Show RIOTS IN ENGLAND ANTI-CATHOLIC AND following are clippings from The of June 17 and July papers Brought from Bed and Assaulted by Roughs was a long sitting of the coroner's court at Liv pool concerning the cause of the death of a young woman named Elizabeth of Ellison the question for the jury being whether she died from natural causes or from the effects of injuries said to have been inflicted on her by fanatical Protestants because she was a Roman Catholic The allegation was that on June towards midnight the young woman left her bed in order to answer a loud knocking at the religion she was asked by a man when the door was and she are but if we are we never meddle with or three persons entered the and the young woman's who was- heard sounds of a followed by screams and moans from her She went to her assistance and found her in a fainting When she revived the daughter it awful to be brought out of bed to be day she complained of her getting no was removed to where she Riots in July mob lined up the street so quietly and carefully as to suggest that the attack was and then proceeded to attack the The principal missile as it is known in consisted of kidney-shaped stones weighing from half a pound to two With these the police were pelted one officer stating that in the course of a long experience of riots he had never come through such severe In a number of some of them were Desperate ugly feature of this attack was the assistance given by some people to the when the supply of stones was speedily replaced as soon as the first lot had been thrown at the When the fusillade was at its height the police made two desperate baton charges the of scattering in all was about this time that the and looting and it continued until after nine Amongst the first to be attacked was a public house owned by a man named Before the mob rested from their wanton task every window and door of the premises was and every liquid and in the shop carried away and or Then an attempt was made to set fore to the ruined but this was not Pillaged and spirit grocer's shop suffered in much the same The grocery portion of the contents of the premises was scat-toed all over the but most of the liquids were carefully third business premises to be reduced to wreck was a greengrocer's The process of destruction in this case Wa remarkably and half an hour after the windows broken the shop was cleared of all its goods by the wh destroyed anything they were unable to carry away bodies of police had by this time reached the dis- torn other parts of the and gradually the looting y overawed for the time and peace temporarily to the But the desire of the mob bad not Deen and for over two hours Urney street was the 1 3 scene of deplorable houses and when the door J habitants were was hauled into tL rS the furniture after nine the la J S COntinued until Pied by a Bonfire in the Street inhabitants Wh Md through the the Being by the back portion of the mob entered in a few minutes tables hauling behind them and ther 01 oe ure L In These t J w iQ the center f the and after Q set le maw a h Sr h WaS fed for some tim with the remaining articles from the Dwellings Set on Then a quantity of the most inflammable material was placed in the coalhole of the house and set on and so menacing became the outbreak that the fire brigade was W the arrival of the firemen accentuating the already high in the The brigade managed to extinguish the in a brief half-past nine the whole situation in Urney street became so threatening that the authorities determined to depart from their usual custom on such occasions not to make and two of the ringleaders of the looting mob were taken into On the way to the police barracks the constables who made tile arrests were vigorously owners of all the business premises and houses attacked are Roman the attacking mob being |