KILLED IN STREET FIGHT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1208, 17 August 1911, Page 5

KILLED IN STREET FIGHT.

MORE LIVERPOOL RIOTS. PRISON CONVOY ATTACKED. London, August 15. A crowd of three thousand persons at Liverpool attacked a prison-van, convoyed by Hussars, who fired on and sabred tho crowd. One man was killed and twenty wounded.

MIDNIGHT STREET FIGHTING. INFANTRY FIRES ON MOB. London, August IS. After midnight a, mob looted tho shops in the Christian Street district of Liverpool. The infantry fired several yolleys overhead at houses from .which missiles wore being thrown ■at them, and then .made bayonet charges up dark courts, whence thoy were assailed with stones and bottles. There were many casualties. Two soldiers were grievously wounded. Fifty-six arrests were made. A TURBULENT MOB. THE ROADWAY BARRED. (Rec. Aug. 16, 9.55 p.m.) London, August 16. The police report that yesterday's riot was purely an. attack on the polioo in a district where disorder is chronic and liable to outbursts in times of abnormal excitement. The five prison vans were conveying sentenced' rioters, and were being escorted by Hussars and Scots Greys. ■'' ."•" While. traversing'Vauxhall Road; which is inhabited by seamen and dockers, pro-' gress was barred by an excited mob. i Bricks and stones were hurled at the I convoy from the side streets and the house-tops. Many of the soldiers were struck, and six were unseated. Tho crowd became so menacing that the convoy fired six shots. A man nanwd Prendcgast, a carter, was shot dead, and Sntcliffe, another carter, died later. Three others with bullet I wounds were taken to tho hospital. I The Warwickshire Regiment and tho mounted police hurried to Vauxhall Road. Meanwhile tho vans hadi reached the prison. The arrival of tho infantry was the signal for desperate street fighting lasting an hour, the. rioters facing the constables'' batons' with coolness and courage. Tho I police were badly mauled.