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September 11 ,1852. im 61&n 0£ MEDOM. 69
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Murder At Sheffield. On Friday Evening, ...
roistered letter , which he posted on Friday to a friend at Port Carlisle , Cumberland , and which it is thought contained a remittance of money . A young man named George M'Cormack , Mho wan traced to having been in Barbers company , was next upppp rehended . He was identified as the person who had pawned jhehe watch , and he at once admitted it , stating that he received j ' t jt from Barber at the Reindeer Inn , on Saturday night , and iTji ^ jivc tohim the money for which it was pawned . y is clear that the murder was committed between the time
sfjf Barber and the deceased's leaving Naylor ' s public-house , on Tlfhursday afternoon , at two o ' clock , and the arrival of Barber , Krurith the pack of the murdered man , at the Royal Standard ! Ilnln addition to the other evidence upon this point , is the fact iihihat in the stomach of the murdered man was found his undijgegested dinner . Tuesday Afterxoox . Th e two prisoners were this afternoon brought before the ^ Sheffi eld bench , when Mr . Raynor , the chief constable , briefly dcdetailed the evidence against them as above .
Air . Dunn , one of the magistrates , asked the prisoners whettther they wished to go before a coroner ' s jury , or whether they d < d esired that the investigation should be made by the borough nmagistrates ? In either case they would be permitted professi sionki assistance . It was for them to choose . Barber carelessly said -I do not care . I should like to have i ] professional assistance . Mr- Dunn . —Then you have no objection to go before the
c coroner ? Bc ^ rber . —^ No ; none whatever . } pC « rrnack also said he had no objection . He had nothing i to do with the murder . They were then remanded accordingly . Barber displayed great coolness throughout .
September 11 ,1852. Im 61&N 0£ Medom. 69
September 11 , 1852 . im 61 & n 0 £ MEDOM . 69
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The Coxdemxed Criminals Sarah axd Axx Rimmer . —The only persons sentenced to death by Lord Campbell at the late Liverpool Assizes were the two women convicted of frequent attempts to poison the daughter of Sarah and the niece of the other prisoner . The case was one of harrowing atrocity ; the poor girl was frequently in a swoon while giving her evidence , and the trial had to be postponed to allow the medical men to restore the prosecutrix sufficiently to detail the horrible attempts made upon her life by the mother and aunt , because they could not succeed in driving her upon the streets as a
prostitute . The evidence of the police and the medical men fully confirmed that of the girl . The jury without hesitation found the prisoners guilty , and Lord Campbell , in a most impressive manner , passed sentence of death , holding out no hope of mercy . Not a single petition was presented on their behalf , yet a few days since the sister of the matron of Kirkdale Gaol conveyed the news to the prisoners that their lives would be spared . Their gratitude was evinced in the exclamation , alluding to Lord Campbell , " D the old b , why didn't he nana-ns ; we don't want to live . " A subscription to send the drUo Australia has been commenced .
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Death from the Attack of a Bull . —A few days ago a respectable female named Irving , residing at Heads , in the parish of Westward , near Wigton , was suddenly attacked by a bull belonging to Mr . John Irving of the above-named place . The unfortunate woman being attacked in the middle of a field , had no chance of making her escape , and there being no assistance at hand , she ww instantly thrown down by the infuriated animal , and gored to death . An inquest was held before Wm . Lamb , Esq , on the remains of the deceased , and a verdict m accordance with the above-named facts was returned .
The late Boiler Explosion at West BnoanviCH . —Another of the men injured by this melancholy accident has died , making in all five victims . At the inquest held on Saturday , Mr . Hackett , an engineer , gave it as his opinion that the explosion was the result of a sudden excess of steam acting upon the end eftho boiler which was blown out , p roduced by some of the "stays" being broken . A verdict of " Accidental death'' was returned .
Hydrophobia rx Paris . —Among the victims to hydrophobia in Paris , which has made such lamentable progress lately , is to be added a serjent de vilh police-officer . The unfortunate man who was commanded some days since to conduct to a place oi safety some dogs found wandering , killed in his own defence one of them which attempted to bite him . The dog s blood gushed out and covered his hand , which had been wounded . In two days afterwards hydrophobia of the most violent enaraeter declared itself , and caused his death .
Fatal Boiler Explosion . —On the 3 d inst ., a little after nine o ' clock , a larsre steam-boiler , at the bleachworks of Messrs . J . Smith , inn ., and Co , Great Lever , near Bolton , exploded , lulling three persons , named-William Grant , a stover ; Michael Grant , a pipe coverer ; and Jane Watson , a stitcher . Hie hoilor was almost a new one , 27 feet long , 8 feet 6 inchest in diameter , and worked at the high pressure of o 3 ibs . totlie square inch . The cause of the accident is not known , but tlie boiler was torn into small fragments , so that there must have been an unusually explosive force at work . Nine other persons were hurt or scalded badly .
Bursting op a Railway Exgixe . — A serious accident , biu happily unattended with with fatal consequences , occuiTe 4 at the Lenton Junction , near Nottingham , on the Midland ^ ailway , errly on Saturday morning . The 7 o ' clock tram from Codnor park , heavily laden with passengers , was passing attiie rate of about 30 miles an hour from the Erewashtothe Nottingham and Derbv line , when a slight explosion was heard , and suddenly the train came to a stand-still , but , the air tor a considerable space suddenly becoming filled with vapour and smoke , some time elapsed before it could be ascertained what had happened . In the interim the terrified passengers rasued from tlie carriages in all directions , and several of them ran to a considerable distance from the line , fearing the possibility ot
a second and more disastrous explosion . This , however , was impossible , as was discovered on after examination , when the steam had entirely evaporated . It then appeared that one oi the tubes leadm * from the fire—which , owing to having previously been damaged , had had a joint soldered thereto , and then been plugged—had burst , forcing the plug into the fare , the hot water and steam from the boiler following it , and ultimately damping the fire out . Happily the fire hole door was shut at the time , or William Gibson , the driver , and Charles Mitchell the stoker , who were standing close to it would have teen killed on the spot . As it was , Gibson was so dreadfully scalded and burnt about the face as to prevent him attending to Ms occupation for some time to come . Mitchell , who escaped
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the effects of the first rush of hot vapour and flame , secured nimseit from after consequences by rapidly , and at great risk , climbing to the far side of the tender . Iatal Gux Accident . —On Wednesday week , when the shooting season commenced , a very melancholy occurrence took place at the village of Brantingham . Mr . P . Cockey and Mr . wniiain Ward , of Hull , were out on a shooting excursion in the neighbourhood of Cave , and on their return to Mr . Holmes ' s , of ham
Branting , were met on the road by that gentleman s n-room with a dog-cart to hasten their arrival . Whilst they were in the act of alighting from the vehicle , on pulling up at Mr . Holmes's stable-door , one of the guns accidentally slipped from out ol the back of the cart , the hammer catching the edge , and causin g it to explode : the discharge unfortunately lodging in the side of the groom , produced instantaneous death . An inquest was held before Mr . Porter , the coroner , and a verdict returned of " Accidental death . "
Cattle Driving . —On Monday afternoon some bullocks were being driven into a slaughterhouse in Clare-market , when one ot them smelt the blood , and darted off through the narrow streets of the market , knocking down several women and chil dren , two of whom were carried , dangerously injured to King ' s College Hospital , where they met with prompt attention . In its fight it dashed through through the small passage leadi ng from Clare-market into St . Clement's-inn , bending the thick iron rod in the centre into a complete how to admit of its passing through the inn , and thenceforward into the Strand and Fleet-street , back to Smithfield , where it was ultimately secured . J
Shocking Death by Firearms . —A most shocking occurrence has just happened at the village of Longford , near Gloucester , xt appears that a labouring man , named James Bay lis , living at the Workhouse farm , Longford , who had lately been employed at harvest work , was going on Friday morning to stack some beans . ^ It is supposed that he had seen some partridges on the previous day , for he had taken down his gun before going to work , and had loaded it for the purpose of taking it with him . Having , however , the fear of the law before his eyes , ho resolved to put the gun , loaded as it was , into his jacket pocket
He therefore ' took the stock from the barrel , and , having loaded the barrel , and put the cap upon the nipple , he was in the act of depositing the barrel in his pocket , muzzle foremost , when it is supposed that the nipple , with the percussion cap upon it , struck with violence against a rafter in the ceiling of the room and exploded . The charge of shot passed completely through his body and heart , and , with an exclamation to his wife , he fell down a corpse in the room . His wife , who was in bed at the time , rushed down stairs , and was just in time to see her bus band fall lifeless upon the floor . An inquest has since been held on the body , and a verdict of " Accidental death" returned .
Serious Gux Accident . —Mr . Charles Miles , a brother of Mr . P . W . S . Miles , late M . P . for Bristol , met with a very serious accident one day last week . While out grouse shooting , by some mischance his gun burst and shattered his hand very badly . It was at first anticipated that amputation of the hand was indispensable , but subsequently it was found that amputation of the thumb only was necessary , which operation lias accordingly since been performed .
Accidext os the Shrewsbur y and Chester Railway . —On Monday an inquest was held at the Woodward public house , Coton-hill , Shrewsbury , on the body of an aged woman , named Mary Lewis , of Baschurch , who had been killed by an excursiontrain passing over her on Saturday night last . The remains of the poor creature presented a sad spectacle ; the head was completely severed , and the other parts of the body were most dreadfully mutilated . Joseph Woodvine , a labourer on the line at Baschurch . stated that he saw deceased walking down the
line , towards Perry-bridge , between seven and eight o ' clock on Saturday night . He went up to her and told her she was on trespass , to which she replied , " I know all about it . " He then asked her her name , and where she was going ; but she refused to tell him , and , on his saying that he would follow her to see where she was going , she retorted , "If you follow mo , I Avill knock your brains out ! " Witness then went home . He further stated that poor people were in the habit of going on the line to pick up coke , Henry Whittaker said he was the driver of an excursion-train which left Chester for Shrewsbury at
7 25 p . m ., arriving at the latter place at nine o ' clock . The night was very dark and the rain came down in torrents . On examining the engine at the Shrewsbury terminus , he found the shawl produced on the buffer plank . He examined the wheels , but did not see the least symptoms of blood . Another train left Chester for Shrewsbury at eight o ' clock the same evening . The shawl was here identified by Woodvine as the one worn by the woman whom he had seen walking on the line . Abraham Carlin , engine-driver , left Chester for Shrewsbury with a goods' train early on Tuesday morning , and when withing 150 yards of the Perry-bridge he first saw the body of deceased . The body being on the up-rails , on which he was
running , he could not see very distinctly what it was ; but , thinking it was either a dog or a sheep , he did not stop the train . The stoker , however , fancied he saw a cap , and on the arrival of the train at Shrewsbury information was given to Mr . Jeffreys , the superintendent of the locomotive department , who returned with them on a special engine to the spot where they had seen the body . To their horror they found the mangled remains of the unfortunate woman , the head being about three yards distant from the body . The body was recognized by Edward Lewis , brother in-law to the deceased . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidentally killed . " Woodvine was recalled by the deputy-coroner , and severely reprimanded for not forcibly ejecting deceased from off the line .
Fatal Coach Accidext . — The Birmingham Gazette states that a fatal coach accident occurred on Saturday evening last , which has terminated in the death of Mr . George Hemming , many years known as coachman on the Shrewsbury road . He left Worcester on Saturday evening about half-past four o ' clock , and having reached Broomsgrove , changed horses , and pro ceeded towards Birmingham . He had then on the coach 12 outside and 4 inside passengers , and was proceeding along at an enormous pace until he arrived at about twenty yards beyond the Long Bridge Turnpike Gate . Here he perceived a horse
and cart approaching him on the wrong side , and called out to the driver to turn . The man not doing so immediately , Hemming , in order to escape him , attempted to cross the road , when the driver of the cart unfortunately did the same , and a ^ collision took p lace . The fore wheel of the coach was driven inside tlie cart wheel , and Hemming was thrown from the box with great violence , and falling on his head received a fracture , from the effects of which he expired almost instantly . All the passen o-ers on the top of the eoach were thrown off , and the vehicle being turned over , fell upon and severely injured many of them . Six young females who were on the outside of the coach escaped unhurt .
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Accidext . —A lady residing at Heme Bay was watching the action of a threshing machine at Heme lW < » nage , when her dress , by some means , came in contact with ! ' io machinery , by which her arm was broken , and other park of her body much injured . A Lunatic , named Triochc , detained in an asylum at Le Blanc , in the department of the Indre , was allowed by the authorities to have a pipe , with materials for lighting it , though he was constantly hoving violent attacks , in which he uttered dreadful cries , and committod other excesses . A few days ago smoke was seen issuing from his cell . On opening the door he was found enveloped in flames , and quite dead . The body was horribly burned . He had set fire to the bed-clothes in lighting his pipe .
Dreadful Occurrexce . —On Saturday , a woman , in the employ of Mr . White , of Leckhamstead , told her two children to go to a heap of straw on the above gentleman s farm , while she went into the fields to work . The eldest girl , about five years of age , took a box of lucifer matches with her , and put the youngest child , who is about twelve months old , on the straw , when she began playing with the matches , and ultimately set
the straw on fire with the child on it . The mother , hearing the screams of her child , rushed to her rescue , and plunged into the burning mass and dragged the child out , but not before it was so dreadfully burnt that it only survived two hours afterwards . The mother was also very much burnt . A sheep-house was was close to the straw , which was totally destroyed , with a sieve , sacks , and a chaff-engine .
I atal Accident ox the Bristol axd Exeter Railway . —A frightful accident happened on Monday to the train which left Paddmgton station 9 . 45 a . m . After leaving Bridgewater the train proceeded for seven miles at a rapid rate , and then slackened a little , when it passed under the Chard Canal-bridge , at Creech , where , from some unknown cause , the engine got off the line and ploughed itself right into the left or near bank , and became imbedded in the soft earth . When the up-express arrived , the four passenger-carriages were found to be some 150 yards in advance of the engine , the first of the second-class
carriages with the front compartment smashed , and the off ' front wheel on the up-line , so that the traffic was completely stopped . The tender to the engine was a complete wreck on the back of the engine , and the luggage van , greatly damaged , was diagonally across the down-line . It appears that this van was at first thrown on the embankment , and most providentially remained there until the four passenger carriages had gone on , when it fell again across the rails . Had it been otherwise ! nearly all the passengers must have been injured , and the loss of life would have been fearful ; as it was the risk was very
great ; for the corner of the van , as it lay on the embankment , struck and grazed every passenger carriage , making a groove all along the train , in some places an inch deep . The immediate fatality was in the person of Humberstone , a Bristol and Exeter fireman , who appears to have met with instantaneous death ; his head and the upper part of his body could be just perceived , the remainder being buried in the earth and in the wreck of the engine and tender . Two other of the railway servants are injured : Lamb Eaton , the engine-driver , has his left hand smashed , so that amputation will be necessary ; his chest was crushed , and it is feared that his ribs are broken .
Joseph Tozer , travelling porter , has his thigh and leg broken . The guard of the train is named Fickland , and the second guard Chivers ; the former had a very close escape . He was in the luggage-van next the tender , and the first notice he had of the accident was finding himself on his back on the inside of the roof of the van , which at that time was in a reversed position . He crept out of a hole and escaped . None of the passengers were much injured . The cause of the accident is unknown .
Death from Lightning . —On Tuesday , about 1 o ' clock , a thunderstorm of unexampled severity burst over the town of Lewes . The lightning is described as awfully vivid , the thunder was a succession of cracks , and a deluge of rain followed . Fortunately the storm was of short duration . Shortl y after its cessation information reached the town that a poor boy who had been tending sheep on Spittal-hill , Ashcombe , was found dead . His body was blackened all over ; his clothes were wrenched from his back , and the hobnails drawn from his boots . It is conjectured that the lightning was attracted by the metal end of his shepherd ' s crook , acting as a conductor , for the staff bore marks of the passage of the fluid .
Extraordinary Case of Hydrocephalus . —Mr . G . S . Breiit , the deputy-coroner for Middlesex , held an inquest on Wednesday at the College Arms , College-street , Camden-town , touching the death of Joseph Devine , a lad aged 14 years , residing at 28 , Canterbury-street , Agar-town , whose body was found in the Regent ' s Canal on Sunday morning last . It appeared that the deceased had gone to the canal to fill a kettle , and that , being seized by a fit , he fell in and was drowned . Mr . Henry Charles Robinson , senior surgeon of the St . Pancras Infirmary , stated that he had made a post mortem examination of the body , which showed that death had been produced by drowning . The head was of such extraordinary magnitude
that he would give its dimensions . It measured 27 | inches in circumference , 16 ^ inches across the top from ear to ear , 19 £ inches from the nape of the neck up the centre of the back over the crown to the junction with the eyebrows , and llf inches from one parietal bone to the other . The skull was as thin as that of a child two years old , and the bones were open like those of an infant , never having closed . When punctured upwards of five pints of water escaped from it , and the substance of the brain itself weighed 3 f lb . _ With the exception of the celebrated Cardinal , who lived till the age of 32 , it was the largest head he had either seen or heard of . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "
Accidents in Mixes . —On tricky week an association was publicly inaugurated at Newcastle-upon-Tyne , having for its grand primary object the prevention of accidents in mines , and incidentally the advancement of mining science generally . The society assumesto itself the title of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , but it is intended to incorporate , not only professiona men of that particular class , but all persons who , by their talents or their position , may be capable of promoting the great end it has in view . Mr . Nicholas Wood presided on the occasion , and delivered a long and elaborate speech . A great number of gentlemen of considerable eminence in the mining interests were enrolled as members .
A Valuable Suggestion . —A correspondent of the Berks Chronicle , in reference to a late fatal accident at Reading , asks , what should prevent persons avIio are employed in cleansing sewers , -wells , & c , where bad air prevails , from making nse of a helmet and air-pipe , of the same kind as are used by diners ? By this means many sad and fatal accidents which occur might be avoided . The subject is at least worthy the consideration of the humane ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 11, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_11091852/page/5/
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