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^ = .. .... , . "V ^ FAi AL BOILER EXPLOSION . Droowicb , Saturday . —The borough of Drbitwich ¦ was yesterday thrown into a state of dread , consternation , and alarm , iu consequence of a terrible explosion Vfhich took place at the salt manufactories of Messrs . Ellins and Co ., by which severalpersons were S 3 verely scalded , one has since died , and another is hourly expected to breathe his last . In order to make the origin of the accident distinctly understood , it will be necessary to explain the modus operandi in the manufacture of salt . It Should he stated then , that the pans in which the nrineffrom which the above salt Is made ) is boiled ,
are not placed immediately above the fires , but nave false bottoms a few inches in depth . IM »«* filled with water , and the steam generated thereirmn is carried off in pipes to other pans , and gewrote * sufficient heat to cause the brine in them also to deposit salt . From some cause or other at preseat not satisfactorily explained , one of these false bottoms blew up with a loud ^ 0 S 10 n ; . ^ S * portion of one of the pans through an adjacent wall , tearing away the piping and * P ° rt 1 ( m ol thereof throwing everything in fact into utter confusion , and causing the utmost consternation throughout the
town At the time -when the explosion took place it providentially happened that nearly all the workmen and women employed 'in the manufactory were at their ! afternoon meal , so that the -works were comparatively deserted . Two men , however , were standing near , loading ' a cart with salt , when the boiling water and steam poured upon them , scalding them in a fearful manner . The driver of the cart also was ranch scalded on his right side , and the hor ? e and cart were driven into the small river Salwarpc , which runs adjacent to the factory . Another party named Brazier , who was at the moment passing the spot with a load of coal , was seriously injured , and his vehicle also was forced into the stream .
Immediately on the accident being made known , the town was thrown into the utmost consternation , and the greatest commiseration was manifested for the sufferers . The fireman , a man named Jones , had a most providential escape from injury , the rupture having taken place on the side of the pan opposite to that on which he was actually standing at the time . This gave bim an opportunity of escaping from the spot before the steam reached him . The unfortunate men who received the most serious injuries were George Carter and his son James . . They were immediately conveyed to the Worcester Infirmary , / where , , after lingering until ibis morning , the former expired , and the son still lies at tbat institution in a deplorable state . The other injured parties are in a fair way of recovery .
TORTBER PARTICULARS . DroitwicH , Tuesday . —The shocking affair which appened here on Friday last turns out to _ be more extraordinary than appeared at the time of its occurrence . Yesterday afternoon . tbe Coroner for the city of Worcester ( one of the unfortunate sufferers having died at the hospital ) commenced an inquiry at that institution , respecting the origin of the accident . but in the absence of necessary witnesses the proceedings were adjourned until Thursday next , when they will be resumed at Worcester . Of course the principal witnesses for proving the details of the accident will be the parties on the spot at the time ; but as these were all more or less irgnred , they are at present not in a fit state to be examined on a public inquiry .
Since Jmday the proprietors of the works , where ihe accident happened , have surveyed the ruins of the premises , and find that , at the lowest computation , it would take £ 1 , 000 to put them in sufficient repairs for use . The exact origin of the disastrous affair cannot be ascertained with any degree of certainty , there never having been a similar accident at these or any other salt-works at Droitwich within recollection . The force of . the explosion may be judged from the fact that two carts , with the horses attached to them , were actually blown into the river Schwarpe , and the scalding brine escaping from the tanks rushed into th » stream , and rendered it too hot for the hand to remain in , besides destroying the fish .
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THUNDER STORMS . Terrific Thukdep . Storm is the Metropolis . — The metropolis was on Sunday afternoon visited by a terrific thunder storm , which was most severely felt at the East end , more especially in the neighbourhood of the London Docks . Between the hours of two and three , during the time that the storm was at its height , a balJ of fire fell into the yard of Mr Tugg , a greengrocer , No . 15 , Grace's-alley , Wellclose ^ square , and exploded with a noise resembling the discharge of "a piece of ordnance , at the same time myriads of sparks were sent flying , not only over the outer premises , but also into the building itself . Fortunately , no party was hurt , although the inmates were much frightened . Almost at the same moment the premises of Mr . Ellis , a cowkeeper ,
Situate at No . 8 , Well-street , were struck by the electric fluid , and were most seriously damaged . The large range of premises known as the Sailors ' Home , in Well-street , had a portion of a stack of chambers thrown down , and the roof severely damaged . The lightning entered the shop of Mr . Cohen , a tobacconist , No . 13 , Well-street , and greatly alarmed the inhabitants . The lightning struck the wall surrounding the Home Park , close to the Thames , and opposite to Mrs . Morrison ' s fishing eattaoB , at Datchefc . The brickwork was displaced and an opening made into the Park to the extent of several feet . Two fine elm trees , close to the spot , were also struck by the electric fluid , and
shivered . A man named Jenkins , who was returning from the Windsor Lock to Old Windsor , was struck at the same time and rendered insensible for upwards of an hour . A party of four gentlemen from londoa , who - were proceeding in an open four-wheeled carriage to Virginia Water , met with a narrow escape as they were driving along the road , by the statute of George III ., on the summit of Snow-bill ; the horse took fright at a sudden and vivid flash of lightning , accompanied by a tremendous peal of thunder , and turning sharp round dashed down the Steep declivity , at full speed , upsetting the carriage and throwing the whole party to a considerable distance . Fertunately they fell upon ihe turf , and none sustained any very serious injury .
Somersetshire . —Awfdx Storm op Thku > eb and LiGHiKisG . —On Sunday morning one of the most awful storms of thunder and lightning remembered by the inhabitants , passed over the lower part of Somersetshire and South Devon . The early morning broke unusually bright and clear , and till about eight o ' clock gave promise of a fine day . At that hour the atmosphere grew exceedingly dense , and the sky assumed an unusually wild appearance . Soon after nine o ' clock the storm burst with awful fury . The lightning , white and forked , darted from the cloudsm every direction ; the thunder boomed and
crashed , the rain fell in torrents , and a heavy and wild kind of wind carried the dust and light material from the surface of the ground up in columns . At Wellington , Somerset , the lightning struck the Independent Chapel School , and injured several of the children . One poor lad named Darcomb , was killed on the spot , and two others lie in the most imminent danger . The lightning broke away the slatework from the front of tiie school , after which it forced an entrance by a window , the framework of which it cut as with a hatchet . I fear that intelligence ol mai ^ y accidents will yet reach ns .
Teeiiesoocs Thdndeb-stobm and Loss of Life . "WixMiiGTOS , iltnday morning . —l ' usterdaj-morning a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning visited this neighbourhood , and did much damage . The whole of Saturday the weather was excessively sultry , but yesterday-morning a light bttezi ; sprung up , and the sky being clear and bright up to past eight o ' clock , no thought of thunder was entertained . Totvor . ls nine o ' clock the heavens became suddenly overcast , and numberless clouds were seen traversing- the sky with unusual rapidity , and in opposite directions . Soon after nine o ' clock the storm hurst forth with tenific fury . The forked lightning was distinctly visible even in the glare of daylight , and at one time a stream of fire apparently of the width of a man ' s hody was « een darting to the earth . The electric fluid at alv . ut a quarter past nine o ' clock struck a building occupied hy the Indepenhodv iif Dissenters as a Sunday school . The children
were assembled , and had engaged in prayer and singing , when onsof ilie windows was suddenly dashed ia , the wood work of the frame being shivered in pieces , and seven or eight of the children wen : thrown upon the g round . One poor fellow , a lad of about 16 years old . named Edward Ilarrourt , was killed upon the spot . The electric fluid penetrated his breast just over the ' region of the heart , and passi d out by his loot . He was the son of poor parents , but a remarkabl y intelligent and pious youth . TwootliersoftbcZi'iys j }« -iu a precarious state , and ontf of th-rUi it is fen red eunnut recover . From account * brought into the " tiiwn , I i ,, ir iliat w « shali bear of accidents in other places . At Taunton , ifinety , Tiverton and other towns , ^ ln- strum raged with fearful violence ; an' * at the Tivt-r : on-ro , ni station of tlie Great "Western Railway an electric < i : vic » r darted across the line , near the telegraph , within a minute or two of the passage of the first down train .
Tuc . < . 'Dec . Sto . hji at LivEKrofit . —The thunderstorm which passed over hivcrj ; n » l , on 3 u . ii I : i * es al . tha-top , in which it made a holfrafcoiutiiessacifa walnut , JiSifit-Jdoiril Ulllil attract .- * , hy a Batch clo ; -h hanging in tbe bcdn »< ni , be ? : d- t ; j . cliimccy , tngetat wUdi it ' niude a hole tlnou ^ h the . wall . Having tncUcdw . v .-1-al ••«? . « of ! h « brass wheels and about haif-a- ' . hneu Hnhj- of the chain , besides nuikiiiff the wu-.. ! e ' . f the worts ap ;« . ar as ; liou ;; !; they had' been made rtd hot , it passed down ihe pi-r . dn . aui ntiv , coiisjHetlOy melting it aiid . ' > r . >' . rairifr tin- ir ? ji : p-n ; , sli < -ii . vail :. t its buelt , : u : d iheii to :. nail in-lie ft sor immediately -undsrseai?!—thc wood ¦ ytMKid which v . as si-oivln-tt futile space of one or two iiichc . ' . Conduct : d b \ . he nail it entered the ccpboartl in the kitchen below , « -. nijilt-ttly Stripping tilt- mortar tff the crilinu , and breaking several glasses . A number of fire-iroa suspended ever the
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- *' - ¦ ' ' * " '¦ ' ' ; . " induced it to make a hole raantel-piecein the taft *« ^ S 5 *«« ' antfttier ia the again into * e chimney at ftie slue , ^ ^ front , where ^ Xtem " be chimney , down which it ^ ^ thT SU S of the distance to * e grate ; it IS ilruek acres * the kitchen , made a bole trough another wall inW the hack kitchen or scullery ; andfinftlly an indentation , an iucbi or so in depth , and about the size of what would be made by a pistol bullet , into the outer wall opposite , at about three feet from the ground , where its force appeared to hare been exhausted . The cottage is one of a large number lately erected in Bankfield , by Mr . Ambrose Smith , of Eden Terrace , and the open court in which it is situate is known as ^ hernen Place , Eskhoime Street . It is occupied by a respectable mechanic
of the name of William Patten , who with bis wife and children were Bitting in the kitchen at the time , having just finished their dinner , and the escape of whom , under the circumstances , was most miraculous . Mrs . Patten was rendered insensible for a few moments , but was not otherwise injured , beyond the excessive fright occasioned by the shock . The bed room was filled with smoke , of a Strong sulphureous scent , for two or three minutes after tbe house was struck , and it was at first thought that it was set on fire ; but this alarm was temporary , as a brief examination revealed the full extent of the damage . A gentleman sitting in a house in Eden Terrace , which is immediately contiguous , was struck to the ground at the same time , hut he also escaped without sustaining any personal injury ; we likewise heard of several similar
occurrences in the neighbourhood . The thunder , for many minutes before and after the accident , was of the most startling description , bursting in sharp terrific claps of scarce a moment ' s duration ; and the flashes of lightning were intensely vivid and almost incessant for nearly an hour . The storm passed out to sea , in a north-westerly direction . In addition to the accidents above described , we have heard of two other instances in which the electric fluid left evidence of its awful power , though happily no fatal casualty was caused thereby , in the neighbourhood of Liverpool . The ughtning struct the chimney of the house No . 76 , Chisenhale street , occupied by a persen named Shaw ; and in its passage to the earth rent the
walls , especially of the upper stories , in all directions , tearing the pictures in the house out of their frames and ripping to shreds two wiie-gauze blinds in the front windows . Mr . Shaw was struck down and rendered im sensible for a minute or so , and , on coming to himself , expressed his astonishment at finding- that ha wttauninjured . It is supposed that the upper part of the house , at least , will have to be taken down . In Bond-street , not far from the same neighbourhood , a flag-staff on the top of Carpenter's Hall was struck , and shivered te pieces for about eight feet from the top downwards . The staff was probabl y thirty feet high from the top of the building , which latter , we understand , sustained no injury . Tbt storm lasted for two houn . .
Awful Thondee Stobh at Penbiih . — On Sunday afternoon one of the most ' terrific and awful thunder storms ever remembered , accompanied with hail , visited Penrith and its neighbourhood . The morning was fine aud clear , the sun shining brightly , and scarcely a cloud was risible to dim { ' the horizon . Soon after noon the air became quite sultry and overpowering , and thunder was occasionally heard at a distance . About three o ' clock the sky suddenly became dark and lowering ,, and the clouds might be seed moving through the air in different directions at a rapid rate . ' About four o ' clock daylight was almost shut out by the sudden darkening and overhanging clouds , aud about this time an awful clap of thunder was heard , accompanied with lightniug , and after a short interval one of the most severe and tremenduous
hail showers commenced that was ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitant living in the neighbourhood , and continued with unabated fury for upwards of half an hour ; the hail stones were the largest ever seen , being about the size of a common Spanish mit ; and the streets were covered with them for some time , until the rain fell in torrents , During the continuance of this severe hail storm the thunder continued in one continuous and awful roll , no interval between each peal intervening ; and the air seemed ^ literally in one electric flame ol fire , flash sue ceeding flash without any intermission during the continuance of the storm . The fury of the tempest did not last above an hour , but during that time most of thc streets at
Penrith were sheets of water , and the dwelling houses in low situations were mostly inundated . We have not as jet heard of any damage done by the lightning , but a considerable number of skylig hts and windows in exposed situations have been broken by the force and size of the hailstones , and nearly all the glass frames in the gardens of the neighbourhood have been destroyed or damaged by the severity of the storm . It is supposed that great damage will . hare been done to the standing crops in the country by the hail-storm ; but as yet we have not heard the particulars . It is only about a week since the mountains overhanging Keswick were covered with snow , which seems very extraordinary at this season of the
year . Hdbbicane im Russia . —St . Petersburg !! , Jcne 23 . —Sews has been received f rom the interior of a tremenduous hurricane along the banks of the Wolga , which destroyed between 100 , 000 and 150 . 000 chetwerts of flour , rye , wheat , linseed , & c , which were destined for this place . The loss is very great . The ¦ Wei tueb in Pabis . — " In the memory of man , " says the Presse , " the heat was never so oppressive in Paris as it was on Sunday . At twelve o ' clock on Saturday night the centigrade thermometer marked 24 deg . 5-lOths above zero ; at six in the morning of Sunday , 21 deg . S-10 ths- ; at noon , 33 deg . 4-lOths . ; and at two o ' clock , 36 deg . 2-10 ths . " " My thermometer spoke truly yesterday , " says the correspondent of the Times in his letter of Monday ; " the heig hth it marked ( 28 deg . of Reaumur , ) at the moment when I closed my letter , appeared so
incredible that I expressed doubts at us correctness . "Within doors we felt warm , but it is not possible to describe in credible lang uage the nature of the heat that prevailed without , and which was by many degrees more than the temperature recommended by the faculty for warm baths . This state of the temperature continued up to five o ' clock . The wind then increased , and graduaUj the heat declined until at seven o ' clock , in an elevated situation in the neighbourhood ef Paris , you would Lave felt inclined to button your coat . During the £ nigtit thc heat continued to diminish , and at the moment at which I write , two o clock , we have oh'y 23 deg . of ccntigrade , or 73 or 74 of Fahrenheit ; sufficiently warm certainly , but 23 or 24 deg . of Fahrenheit less than at the same hour yesterday . It now rains , and we shall have a storm , so that a further diminution of temperature may be expected . "
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DARING ROBBERIES IN THE SEW FOREST . The villages of Hampworth , No-man ' s-Land , Plaitford , & , c . have been greatly excited during the past week on ing to the above-named circumstances . On the morning oi Tuesday last , as Mr . John Miles , a butcher Of Southampton , was proceeding ; to Salisbury from that place , between two aad three o ' clock in the morning , and when between two well-known publichouses , about a mile apart , the Red Rover and the Fighting Cocks , In the neighbourhood of Plahford , two men , dressed in smock frocks , rushed from the edge , aud stopped his horse , and succeeded in robbing him of seventeen sovereigns , and 24 s . in silver , with which they got clear off .
On Thursday evening last , between seven-and eight o ' clock , a sailor went to the lone cottage of a person of some small independency , at Hampworth , named Rice , and inquired of the wife if her husband was at home , and on being told he would shortly return , asked permission to sit down and await his arrival . Mrs . Rice allowed him to do so , and in a few minutes afterwards , the tailor desired her not to be alarmed , and ihe replied , " Why should I be ? " The sailor then instantly jumped up , and presenting a pistol to her , said , "Give me up your money , or I will blow your brains out . " The frightened woman told him to desist and she would give him every farthing . She then went into the adjoining room for that purpose , and he followed her . She gave him £ 2 7 s 6 d . With this the sailor was dissatisfied , and renewed his threats , but Mrs . Rice declaring it to be all she
had , he then left her , previously suying , that if she told any one of it for two hours he would return in the night aud burn her house down . The sailor then left , and vt * oon as he was out of sisht she ran to a neighbour ' s house and gave the alarm , whereupon two stout young men started in pursuit of the robber , and in a little lime observed at a distance a man answering the description given of the sailor by Mrs . Rice . They ran , mid tho sailor saw them , and took to his heels . A vigorous race followed ; rhe sailor fled to Ihw woods , and his pursuers close behiud him . At length they overtook him ; a struggle ensued , and they took him into custody , when , to their great surprise , thev found him to be a man who was born iu the very parish of Hampworth , and when a child was a near neighbour to the person lie had just robbed . He has lately lauded at Portsmouth from sea , where he had been some years . His name is Eldridge .
Dreadful Murders. Mulltfell Op A Carrier...
DREADFUL MURDERS . MUllTfEll OP A CARRIER ONPAPPLEW 1 CK FOREST , NEAll > 0 TT 1 XGHAM . Nottingham , Monday . —A report reached this town , on Sunday evening , that a man had been fouml a lew hours oefore , murdered upon Papplcwick forest , a din . taiieu of eight miles from thc town flf Nottingham . On looking at the body , which lay in a stable , little doubt ex . iited in the minds of all who saw it that a foul murder had been committed . On the left cheek was a large wound , nearly two inches in length , and of considerable depth , mid another on the jugular Vein , fruM Which n quantity of blood had flo-. vcd . The corpse was Hint of William Uobiusou , aged M years , a carrier in the em . ploy of 3 frs . Smith of Jfaiii / i-.-Id . From tho evidence
given nta C 0 r « lltr * s iiupjc-st , convened on vic \ 7 om > cbody I tills morning , it appeared that on Saturday lust llobinsou i set . out ns usual in the morning from Jliuisfuld to N'o > . ! tinghnm ; with his waggon and tltrce horses , and in the S-veniiifi left , in company with an agricultural labourer , ¦ il .-r . ty Shephard of Calverton . They sit out of J ?« t ' a « shani at liah-past six o ' clock , and according to Sluphard ' .-. ac-ount deceased got out at the eighth mile stone with his do £ , saying lie would overtake Ihe waggon . As he had not done so when Shepliard naebed ilia " Hut , ' tho latter waited tin re an hour , when the landlord , Mr . Meniey , advised him togoo-. i to Ifansfk'Id , which he dill , and on liis arrival with the waggon at Mrs . Smith ' s ( deceased ' s mistress , ) Samuel Toiviiroiv . a neighbour io the
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carrier , was called up , and requested by Mrs . Robinson to go and seek for her husband , which he did , and on reaching the eight mile stone , found Robinson Btr « tched ou his back upon the road , with his face covered with blood , and quite dead . He lay about two yards from the centre of the road , and from tha ^ narks his corduroy trowsers had made , he appeared to have been dragged two or three yards and left . Shephnrd was brought before the Coroner , and told his tale . Two or three spots of blood were foundinside upon the lining , and his shirt was very dirty on the right sleeve
and shoulder , and on the wristbands a little blood . He accounted for these marks by stating that they were made while fighting with a servant man on the preceding Thursday . It appears that for twenty-five years Shephard has borne a good character , and left h ! s situation on the day he fought . His master , Mr . Hnughton , of Euttal , paid him £ 315 s ., the balance of his wages , as he had previously received 30 s . Themanner in which Shephnrd made his statement , the circumstance of being lame , and a much smaller man than Robinson , gave an impression much in his favour . The inquest was adjourned . FURTHER PARTICULARS . ¦ . , .
Nottingham , Tuesday , A searching and rigid inquiry into the circumstances connected with the death of William Robinson , whose body wa * found in a mangled state on Capple wiclf-forcBt , took place before C . Swain , Esq ., Coroner . The facts developed , though leading the Jury to return a verdict different to what was anticipated , are < not so satisfactory as could be wialwd , as the principal witness , Henry Shepherd , who accompanied Robinson from Nottingham , has evidently been telling untruths , owing to some cause not easily to be defined . After giving the history of his proceedings on Saturday , prior to meeting Robinson in Nottingham , and setting put with him for Mansfield , he related several particularsdifferent to what he had stated on the previous day , and he denied that any quarrel had taken place between himself and Robinson .
• Jane Widnall , wife of Robert Widaall , of Mrs . Robinson ' s , Forest House , ' said , that about half-past nine o ' clock on Saturday night last , I saw a waggon drawn b y three horses going along the Mansfield road , and I heard a man soy , " What are you reproaching me for ; " and another man replied , "I aro not aggravating you , " , and then the first mMi said , " If you aKgravate me any . more I will get off the Waggon and walk , " and the man then got oh ? the waggon and unfastened bis dog , and then he got upon the wnggon again and they drove on . It was about half a mile before they got to Sherwood Lodge Farm .
The principle witness affecting the verdict was Thomas Lightfoot , Esq ., M . D ., of Nottingham , who said—I have this day examined the body with Mr . Frost , and externally we found the back part of the right ear considerably lacerated . ¦ There was also a bruise above and below the ear , about the size of half-a-crown . On the left side of the face we observed three bruises varying from two to three inches in length , alight ecchymoslson the under surface of the left eye . There were a number of scratches on the fore part of the right shoulder , as like wise one or tiro bruises . TheseCOndand third fingers on the left hand were broken at their first joints ; the hands were clenched . On the right and left side of the abdom en I observed consider , able ecchymosis , extending dowa each side of the fore and Innersurface of the thighs , to the peritoneum . Acbntused grazed wound , for three oi four inches in length , on the fore part of the right thigh , running in an oblique direction , and eommencingfiom about threeoffour inches from the bend of the body . He then described the internal
Injuries ; the eecond . third . fourth , fifth , sixth , and seventh ribs on the right , side being broken , and other parts affected . He thought the fracture of the ribs might have been caused by some great force , produced either from before or behind the body . A carriage wheel would pro . duce such , but there was no external mark on the sur . face of thebody ; they might be produced by being jammed in between two bodies , such as being squeezed between the wheels and the body of a waggon . Thereis a mark of a wheel on the right thigh , and the right side of the belly . I am of opinion that some great pressure upon the abdominal viscera has caused death , and that the deceased has been run over . I do not think it possible the deceased could have walked from the spot where his jacket and whip were found , if he had been injured close to the spot where his body was afterwards found dead , a distance of upwards of half a mile . I should think the deceased would faint away immediately after receiving his injury , and that he could not move many yards .
No Other evidence could be brought directly lo bear upon the case , to show how tho deceased receiver ! the injury on the face and the marks on his shoulders , and although the evidence was not conclusive , the Jury , after a long consultation , returned as their verdict , " That the deceased has been accidentally run over and killed by some carriages unknown passing along the highway . "
Murder At Kineton, Warwickshire. Leaming...
MURDER AT KINETON , WARWICKSHIRE . Leamingtok , Monday Evening . Another murder , which is involved in equally as much mjsttry as tbat which occurred at Berkesvfell , in this county , some months ago , is just reported here , as having been committed close to Kinetown , a market town lying between Banbury and Stratford-upon-Avon . The occurrence has caused the greatest consternation in the town and neighbourhood where the deceased ( William Chater ) was well known—being an unmarried blacksmith and machinemaker , aged 53 , residing at Comhrook , near Kineton , with a decrepid mother of above 80 years of age , who had been confined to her bed for the past ten years . An inquest upon the body was taken before C . Greenaway , Esq ., Coroner , this day , at the Sivan Inn , Kineton , when we gathered the annexed particulars .
Chater came to Kineton nbout the middle of the day on the previous Wednesday , made some trifling purchases at some of the shops , and afterwards joined a party of Odd Fellows drinking at the Rose and Crown , in that place . He left there about half-past nine , much the worse for liquor , but intending to go home . Between eleven and twelve o ' clock , the son of Martin Wisdom , a carrierfrom Kineton to Birmingham , was going to meet his lather ' s rotum-cart , found deceased , Chater , lying by the road side , but as he had been drinking with him m the course of the day , he considered the deceased was
intoxicated and left him until he returned with his father about two o ' clock the next morni / ie ;; arid finding- him still lying there , both father find son examined ami found him insensible and speechless , bleeding profusely from the mouth , and much injured about the head , They gav » an instant alarm in Kineton , by calling uu the constable ( TJawCOtt ) and Mr . Tlrown , the surgeon , who , finding Chater so seriously injured , had him conveyed speedily to the Rose and Crown , where he continued in an insensible state until his { decease , which occurred about eight o * clock < m Friday morning .
Mr . Brown , the surgeon , gave it as his decided opinion that the injuries deceased had received must have been caused by a severe Wow with some heavy blunt instrument ; it was , he added , quite impossible they could have been caused by a fall , or in any way cauld the deceased have inflicted them himself . Portions of the skull which had been forced into the brain by the blow , were produced to the jury . The hat and coat of Chater were produced by the constable ; the left side of the coat was dirty , as if from a fall ; the injuries the deceased had received were chiefly on the right side . Three halfpence was found in his pocket and an empty purse , also some soap , it has since been proved he bought at Kineton . A parcel containing Coffee was burst , and most oS' it spilt around the srot whereon he was lying ; also a piece of deal wood , which he took with him from the same place , was lying hy him , and his stick which was broke . The jury returned a verdict— " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown , "
The deceased is supposed to have had little or no money about him , no watch , or other valuables . Three shillings and sixpence is the sum said to hare been in his possession when he left his home at Combrook in the morninir : and this was proved to have been nearly all spent at iviucton , therefore , if the object of the villains was plunder they must have been disappointed .
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SHOCKING . MURDER IN IRELAND . The A ' cirry Telegraph gives the following account of an appalling murder in Cavan ;— " A terrible outrage , which ended in murder , occurred on Monday , on tho lands of Derrycraghan , near Belturbet . Three men came to ihe house of Tom Burns , dragged him out of his bed , in which were his wile and three children , 0110 carrying him by the feet , the other two by his arms , and murdered him in a most cold-blooded manner . Two of the ruffians held Burns by his 8 Mns ivKfth , Bt a table at his own room door , while the third deliberately groped for hia short ribs , and discharged a pistol filled with duck shot 1 The shot spread upwards , aud took effect in his lungs and heart . Poor Burns lived until the following day , and on the police being sent for , he gave informations against the three men , - neighbours , Whom be knew and identified . They aro now in Cavan gaol . Their names » re Smith , I ' arrelly , and hVilly , who fired the shot . Burns had nenscil to worship as n Roman Catholic , attended the Church of England , and had given information respecting Kibbmrisui , for which lie lias been murdered . "
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CHILD MURDER . On Monday afternoon , Mr . VV linker , jnn ., deput y coroner , held an jdijo .-st at tin ; Town of KattlSgatc , Wapping , on tlicbudy of a iicicliorii IVhi .-iIc child , which was found in the river Thames on S » tin day morning ilVst . It appealed finm llie evidence of Janics Logon , the son of a wnK-rmau , that mi Snturrt-. j morning he was rowing off Union Stnii-s , when he observed something Hinting astern on a barge . He rep-: iii . l to tlie ? l . ot , ai . ,, ' ;„ , !' had gamine , ! the h , „ l .. . ull . | ,- „„„ t !] , .,,,, ¦ „ ., ¦ £ > l . oul , l say , t ivas horn alive , mi ( , n : te ,-. v :. v ' l „ drovie . l Injury iwurn ,-. l a verdict of "Wilful mui-. U-r a ^ -n ^ ¦ ¦ iu : ; i <; person or pi .-is . oiis imlhimvii . "
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: —~ ~ ¦ cc * The foliowing part * culars , roiiecWp * "porter on the spot where the murder , took place , may be relied on as strictl y accurate . iff . Since the extension of ' ^ e metropolitan police to the rural districts of Essex , a very bad feeling has been shown towards them among the lower class of inhabitants of Dagenbam , and a considerable portion of the time of the magistrates at the Ilt ' ord session has regularly been occupied in hearing charges of assault preferred by the police against persons residing in that locality , and counter-charges ngainst the police themselves . This illfeeling has arisen on account of the police by their vigilance having , on several occasions for some time past , succeeding in ridding this portion of the country of some very notorious characters . Some of the police , who had thug rendered themselves obnoxious , were , in consequence of various threats from time to time being held out to them , removed from Dagenbam to distant stations , and their ' places supplied by others , among the latter being the decased .
The unfortunate victim was a constable of the K division , named George Clarke . lie was about 20 years of age , and had only been a short time in the force , and a few months stationed at Dagenham . His conduct , had been most exemplary , and his steadiness appeared togive satisfaction not only to the police authorities but to the village generally . On the 14 th or 15 th of May last Clarke was appointed tonight duty on the beat where h « met with his death , succeeding a constable named Batfoy , KWO / well known as being a vigilant officer . The beat commenced at a- place called the Pour Wants ( crossroads leading to Dagenham , Ilford , Ilornchurch , and Clligwell ) , and extended a considerable distance along unfrequented roads , having deep ditches on either side , covered with duckweed , some parts of the beat being extremely lonely .
On Mondaynight last , at nine o ' clock , the deceased and three other men were marched from the Dagenham station to go on duty , the deceased being left as usual by his sergeant at the Four Wants , The followingmoriiing , at one o ' clock , he was met by Sergeant Parsons , between the Three Wants ( roads to Barking , Dagenham , and Ilford ) . and : the Cottages , " that being the proper time for the deceased in accordance with bis duty to be there . It was also his duty to have been at this spot at three o ' clock the same morning , but on the sergeant ' s arrival there he was missed . After waiting some considerable time , Sergeant Parsons returned to the station , and
reported Clarke absent . At six o'clock on Tuesday morning , when the other men came off duty , the poor fellow was not among them , and then some anxiety was . manifested by his brother-constables about him . A report of his being missed was sent up to the principal station' of the K division , and a letter despatched to Bilsden , near WoburrjBedfordshire , to the deceased man s mother , inquiring if he had returned home , to which a reply was re . turned in the negative . Suspicions were then aroused that Clarke had been the victim of some foul play , and Dagenham Waters , and numerous ponds in the vicinity of the village ; were dragged for his body ; but without any trace of it being discovered .
Throughout the whole of Wednesday , Thursday , aud Friday the search was continued , and it was rot until late on Friday evening that the body was found In the manner and in the horrible condition subjoined , The constables having failed in finding thebod y of the deceased in the water , commenced searching the corn and potato fields in the immediate vicinity . After passing through a potato field belonging to a gentleman named Collier , one of the constables remarked that there was a strong and very nnplensant smell In the atmosphere , and on his proceeding a few paces further he discovered a policeman ' s staff , much cut and chopped about , lying in the ditch which separated the potato from the corn field . This circumstance left no doubt that the body was not far off , a fact more strongly supported Iby this discovery at
no considerable distance of a police cutlass sticking m thc hedge , and covered with blood and human hair . About ten or twelve yards further on towards the centre of the field was immediately after discovered the body of the deceased man , face uppermost , in a most . dreadful state of decomposition , and so shockingly mutilated and covered with blood that scarcely a single feature was discernible . Mr . Collins , a surgeon , residing in the neighbourhood , was sent for to examine the wounds of the deceased before the body was removed from the field . The result was that the whole of the bank part of the poor fellow ' s head was found completely beaten in . There were other dreadful injuries , and the brutal ^ murderers had absolutely resorted to the horrible practice , only hitherto known among savages , of scalping their unfortunate victim .- The scalp was lying by the side of the body , and with such violence had the deceased being thrown to the ground , that , notwithstanding its hardness , occasioned by thc dryness of the weather , the body had
made a complete indentation . The corpse was with much difficulty removed to the ruins of ail old house near the Three Wants , Here a further examination of the body was made ; and on the removal of the deceased ' s stock , a frightful wound in the throat seve al inches in length presented itself , besides several others , and the thick leather stock was found to be cut through in several places . ' . There was also a wound passing completely through the neck from the right to the left ( corresponding with the cuts in the stock ) , precisely similar to those made by butchers in the slicking of sheep . These injuries had evidently been inflicted by a sharp doubleedged knife or dirk . At the back of the neck was a deep cut , believed to be done with a cutlass , extending down to , and nearly severing thc spine , as also a similar wound on the shoulders . The forefinger of the deceased ' s left , hand was cut off , and there were other frightful weunds and injuries about his body , leaving no doubt of the fact of his having been murdered .
The spot where the body was found is about a quarter of a mile from the main road leading to Romford , and the same , distance from the deceased ' s beat ; he had no business where his remains were discovered , unless in pursuit of some one . An examination on the spot whei'o the body was found leaves no doubt on the mind of any one but that the struggle between the unfortunate constable and his assailants must have been of a most desperate character . The corn is trodden down for a distance of 10 or 12 yards around where the body lay in every direction , and here and there are to be seen several patches and spots of blood : the poor fellow , too , was found to have a
quantity of wheat tightly grasped in his right hand . Along the side of th « corn , by the edge of the field , room enough is left to enable two persons to walk along together without touching the wheat , and , although there are some slight marks of blood just at the entrance of the place where the body lay on this path , still there is nothing to show by Which way the murderers left after the perpetration of the deed . The dryness of the weather prevents the trace of footsteps , but the police , it is understood , have some ground for suspicion , and it is believed that the murderers -cannot have escaped being wounded in SO desperate a struggle as they must evidently have had 10 encounter with the murdered man .
From the appearance of thestaffand the cutlass itwould seem that the deceased was deprived of the former weapon early in the contest with his assailants , and that , finding U used against him , he had defended himself with his cutlass until be received a dreadful blow on the front of the head , which was cut to the bone , aud by which he was deprived of his senses . That there was more than one person engaged in thc murder there cannot be the slightest doubt , as the deceased was too powerful a young man for any individual , armed as he was , to have coped with , and it will be it nembired , moreover , that there were three » r four different sorts of weapons used in killing him .
Ou Saturday , at the Ilford . Petty Sessions , the details of the shocking occurrence were laid before the bench of magistrates , who directed the police to use every vigilance ill the capture of tho murderers . It appears that many complaints hove been made by the foot police in the rural districts that they are not ( like the horse patrol ) allowed to carry fire-arms , and this case is adduced as a proof of the strong necessity which exists for introducing the practice , The Inquest . —At two o ' clock on Saturfiay afternoon tlie inquest on the remains was commenced before Mr . C . C . Lewis , coroner for South Essex , at a cottage near the " Three Wants , " in the parish of Dngenhmn , and near the spot where tho body whs lying . After the jury had viewed the body , tlie following evidence was given : —' Thomas lumpton , K 810 , proved the finding of the body as already stated .
Abia Butfoy , 2-10 K , corroborated the statement of last witness , and gave such evidence as will , no doubt , lead to the apprehension of the guilty parties ; but this evidence wc cannot publish , lest we mi ght frustrate the ends ofjiistice . Sergeant William Parsons , K 5 a deposed : On Jfonday uight lust , I marched the deceased on duty atmneo ' cl & ch , and left him at about twenty minutes after , at the " Pour Wants . " I saw him again , either a little before oi ft little after one o ' clock on Tuesday morning , between the Wants and the cottage , which was the proper time for him to be there . I proceeded on to his beat at three o ' clock , the time he should be at the same spot again , and then missed him . I went in search of him round his beat , but could uot find him . Last night I was searching for him in the adjoining field to where he was found , and on his being discovered , I went to the spot on the men shouting out . His rattle was found in his great com
pocket , and from the position in which he W : S found it appears impossible that he could have made anv alarm 1 saw a wound on the back part of the head , so large th-it you could put your finger i , it , another on tho upper part ot the head , apparentl y done with a staff or some Want heavy instrument , and a stab on his left shoulder Alter he was removed , wc saw that his stock was cut through , and on its hcing removed , we saw a very severe cut m his heck . ( The stock produced was completely saturate , with blood . ) Under the right ea » tu 6 re w , * , another deep cut . Thc wound on the back part of u bead was no doubt done with the cutlass , Um $ tt U . " » ' » ' «'«« ' « ' under H , oc , r by some sharp cuUiug iustrt « . « " »; the one on thc « ,,,, „ ll ! lrt llf t , e „ ,. „/ tuut Mcniion . A rwit portim , of Lis hair w Iviog by thnwdeuthw body , ami the fiire-fluger of his lcYtlmuu wa . s cut through netu- the joint . A juror—] J «| you find any portions of his skull ? Witness — Yes An .... . 1 ... v ... i .. h .: ...... ! .. ™ i
examined lho ground , ami i ' uuml a l .-irge imanlity of blood about sis indies from where the uouy lay , " ami portions of his skull . Some of the pieces of skull were so firml y embedded in thetarlh that 1 was compelled to use a knife to cut them out . There can be no doubt about Uie skull being broken to pkecs willi : i truudieou . It must be evident that the deceased had been decoyed into he spot where he was found for the purpose of murdering bim . Ic was the second iitld from ' the road . ' There ia sufficient room on each side of the field for people , to walk without trending down the , wheat . The deceased ' s
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clothes Of pocket ha'dnot been disturbed . In one of his pockets wV s found four half crowns , four shillings , » nd a halfpenny ; bis watch was also safe ; The collar of his groat-coat was as tight round his throat as possible . Mr . J . Collins , " of Romford , Surgeon , said—Last evening , about half-past eight o ' clock , I was called to see deceased . I examined his head , and found a large opening in his skull six or eight inches in circumference . The scalp was cut ofl > and lying by the side © f the body ., The wound I have mentioned would of itself have produced death . Such a weapon as the truncheon now produced would have caused such a wound . A person with such a wound as that could not have lived longer . Ithan three or four minutes . Portions of the bone which were broken in , could not bo found last night , but they have been found since , all broken to pieces . On examining him at the house where he now lies , I found a wound six inches in length at the back part of his neck , extending down to
bis spina . There was a hole on the top of his head , where the scalp had been taken off , penetrating nearly through the bone , and . done with a cutlass or some such instrument . On removing his leather stock , a deep wound was found , the windpipe and the root of the tongue being cut through , and extending to the vertebra , Under the ear there was another wound , extending horizontaMy , and coming out on the other side of the neck , just as you would ; stick a sheep . Either of the wounds would have caused instant deah . The face ap . peared very much bruised , as also the chest , but the body was iu such a state of decomposition that he could not examine it closely . There was a superficial cut on his right shoulder , as if caused by a sword thrust . The wound in his throat must have been done with a sharp double edged knife . In concluding his evidence , Mr . Collins said he had come across Mr . Collier ' s wbeatfield that morning , and he thought he could trace marks of scuffling in different parts .
Sergeant Pearson said tbat had been done in searching for the deceased . In answer to the Coroner , Mr . Collins said he had seen the pieces of bone produced by Sergeant Pearson , and they were portions of the deceased ' s skull . This being the whole of the evidence , . the inquiry was adjourned . On the termination of the inquest a . most painful scene took place . The mother of the deceased , who had come , up from Woburn , made an application to the Coroner to see the body , the police on duty having refused her to do so , in consequence of the , bad state it was in . The Coroner said he had no power to prevent her from seeing it , but he . thought it would not be advisable to do so as she would not be able to recognise him . She begged so earnestly to see the body , aa the deceased was her only son ,- that her application was granted . She had one look but that sufficed , she was carried away in a state of Insensibility .
l'OBTHEB PART 1 CULAB 8 . —TUGENHAM , MoNDAT EVENING . —Tho painful interest manifested in the fate of the unfortunate victim of this horrible and atrocious murder , throughout the whole of yesterday considerabl y increased , and a large number of the inhabitants from Romford , Ilford , Barking , Chigwell , Ilornchurch , and the surrounding villages , visited Dagenbam for the purpose of viewing the scene of assassination . Immediately after the conclusion of the inquest on the body of the unfortunate man Clarke on Saturday evening , an active search was instituted by the police in the com field belonging to Mr . Collier , where the murder was perpetrated , for the purpose of ascertaining what had become of his hat , which up to that period had not been discovered . In consequence of this circumstance it was generally supposed that thc deceased must , in . the
first instance , have been assaulted , and then followed his assailants to the field where he was found murdered . Although tho spot aud the adjoining fields were minutely searched , it was not until Sunday evening tbat the hat was discovered . It was then found by a labour , ing man named Thomas Palmer , lying amongst the wheat , about twelve or fourteen yards from where the body had lain . At this particular part of the . . field the wheat had not been at all disturbed or trampled upon , showing that , in the first place , the ruffians must cither have knocked deceased ' s hat off with so powerful a blowas to have sent it such a distance , or that they must have thrown it there . The former supposition is strengthened by the circumstance of the hat sot being injured in the slightest degree , and also that when found the deceased ' s handkerchief was in it .
On receipt of the intelligence of the outrage at Scotland-yard , two of the most active officers of the detective police force were sent down to Dagenham , and , after viewing the place where the murder had occurred , aud making themselves thoroughly masters of all the ebK cumstances wlich had up to that period transpired in connexion with it , they proceeded with some of the local constables to visit Romford and the surrounding villages in search of thc suspected murderers . During Saturday evening the various public-houses and beer-shops were vlsted . by the jollce In plain clotbes . nnd their occupants subjected to a very scrutinising inspection , it
being believed that in the desperate struggle which had apparently taken place , some of those engaged in it must have been wounded , Although the topic of conversation in nearly every instance was the circumstance of tne murder , and what had been done at the inquest that day , still nothing transpired which actually tended to fix suspicion on any one . The search was continued throughout Sunday and yesterday , and although Up to the period of writing this no one had been apprehended on the charge , still several notorious characters living in this part of the county of Essex were under the strict surveillance of the police .
With reference to the causes which had induced the murder , it is the opinion of every one residing near the spot , and of the police themselves , that the deceased was mistaken for police-constable Butfoy , K 140 , who was his predecessor on the same beat , or Sergeant Parsons , who has rendered himself obnoxous to some of the notorious characters in the neighbourhood by bringing them up frequently befors the Ilford bench of magistrates for drunken and disorderly conduct . A short time since , one of the gang suspected of having been engaged in the murder was brought up to Ilford charged by Parsons with having stolen a quantity of hemlock , but the prosecutor not appearing , he was on that ground discharged . He was then charged with having a quantity of brass and metal in his possession without being able to account for it . The magistrates , in consequence of there being some pewter pots belonging to publicans in the neighbourhood amongst the metal , inflicted a small fine , aud advised the accused to be more careful for the future .
On the morning of the murder , a woman named Page , who was present at the Inquest on Saturday , but was not examined , residing in a cottage a short distance from where it took place , states that about three o ' clock she was awoke by the violent barking of her dogs in the yard , and on listening to it she heard a cry for help ; but thc continual barking of the dogs prevented her from hearing anything more distinctly .
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Sudden Death by Bbiskixo- when HEATED . Wc last week reported a death caused by drinking too much water , and we are sorry to record a similar occurrence . On Saturday week , an Irish labourer , residing - in Love-street , while engaged in hoeing potatoes near Roslin , on the Grecnoek-rond , had been so thirsty , owing to the great heat , that he went into a public-house and got a bottle of porter , but not feeling his thirst quenched , he . next drank half a Scotch pint of buttermilk , which caused almost instant death . —Renfrewshire Reformer .
On Monday , Mr . J . Payne , the Deputy Coroner , held an inquest , at tlie Stump and Magpie , Fetterlane , touching Die death of John Stafford , aged 44 coachman , in thc employ of Mr . Chancellor , the large omnibus proprietor . John Hubbard , 3 , Wellsstreet , Falconer-square , said that about nine o ' clock on Saturday night , he was passing along Ilolhovn , , -md saw a Clieisea omnibus , numbered 2 , 298 . travelling down the hill towards Newgate-street , and when about midway the deceased fell from the box into the road , with his feet towards tho horses' heads , lie was driving at tlie time , aud there were several other persons on the outside of the vehicle . Ho was removed to Mr . Gibson's , thc surgeon , where life was pronounced to be extinct . The deceased had complained of the hot weather , which induced a supposition that lie had been attacked by some pain in the head , which resulted in an apoplectic fit , and thus llio accident . Verdict— " Natural Death . "
FuiuiiTFUL AcciDEKTiiv Machihery . —On Monday evening , as one of the men in the employ of Messrs . Essex and Son , leather manufacturers , Stanhopestreet , was forcing the tan through thc engine , his hand was caught in the worb , " ami ere lie could release himself , his arm was drawn into the machinery , liis cries quickly attracted the attention ol his fellow workmen , some of whom hastened to his relief . The wretched sufferer - was bold by tbo eoe wheel which caught his arm close to thc shoulder ! Thc other workmen in vain ciulcavourcil to extricate him with crowbars , and by taking the machinery to
pieces . Dr . Walsh , who hni \ nreived , having found that tho arm was only retained by a low sinews , tlie bones , & e ., having been crushed to pieces , with thc advice of some other medical geutlenrui , severed tins arm and thus released the" sufterer , who was instantly removed to King ' s College Hospital in a cub , when Mr . Ferguson , aided by the other surgeons , amputated the remainder of the arm from the shoulder joint , to prevent mortification . The poor icllow , who is about thirty years of age , and has a wife and one child , bore hissiiflei-ingswirhoutit groan , but we regret to add that he lies with very faint bopea of recovery .
Asothek Stem Bo . it . AcoiDE . vr . —On Sunday , nl ' leriiooii the Sybil , it SlOlllll-llllcliOt , bt'loiit ' . uig to j the Old Woolwich Stwim-packet Company , in » t-U' ! ii | itingt <> l ; tnil lier passensoi-s over a slight stage thrown on tho deck of tbo Wato-nvileh . illlll Steam fillip , iiloiiRsidc Fresh Wharf , precipitated sis or seven persona into the w .-itcr . The men saved Ulftmselves by scrambling up the paddle wheel & F tho Watevwitob ., and the wumen were taken out uf tho river liy numerous watermen and others . Fortunately no lives-, were lost , unt U \ e wlte-lc ol ' thft peo « lo who were thrown into tlie river wore in very great danger .
MliMJiClIOW OCCUUKEKCE AT A . GlvNTUfMAN ' s REStiiBSCE . — Yesterday , Mr . T . Wakley , M . P ., held ai : inquest at tho London University Coll ie Hospital , on view of the body of Sarah Whitehead , aged sixty llobert Lovcll Evans , Esq ., 7 , Moruiugton-crescent
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stated that the deceased had been in his en i housekeeper , and , notwithstanding her age , i joyed excellent . health . On the morning of \< ult ., about nine o ' clock , witness was sittiutt front parlour with , a gentleman on a visit at U blishmerit , when they were suddenly alarmedi screams of deceased , who having got ne kitchen fire , a lighted cinder iell from the gra ignited her dress . Before witness or any otli son could get to her assistance , she was so'fri g burned as to render her removal to the hospi cessary . The house surgeon said that death i result of the injuries ; she expired on the 3 rd i and the body presented a' most appalling spe Other evidence having been adduced , the fo turned a verdict of Accidental Death .
Suicide in a Wobshoush ;—On Monday e-Mr . W . Payne held an inquest in St . Gi Woikhouse , Mint-street , Southvyarlc , on the t John Bafton , aged twenty-two years , late an i of the above workhouse . The deceased had casual inmate for the last six years . He was in the casual ward on Saturday night last , s some neglect on the part of the officer on du < name was not inserted in the Destitute Bool was not missed . . On Sunday night last , abou o ' clock , he was discovered suspended to , an in orer the doorway of the ward . He was cut dc a Mr . Brown , a publican , and was seen by the surgeon ( Mr . Evans ) , but life was quite e Deceased was quite naked , bat there were no of violence on the body . Ue obtained a livelih carrying a board in the streets . Mr . Henry was of opinion that the deceased had been dea < hour *—probably the whole of the day . The ji turned a verdict of Temporary Insanity .
A Cab-drivkb Killed . — Oft Monday me about two o ' clock ) a cab was overturned i Hampstead-road , near Chalk Farm-lane , by ru on a bnk by the roadside , and the cab-driv < pitched from his seat into the road , and kill stantantaneausJy . The poor fellow was found with the shaft of the cab resting upon bim , 1 did not move after he was discovered . Itj . is stt that he was returning from setting down a i Hampstead , and that having fallen asleep , the which was a blind one , ran on to the bank .
Dkath by . Machinery . —On Friday an mquei held at Redruth , on view of the body of Join penter , who was killed at Cum Brea Mine preceding day , in consequence of the fly wh the whin engine getting in contact with hisclo by which : means ne was forced down a narrow ture about eight inches wide and crushed to < The unfortunate man has left a widow and children unprovided for . Verdict , " Acch Death . " . ' Fatal Accident to a Mounted Police-Cons : —On Monday an inquest was held before Mr .
Lewis , one of the Coroners for Essex , on the of George Hall , a police-constable lately attacf the mounted patrol of the K division , on the roads . On Friday last , the deceased was upoi on horseback in the vicinity , and owing to th < of the weather in the early part of the day , an fatigue he underwent , he complained of illness evening . He was on his way home , when the took fright near Ilford , and he was thrown with violence on the ground . He received a concuss the brain , and died a few hours after . lie had recently , married , and was only twenty-four of age .
Fire at Poplar . — On Sunday forenoon , ai eleven o ' clock , a fire , that at one period threate ; the most disastrous consequences , broke out at ) 6 , Trinity Almshouses , North-street , Poplar ; i property of Messrs . Wigram and Green , the it builders , but in the occupation of Mr . Palmer . I flames originated from some cause that could wsj ascertained , on the ground-floor front , and so fire hold had they obtained before discovered ,, that ou-ji return of the occupier to the room ( after the afej of not more than five minutes ) be found thej'J wrapned in one complete blaze . The engines J speedily on tho spot , and the fire was soon cm guished , but not before that part of the premj where it originated was burnt out , and the furniiJ destroyed . 1
A Dreadful Accide . nt occurred on the Lanai and Carlisle Railway , on Saturday , near thei ! of Clifton , on the border of Westmoreland . Ih pears that workmen were employed removisj wooden viaduct , about 103 feet high , and of « s derable length , constructed over the river Louft when on lowering one of the beams suspended It iron chain , by some mishap the chain broke and " : beam swung against another on which twojjr . men named Stout and Guardhouse , both native Penrith , were astride at work , and precipats : them a depth of sixty feet and upwards . One of :
men was picked up in an almost lifeless state anil pired shortly after he was conveyed home , 1 other , who fell into the water , was taken upa' j but faint hopes are entertained of his recover * , it has been reported that he also is dead , 'fie cidents on this line seem much on the increase Friday a young man named Westmoreland hail his legs fractured most severely , a loaded wa ? g « earth having run over him , and only at a short tance from the former accident , and it is notal ten days since three men were killed on the lira tween Penrith and Hesket .
Death op a Jewess yao « the Excessive S or the Weather , —On Monday , Mr . Wakley . M held an inquest at the Crown and Anchor , E street , Seven Dials , respecting the Death of ! Sarah Simon , aged fifty-three , lately residing at 43 , in the same street . The deceased , whotvawife of a salesman atDevonport , and of the Je ' persuasion , complained , on Saturday last , verrn of the heat , which greatly affected her health , about eleven o ' clock the same evening she sail changed in her countenance , gave a deep sigb , expired . Two medical gentlemen were immel ; called in , but life was totally extinct , and : opinion being that it was from the effects of tbt weather , the Jury returned a verdict of " & : Death . "
Fatal Accident on Board the Ariel ( a news ship belonging to the PeninsularSteam Packet pany , fitting for sea at Deptford , )—On Sumtering , shortly before seven o ' clock , a frightful ate occurred to John Wallace , superintending em in the employ of Messrs . Penn and Son , whiis recting the fixing in of a pair of oscilhthis « , Of 300-horse power . 'Che deceased v-as in the sj stooping when his head came in contact wit balance weight of the cylinder , which in an it crushed it against the overflow , or water pipe , head was compressed to a thickness of abou : inches , smashing nose and eyes together . 11 mains of tho poor feWow were released wihS difficulty , and removed on board the Dreads Seaman ' s Hospital Ship . The surgeon said must have ensued at the instant of the accidcf bones of the head and skull being literally bd pieces . Wallace has left a wife , but no childft lament his untimely fate .
IATAI . ACCIDKXT AT lloClIESTKR . —Oll Moilii midday a small boat , yacht rigged , was ok from Rochester bridge . ' sailing on the waters i Med war under heavy canvass . When ncailf si te to the Castle , the wind blowing fresh , on » den she capsised , and the two men that n-ere i : were seen struggling in tiny water , and before tance could be prociired , thev had sunk . Tlie i were picked up about three hours alter the a » by George Lndlmry , a waterman , and his Itby thc application of creepers . The namfi ' men whose lives are ' k > st are Henry MacplicS
married man , aged ai , living in St . Mar-atf this city , and Joseph William Dives , agcd "" n \ tive of that place . Maepherson could swim vH and it is supposed that endeavouring to sj ' companion , whom he found to be di-owniti " . I his own life . The body of the young man i ) fo taken to thc Queen ' s Anns , at the foot of the ! andtlio other was coni'eyed to St . Marsar *' await an inquest , which was held this morn half-past ten o ' clock . The boat bein" a verv ' sailer was sold about a week ago for & ,, "'" stated that she was not ( it to be used in this ri '
Death ix Wiiitkcross-Stheet Pmsox . —0 " day evening , Mr . J . Pavne , the Deputy-0 held an inquest at tho Debtors' Prison , WM street , on the body of William Caudle , ; 'P whose death occurred at that gaol . The * had been a waiter at i club-house . M' - . Douglas , the ucpty-govgrnor , stated that } admitted on the ICch ultimo , ea a-wan-ant »' Westminster Court of Requests , being cowro 10 davs at the suit ol George Rocs . The 18 costs amounttd . to £ 2 1 * . 7 Id ., and was thy * as stated by deceased ' s wilV . nf a tailor ' s Wadd , the ' prison surgeon , said that ! " - ' { deceased on the 11 th of June . He was' > bourin . ii under pulmonary consumption , i ™ instant he became worse " , and delirium foil" * was also much debilitated > n his whole lvaEaction did not take place , and ho expired dav , the -lib . instant . Ths jury returned * , f "Natural Death . "
SuiClMC tfllOM A lk *! i ! UXB " s IlX-USAGS :. —•' . " was held on Saturday at tins Coach ai" ^ Greek-street , Soho , befova Mr . Bedford , " " . of Charlotte- llobcrtsiH ) . aged 55 . l >'' '; r lately been residing ' wi : h h « r son , Mr . I ' ' hairdresser , at No . i ' -l , lVlnccs-slreet , Si ) - ' ' left her husband on ai-coimt of his ill-uss *'; . leaving she had four times at tern ,- ! ltd t < - - self , solely on account of his iirutali ^ ' -, ihoiutht , iilU'i 'bxvremoval ihn . t she h - * ,
her design , but on Sal unlay morning si ' '„ ' hanging by a rope to Jibe top oi the '^ ' ; , quite dead . Verdict , " Temporary la 5- " ' An accident of a remarkable natutf t Dawlish a few days since . A man iu tK . Service , while looking from the cliil's ui & K cutting of a railway , his loot slipped .. ' depth of thirty feet , and in his descent « fj " , he had ih his pocket by some means e * K ! wondeifulto relate , ho escaped this &> % with only a slight scratch . —Deuonporl * " '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 11, 1846, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11071846/page/6/
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