The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1907-09-14 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

COOLIE'S TRAGIC DEATH.  AMIE WARE COMMITTED TO  THE ASSIZES  At the Birkenhead Police Court on Thursday, before Aldermen T. Cook and Mr. L. C. Elmslie, Jessie Tears, of 7, Circusstreet, Liverpool, was charged with causing the death of a Lasoar seaman named Ski& Eadir, on the 22nd ult. _  Mr. Seger (instructed by Messrs. Dalby and Moore) who prosecuted on behalf of the police, said he would ask the charge to be proceeded with as one of murder, subject, of course, to any views that the magis. trate' might form later. The evidence given at the inquest was then repeated. P.C. Carr stated that at 10.40 p.m. on Thursday, 22nd August, he was on duty in Cheater-street when he saw the prisoner run out of an entry jA Castle. street and cross Chester-street. She turned into Duncan-street, and ran as fast as she could towards Hamilton-square. Witness went into the entry and found a Lamar seaman lying on the ground. He was groaning and appeared to be in great pain. All that he uttered was the word "Allah." Witness raised him to his feet, but he only managed to walk a few steps and then he collapsed. He caused the coolie to be reMoved to the bridewell, where he was examined by Dr. Wilkinson and afterwards conveyed to the hospital. Witness afterwards went in search of Jessie Teare, and finally succeeded in finding her in Marketstreet. He had to take her forcibly to the bridewell. _ _ _  Inspector Bebington stated that at the police station the woman denied having been in the company of the coolie. On being searched 2s. were found in her possession. She said she received this money for cleaning and scrubbing rooms in Liverpool. P.C. Cactus said he saw the prisoner in the company of two young women named Emma and Esther Williams, between 10.23 and 10.30 on the night in question.  Dr. J. F. Blood senior hoe. surgeon at: the Borough Hospital, said he attended the deceased Lascar, who was sufiering from rupture of the small intestines. The rupture could not have been caused by a fall on the fiat surface of a passage. It must have been the result of direct violence, and I might have been caused by a blow or a kick. Dr. Preece also thought the rupture' must have been produced by direct violence Having seen the passage, he did not think it likely that anything In the passage could have caused the injury. Dr. Wilkinson deposed that on the afternoon of the date in question he saw the deceased with another Lascar in Hamilton-square station. Kadir seemed to be very excited, exclaiming that he had been given a shilling short in change for a sovereign. The deceased appeared to have a fairly large amount of money in his hand —about 90 or 40 pieces of silver and one or two pieces of gold. From further evidence it appeared that the prisoner was allowed to go by the police, but was arrested five days later at Hrownlow Hill Workhouse. She made a statement to P.C. Brookes that Esther Williams pushed the deceased, nod he fell upon some crockery he was carrying. In reply to P.C. hicArdle, who impressed upon her the seriousness of her position, and told her she was charged with causing the death of the man, he replied : "It did not take much to kill him then." , Evidence was given by Esther and Emma Williams. both of whom denied having been in the company of the deceased man. Esther Williams said that the body she saw at the mortuary was that of the man prisoner went away with on the night in. question. In reply to the prisoner, Esther Williams emphatically denied having pushed the Lamar causing him to fall on some crockery. The Prisoner was committed for trial to the assises on the charge of manslaughter.