150 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (4 - 10 SEPTEMBER 1873)
This week's stories include the Rainford girl who accused two men of slander by claiming she had been sleeping with a man in the woods, the stinking fish that was cried for sale in Greenbank, an inspection of the lunatic paupers from Ormskirk in Rainhill Asylum, the strange theft in a bedroom of the Black Bull in Church Street and there's a sequel to the disgusting savagery case in which a man's ear was bitten off.