SACRIFICE OF HUMAN LIFE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1957, 13 November 1874, Page 3

SACRIFICE OF HUMAN LIFE.

A few days since a quiet man was returning home from his work with his wife, through the streets of Liverpool, when he was accosted by three loafers who asked him for sixpence. His reply was that he wanted all the sixpences he had and if they wanted any they ought to work for them as he did. No sooner were the words oufof his mouth than he was knocked down and kicked ferociously. The wife threw herself acro3shis body, but was kicked and thrown on one side. The kicking was kept up with the utmost vigor and enthusiasm the, three roughs taking simultaneous running kicks at the man, which were so violent as to hurl his body right across the street. As may be imagined the stingy wretch who would not part with his sixpence did not long retain consciousness, but the kickers were determined not to leave any doubt on the question of life or death, so they did not leave off their exercise until they had broken every rib in his body, and until the corpse was a t bloody shapeless mass. Lots of people saw the fun — only one interfered, and got kicked for his pains. And the police " can't find " all the kickers. As a little variation to kicking which is getting vulgarlycommon, three colliers in the same blessed and delightful county of Lancashire, who were out on the spree, and who were tried for the tame amusements of wife-murder and high way robbery, hatched a most happy thought. They entered a house inhabited by an aged couple of the laboring class, and found them at tea. The fiist part of the performance consisted in knocking them both down which was done with great neatness. The old woman got up and scrambled out of the house with nothing more than two or three playful taps with a coal hammer and set to work to raise an alarm. In the meantime the old man was held down on tothefloorby two of his visitors, while the third — playful dog, scooped out one of his eyes with his|fingers. As one, witticism begets another, so, lookinground for further means of enjoymeut the party discovered a bucket of quicklime standing in a' corner. With some of this soothing material the empty socket of the eye was quickly filled, and as a screaming climax to the whole joke the bucket was empted over the old man's head, and, with a few parting kicks he was left for dead, and although quite blind and not expected to live, he was enabled tomakeadepoitions. The most extraordinary part of the thing is that the police have captured these amusing rogues— the three colliers.