Broxburn Brutal Outrange

BROXBURN BRUTAL OUTRAGE—MAN KILLED.

On Saturday night, about ten o'clock, a most dastardly outrage was committed in the village of Broxburn upon man named Docherty. It seems that about the time specified several Irishmen paid a visit to Steel's Row, where in threatening language they called upon the Fenians to come out. James Docherty, residing the row, attracted by the noise, went the outside the door of his dwelling, and had no sooner done so than he was seized, knocked down, and kicked most unmerciful manner, and left insensible the ground.

The police having been apprised of the outrage were promptly the spot, and had Docherty taken inside his residence. Drs Lindsay, and Thomson were immediately called in, and on examination found that the injured man had been severely injured over the body, and that five or six ribs had been broken.

On Sunday the police apprehended seven men, and Monday conveyed them to Linlithgow Prison. The prisoners are all Orangemen. Docherty is Roman Catholic, and bears a good character as a quiet, inoffensive man.

[From particulars since come hand, we learn that the injured man, after much suffering, expired great agony early yesterday morning. A deposition was taken from him by Sheriff-Substitute Home and the county Procurator Fiscal the day before his death, and the police have apprehended other three persons, so that men in all are now in custody charged with participating in the outrage. The disturbance and its fatal consequences apjtear have been the result of party feeling, as a large number Orangemen came direct to Docherty's door, which they would have forced open had he not opened it himself, when, an instant, he was seized, dragged out to the road, knocked down, and kicked most brutally. Another man uaeied M'Colla, who was also in Docherty's house, was likewise pulled out, and had three or four of his ribs firactured, and was otherwise injured, but he not thought to be dangerously so.]

Falkirk Herald, 23rd September 1869