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      Accidents Md Casualties.

      ACCIDENTS MD CASUALTIES .

      Fata£ Accident On Titfi North British Ra...

      Fata £ Accident on Titfi North British Railway . —On Friday e evening a collision took place at the Portobello station of the J North British Railway , attended with loss of life and serious it injury to several persons . The mail train for York and London , v which leaves Edinburgh at 5 . 55 p . m ., and passes Portobello , withc out stopping , at six o'clock , in approaching that station at full speed , c came into violent collision with a pilot engine and tender , employed }) fit the station in shifting trucks from one siding to another , and ¦ v which , bv some extraordinary culpability , was at the moment directly

      i in the way of the mail train . A terrific crash ensued , the tender ( of the pilot engine , which was in front , being pitched upon the top ( of it and overturned , while the mail train engine almost surmounted l the ruinous heap . In fact , the latter engine was lifted entirely ! from the ground , though the tender remained on the rails . The < concussion was most severely felt by the passengers in the mail 1 train , eight or ten of whom were much cut and bruised , but all ol them , fortunately , were able I o resume their journey . A railway porter who was on the pilot engine was instantaneously killed , while the driver of it had his leg moken . The driver and stoker of the mail train were also much scalded and bruised , but were able

      to proceed to Berwick . The wreck presented a frightful spectacle , the mail train engine being , as it were , jerked on the top of the other engine imd tender , and so near was it to the parapet wall of a high bridge , that the subtest outward deviation would have precipitated it fifty feet below . After the delay of an hour a newengine and train were obtained from Edinburgh , and proceeded onwards -with the passengers and mads . Shocking Colliery Accra kkt .--An inquest , which arose out of the bursting of a boiler , has been held at Poole , in the parish of illogan , on the body of John Phillips , twenty-one , a miner em * aged

      at the Wheal TJuy pit , near Kedvuth . It appeared , from the evidence adduced before Mr . Carlyon , the county coroner , that , on Saturday week , the engineer of the "Wheal TJuy mine , Mi . Edmund West , had taken charge of the engine at three o ' clock in the afternoon . A few minutes afterwards he stopped the engine , banked up the fire , and made everything , as he supposed , quite sate , and then obtained leave from the agent to go into Redruth to settle his money accounts . At eight o ' clock in the evening he returned , and tried to get the . engine to work , but he found something ( he matter with the boiler lift . It did not bring the water to the pumps to supply the cistern whence v

      was forced into the boiler . He therefore stopped the engine again , and sent for two -of the pumpmen from Redruth , the deceased and a man named John Harris . When thev arrived they went into the boiler to work with a lighted candle , and while they were there in \\\ mt presence the engineer tried the gaugecocks . The centre one was dry , but the upper one was not . In about twenty minutes afterwards the explosion took place . The engineer was standing in the doorway of the house when it happened , and was not aware at the time but that the deceased had come up from underground till he was found under the rubbish . In answer to the jury , who put the

      queatioi / very directly as to whether the giwgecocks had been tried , the engineer said that , lie believed both the deceased and Harris were present at the time he tried them . This evidence was corroborated hy John Harris , who added that they found a piece of slick under " the ciack , * ' which prevented its coming down in its proper place . They lemoved ft , and the deceased went , to the cistern Id throw in some water on top of the clack . Ten minutes afterwards witness heard the report of a loud explosion . Bricks aud stones fell all around him , and the shaft of the pit became filled with smoke . Suspecting what had happened , he went and found that the boiler

      had burst . The agent of the mine , Mr . Thomas Mines , deposed that the mof of the holler house was blown off hy the explosion . Th-. ; upper end between it and the tube was crushed from one end to the other , and a part of it , about ten feet from the boiler , was blown out . From an inspection of the remaining portions of the tube he had no doubt that it had become loaded from the want of a sufficiency of water in the boiler , and this was the cause of its bursting . Another engineer , however , John West , deposed that he had

      examined the remains of the boiler . He found it all blown to pieces , but he saw nothing in its colour or appearance to indicate that it had burst irom a want of sufficiency of water in the boiler . H was impossible , in his opinion , to state how it . happened . It might , have at isen irom the engineer neglecting to feed the boiler , or from the safety valve having been fixed by expansion owing to the heat , which was very possible , when , as iu this case , the engine had been idle for several hours . The jury , after some deliberation , returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "

      1 ' ATal Accident at Queenshead , * keau-Halifax . — On Wednesday week , Mrs . Hannah Shackletou , a widow woman who keeps the Huger-kUl Toll-bar , at Queenshead , met with her death in the following singular manner : —it appears that she had spread out some linen to bleach in a field opposite her door . Shortly after she discovered a young stirk which was in the field in the act of trampling upon and eating the linen . She ran info the field for the purpose of driving

      the animal away , when the creature turned upon her , and the ground in the field being as high as the wall , and falling about a yard into the road , the stirk pushed her over , backwards . Her head came in contact with the kerb stone , causing an extensive fracture of the skull . Drs . Fawtlnop and Jowett were promptly in attendance , but pronounced her hopeless . She never spoke afterwards , and died in a few hours .

      Wrecks on the Dutch Coast . — The Dutch range of coast appears to have experienced the recent Equinoctial gales as severely as our own shores , perhaps more so as regards the number of disasters and the loss of life and property . The havoc amongst the shipping was most considerable , and of the many vessels wrecked during the storm was the celebrated Red Rover steamer , which for many years , it may be remembered , was a favourite passage boat between London , Heme Bay , and Margate . The unfortunate event took place during the height of the gale on Friday night , while on her first outward trip to Grongeti . The Red Rover , some short time

      back , was purchased off her old station for the purpose of being converted into a screw boat , and to be employed in the Dutch trade , t . ie conveyance of cattle and general merchandise ; she underwent a thorough overhaul , hull strengthened , paddle-boxes removed , new engines put into her , and fitted with the screw propeller . Other Alterations and improvements were made in order to render her a sure sea boat , and under the command of Mr . Cullam . master , she left the Thames on Wednesday on her first voyage across to the Dutch coast . Scarcely had die got into anything like sea room before she encountered the gale which has proved so destructive in all directions of the coast . She steamed on in the hope of weathering the storm , aud she was reported by two vesselssince arrivedto be

      , , making all way to her destination . Friday afternoon , however , brought more fearful weather , which tried the vessel severely ; and she was blown ashore oiuhe beach about two miles from Sclievengen , and the master and crew , and some persons who had been permitted to take a voyage in her , were saved . On the same night another vessel , called the Sirene , bound to Stettin from Cherbourg , went ashore near the spot where the Red Rover was wrecked , and ' , melancholy to add , only two out of the ship ' s crew were saved . In the vicinity of the Doomsdens , fifty fishing boats , each containing hvo men , were out when the storm set in , and out of that number only five had returned when the mail left . The worst fears are entertained fox the fate of the remainder of the fishermen .

      Fata£ Accident On Titfi North British Ra...

      Shocking Railway Accident . —On Monday morning the remains of Jeremiah Chapman Dooly , a station-master at Aslley , on the Liverpool and Manchester portion of the London and Northwestern Railway , were discovered by his wife between that place and Bury lane station , the head of the unfortunate man having been apparently severed from his body by a train which had passed along the line during the night . He had left the Astley station between nine and ten o ' clock on Sunday evening , and walked to Bury-lane station , and , after partaking of some ale and spirits at a public house , returned along the line soon after eleven towards his own residence , situate between the two stations . He never reached home , however ,

      and his wife went in search of him early on Monday morning , and found his body on the line as described , the head being rolled to some yards distant . The line hud been repaired near where his body was found , and it is conjectured he might have stumbled forward with his head against the rail , whilst passing over some holes left in the road by the men who had repaired it , and , becoming insensible , had remained there until the train passed over him . No train passed in the night except the north mail at half-past three o'clock . He bore a good character for activity and attention to his duties . He was forty years old , and has left five children dependent on his widow for support .

      Fatal Gun Accieekt .-Oii Sunday George-Hopkins , a miner , residing at Breamo ' s lives , left his father ' s house about nine o'clock in the morning for the purpose of shooting small birds ; and when gelling over a wall out of a piece of land belonging to his father into an orchard , put the gun against . the wall . On getting on the top of the wall he took hold of the barrel to raise the gun up , and the gun went off , either Irom its striking against the wall or from the shake as he raised it up . The whole contents of powder and shot entered the lower part o \ ' the stomach , and penetrated to the spine , carrying with them pact of his wearing apparel . Deceased lingered till the following day , when he died , v

      Inquests

      INQUESTS

      Death From Starvation.—A Very Painful Ca...

      Death from Starvation . —A very painful case of death , result intr from hunger aud starvation , occurred in Leicester last week . The victim was a poor idiotic woman named Mary Woolmer , who belongs to the Lutterworth Union , and had been removed by the Leicester Union to that place several times . She was removed in 1850 , when Mr . Chamberlain , the eleik of the Leicester Union , wrote to them , telling them the woman was an idiot , and requesting them not tf > let her out nf the house again , as she would only entail additional misery upon herself and expense upon the union , it being her practice to go out for a time , return iu an advanced

      state of pregnancy , and stay io be confined . Mr . Chamberlain requested the officers at Lutterworth to put her in No . 15 , or the idiotic class , and they wrote to say they would do so . On the 10 th of July ( three months after the above occurrences ) the poor woman was again in Leicester , and was nearly killed by being run over by a horse ; md gig . She was sent to the Leicester Infirmary , and as soon as she was able to be removed she was sent home to Lutterworth , and another pressing request was sent with her that she might be properly taken care of in the lunatic ward , and the officers were begged to do this as an of charity to the poor creature , aud to prevent her a ^ ain being the sport of the vicious anil brutal . Notwithstanding this entreaty , and an

      assurance that she was placed in such a ward , the woman found h ' er way again to Leicester , and has been living in a filthy lodging-house in Abbey-street , and subsisting by begging . Last Wednesday week she was taken into Mr .-Buck ' s surgery apparently dead , and Mr . Buck at once had her removed to the workhouse , where stimulants were used , and proper remedies were applied , but the poor woman died on Friday . On Sunday evening an inquest was held before'John Gregory , Esq ., coroner , and the jury returned the following verdict : — " That the deceased , Mary Woolmer , died from exhaustion brought on from want of proper

      food and clothing ; and the jury are of opinion that the deceased ought not to have been allowed to go out of the Lutterworth Union Workhouse again , after the letter sent by Mr . Chamberlain respecting her , a copy of which has been read to the jury . " Caution to Road Suhveyors . —T . Taylor , Esq ., one of the deputy coroners for the West Riding , held an inquest at the Coach and Horses Inn , Beechiield , Barnsley , upon the body of Matthew Hirst , of Darton , who met with his death under the following circumstances , which were stated in evidence before the jury : —Deceased was employed in conveying some large oak trees from Chapeltown to Darton on the 2 nd instant , and about , seven o ' clock in the evening he

      was on the Sheffield road , at Beechneld , when another conveyance was going the same way . To give it the road the deceased drew h \ $ team on one side . While he had hold of the head of one of his horses lie fell over a quantity of sumes , which had been left there by the men employed in repairing the road , and the wheels of his waggon ran over him , and injured him so that he died from the effects of it . It was proved , by the evidence given before the jury , that it was the duty of-a man named George Wilson , who is employed as assistant surveyor , under the Barnsley Police Commissioner , to have had the stones ifiid rubbish removed from the road . The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against George Wilson . The coroner then issued his warrant for his committal to York for trial at the

      next assizes . Death from Hydrophobia . —A most melancholy circumstance occurred at the toll-gate , near Black Hill , on Wednesday last . About six or seven weeks ago , Mrs . Newton , who keeps the tollgate , had her little granddaughter a child five years of age , who was playing at her door , bit by a hound ch g belonging to one of her neighbours , which wi-s in a rabid state . It was followed as far as AnnHeld Plain by a number of men , who destroyed it , bnt not before it had bitten several doss on its wav . The child was bit in

      the face and lip , which bled profusely . Medical advice was obtained , and the child ' s face healed , no unpleasant symptoms occurring until Sunday , the 2 Gth ult ., when the child complained of her head ; through the course of Monday she was thought to be a little better , bnt at night she grew worse . On Tuesday two medical gentlemen attended her , and continued to do s'o until her death , which look place the following evening , in great agony . An inquest was held on Friday last on the body , by Mr . Faveil , when the verdict was " Died Irom hydrophobia , brought on from the bite of a dog— . Newcastle Chronicle .

      Suicide . —On Monday night , about twelve , a gentleman committed suicide in the coffee-room of the Saint Albans Hotel , Charles-street , llaymarket . The deceased , whose name is supposed to be Bloom & eld , entered the coffee-room of the hotel above-mentioned about eleven o ' clock on the previous night , and called for supper , which was supplied to him by the waiter . At that time deceased was busily employed wilting . About a quarter of an hour afterwards , on the waiter entering the room to attend on a customer

      he found the deceased lying on the floor apparently lifeless . A surgeon was speedily in attendance , and pronounced life to be extinct . On the table was an ounce bottle which had contained prussic acid , and which was empty . A letter and bundle of papers sealed up in brown paper , and directed to the coroner , were also found on the seat . It is supposed from letters found upon him that the unfortunate deceased had held an appointment at St . Domingo . Only a few pence were found upon him .

      Crimes And Offences . ^^^

      CRIMES AND OFFENCES ^^^

      Suicide And Suspected Murder.—On Wednesd...

      Suicide and Suspected Murder . —On Wednesd ^ v thrown over the neighbourhood of Nelson and t ! , gl ,, | Jni n ^ Stepney , by the untimely termination of two lives at tlu . | W of the first-mentioned thoroughfare . The house was ' ^ i of a family named Elliot , which consisted of the h'ilt 7 * Sk * two children , a girl aged four years and the other a Huh ?) '"""" - 't eighteen months , aud a maid servant , aged sixteen -n . y » st < with the girl , had gone to rest on Sunday night , without il ^ rence of anything to suggest the faintest presentiment „ ¦• , j l ' ' % was to happen . Next morning the girl failed to conic . , j „ , A M toher domestic duty ; her mistress , however , com-i ,,, - , ' i "; ls ,, % l I .. J I .- * ! . « n ., n „ .. ( Am « , 1 ! , „„« 'PI ,. „ . 'J ... ... U 1 I lal .. I . had her accustomed hourThe eldest ! U lit

      , „ overslept . child r s stairs to the children ' s bedroom . The servant girl wns '"" ' nv » i and , on turning down the bedclothes , the mother was iiwrJ ' lllvri \ on discovering her child to be quite dead , and apparently |\ ' ^^ lence , for there were several bruises on its body . ' H } tu , !' - , - alarm , and her husband proceeded to the bed-room , and oii ' l i ,, ! met the servant girl clo . se to the parlour door , or on the m ' - ' a . * ked her what was the matter , and . what she had heim , ] '¦*' ""' which she made no answer . Mr . Elliot , on discovering t 0 v "? t , u body of his child , made haste to the surgery of Ml Tayniun ' Commercial-road , and returned with that gentleman loNdSm ) ' ! V'lfc Mr . Tayntou examined the child , and pronounced <| , ^ - btil : i ! l ' l .,,-...,.. \ t ^ iH | -U ! l .. li l \( IlllMl'Ill ! li / l ! lllll ll . l ll It . 11 , 11 , l .,... l i- ' "US beyond the reach ol human aidand had boon oYarl for

      , sum ,. Y There were two bruises un the back of the child , and the hr « l much swollen , leading to the suspicion that poison had h ' . " ^ ministered . After the father had in some measure recovered " !' - * ^ his alarm , he proceeded in search of the summoning officer of mT end Old town , to give information of the death of the child , [ i , his return home , he made inquiries after the servant phi \ V | , ! ' ! ' disappeared directly after the child was found . Search ' was Vuf fui' her in all directions , and after every room and every cIom ' l ji , / house had been looked into , a woman named Surah lSiihaiii n ' . u < ' f asoot' / ed into a loft over the top rooms , where she luiiml il , ^} weltering iu her bleod , which issued from two wounds in ho ,- (| ,, . i On a nearer approach to the body it . was discovered that tin ; »[ , \ i . i ¦ b Hdll

      • i * * I , I . 11 i , ' twisted her apron strings tightly round her neck , and aU C 1 U ] ler throat with a razor . The ' body was removed into a lower room and Mr . Taynton was again sent for , only to remark a second time that no resources at his command could be of the least service . Mr . Stevon ,-the summoning officer , on being made acquainted with tin . < , t , C () I ) , j death , made inquiries respecting the deceased giil , «* md tucortainc'l that she was the illegitimate daughter of a poor woman , who i $ mat . ried to a labouring man , residing at 250 , HoxtonOld town , Thciri came to her mother ' s dwelling with the two children of her master

      and mistress on Sunday afternoon , took tea with her mother , and left about six o ' clock in the evening . She appeared very attentive to the children during her stay with her mother , was very cheerful , and did not exhibit any symptoms of eccentricity or mental

      derangement . ButiGLAifX in the Strand . —On Saturday morning a very lar ^ e robbery of watches , jewels , aud articles in gold and silver was perpel rated on the premises of Mr . Jones , watchmaker and jeweller , nl 338 , Strand , nearly opposite to Somerset-house . Mr . Jones ' s loss cannot at present be precisely estimated , bnt at a guess it is considered that the value of the property stolen U £ ( i 00 . The police are displaying their usual activity and ability , and we hone will give a good account of the thieves . Throughout the whole of Saturday

      Mr . Superintendent Pearce , of the F division , and Inspector Field and Sergeant Lan gley , of the detective force , were actively employed corresponding , per telegraphy with the different cities ami towns in the country on the subject of the robbery , furnishing a description of the property stolen , and the numbers of certain watches . Frauds of Convicts . —Some of the convicts in the hagne of Ceuta , in Morocco , belonging ' to Spain , have for some time past been inthts

      habit of writing letters to different persons , in which they promised , in return for a sum of money specified hy them , to he paid to a particular person whom they named , to state where large sums of money and valuable property , secreted in different places at the . time of the war , or the proceeds of robberies , could be found . Hundred . -, of persons have cheerfully paid the amount demanded , but it is needless to say that in no case has the promised treasure been discovered , 'flic Government has sent instructions to all the provincial authorities to take measures for preventing this fraud , and has ordered a stricter

      surveillance to be established iu the bagne . The Northern Banditti . —Part of these desperate characters are now in gaol at Liverpool , for the Didsbury burglary , and part in the gaol at York , for the robbery of Mr . dough ' s house , near Bradford , awaiting their trials at the winter assizes . On Monday a man named John Barry was also brought before the mag istrates at Bradford , and committed to the York Assizes , as the receiver ol Mr .

      Olough ' s cold watch after the robbery near Bradford-for which he had paid 80 s . The magistrates at Bradford did not admit the press to any of these examinations , but the particulars of the inquiry hate oozed out , as such things always do ; and we learn that Barry was apprehended by Mr . Richard Beswick , chief s uperintendent ol ine Manchester police , one of the most active and successlul ol tnu officers who have turned their attention to the detection ol tin's

      daring robbers . Mr . Beswick is stated at Bradford to have apprehended Redmond as well as Barry , and to have given information o ) which two other of the four men now in York Castle were mot Barry was known to be a travelling thief , living chiefly " \ , Yj street , Manchester , and Mr . Beswick and Inspector Mayouij u « seen him at Manchester till a law days after these burg laries , j ^ , on taking Redmond , the latter confes s ed to having sold the wai Barry . He had been absent some weeks , but the officers iouna « last Thursday in a beer-house in Charter-street . A man ' « . Cooper proved that he saw Redmond , one of the burglaij i York Castle , sell Mr . Clough ' s gold watch to Barry , and ^' ^ ¦ ' as above stated , was committed for trial at the next \ ojk a » - as rtoove suueo , was committed tor trial ai ine uva- - w ( t

      ^ Highway Attack on Uunsli-t Moor . —It is 01 ll >' . , : ll (( 1 iwo ago that the authorities were much occupied with mquinea ^^ outrages of a most formidable charater , perpetrated id " \ G wC iiro of the town , and through the exertions used on that ocas jJC „ . happy to say that the result of those investigations was w ¦• u ^ sion of the numerous party implicated , and then « om ™ lll , ^ e j , aa at the next assizes upon the most conclusive evidence . ^ ^ this week to record another of these lawless occurrence , ^ ^ the speedy apprehension of the miscreants engaged m i ' ^^ that two ruffians have been foiled in an a tlemptto commH « llv (() upon a solitary pedestrian in a lonely spot , and tins is p |] jcV ' jlft , i be attributed to the single-handed but vigorous restsiai ^ Ve r-

      io encounter irom their intended victim , Mr . josip" ; jan { s t ( K > K chant , North-street . After a desperate struggle the as * ^ ^ . flight without obtaining the least booty , and iortunate j ^ ,, man who was assaulted had good opportunity ol ni < ^ bctU t i , ai acquainted with their features . The consequence « ^ ^ within twenty-four hours after the occurrences one oi * ^^ v in the hands of the police , and the other was traced oi v . niimorning . On Wednesday morning they were b W } ,, ; . „ annation at the Leeds Court-house , before John ooo ¦ » ^ .,,,, 1 D . W . Nell , Esq . The names of the piisouers aro Ji am , ) , <• William Williamson-the first a tall pock-marked u ^ , H „ n . other considerably less in stature . Both prisoner " slet-hall .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16101852/page/4/