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¦——^¦—an^wpauaww ACCIDENTS AND CASUALTIES.
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—o—Singular Accident on Ludgate-hill. — ...
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DISASTROUS INUNDATIONS. In addition to t...
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LAW COURTS.
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. A Candidate for Tran...
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POLICE COURTS
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MANSION-HOUSE. Stealing a Plaid.—An able...
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Singular And Fatal Gun Accident.—On Tues...
The Mysterious Death in the Waterloo Road-Mr . Carter held an inquest on Saturday evening at the Royal Oak , Granby-street Waterloo-Ld , on the body of Charlotte Jagger aged 60 , some account of whose mysterious death appeared last week . From the evidence adduced , it appears that the deceased was formerly m the service of Madame Feron , but of late had been lodging m one of the houses facing the above-named tavern . Owing to her emmtric habits the other lodgers always endeavoured when they heard W movW about , to keep out of her way , The last time she was seen alive was six days ago ; but on Wednesday last a lodger living m an adjoining room , finding her door ajar , had the curiosity to look into the room , when it was found that the female was sitting m a deadVarious
chair , her head resting on her hand , and quite . sums of money , and pawnbrokers' duplicates were found on her person , which had evidently been there for a lengthened period . Dr . Sewell , of the Lower Marsh , was called upon to make a post mortem examination of the body , the result of which proved that death had been caused from starvation . Not a particle of food was found in the stomach when Mr . Sewell opened it . From the fact of bread and cheese and other articles of diet being found in the room , coupled with the money on her person , it is quite clear that she must have voluntarily abstained from taking food . She was the daughter of a captain in the army , who afterwards had the command of the Surrey Militia , but who has been dead some years . The jury , having heard a number of witnesses , returned a verdict of " Death from voluntary
starvation . The Murder at Bucklasd . —The adjourned inquest on the body of Mary White , who was found in her bed , on the morning of the 1 st of November , with her throat cut , was resumed and closed on Saturday the 13 th instant , at the village of Milton , in the parish of Buckland Monachorum , near Tavistock . Mr . Bone , the coroner , examined several witnesses , and the investigation was continued for several hours , and was watched by Mr . W . Eastlake , the crown solicitor , of Plymouth . Nothing was elicited to lessen the mystery in which this most barbarous deed is enveloped ; except , indeed , it be that John
White , the son of the deeoased , towards whom suspicion pointed , was examined , and his aunt and others who were in the house with him on the night of the murder , and he was proved to have gone to bed at half-past 8 o ' clock , and not to have left the room until 8 the next morning ; while the deceased was seen alive at 11 at night , and was found to have been murdered by 7 o ' clock in the morning . The general impression is that Mrs . White had a considerable sum of money ,
she having had a sum of 501 . at her husband ' s death , and being of saving habits , and in the way of getting her living and more by her shop , since she had lived alone . The verdict of the jury was " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown . " Fifty pounds reward has been offered by the parish for the discovery and apprehension of the murderer , and no doubt , now that the- inquest is closed , a similar sum will be added by the government . Application has been made to the Home Secretary .
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—O—Singular Accident On Ludgate-Hill. — ...
—o—Singular Accident on Ludgate-hill . — On Monday night , shortly before 8 o ' clock , an accident of rather a singular nature happened on Ludgate-hill , near the entrance of the Belle Sauvage Inn . It appears that one of Bennett ' s Chelsea omnibuses was proceeding up the hill , when one of the horses from the crowded state of the thoroughfare , or from some other cause , began to jib , and finally it backed the vehicle on the footpath at the risk of killing the persons passing by at the time . The conductor had just time to jump off the footboard , and thereby escaped being crushed to death ; but the hindermost part of the omnibus dashed through the plate glass window of Mr . Faiers ,
jeweller , & c ., No . 34 , on the hilll , scattering the valuable articles of jewellery , and plate in all directions ; and also demolishing the woodwork under the windows . A body of the city police came up as soon as possible , and were instrumental hi preventing much of the valuable property from being carried away ; but previous to the arrival of the officers ' some one * managed to steal from the person of Mr . Faiers a gold watch worth 201 ., with which he got clear off . One of the men employed on the premises ran after the vehicle , which had started off towards the cathedral , and ascertained the name of the owner and the number , which was 7 , 105 . The most miraculous part of the accident was , that some of the many persons who were passing at the time were not knocked down and run over .
Fatal Accident on the South Eastern Railway . —On Saturday morning , an old lady , named Elizabeth Hiseman , aged 54 years , expired in the accident ward of St . Thomas ' s Hospital from the effects of injuries sustained by an accident on the North Kent or Gravesend branch of the South Eastern Railway . Deceased was the wife of a gardener residing at Greenhithe , in Kent . On the evening of Sunday , the 24 th of October , she took the train for Greenhithe atlhe Londonbridge station , and on the train arriving at the station it stopped for the to ali
passengers ght , but before deceased had time to reach the platform the train moved on , and she fell between the carriages and the edge of the platform . Op being rescued from her perilous situation she complained of a pain in her leg , and became insensible . A conveyance was procured , and deceased was immediately conveyed to the hospital , where it was discovered that she had sustained a severe fracture of the left leg , and it was found necessary to amputate the broken limb the following day . The unfortunate sufferer never recovered the shock , but gradually sank aud expired on Saturday morning from the injuries sustained .
Shipwrecks And Accidents At Sea. Storm A...
SHIPWRECKS AND ACCIDENTS AT SEA . Storm and Loss of Life on the Irish Coast , —Dublin vas visited by a fearful storm on the night of Thursday week . The strength of the waves caused some damage among the small boats in the harbour , but we have not heard of any injury to the larger craft . Three vessels , however , went on shore at Bray Head , and from the quantity pi planks and timber washed ashore at Sandycove and other places mtheyicmity of Kingstown , it is feared that some heavy casualties had occurred at sea . A large vessel has gone to pieces on Drojreda Bar ; part of the crew were drowned . The following is an
exttact from a private letter in Saunders' News Letter : —CWher Head Drogheda , Nov . U .-At 9 , 30 a . m . the schonner , William Pitt , of Uuuun , from Whitehaven to Dublin , coal laden , John French , master , running m for this place , when off the harbour struck on a reef ot rocks to the northwards , and immediately went down stern fore-TJ tin ™ ° ldmg f tlie m } y ? art of the ™^ above water , the sea running tremendously high at the time . Captain Bernarad ^ tr ^ ^ 0 Se gaUant conduct i « deserving of all praise was fJ ^ Zl ^ l ™^ »* * * > «** - » « s power
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Hurricane at Tripoli . — -The following is an extract of a letter from Tripoli , dated October 31 st : — "A terrible disaster has recently occurred to the shipping in this port . On Tuesday night , the 19 th , it came on to blow a heavy gale , of wind , which continued to increase in violence throughout that night and the following day , and reached its climax about midnight on Wednesday , the 2 uth . There were in the harbour at the time twenty-two vessels , besides five xebecks . Of this number sixteen of the vessels and all the xebecks dragged their anchors , came ashore , and went to pieces . They will all be total wrecks , it is thought ; most of them have already broken up . Besides
the vessels lost in the port , we have heard of seven others that are wrecked on the coast not far from here . The Maltese brig Giannuia went ashore at Tajoura Point ; the crew and passengers all saved . Another Maltese vessel ( a speronara ) went ashore near Sleaton , and is a total wreck . A Turkish brig , on her way to this place from Tunis , was wrecked to the west of Tropoli , about two days' journey from here , She had a large number of passengers , chiefly Mussulmans , and a rich cargo , much of it in money . Of the passengers , fifty are reported as lost ; and the Arabs pillaged every particle of the cargo , not even sparing the baracans which covered the bodies of the dead . The Governor-General has sent a large force to capture the ringleaders in this disgraceful affair , aud to force the tribe to which
the robbers belong to restore the property stolen , or to pay down its value . I am glad to say that our new Governor-General has acted with much energy in the trying circumstances by which he was beset , having given every assistance to the foreign consuls in attempting to save the cargoes of the vessels belonging to their respective nations , besides doing all that he could to prevent pillage and to aid the owners of Turkish vessels to save their property . Some eight or nine lives were lost in the harbour . In addition to the damage which the shipping has sustained , much injury has been done in the country by the mountain torrents , and a great number of date and olive trees have been blown down in the gardens around this city . The Maltese vessels Iris and Giannina and the speronara were lost on the occasion alluded to—besides a Tuscan , two Greek , and eighteen Turkish vessels of all sizes .
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DISASTROUS INUNDATIONS . In addition to those reported last week , floods are reported at Market Harborough and Leicester , and at Newton Abbott , in Devon . At the former places the Soar expanded into a lake ; at the latter , the Teign burst its banks , and carried off much property . Further particulars give a deplorable account of the effects of these inundations . By the last accounts the floods had not subsided at Hereford . The immense Lugg meadows , reachin g for several miles
are one sheet of water , resembling an inland sea , and a current of great force is rushing across the road for the distance of half a mile , carrying hedges , timber , and everything before it . On Saturday morning , about half-past 9 o'clock , the gangway and other woodworks at the Newport , Abergavenny , and Hereford Railway-bridge over the Wye , near Hereford , were washed away by the force of the water which had somewhat risen from the previous ,
evening . A letter from Shrewsbury , on Monday evening , says , ' Yesterday morning the water began slowly to abate , and continued to do so untill evening , when it began to rise again . When the Aberystwith mail arrived , at 9 o ' clock last night , intelligence was received that the water was rapidly rising at Brittington , and that the streets of Newtown resembled so many foaming currents . The whole course of the Severn , from Brittington to Shrewsbury , is under water , and presents
a lamentable spectacle . This morning , timber , agricultural implements , and farm produce , have been seen floating down the river . Numbers of labourers ' cottages are nearly covered with water , and their wretched inmates have been obliged to take refuge in the dwellings of their friends , leaving their furniture , & c , to be swept away . In St . Chad ' s parish nearly 300 houses are under water ; in St . Marys parish about 100 ; in Holy Cross and St . Giles parish upwards of 50 ; in St . Julian ' s parish upwards of 300 ; St . Alkmond ' s parish has few if any , houses flooded . " The water continued to rise .
All the Vale of Gloucester , comprising a vast flat district , extending on either side of the Severn , is one wide-spreading sea—the water covering the fences , and leaving nothing but the tops of the trees visible ' The parishes of Sandhurst , Longney , Elmore and other villages on the banks of the Severn , are completely deserted , the inhabitants having fled to the more elevated parts of the county . Sunday was occupied by the well-to-do inhabitants in rescuing those in danger by means of boats and rafts , and in conveying food to those who were kept prisoners in their houses . Gloucester itself is in darkness , the gasworks being flooded . In the agricultural districts this is universally the case ; some of the houses are submerged to the tops of the roofs , the chimneys only being visible .
In Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire the scene has been the same . The low lands around are covered with water several feet in depth , and the greater part of the more elevated soil is literally deluged . Roads on the route to the various towns and villages , are in many places , impassable on foot . To remedy the evil in some measure , boats are in attendance to ferry the passengers across . In some parts the water on the turnpike road is fouror 5 feet deep , much to the discomforture and injury of the inhabitants . The trains on the London and North-Western Railway , and the Midland , were obliged to cease running , the great deluge having completely washed away the embankment in many parts .
In the early-part of Monday morning the traffic of the Great Western Railway was impeded in consequence of a series of slips having occurred during the night occurred between Paddington and Ealing , and also between Ealing and Hanwell . The valley of the Thames , as seen from the North Terrace of Windsor Castle , presents the appearance of an immense lake , an elevated spot here and there , with its clumps of trees , looking more like a little islet than a portion of the beautiful meadow or pasture of which , in ordinary times , it forms an ornamental part . At Egham , the Thames has overflowed its banks , laying immense tracts of highly cultivated land under water All trafficjon it is stopped , the towing-path being no longer discernible . Runnymede , 160 acres in extent , is also covered with water , having the appearance of a lake .
All along the line of the Richmond Railway , the country is more or less flooded . In the neighbourhood of Datchet , the ' South-Western Radway has been brought to a stand-still . At Vauxhall snd Nine Elms-all the property lying near the river has suffered to an enormous degree . Oxfordshire is flooded-the capital itself standing in a sea of water . At Nottingham the flood in the valley of the Trent was again mmg m consequence of the . continuous rain . At Leicester , the disasters have been very extensive , whole streets having been flooded , and many lactones closed in consequence of the damage . The railway communication between Leicester and "R ,, rvW 4 c « .+ „* j r ™ .. ?_ coinniunication Between Leicester and Rugbis stoppedThe trains
y . are obliged to run by Burton-on-Trent . A letter from Cambridge it ^ Sday ' ? 7 "i if * t P resent ^ ing Nereis nos ^ n th W ff $ \ { i Uen here alm ^ incessantly for the last ten days , bud the leaden and condensed appearance of the clouds promts a ontmuance I is stated that five lives have been lost in the fens The Cantabs literally row « on the Common . " In Shropshire the Sen an itX ^ U ^ ^ < " ** are ™*» r *^ tie-man near Wakefield was ' on Sunday so alarmed t « + * + ni-a w « SSSW Ve been Mer «*¦ aud loss of ship-
Law Courts.
LAW COURTS .
Middlesex Sessions. A Candidate For Tran...
MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . A Candidate for Transportation . —John Morris , 14 , pleaded guilty of having stolen a till and 2 s . 5 £ d ., the property and money 0 f John Hicks . It appeared from the prison returns , that the prisoner had been summarily convicted no less than 11 times * The Assistant . Judge made some observations on the fact that the prisoner had been convicted five times by one magistrate , Mr . Broughton , and four by another , Mr . Long , and not once sent for trial . He did not in the least intend to cast blame on the magistrates , or to say that they lv < u not done right , but at the police courts they might not"have the means they had at the sessions of identifying the prisoners , and the young thief knew that , by pleading guilty , he' would be sentenced by the
magistrate to three months' imprisonment , and in that way escape the punishment they could award when the previous convictions were within its cognizance , In this case he had not the power to sentence the prisoner " to transportation . —The prisoner—I want to be transported . —The Assistant-Judge—I dare say you do ; but I am sorry to say you cannot be gratified at present . —Prisoner—Oh very well , I shall go on the same game again when I ' m out , till I do get transported though . —The Assistant-Judge—Well , I promise you that the next time you come here you shall be transported , if guilty . Now mind that . He then sentenced the prisoner to nine months ' s hard labour .
Extb aohdinaey Case . —Elizabeth Bromwich , 21 , was indicted for unlawfully , wickedly , and cruelly deserting and abandoning her infant child , aged seven weeks , and exposing it in the open air , whereby its life was endangered . Robert Lester , Inspector of the C division of police , who stated that the prisoner , at a little past 2 on the morning of the 25 th of last month , was brought by Police-constable 199 C to the Vine-street police-station , charged by Alfred Stroud with
childmurder some months back . The prisoner said she wished to speak the truth . She had nothing to hide , and threw herself on their mercy . She then stated that she was delivered of a female child on the 14 th of April last at a house in King-street , Regent-street . It was ill from its birth , and on the 27 th of May it appeared to be dying , and she took it to Mr . Harding , a surgeon in SiWetstieet who had attended her in her confinement , and he told her that it would not
live over the day . She was advised by Ellen Davis to put the child near some gentleman ' s house , and that then if it was found and it did not live it would have decent burial . She went to Hampstead and put the child near the Well-walk , and left it there . It was alive then . She also said that since she had seen bills in a window about a child having been found , and she asked Stroud to let her inquire about it , but he told her not to go , as she might get punished . On this story being told the prisoner was detained , and a constable was sent to Hampstead and brought back the child's clothes , which she said were those the child had on when she left it . He ( witness ) told her that the child was alive , and she exclaimed , " O ! thanks ; shall I have it
again ? " She said that Davis and herself had bought two pennyworth of laudanum at two shops , and that she had received a certific : from Mr . Harding that the child died on the 27 th of infectious disease . She said that she got this certificate to show to Stroud , with whom she had been living , and who was in the hospital at the time , Davis was originally taken into custody , but the magistrate admitted her subsequently as a witness . In cross examination the witness said that Stroud was the man who brought her to the station , charging her with murdering her child some months ago . He ( witness ) knew that she lived with him . He had seen her in a fearful state , covered
with bruises , and when she was brought to the station she was covered with blood , her eyes bloodshot , and both sides of her face black and blue from bruises . She explained that Stroud had been living on the wages of her prostitution . Latterly her earnings were small , and she was obliged to pawn some of his clothes to enable them to live , and he became jealous , and charged her with spending the money she got on other men , and beat her in this way . He came out of the hospital about two months after the birth of her child , and they lived together since and before . She walked the streets to sirpport him for many months . Police Constable 129 C stated that , on the morning in
question he was called in , and Stroud gave the prisoner in charge for the murder of her child . The prisoner went into hysterics , and Stroud told him that she had given the child twopennyworth of laudanum , and took and left it at Hampstead-heath . When she recovered she said , " Oh ! Alfred , how can you say that ? " Some other witnesses were examined , and , the Assistant-Judge having summed up , the Foreman of the Jury said , that they considered that the prisoner was guilty of placing the child where it was found , but without any malicious intent . Mr . Payne said that was tantamount to a verdict of Not Guilty . And the jury accordingly returned a verdict of acquittal .
The Charge against Miss Campbell . —Early in the day Mr . Bodkin ( on the part of the prosecution ) said , that he wished to make an application to the Court , in reference to the case of a person named Ann Campbell , charged with stealing jewellery under circumstances which had caused some public interest . His application was , that the trial might be postponed until the next session , in consequence of the illness of the prosecutrix , Mrs . Phillips , who was at Exeter , and unable
to attend at the court this day in consequence . The bill , therefore , could not go before the grand jury , but there was no opposition on the other side to his application for postponement , and the other party was out on bail , and the Court might enlarge the recognizances on both sides until next session . This course was adopted , and the parties will go before the grand jury at the next Westminister Sessions .
Police Courts
POLICE COURTS
Mansion-House. Stealing A Plaid.—An Able...
MANSION-HOUSE . Stealing a Plaid . —An able-bodied vagrant , named Benjamin Brett , was brought before Alderman Wire , charged with having committed a street robbery . Mr . John Fraser , a gentleman who has recently arrived from Scotland , said—On Saturday evening , at half-past six o ' clock , as I was ; walking along Cheapside , with a plaid shawl on my arm , close to > had
Queen-street , I felt a sudden jerk , and supposed that my shawl I got ' entangled in something . In an instant however , it was wrenched I away from me , and I saw a person like the prisoner running along ; and wrapping it round his person . I followed as fast as I could , bat t unfortunately I fell when I was gaining ground . I continued the e pursuit when I got upon my legs , but lost sight of the prisoner , who o was , however , secured by a policeman with the shawl in his possession , l . Waldron , one of the City force , said—I saw the prisoner running g
along Lawrence-lane with the shawl , which he dropped upon seeing g me . When I told him to stop he made a bolt at me with his head , and d made a desperate effort to get away , but I prevented his escape . He . e was committed for trial . A woman named M-Alister , one of the most resolute beggars in the ie City , was brought up on the usual complaint . The officer said the lie woman must be fond of begging even to madness , for the moment she he obtained release from Bridewell she recommenced her operations , in in which she was greatly assisted by the appearance of a child which she he carried in her arms and suckled , although it is upwards of two years js old . It was stated that , by the rules of the prison , a female who is is nursing a baby is allowed the hest sort of entertainment * so that the he
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 20, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_20111852/page/6/
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