A YOUNG- GENTLEMAN KILLED BY AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1434, 22 June 1868, Page 4

A YOUNG- GENTLEMAN KILLED BY AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN.

The Liverpool police are engaged in investigating the circumstances attending the death of a young gentleman who was well known in that town and Southport, and who ia said to have been killed by a blow which he received from an American captain in a row which took pjace in a public-houaa in Liverpool. The affray took place on Monday night, and the gentleman died on the following day ; but the authorities seem to have lcnown nothing of the matter until Thursday, when their attention Was directed to it by some gentlemen who lire in Southport, and who knew the diseased, who resided at that place. It is also somewhat strange that no inquest haa been held, especially if it was known that the young man's death was the result of violent treatment. 'JChe facts of the melancholy affair seem to be as follows: —A young gentleman named Mr. T. P. Carstairs, who resided with his friends at Southport, was in Liverpool on the night in question with a friend, with whom ha went to the theatre. After leaving the theatre, he and his friend went to the Theatre Tavern, in Williamson-squaie. .While sitting in the enug, it is said that Mr. Carstairs commenced singing "The Bonnie Blue Flag"—ft »ong which was exceedingly popular with the friends of the South during the late American war. A number of American captains were in the house at the time, and they seem to have been offended with Mr. Carstairs for singing a " Secession song." They told him to desist, but it is alleged that he declined to do so, and thac being requested he proceeded to ping the sopg a second time. A row then took place, glasses were thrown about, and some Bevere injuries were inflicted by the combatants on each other. One of the persons engaged in the mehe was knocked through a glass door, and in the thick of the fight it is said that an American captain seized a champagne bottle and gave Mr. Carßtairs a violent blow on the head with it. Ultimately the disturbance was quelled, and Mr. Carstairs was removed as soon as possible to Southport, where he died on TueEday from the effects, it is supposed, of the blow he received from the American. The detectives are making inquiries into the matter, and it is to be hoped that they • will succeed in apprehending the man who struck the fatal blow, although it it said that one of the Americans engaged in the affair has sailed in hi"J vessel for the United States.—European Times.