Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-10-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

POACHINGFEA. A desperate affray between policemen and poachers has occurred near Atherstone. At three .m. on the 711. Polift-constables Tarrant and Dyer met three poachers carrying a quantity of netting and armed with sticks. One of these, a man named Payne, attacked Tarrant with a thick bludgeon. Getting him down he made repeated attempts to strangle him, compelling the constable to use his staff. The other men, I being accompanied by a eamge dog, got away. Payne was fined £1 and costs, or fourteen days, for being pop semed of coaching implements, and condemned to a month'. hard Ulmer for the eteinutt.  ' 1 notiOs.  THE MUTINY IN A REFORMATORY, At Owlish, eight boys, named William Henry Sutcliffe, William Waite, Arthur Brown, Henry Fisher, John W. Jennings. James Trueman, John Steakhouse, and Henry Davis, were brought before the load magistrates, on remand, charged with conspiring to aireault the Governor of the Reformatory at Stenwix, near that city, with intent bib hint grievous bodily harm. It appeared from the evidence of some of the inmates of the reformatory, who number forty in all, that a boy named Clyde had run away a few weeks ago, but he was recaptured, and the fait that be had been captured and flogged became known in the reformatory on Sunday, the 19th of September. Herbert Burt, 15 yeare of age, deposed that on the evening of limn day he heard Sutcliffe and Brown say to several boye who were standing in the cook-houee, including the other prisonere, " We are going to set on the governor on Monday night." Later in the day he heard Sutaliffe, Fisher, and Jennings my, "We will half kill the governor." On the following day he saw Sutcliffe and Brown take some pigeons from the reformatory and my they were going to eell them and buy come clothes with the money. He al. saw Stackbourse carry some sticks from the nursery gardens to the bedroom, and put them under the bede. At seven otalock the boy, in the reformatory all went to bed, with the exception of the eight prtsoners, who, being bigger boye, were allowed to remain up later, and the governor was in the habit of reading to them. After the .younger boys had gone to bed the governor came to a trap window in the door which generates the dormitory from hm own room, and said, " Boye, I am , coming to read to you." At that time there were two gaelighte burning in the dormitory. As the governor left the window the prisoner Trueman put out the lights, and as soon as the governor entered the room the whole of the prisonere attacked him with their dicks. He fell bleeding upon abed near the door, and some of the prisoners called out, "Up, lads, and at him." When the governor partly recovered hinnelf after the attack. he said, "Don't be foolish, boys;" but the prisoner Waite replied, " We' will foolish you; come here and we will kill you." A redness named Jame. Moody. fourteen years of age, deposed that Sutcliffe had said on Monday night, in the bedroom," We are all going to mill the governor, and when we get him down we will tie him down an that he cannot get up, and we will rob the house and all escape sway." Mr. George Crowther, the governor, deposed that when he looked into the bedroom and eaw several of the bigger boye standing together, which was nothing uncommon, he euggeeted they should go to bed and he would come and read to them. When he went in with the book and bound the gas out, be said, " How is chic?" No one answered, but something like a olog passed near his head, and immediately aftereerds he recemed a blow on the top of the head, which stunned him. By and by he heard one of the boys say," I will murder you.' The boys thereupon ran away into the house, and several of them went away through the yard. He asked them to return, bin they took no notice. Dr. Robert Walker, who wee called in to eee the governor afterwards, found he had Reversal wounds 0,4 the head. The prinners, who all ran away from the reformatory after the attack upon the governor, were all captured by the police in a few hours. The prisoner Brown, on being charged, said, "We were dieeatisfled with the way be flogged the boys. He flogged me without a muse and forfeited my money, 22a. 6d." Sutaliffe raid, "Ho came in to me one night at twelve o'clock with three birchen to use for me." All the prisonern were committed for trial.