BARBAROUS ASSAULT - "THE SCOTCH CATTLE" AGAIN.
On Tuesday night last, about half-past nine, as Wm. HARRIS of Blackwood, one
of the witnesses against the rioters connected with the late outbreak, was
going home from receiving his expenses as a witness, he was waylaid and
violently assaulted between Gelly Groes and Blackwood, by several men from
the Hills, who beat him with clubs and other weapons, about his face and
stomach till he was almost killed, when they left him in most excruciating
agonies. The poor man is suffering severely from this brutal attack; but
hopes are entertained of his recovery. One of the villains is known, and it
is supposed that this will lead to the apprehension of the whole gang, who
are now prowling around the Hills, intimidating and assailing the witnesses
in the late trials, and commencing again the horrible cruelties and
enormities perpetrated some time ago, by the hordes of banded ruffians,
calling themselves "Scotch Cattle" - Merlin.
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