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Singular Charge of Shooting.A canal boatman named Thomas Hilton, of Manchester, has been apprehended at Lymm, near Warrington, on a charge of maliciously shooting a boy named Michael Mannion, aged 13, residing with his parents at Warrington. The boy and some others were by the side of the canal when Hilton came past with his boat. One of the lads shouted something to him, upon which he threatened to shoot Mannion with a double-barrelled gun which he held in his hand, and, the lad daring him to do it, he fired at him, lodging a heavy charge of shot in his breast and arms. The boy was taken to the Warrington Infirmary, where he now lies in a precarious condition. The prisoner’s boat was boarded by the police a mile or two farther down the ; canal, and Hilton gave a minute description of a poacher j who, he said, had got on his boat near Manchester, with nets and a gnn, adding it was he who had shot the boy and then made his escape. As the description tallied with that of a well-known Warrington poacher, Hilton was allowed to go on, and it was not till two nights j after that the police discovered they were on the wrong track ana that the boatman himself had committed the outrage. By a fortunate circumstance they apprehended Hilton opposite the place where he shot the boy, and when he was charged with the offence he betrayed abject fear, begging the police to have mercy on him. He was brought before Mr. T. P. Norris, and remanded till the boy is sufficiently recovered to giveevidence.
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London Magnet
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, May 19, 1879
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