan from without told them that the brave page had fallen. Still the plank gaped, and now there was nothing between them and the assassins but the unbolted door. "Can you keep the door ?" cried the Queen to Catherine Douglas. "The door, if only for a moment !" A moment, and the floor might be made smooth and fair. But how could a weak, unarmed woman keep the door against a host of armed men? The Queen's words had no meaning, but were only spoken in a frenzy of ' desperation. As the poet makes Catherine tell the tale:— "At her word I rose all dazed to my feet, And my heart was fire and ice: And louder ever the voices grew, And the tramp of the men in mail; Until to my brain it seemed to be As though I tossed on • ship at sea, In the teeth of a crashing gale.' Half a dozen rushed to the heavy table that ran up the room and attempted to force it against the door, but their strength was not equal to it; they pulled and strained at the massive oak, but the footsteps surely told them that even could they push it up it would be too late. And then as Catherine Douglas looked at the door with its empty staple, an inspiration flashed upon her. She cast one glance at the Queen and.her maidens as they bent over the flooring and saw that the plank was nearly smooth. Then she rushed towards the door, and just as the foot-steps came dashing up the stairs, thrust her bare arm in the bolt's place— thrust it through the empty staple on the door, and grasped the empty staple on the door-post. The bolt was only of flesh and bone, hut it held, if but for a moment, long enough for its purpose to be accomplshed. There was a push, a curse, and a horrid sound of snapping bone and tearing muscle, but as the brave girl fell back and dropped upon the ground, she could see before she fainted that the plank was smooth, the rushes that carpeted the floor strewn over it, and the Queen with her ladies standing at some distance from it.—From The World of Adventure for April.
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1880-05-15 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

CHAPTER XXVL—Sows Barons. Many things just at this time rendered Ewen very uneasy about the bank. The attacks of the press, both upon the institution and upon Mr.  NEWS, SATURDAY, MAY  d r Do ~.not Somel 'refit b. 0 is not a mo tdstie log. al may be he at any mint* .talk of closinili I. will remain there is`iir pound in the sale, I , stay if they swarm round me and-ear me to pieces. Give me all the money...you possess, beg, (ctl fati. one. 3 this drffiettity overcome, th re-1s It future for the bank.—rsye, sad . a grand-one.— I will show—but you have money—you must luive /" "How can I have money—l am in debt," Chapman declared doggedly. He was secretly congratulating himself upon his foresight in having secured a little of spoil, "you are a fool, Ormond, to think of continuing the struggle now. There is only one course open to you— that is flight." " You cry fool, fool ; but we shall see who the fool really is,. • I tell you • this, I will overcome everything. If I had the man who took the tucney here now I'd strangle him. It was a dastardly, damnable action. You are as blind as a bat. Don't you see a way out of the difficulty ?" "There is ne time--there is no way." Come here, ditchwater," Kearns cried contemptuously. He drured Chapman by the arm to the glass door of the private office, and with his finger he pointed at Ewen. "Do you see a way now? " What can he do without his father's signature ?" " His tether will do as he tells him. But there is no time to consult the old man. The boy must sign for him, it will never be repudiated, and by H— it he won't sign, I will."  He !spoke wildly, but with great determination.  4apt2an started back in alarm. You are talking madly." "No. I have gone too Jar, aril rather than close those doors, this should be my remedy." Ho opened a small drawer in his table, awl a tiny revolver glittered in the sun.  "You will find Ewen diffimlt to manage." "The more so that you have not carried out my instructions," cried Kearns fiercely. "Yu should have taken him out and made him spend his money, it wou'd have got rid of that infernal caution of his. You have been my worst enemy—" "Bosh. Was it likely that a fellow of his temperament would knock about so soon after his uncle's murder? Then came that fire where his sweetheart's mother was burnt. I was powerless—" . .  "There would have seen another way," muttered Kearns, more to himself than to Chapman, "if that madman had not let the girl escape—and you, curse you, helped her away. Does be know where this Maggie Rugglestone is Does he write to her ?"  (To be continued.)  6 1 . , do t is r . Ibe. T" etal I*, 0 tal, -nbkle will
The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1880-07-17 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

CONSERVATIVE PEERS AND IRELAND.  The attitude which the Conservative peers are disposed to take up in regard to Ireland was indicated in the House of Lords on Tuesday evening. Lord Oranmore and Browne called attention to the increase of crime in parts of Ireland, and to the increase of atrocity, audacity, and impunity with which it was committed, and asked whether the Government considered this state of things creditable to any civilised country. He also asked what orders were given to the Irish constabulary when they were sent out to protect civil officers of the law and others in the prosecution of their legal rights, and whether the Government had taken, or intended to take, any measure to create an effective body of detectives. The noble lord cited a number of cases in which murders and agrarian outrages of a daring character had been committed with comparative impunity, and called upon the Government to adopt more vigorous measures for the suppression of this description of crime." Lord Stanley, of Alderly, charged the Government with having being more alert in the matter of personal outrages in Jerusalem than they had been in the grose,agrarian crime in Ireland. Lord Cranbrook followed in a somewhat similar vein. On behalf of the Government Earl Spencer denied that "the crimes of murder and manslaughter had shown any increase since the Peace Preservation Act had been dispensed with, but admitted that the number of threatening letters, especially to tenants, or those about to become tenants of land from which the former occupants had been evicted, had increased during the past year. The Government," he said, "while folly sensible of the great evils produced by such a state of things, were doing all they could to afford the requisite protection to life and property, not only by the orders given to the police and the measures taken for the detection of crime, but also by the judicious use of detatchments of the military when it was btilieved that the presence of troops was necessary." Lord Kimberly, in reply to Lord Stanley of Alderly, warmly repudiated the insinuation that the Government did not sympathise as much with the victims of agrarian crime in Ireland as with those who suffered from murderous outrages in any other part of the world, The Earl of Dunraven then aired the fallacy that Ireland was over-populated in parts, expressing the hope that the Government would consider as one means of assisting the Irish people, and alleviating the present state of things, how they could best assist in the promotion of emigration from those parts of Ireland that were already over-populated. It should be pointed out that if the resources and industries of Ireland were fostered and developed as they ought to be the country would support in comfort a populat on very much in excess of that which it now possesses. The =tenableness of , the Earl of Dunraven's plea is indicated by the fact that there are cousiderablyless people in Ireland than there used to be.