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    1. Assaults at Wallasey - Liverpool Mercury 1834
    2. Liverpool Mercury July 11 1834 ASSAULTS AT WALLASEY At the Cheshire Quarter Session, held at Knutsford, Thomas DAVIES, Richard JONES, William BLOT and Luke BARNES were indicted for a riot at Wallasey and an assault on the person of Arthur KERR. The prosecutor it appears had been drinking at New BRIGHTON a considerable part of the day on which the assault was committed. , and he met with the prisoners in a public house. After attempting to extort money from him by threatening to "burke" him, for which purpose a bag was procured, they savagely struck and kicked him until he became insensible There was some evidence for the defence which contradicted the testimony of the prosecutor, and a fter a short consultation the jury aquitted the defendants At the same sessions Stanley MARSHALL, a boy not more than 16 yrs of age, was indicted for assaulting, Elizabeth WILLIAMS, a girl about 14 yrs of age, at New Brighton on the 26th May last, found guilty and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment Caryl

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