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Drunken violence and policing failures in Liverpool
Three doctors describe brutal injuries from nightly drunken assaults, including a nine year old girl with two wounds. Despite many wounded and few arrests, officials push for harsher prosecutions of publicans and stronger enforcement to curb the deadly liquor trade and protect victims. The piece critiques Recorder Hopwood and calls for moral reform, citing rising assaults as drunkenness arrests fall.
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Liverpool
Nott-Bower
Recorder
Hopwood
Maidstone
Kent Messenger
Mid Kent
C. G. Long
London
Scandinavia
Chester