A small St Helens street witnessed a tragedy during World War 2.
An eight year old girl was shot in the head on Crispin Street, St Helens, in September 1944.
Sheilagh Duffy died two weeks later.
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A teenage boy had shot the little girl in the head.
The 15-year-old from Croppers Hill had fitted a live cartridge that he'd found on a firing range inside a toy gun. He then recklessly pulled the trigger and struck down the girl.
The girl's parents wrote to the parents of the boy who had killed their daughter, expressing that they forgive the boy and hope the incident would not mar his life.
Twenty-two years before this, the street had played host to what the St Helens Reporter newspaper called the 'Battle of Crispin Street'.
The 'battle' was an altercation in which three women armed with a rolling pin and glass bottle had attacked each other.
Under the headline "Would “Do” The Days – Glass Bottle v. Rolling Pin – Crispin-Street Battle", the Reporter on January 27th 1922, wrote: "Four years of concentrated enmity reached a climax in the Crispin street neighbourhood on Thursday last, when Mrs. Norah Glannon, 3, Crispin-street, performed strokes with a bottle upon Mrs. Martin, which are not allowed by law."
P.C. Robinson said that when he took the prisoner into custody she said “I had the bottle in my hand, but I don't remember striking her.
"Prisoner, who is a frail-looking little woman, said that Mrs. Martin's grandson had put out his tongue at her and was very impudent, and she said she would go to the school about his conduct.
"Later in the day she was talking to another woman in the entry when Mrs. Martin came flying into the entry and said, “Now, So-and-So, go to the schoolmaster.”
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