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- _/ FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION . * i _Thwrxwicl _^ iras yesterday throwu into a state . of dread , consternation , and alarm , in consequence of-a terrible explosion which to _ik place at the __ salt manufactories of ' Messrs . EUins and Co ., by which several persons were _severely scalded , one has-since' died , and _another is hourly expected to breathe , his last . ' . In order to make tbe . origin , of . the accident distinctly _anderstood , it will be necessary to explain the modus operandi in the manufacture of salt . ' -It _BhlttW be stated then , that the puns in which the "brine ( from which t * iie _' ab . vrc salt is made ) is boiled ,
are not placed immediately above the fires , but have f . t _' se bottoms a-few inches in depth . These are -filled with water , nnd the steam _generated therefrom is carried off in pines to other pans , and generates sufficient heat to cause the brine in them also to _deposit salt . _* " "F rom 30 ine . causeorother , at present But _satisfactorily explained , one of these false _bottom ** blew up wilh a loud explosion , driving a portion of one-of the pans throug h an adjacent wall , tearing awav tbe _piying and a portion ofthe root , ihrowing everrthin _^ ' in fact into utter contusion , ana causing thc utmost consternation throng hont the
town . . 11 ' •« . At tbe time-when the exp losion took place itpro-¦ _videutialk hapi / ehed that nearly all the workmen jind women emploved "in the manufactory were at _tteirlafterhoon meal , so that the works were comparatively ' deserted . Two men , howeve * -were standing near , loading a cart with salt , when the boiling ¦ water and steam poured npon them , scalding'them in x fearful manner . Tke driver of the cart also v as much scalded on his right side , and the horse find cart were driven into the small river' Salwarpr , vhich rans adjacent to the * factory . Another party _earned Brazier , who was atthe moment passing the _Knot with a load of coal , was seriously injured , and lis vehicle also was forced into the stream .
Immediately on the accident being made known , the town was thrown in to , the utmost consternation , 8 'id the greatest commiseration was manifested for the sufferers . The fireman , a roan 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 him an opportunity of . escaping from the snot before ihe steam reached him : ' * The unfortunate men who" received the most
serious injuries were _^ Georee Carter and his son James . They were immediately conveyed to the "Worcester Infirmary , where , after lingering until this morning , the former expired *' and the son still lies at that institution in a deplorable Btate . The other injured parties are in a fair . way of recovery .
_JORTHEB PABIICDXABS . ; V Droitwich , Tuesday .-5-The shocking affair which nppened here on Friday last turns out to be more extraordinary than appeared at the timeof its occurrence . Yesterday afternoon the Coroner for the city of Worcester ( one r . f the unfortunate sufferers having died at the hospital ) commenced an inquiry at that _institution , respecting the origin of the accident ; bnt 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 , ofthe accident-will
be the parties on the spot at the time ; but _asthes _** were all mere or les 3 _iijured , they are at present not in a fit state to be examined on a public inquiry . Sine * Friday the proprietors of the works , where tho accident happened , have sHrveyed the ruins of ¦ ihe premises , and find thai , at ihe lowest computation ,, it would take 41 , 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 neverhaving been a similar accident at these or any other saltworks at Droitwich within recollection . * - -
The force ofthe explosion mav be judged from the fact that two carts , with the horses attached to them , Were actually blown into the river Schwarpe , and the se-ilding brine _e-scapihjr from the tanks rushed into the stream , and rendered it too hot for the hand to remain in , besides destroying the fish . ;
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THUISDER STORMS .. . Terrific Thusbbe Storm in xhb Metropolis . — The metropolis was on Sunday afternoon visited by ** 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 wa < - atits hei ght , a ball of fire fell into the yard of Mr . _Tugg , a greengrocer , No . 15 , Grace s-alley , vl ' elJdose-sqnare , 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 onter 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 ' Gome , in Well-street , had a portion of a stack of chambers thrown down , and the Tcof severely damaged . The lightning entered the shop of Mr . Cohen , a tobacconist , No . 13 , Well-street , and greatl y alarmed the inhabitants . The _lightning struck the wall surrounding the Home Park , close to the Thames , and opposite to Mrs . Morrison ' s fishing cottage , at Datchet . The brickwork was displaced and an opening made into the Park to ihe 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 London , who were proceeding in an open four-wheeled carriage to Virginia Water , met with a narrow , escape as ihey were driving along the road , by the statute of George IIL , on the summit of Snow-hill ; ihe 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 . Fortunately they fell npon the turf , and none Sustained any very serious injury .
SoMEBSEISHTBE .- _^ AwFDli _SlOBM OF 'ThoSDEB ASD Lightnd-g . — -On -Sunday morning one of the most awful storms of thunder and lightning remembered by the inhabilants . 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 tbat hour the atmosphere grew exceedingly dense , and tbe sky assumed an unusually wild appearance . Soon after nine o clock the storm buret with awful fury . The lightning , white and forked , darted from the clouds in every direction ; the thunder boomed " and
crashed , ihe rain fell in torrents , nnd 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 Ghapel School , and injured several of the children . One floor lad named "Uarcomb , whs killed on the spot , and two others lie in the most imminent danger . The _lightning broke away the _ilatework from the front of the school , after which it forced an entrance by a window , the framework of which it cat as with a hatchet . I tear that intelligence of Easy accidents will yet reach us .
Tremendous Thdsdee-stobh asd toss or Lute . _"VTELHJHrrojr , H _« n _« lay morning . —Yesterday morning a tremendous storm of thunder and _lightuiog visited this neighbourhood , and did much damage . The whole of _Saturday the weatber was excessively sultry , but yesterday-morning a light breeze sprung up , aud the sky being clear and bright np to past eight o ' clock , no thonght of thunder was _entertained . _To'var . _is nine o ' clock the _hearens became suddenly overcast , and numberless clouds w < je sera traversing the shy wilh unusual rapidity , and in opposite directions . Soon after nine o ' cloek the storm hurst forth with terrific fury _, lie forked lightning was distinctly visible even in the glare o ? daylight , and at one time a stream of lire apparently ofthe width of a man's tody was seen darting lo the earth . The electric fluid at about a quarter past nine o'clock struck a huUding occupied by . tiie Indepenbody i _> f "Dissenters as a Sunday school . Th < s children
were assembled , and had engaged in prayer ami _siuging , when one ofthe windows was suddenly dashed in , the wood work of the frame heing sh _' vered in pieces , and seven or eight of the children were thrown upou the _ground . One poor ielk . w , n _laJ of about IC years old . named Edward Harcourt , was killed upon the spot . Tiie electric fluid penetrated his breast jast over , the region of the heart , and ji . _iss _. = 1 out by his foot . He was the son of poor parents , hut a _reinarkjibl y intelligent and pious youth . Two others of the boys iie in a precarious state , and one of thrxn it is . feared _«^ _-iniiot rerover . Pruin accounts brought into tlie towu , I f .-ar tliat wo shall hear of accidents in other places . At Taunton . Mi : aty , Tiverton , and other tonus , ihe storm raged wiih fearful Violence ; and at : * ie TiicKon-ro . _td station ofthe Great _TVestern Railway an electric meteor darted across thi line , near the _lel-.-graph , within a minute or tivo of tlie passage of tlie first < _* owu train .-
_TnusDEB " 5 X 01131 at LivEaFOOL . —The thunder storm which passed orer _Livi-rjiool , on Sunday , akiut t » vo o'clock , p . m ., burst in awful viols nee ever Kirkdak- anils _ur-ighboiirhood . At " _uaiiklicid . Duotl- lt < a < l , the electric fluid struck the top of tiie chimney qf the cott ; _, _^ -., aud , _pirforating one of tbe _slaiesat the top , it , which it made a hole about _thesige ofa walnut , passed down until attract _.-d by a Hatch clock hanging in tiie _bi-drouiu , besid- ijechimney , to get at wliich it made a bole ilu ou _^ b the wall . Having melted _several cogs ofthe brass wheels " and abont half-a-dozen links ofthe _cliaiti , besides _making the whole of the works appear as though they had been znauered hot , it j : a = sc « do » vn tlie pendulum v _. ir ,-, c . ; n _:-plctely inciting it nodjipiv . _nuig the _whiic-uashcd wall at Us back , and _xlvon to a nail in the fl « - _-wr iv . w . _UwUV underneath—the wood round which « as scor . 'hrd for the space of one or two inches . Conduct- , d by " the _nal : it entered the cupbosrd in . tbe kitchen btiow . _completely " stripping- tbe mortar off the ceiling , and breaking ser « - _;> glasses ... A number of fire-iiyn suspended- _t / vtr the
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inantel-piecein the kitchen , induced it to make a hole again into the chimney at _ttw _ri _&« J _# _&«& 2 ~ r _" - _^ _fcwhlr _^ r _^ bnce more made ; a hole" in the _^ imnoy , down _^ h . eb t went for the remainder of the distance _•*•*•««* * next struck across the kitchen , made . a . hole th ough another wall into the back kitchen or scullery andfinaHy an indentation , an incS or so in depth and about the sine of what would be made by , a pistol bullet , into the outer Wall _onpoUte , at about three feet from the ground , where its force _speared tohave been exhausted .-. The cottage is one of a large number lately erected in Bankfield , by _3 Ir . _Ambrose smith , of Eden Terrace , ; and the open coartio whi ch _ltlsfiilufltft is _UnOUM ftS _J-hMWeh _Plkfie . Eskholme Street . Itis occupied by arespectable mechanic
ofthe name of William Patten , who with , his wife and children were ait ling in the kitchen at the time , haying just finished their dinner , and the escape of whom , undei ; ihe 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 minutesafter the 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 , but 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 fur nearly an hour . The storm passed out : to _sea , _ in a north-westerly direction . In addition to the aecidentB above described , we have heard of two other instances in which tbeeK ; ctiic fluid left evidence of its awful power , though happily no fatal casualty was caused thereby , in the neighbourhood of Liverpool . The lightning struck the chimney , of tbe house No . 76 , Chisanhale street , occupied by a person 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 Bbreda . tno wire-gauss Winds in the front windows . "Mr . Shaw was struck down . and rendered . in . sensible for a minute or so , and , on coming to himself , expressed his astonishment at finding that he was uninjured . - It is supposed that the upper part of the house , at least , will have to be takeni down . In Bond-street , not far from the same neighbourhood , a flag-staff on the top of Carpenter's Hall was struck ; and shivered t » pieces for about eight feet from the top * , downwards . The staff was probably thirty ftet : high from-the top of the building , whichJatter , we understand , sustained no injury . . . ibr storm lasted for two hours .
Awpnt _THUNnER _Stokmat Penwih . — 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 and clear , the sun shining brightly , and scarcely a cloud was visible to dim _jthe horizon . , Soon , after noon the air became quite sultry and overpowering , and thunder was occasionally beard at a distance . About three o ' clock tbe sky suddenly became dark and _lowering , and the clouds might he seed moving through the air iii different directions at a rapid rate . About four o ' clock daylight wns r . lmost shut' out by the sudden darkening and overbanging clouds , and about this time' an awful clap of thunder was heard , accompanied with lightning , and after a short interval one of the ' most severe and tremendnous
hail showers ' commenced that was ever witnessed by the oldest inhabitant living in the neighbourhood , and coutinued wittrunab ' ated fury for upwards of half an hour ; the hailstones were the largest ever seen , being about the sizeofa common Spanish nut ; and the streets were covered with them for some time , until the rain fell in torrents , ' _During the continuance of this severe hailstorm tbe thunder continued in one continuous and awful roll , no interval between each peal intervening ; aud the air seemed _^ _literally in one electric flame oi-fire , flash sue ceedingUash withont any intermission during the ' eontinuauce of the storm . '* The fury of the tempest did not last above an hour , bnt dnring that time most of the" streets at
Penrith were sheets of water , and the dwelling houses in low situations were mostly inundated . We have not as yet heard of any damage done by the lightning , bnt a considerable number of skylights 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 ofthe neighbourhood have been destroyed _cr damaged by the severity ofthe storm . It is supposed that great darange will have been done to the standing crops in the country by the hail-storm ; but as yet we have not heard tbe particulars . Jt is only about a . week since the mountains overhanging Keswick : were covered-with snow , which' seems very extraordinary , at this season of ' the year . . ' . ¦'" ' _" ..
Hubbicane ix Russia . —St . _Fetebibdbgb , Jone 22 , —News bas been received from the interior ofa tremenduous hurricane along the banks-of the Wolga _, which destroyed between 100 , 000 and 150 . 000 chetwertsi of flour , rye , wheat , linseed , & c , which were destined for this place . The loss is vcrygreat . - ' " The _Weaibes _. ih Paeis . — _^ _Mln the memory of man , " says the Preste , " theheat was never so oppressive in Paris as it was on Sunday . At twelve o ' clock on Saturday night the centigrade thermometer marked 24 deg . 5-10 tbe above zero ; at six in the morning of Sunday , 21 deg . _S-lOths- ; at Koon , 33 deg . _4-lOtbs . ; and at two o ' clock , 3 S deg . 2-10 ths . " "My thermometer spoke truly yesterday , " says tbe correspondent of-tbe Times in his letter ot Monday ; " the beightli it marked ( 28 deg . ' of Reaumur , ) at the moment when I closed my letter , appeared so .
incredible that I . expressed doubts . at its correctness . Within doors we felt warm , but it is ' not possible to describe in credible language the natnre of tbe heat that prevailed without , and which was by many degrees _murrthan 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 _gradually the heat declined until at seven o ' clock , in an elevated situation in the neighbourhood « f Paris , you would have felt inclined to button your coat . During thejnigbt the heat continued to diminish , and at the moment at which I write , two o ' cloek , we have on _' y 23 deg . of _centigrade ; : or 73 or 74 of Fahrenheit ; sufficiently warm certainly , but 23 or 24 deg . of _Fahrenheit less , than at the _t-ame hour yesterday . It . now rain ? , and we shall have a storm , so that a further diminution of temuerature may be expected . " ' '
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_DABIXG KOBBEMES IH THE SEW "POItEST . . The villages of Ilampworfh , No-man ' s-Land , Plaitford , & c . have been greatly excited during the past wt ' ekowing to the above-named circumstances . On the morning of Tuesday last , as Mr , John Miles , a butcher of Southampton , was proceeding to Salisbury from that place , between two and three o ' clock in the morning , and when between two well-known publichouses _, about a mile apart , the Red Rover and the Fighting C ' _.-cks , in the neighbourhood of _Plabford , two men , dressed in smock frocks , rushed from the edge , and stopped his horse , and succeeded in robbing hini 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 Ilampworfh , named Rice , and inquired ofthe wife if her husband was at home , and on being told he would shortly return , asked permission to sit down and await bis arrival . Mrs .. Rice , allowed him to do so , aud in a few minutes afterwards , the sailor desired her not to be alarmed , and she 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 _wunian told him lo desist aud 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 reuewed hi < - threau , but Mrs . Rice declaring it to be all she
_lisd , he then left ber , previously saying , that if she told tiny one of it for two hours he would return in the night aud burn her house down . . The sailor then left , and _-.- ( soon as he was out of _siirht she run to a _lieij-hbuur _' a house and gave the alarm , whereupon two stout young men started in pursuit of the robber , and in a little time observed at a distanco a man answering the description given of the sailor by Mrs . yRice .. They ran , and the sailor saw them , and took to his heels . A vigorous race followed ; the sailor lied to tbe w-. _> ods , aud bis pursuers close behind him . At length they overtook liim ; u struggle , ensued , and they took bim into custody , when , to their great surprise , tliey found him to be a man who was born in the very parish of llampworth , ' and when a child was a near neighbour to the person he had just _robbed . He bas lately landed at Portsmouth from sea , where he had been sonic years . His name iaiBldridge .
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DREADFUL MURDERS . MURDER OF A CARRIER ONPAPFLEWICX FOREST , NEAR SOtTlSGBA . il . _Xottinghasi , Mosdat . —A report reached tbis town , on Sunday evening , tbat a man bad been found a lew hnurs before , murdered upon Papplewick _forest , a distance of eight miles from tln > town at " . "Nottingham . On looking- at the body , which lay iu a stable , little doubt existed in ths minds ofall _k 1 \ o saw it that a foul'murder _ha-1 been committed . On the left cheek was a large uo-md , nearly two indies in length , and of considerable depth , and auot _' _i _. ir on the _jugular vein , from which a auautity of blood had flowed . The corpse was that of William Robinson , aged 54 years , a carrier in the employ of Mrs . Smith of M ; _uunild . From the evidence
given _atacorontrsmqu'st , convened on view ofthe body tins morning , it appeared that on Saturday last Robinson sol out as usual in _Hemoniiii" irom M . ititfn . ld to Kol tir . ghiinV with liis _wagg-sn and three horns , and in the _eveuimt left , in company will * an agricultural , labourer , _IK-ury Sbrphard ol * _d' . verton . Tliey set out of _Xotiiiij ; - ijam : il ball-pHSt . sis o ' clock , and _according to _Slu-pbard ' s _ar-.-oimt deceased got out at the _u-iluh mile stout with _hisdws _, sajing lie would _o-. ertv . Ue the wufgou . As lie had not done so when Shephanl . r _> . ached the " Hut , *' the _latfc'r . waited tlnre au hour , wlien the landlord , Mr . _ile-dey , adwul him togooa to _Mausliehi , which he did , aud on bis arrival with the v . aggun at Mrs . Smith ' s ( deceased ' s mistress . ) Samuel Towurow , a neighbour to the
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carrier , was _oalled up , and _roquested'"by Mrs . Robinson _^ _M _^ I _^^ J _^ J _^ J _^ S _^ i } 1 ha did , ' ' and on _rcachmg-the eigM mift _ston _^ onn 8 " _^ on his back _npon the road , with his face , covered with blond , ' and ; quite dead . He . lay about two yards from the centre . ofthe read , and from the marks Lis corduroy _trowrtrs had made , he appeared to have been dragged two _br three yards and left . ' _,-.. _; , _...-. ' ... ° :. ! Shepbardwas brought before the Coroner , and told his . title . Two Or three spotsof bloodiwere foundinside upon the lining , andhis shirt was very dirty on tbe right sleeve
and shoulder , and on the wristbands a little blood ., He accounted for these marks- hy . _stattug that the y were made while fighting wllb a servant man on the preceding Thursday . It appears that for twenty-five years Sbep _^ bard has borne a good character , and left his situation on the day he fought , liis mutter , Mr . Haughton ,-of Euttal _. paid him £ 3153 , the balance ofhis wages , ns he bad previously received 30 s ., Themnnnerdn which Shepbard made hisstatoment , the circumstance of being lame , and a much smaller man than Robinson , gave nn impression : much in bis favour . . . . The . inquest was adjourned . . * ,
FURTHER PARTICULARS . _~ . . , , _, . _-- ¦¦'¦' . _¦ -- ¦¦ :-. Nottingham , Tuesday . " - A searching and rigid inquiry into tlte ' circumstances connected with the death of "Wiliiam Robinson , whose body wa _~ foimd ' in a mangled state on OapplewicU-forest , took place before "C . Swain , Esq ., Coroner . - ! ,- •• ' V '' ' ! ' The facts _deviloped _, ' though leading the Jury to return a verdict different to what was anticipated , aire not so satisfactory as could be wished , as the principal' witness , Heiiry ' _Shephej-d , who accompanied Robinson' from ¦ Nottingham , ' has evidently been telling untruths , ' owing to some cause not easily to be defined : After giving the history ofhis proceedings on Saturday , prior to meeting Robinson in Nottingham , and setting out with him for Mansfield , he related several particulars diffcrentto what be had stated on the previous day , and lie _denied that any _^ quarrel had taken place ' between himself and Robinson . ' ' ' . '
Jane _Widnall , wife of Robert Widnall _, of Mrs . "Robinson's , Forest House ,- _Bflid , that about half-past nine o ' clock on Saturday night last , I saw a waggon drawn by three horses going along the Mansfield road , and I heard a man say , " What are you reproaching me ! 'for ; " and another , man _replied , ' . 'I am not aggravating . you , " and then'the first man said , - "If you _aggravate me any _Imore I will get off the waggon and walk , ' , ' and the man then got off the waggon and unfastened his dog , and then he " got upon the waggon again and they drove on . It . was about -half a mile before they got to Sherwood Lodge Farm ;; : ; . ~ n : > - A - ' ¦ i : _. ¦ _¦ r , _ . :. _;; , n .- . ,. - ; .. ; _.-. _;;
_--: ! The principle witness afflicting the verdict was Thomas Lightfoot , Esq ., M . D ., of Nottingham , who _eaiA-rl ' bave this day examined the body with _MtvFrost _. _andcxternally we found the back part of the right ear considerably lacerated ,- Tbere was also a bruise above and below the ear , about the size of half-a-crown . Ontheleft side ofthe face we observed three bruises . varying from two . to three inches in length , slight , ecchymosis on _, the under _qurface ofthe left eye . . . There . were a number , of _t scratches on the fore part ofthe right shoulder , as likewise one or two bruises .- The second and third fiugers on the left hand were broken at their first joints ; . the hands were clenched . On the Tight and left side of the abdomen I observed considerable ecchymosis , extendiug dowa onch side ef the fore and inner surface ofthe thighs , to the peritoneum . A contused grazed wound , for three or four inches in length , _« n the fore part of _^ the . right thigh ,. running in an oblique direction ,-and commencing from ; about three offpur inches from the bend of the body . He then described the internal
injuries ; the second , third , fourth , fifth , sixth , and seventh ribs ,. on : tha right side being , broken , and other parts affected . . _J _^ e tliought . 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 . dace snch , but there was no . external mark on the surface of the body , ; they might bE prpduced . by being jammed in between two . bodies _^ ' such as being squeezed between the wheels and the body of a waggon . There is 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 bis jacket and whip were found , if he bad been injured , close to the spot _jWhere 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 to bear upon th * 8 case , to show how thei deceased received 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 _pttSBrog along the highway . "
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MURDER AT KiNETOH _" , Vf ARVflCKSHIRE . Leaminqtoi * , Monday Evening . Another murder .-which is Involved in equally as much mjst _« ry as that which occurred at Berkeswell _, 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 ocenrrence has caused the greatest consternation in the town and neighbourhood where the deceased ( William Chater ) was well known—being an unmarried blacksmith and machine maker , aged 53 , residing at Combrook , near Kineton , with a decrepid mother of above 80 yeaTS of age , who had been confined to her bed for the past ten years . An inquest upon the body was taken before C . _Green-. _-iway , Esq ., Coroner , this day , at the Swan Inn , Kineton , when we gathered the annexed particulars . ¦
Chater came to Kineton . ' . bout 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 _ihtinding to go home . - ' -Between eleven and twelve o ' clock , the son of Martin "Wisdom , a carrier from Kineton to Birmingham , was going to meet his father ' s return-cart , found deceased , Chater , ' lying by the road side , but as he had been drinking 'with him " m tho 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 morning ; and finding him still lying there , both father and son examined aud found bim insensible and speechless , bleeding profusely from the mouth , and much injured about the h < ad . Theygi * " * an instant alarm in Kineton , by calling ud the constable ( _Bawcott ) and Mr . Brown , the surgeon , who , finding Chater so seriously injured , had him conveyed speedily to the Rose nnd Crown , where he continued in an insensible state until his jdecc . ise , which occurred about eight o ' clock on . Friday morning . ' : _"; ' : ; r - ; _-.,. "' ..
Mr . Brown , the surgeon , gave it lis his decided opinion that the injuries deceased had received must have been caused by a severe blew with some heavy blunt instrument ; it was , he added _, quite impossible tbey could have been caused by a fall , or in any " way could the deceased havo inflicted them * himself . ' Portions of the skull which had heen forced intoi the brain by the blow , were produced to tbe jury . Thc hat and coat of Chater were produced by the constable ; thu left side of the coat ' was dirty , as if from a fall ; the injuries tbe deceased bad received wore chiefly on the right side . Thrce . halfpenee was found in his picket and an empty purse , also some soap , it has since been proved be bbughtat Kineton . A parcel _containinrr coffee _was-burst , and most of it spilt around the _si'Ot whereon he was lying ; also a piece of deal wood , which he took with him from the same _placr , was lying by bim , and his stick which was broke . Thejury returned a verdict— " Wilful murder against gome pr-rson orpersons unknown . " -
_ThodccQased is supposed to-have had little or no monp . y abont bim , no watch , ov other valuables . Three _shillincrt and sixpence is the sum sa'd to have been in bis possession when he left bis home at Combrook in the mernin 2 : and this was proved to havo beeu nearly all spent at Kineton , therefore , if the object of the villains was plunder they must l _. avo been disappointed .
Shocking Murder In Ireland. The Newry Te...
SHOCKING MURDER IN IRELAND . The Newry Telegraph gives the following account of an appalling murder in Cavan : — " A terrible outrage , which ended in murder , occurred on Monday , on the lands of _Derrycraphan , near Bclturbet . Three men came to the house of Tom Burns , dragged him out of his bed , in which were his wife and three children , ono carrying him by the feet , the other two b y bis arms , and murdered him in a most cold-blooded manner . Two oi the ruffians held Burns by bis r . rms against a table at his owii room door , while the third deliberately groped
for his-sbort ribs , and discharged a pistol filled with duck shot ? The shot spread upwards , and 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 boknew and identified . They are now in ' Cavan gaol . Their names are Smith , Farrelly . and Keilly , who tired the shot . Burns bad ceased to worshi p as a Roman Cathulic , attended the Church of England , and \\ _M \ given information respecting Ribbonism , for which he has been murdered . "
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CHILD MURDER . ¦ On Monday afternoon , Mr . IV .. Baker , jun ., deputy coroner , held an inqutst at tlie Town of ltnmsgatc , 1 Y " apuing ,. on the body ofa _new-boru _feinale child , whieh was found in the river Thnuus on Saturday morning last , lt appeared from thc evidence of James Legon , thu son of a waterman ,-that on Saturday-morning lie was rowing ofi" Union Stairs , when he observed something filiating astern on a barge , lie _rcpiiiicd to tlie spot , and found it to be tlio body of a new bt . rn infant , and convoyed it ashore iu his boat to Mr . Marshall , the beadle- Mr . Cooke , a surgcou , in High-street , Wappiug , had examined the body , and from the appearance lie should say it was born alive ; and aitcrwards drowned . The jury returu"d a verdict of ' ¦ Wilful murder against some person or persons _unkiiuwn . "
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_IIOllIUI'LE MURDER OF A _i'OIilCIlMAN . Daoesiiaji , Saturday Evening , July i . A most atrocious murder was _commu ted in tbo coun of last week at "Dagcuham _, in thc- count y of Essex ,
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' _^ _Thejfollowlng _jpart _' culars _;^ collected by the reporter on _-thffspbt where ' the ' murdeir took place , may be relied on ¦ * as _*^ i * n _^ _lFacH 5 _^ e _7 ' ' - ' _" _- _^ " ¦ ' _^ - _^ . _?^^ " * i _^^"! " _ ¦ ¦ _-, _¦;« __ .
' The unfortunate victim was a . constable of _, the K' . division , ' named George Clarke . He was about 20 years of age , and had only been a short time in the force , and a few months stationed at Dagcnham . His conduct ., had been most exemplary , and his steadiness appeared to give satisfaction not only to the police authorities but to the village generally . On the Mth . or 16 th of May last Clarke was appointed ; to night duty on the beat _wherelis met with bis death ; succeeding a constable named Batfoy ,, K 140 , ' well known ns being a vigilant officer ...- The beat commenced at a place called , the Four Wants ;( cross _, roads leading _to'Bagenham ,, Ilford , Hornchurch _,, and Cliignell ) , and extended a considerable distance along _, unfrequented roads , having deep ditches on either side , covered with duckweed , some parts of theheat being extremely lonely . ' .. ; _.:.-. ' : .- _,- ;• -. ¦ :- ' ¦ _¦ ¦¦; .
On Monday nig ht last , at nine o ' clock , the deceased and three other men were marched from the Dagenbam station to go on duty , the deceased being left as usual by his ' sergeant at _" the Four _^ "Wants . . The following morning , at one o ' clock _. ne was , met by Sergeant Parsons , between the , Three Wants ( roads to Barking , Dagenham _, and Ilford ) and ' ! the , Cottages , " that being the . proper time for thedeceased in accordance with his duty to be there . It was also his duty to bare been at . this spot at three O ' clock the . same morning , but onythe 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 mqrnin j , when the other men came off duty , the poor , fellow wa ? not among them , and then gome , anxiety was . _manif . _sted . 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 Woburi ; , Bedfordshire , to the deceased man ' s mother , inquiring if he had returned home , to which a reply was returned 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 beiiigdiscovered . . _., _-, - ,,.. ,, „; . . _% ..
Throughout , the whole of Wednesday , Thursday ,, and Friday tbe search was continued , and _, it was not until lite pn Friday evening . that the . body was . found in the manner , and in the horrible condition subjoined , The constables having failed in finding , tho . body ofthe der ceased in the water , commenced searching the . porn , ami 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 unpleasant smell in tbe 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 . T his circumstance left no doubt that tbe body was not far off , a fact more strongly supported Jb y this discovery , at no considerable distance of a police cutlass sticking in the
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 eor vered with blood that scarcely a single feature was discernible , ; Mr , Collins , a surgeon , residing in the neighbom-hood , was sent , 'for to examine the wounds of the deceased before the body was removed from the fiold . The result was that the whole of the back- part , of the poor fellow ' s head was found completely beaten in . Tbere were other dreadful injuries , and the brutal- murderers had absolutely resorted to the horrible practice , only hitherto known among savages , of scalping their unr fortunate victim . The scalp was lying by the side of the body ,, and with such violence had the deceased being thrown to the ground , that , n _^ _otwithstandiDgitsffardnesV , occasioned . by the dryness of the weather , the body had
made a complete indentation . The corpse was with much difficulty removed to the ruins of an 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 tbe throat several inches ' in length presented itself , besides several othera , and tbe thick leather stock was found to be cut through in several places . Tb _« re tree also a wound passing completely through the neck from the right to the left ( corresponding with the cuts ib the stock ) , precisely similar to those made by butchers in the sticking 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 the spine , as also a similar wound on tbe shoulders . The forefinger of the deceased's lefthand 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 aquarter ofa mile from the main road leading tollomford , and tbe 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 where the body was found leaven no doubt on tho mind of any one but that the struggle between tbo unfortunate constable and bis assailants must have been of a most desperate character . The corn is trodden downfor a distance of 10 or 12 yards around where the body lay in every direction , and here . aad there are to be seen several patches and spots of blood ; ths poor fellow , too , was found to have a
quantity of wheat tightly grasped in his right band . Along the side . of tht 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 _fcliuht 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 w . iy the murderers left after the * perpetration of the deed . The dryness of the . weather prevents the trace of footsteps , but the police , itis 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 to encounter with tho murdered man . ' . ' . ' .. _'
From tl : _» appearance of the staff and the cutlass itwould seem tbat the deceased was deprived of the former weapon early in the contest with bis assailants , and that , finding it used against him , he had defended himself with his cutlass until he received a dreadful blow on the front of the head , which was cut to the bone , and by which he was deprived of his senses . ' That . there , was . more than one person _engaged in themurdortherecannotbethe slightest doubt , as th .- deceased was too powerful a young man for any individual , armed as he was , to have coped with , and it will be r « ncmb . red , moreover , that there were three _« r four different sorts of weapons used in killing him ..
On Saturday , at the Ilford Betty _Sessions ,. the details ofthe shocking occurrence were laid before tho bench of magistrate * , who directed the police to use every , vigilance in the capture of the murderers . It appears that . many complaints have been made by the foot police in tho rural districts that tbey arc not ( like the horse patrol ) allowed to carry . fire-arms , and this cose is adduced as a proof of the strong necessity which exists for introducing the practice . The _Ikqubst . —At two o ' clock on Saturday afternoon the inquest on the remains was . commenced br-fore Mr . C . C . Lawis , coroner for South Essex , at a cottage uear the "Three Wants , " in the parish of Dagenham , and near the spot where the body was ljiug . After the jury had viewed the body , the following evidence was given : — Thomas Kimpton _, K 340 , proved the finding of the body , as already stated .
Abia Butfoy . 210 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 we cannot publish , lest we might frustrate the ends of justice . ¦ Sergeant _IVillium Parsons , K 35 , deposed : On Monday night last , -1 marched the deceased on duty at nine o ' _clack , ah : l left him at ahout twenty minutes after , at the " Four Wants . "'I saw him again , either a little before or a little after one o ' clock on Tuesday moniing , between tin-Wants and the cottage , which was the proper time for him to be there . I proceeded on to his beat at three o ' cloek , the time be should be at tbe same spot agniu , aud then missed him . I went in search of him round bis heat , b « c could not find hira . Last night I was searching- for him in the adjoining field to where he was found , and on bis being discovered , I went to the spot on the men shouting out . His rattle was found in his great coat
pocket , and from thc position in which be w s found , it _appears impossible that lie could have made any alarm . 1 saw a wound on the back part of thc head , so largo that you could put your finger into it , another on the upper pari of the head , apparently dime with a staff or some blunt heavy instrument , and a stab on his left shoulder . After lie was removed , we saw tbat his stoek was cut ihnnv . 'li . and on its being removed , wc saw ! i very severe cut in his lii'ck . ( The stock . produced was comph-tcl y i > ntviri \ tttt \ with _bluoii . ) Under tlie right ear tlnre wns another _dec-p cut . The wound ou the back part of the bead was no doubt done with tlio cutlass , that in tlio * throat and under the ear by some sharp culling instrument ; tho one ou tho upper part of the head hy some blunt weapon . A great portion of his hair was lying by the side ofhis bod y , and the fijre . _fingsrof his left hand wits cut through near tho joint , A juror—Did you find any portions of bis skull ?
Witness — Yes . After dnjlight this morning I examined thc ground , and found a hu ge quuutily of blood about six inches : from where the bod y lay , and i mriiihu of liisbkutl . Some of the pieces of skull were so firmly emb-.-dded in the earth tbat 1 was compelled to use | a knife to cut them out , Thero can be uo doubt about i the skull l ) ehi _£ broken to _pb-ces wilh a ' lrimeiieuu . U ! must be evident Unit the deceased had been decoyed into j thu spot where he was found for the purpose of murdering him . It was the second field from the road . Thirc is _suiliciciit room ou each sido ot tho field for people to i walk without _trcaiHi'K down ths wheat . The deceased ' s
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clothes or pocket bad not been disturbed . In one ofhis pockets was found four half-crowns , four shillings , and a great-coat was as light round , his , throat as possible . Mr . J . _Collinsj ofKomfbrd _^ Siirg ' eon , " said—Last evening , about ; _hnlf-past eight . " o ' clock ,, I _was / . caUod to see deceased . <¦ I examined his head , and found a large opening in hi ? skull six or eight inches in circumference . - Tbe . scalp was cut off , and lying by the side 8 f th e body . The " wound I have ' mentioned would of itself have produced 1 death . Such a weapon as the truncheon how produced would have caused such a wound . ,. A person with ' such a wound as that eould not have lived longer . than . threeor
four minutes . Portions of the bone -Yhioh wore _brohen in , could not be 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 neek , extending down to his spina . Therb was a hole on the top of his bead , where the scalp bad been taken off , penetrating nearl y through the bone , and 'done with a cutlass or some ¦ uch instrument . ' On removing hie leather stock , a deep wound was found , the , windpipe and theroot of the tongue being cut . through , and extending to the vertebrse , Under the ear there was another wound , extending
horizontally , Varid . coming out' on the other side'bf-the ncclf , jiist ' as you would'stick ; a sheep , Either of the wounds would have ' c ' ausejd instant ' ' deah . ; The faee ' _ap- pear ed very much briiised , as also the ' chest , but ' the body ' was in 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 iii his throat ' must have _beendotie with a sharp double edged knife . In concluding his evidence , Mr . Cdlliiu _' said' he had come across Mr . ColIier _* a wheatfield that morning , and he thought he' could trace marks' of scuffling in different parts . : "'
_; Sergeant Pearson said that had been done in ' searehtng 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 , tbe police on duty having refused her to do so , in consequence of the bad * state it was _Iiil ' The Coroner ' saidhehad no power to prevent lier from " seeing it , but he thought it would hot be advisable to do' so as she would not be able to recognise him . ' She begged so earnestly to see tlie body , as the deceased was lief only son , that her application was granted . She had one look but that sufficed , she . was carried away in a state of insensibility . , " . ' . > ; '' - * . . "' ' . ' : \ _- '• : _>^ : _^ ' ¦ '"
-, _POBTHEB PABTICOllABe .- _^ _riiGESHAM _, _MoNPAT EVEN- ! iu . " . —The painful interest manifested in ' the fate of the unfortunate victim of this horrible and ' atrocious murder , throughout the whole of yesterday considerably ini . creased , and a large number of the inhabitants' from Komford , Ilford , Barking , _Chigwell , _Ilornchureh , and the surrounding villages ,. visited Dagenham for the purpose , of viewing the scene of assassination ., _ . , . . / immediately ; after the . ' c ' onciusibn of'the inquest on * the body of the unfortunate _^ riiaii Clark e ' on Saturday evening , an active _/ search" was instituted by the police in the corn fieldbelongiiig 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 thin circumstance it was generally supposed that the deceased must , in the
first instance , have been assaulted * and then followed his assailants to the field where he was found murdered . Al ' _thoiigh ' the spot' aiid _^ he adjoining fields-were ' minutely ' searched , ' it wan'hot until Sunday evening that the -hat-was discovered . ' - It was ' then found by a labouring manj named'Thomas ' , Palmer , lying amongst"the wheat , ' about twelve or'fourteen " yards ' from where-the body bad 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 either have knocked deceased ' s hat off with so powerful a blow as 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 riot being injured in the slightest degree , and aiso ' that when found the deceased ' s _handkerohiefwasinit . _i -, ¦ ¦¦ . ¦ . ¦ _,-- _> ¦ '<
_.-J-Onreceipt _^ of the intelligence _» f-the outrage . at _Scotland-yard , two of themost active , officers of the detective police force-were sent down to Dagenham , and , after viewing the place where the murder had-, occurred , and making , themselves thoroughly masters of all ' the circumstances wlieh 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 the suspected murderers . During Sa . turday evening the various public-houses and beer-shops were _vistcd by the police in plain clothes , and their occupants _subjefeted to a very scrutinising inspection , it
being believed that : in the desperate struggle i 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 . tue 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 tho period of writing this no one had been apprehended on the charge ; still several notorious characters living in this part of tho county of Essex were under tha strict surveillance ofthe police . , w ; : '
With reference to the causes which had induced the murder , it is the opinion of every one residing near the 6 pot , 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 bas rendered himself obnoxous to some of the notorious characters in the nei ghbourhood by bringing them up frequently before 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 chargedwith having a quantity bf brass and metal in his possession without being able to account for it . The magistrates , in consequence of tbere being some pewter pots belonging to publicans in the . neighbourhood amongst the metal , inflicted a small fine , and-advised the accused to he more careful for the future .
On the morning ofthe murder , a _wom-m named Page , who was present at the ' iiinuest 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 the-continual barking of the dogs prevented her from hearing anything more distinctly .
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Sodden Dkath ur Dxu . _vkiko when Heated ;—We last week , rep ' orloda '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 tlie Greenock-road ; had been so thirsty , owing - to the great heat , that he went into a public-house and got a bottle of porter , hut 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 the -Stump and Magpie , Fetterlane , touching the death of John Stafford , aged 44 , coachman , in , the employ of Mr . Chancellor ) ' " 'the large omnibus proprietor . John Ilnbbanl _, 3 , Wellsstreet , Falconer-square , said tliat about nine o ' clock on Saturday night , he was passing along Holbo' _-n , nnd saw a Chelsea omnibus , numbered 2 , 203 . . travelling down the hill - ' towards New gate-street , and when about midway tlie deceased fell from the ' box into the road , with his feet towards tbe horses' beads . He was driving atthe time , _anti there were several other persons on the outside of the vehicle , lie was removed to Mr . Gibson ' s , the 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 iu an apoplectic fit , and thus the accident . :. Verdict— "Natural Death . "
Frightful Accident my MACUisEnv . —On Monday evening-, as one of the men in the employ of Messrs . Essfex and Son , leather manufacturers , Stanhopestrcet , was forcing the tan through the engine , his hand was- caught in the works , and ere he could release himself , his arm was drawn into the machinery . His cries quickly attracted the attention ofhis fellow workmen , some of whoni ' hastened to his relief . . The wretched sufferer was held by the cog wheel which caught his arm close to the shoulder . The other workmen in vain endeavouved t » extricate liim with crowbars , and by taking the maehine ' _vy-to
pifces . Dr . Walsh , who had arrived , having-found ; that the arm was only retained by iv few sinews , the-1 bones , « fcc , having been crushed- to pieces , with the advice of some . _wthc-r medical _gentk-nxin , severed tlie arm nnd thus released thc sulk-rev-, who wns instantly removed to _Kind ' s College Hospital in ' a cab , when Mr . Ferguson , aided by the other _surgeons . , amputated the remainder , of the avm from the shoulder joiut , to prevent mortification , 'the . poor fellow , -who-is about thirty years of age , and has a wife , and one child , bore hit-sufferings without a gsoan , but we regret to add that he lies _wUh very faint hopes of recovery .
_Asotbek . Steam Boat Accident . —On Sunday afternoon -the ' _r ' _-ybil _, a steam-packet , \ _ieloagiug ti the Old "Woolwich Steam-packet Company , in attempting to land her _passengers over a slight stage _throwium the deck of the Watcrwitch , Hull _st-can silt' ) , _aloiigsid 9 Fresh-Wharf , precip itated six o : seven persons into tho wn tor . The men saved them selves by scrambling up the paddle- wheel of tin Watcrwitch , and the women were taken out of th river by numerous watermen and others . Fortu natelv no lives were lost , but tlio whole of the _peopl who were thrown into tho river were in very gvea danger .
Melancholy _Occvbue-scb at a Gentleman ' s I siiiexcis . —Yesterday , Mr . T . Wakley , M . P .. held inquest at the London University OoUeae llospii nn view ofthe bod y of Sarah YYhitehctuT a « cdsp Rubert _lovell _Hvaus _, F . iti _., ' 7 _, MwamgtoaVW
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stated tliat the deceased had been in his employ * _% housekeeper , and , notwithstanding 'her age ,- she ea joyed _. e _^ . cellen _^ ea ) th .,,,, On the jnornin _^' _o-f the 21 th ' uR . " ~ _about' nine o ' clock , " witness" was sitting in tha front parlour with " 'a gentleman on a visit at his _esta blishruent , when they were ; suddenly alarmed by tha screams of deceased , who having got near the _kitchen fire , a lighted cinder fell from the grate , and ignited her dress . Before _^ witness . or any other per . son could get to her assistance , she was so frightfully burned as to render , her removal . to-the hospital ne » _cessary . The house surgeon-said that death _was th * result ofthe injuries- ; . she expired on the 3 rd instant and the body - presented a most « pr > alling spectacle . Other evidence having been adduced , the Jury rel turned a-verdict of Accidental Death . >
_Suicinu in a Workhouse !—On Monday evening Mr . rW . Payne Held an inquest . in St . George ' s Workhouse , Mint-3 freet , Southwark , on the bod y . of John _Bafiton , aged twenty-two years , late an inmate of the ' above workhouse . The deceased had been a casual inmate for the la 9 t six years , He was p laced in the . casual ward on Saturday night last , and by some neglect on the part of the officer on duty , hi * name was not inserted in the Destitute Book ,, and was not missed . On . 'Sunday .-night last , about nine o ' clock , he was discovered suspended to an iron bap over , the doorway of the ward . He wag cut down by a Mr . Brown , a publican , and was seen bythe'bous _* surgeon ( Mr . Evans ) , but , life was quite "' extinct , Deceased was quite naked , but there were no marks of violence on the body . Iii e obtained a livelihood by
carrying a board in the streets . Mr . _HenrjiEvang was of opinion that-the deceased had been dead Som * houM-probably the whole of tbe day . ! The jury , returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . -. '¦ . " ¦ ' . ' ,. A Cab-driver Killed . — On Monday morning , about-two o ' clock ,, a cab was overturned in tha Hampstead-road , near Chalk Farm-lane , by running on a Dink ' -by the roadside , and the cab-driver waa pitched from his seat into the road , and killed in * _stantantaneausly . The poor fellow , was found lying with the shaft of the cab resting upon him , arid he did not move after he was . discovered . It is supposed that he was returning from setting down a tare at Hampstead , and that having fallen asleep , the horse , which was a blind one , ran on to the bank . ,
Death _bv-Machinerv . —On Friday an inquest waa held at Redruth , on view of the body of John Carpenter , who was killed at Curn Brea Mine on the preceding day , in consequence of the fly wheel : of the . whin engine getting iii contact with his ' _ctotHpag . by which means he . was forced down a narrow-aperture about eight inches wide and crushed to death . The unfortunate man has left a widow and seven children unprovided for . ' Verdict , _' Accidental Death . " "' ;; y ' , ' : _i y _, y : _' ; . y . ' Fatal Accident to a Mounted Police-Cosstablb , —On Monday an inquest was held before Mr . G . C ;
Lewis , one ofthe 'Coroners ; , for Essex , on the . body of George Hall , a p ' plic & _cpnstable lately . attached to the mounted patrol of the K division , on the Essex roads ; -On Friday last , the deceased was upon duty drihorseback in the vicinity , and owing to the heat of the ; weather in the early part of the day , and the fatigue he underwent , he complained of illness in the evening . He was on his way home , when the horse took fright near Ilford , aiul he was thrown with great violence on the ground . He received a concussion of the brain , and died a few hours after . He had been recently married , and was only twenty-four years of age ; - ¦ _"'•/"* . - ¦ ¦ :.,.
¦ i Fire at-Poplar On Sunday forenoon , after eleven o clock , a fire , that at one period threatened the most disastrous consequences , broke out at No . 6 , . Trinity Almshouses , North-street , Poplar ; the property of Messrs ' Wigram and Green , the shipbuilders , but in tbe occupation of Mr . Palmer . The flames originated from some cause that could not be ascertained , on the ground-floor- front , and so firm a hold had they _obtained-before discovered , that on the return of the - occupier to the room ( after the absence of nbt . moro than _^ ve ' minutes ) he found the place wrapped in one _camplete blaze . . The engines were speedily on the spot ,, and the-fire was : soon extinguished , but not before that part of the premises where'it originated was burnt out , and the furnitur * destroyed . . " " _*"
A Dreadful Accident occurred on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway , on Saturday , near the village of Clifton , on the border of Westmoreland . -It ' appears that workmen' were employed removing a wooden viaduct , about 103 feet high , and of considerable length , constructed over the river Lowther , when on lowering one ofthe beams suspended by an iron chain , by some mishap the chain broke and the beam swung against another on which two young m ' en'na _' med Stout and Guardhouse , both natives of Penrithr were astride at work , and precipatated
them a depth of sixty feet and upwards . One -of the men was picked up in an almost lifeless state and expired shortly after he was conveyed home . The other , iWho fell iuto the water , was taken up alive ; but faint hopes are entertained ofhis recovery , and it lias been reported that he also ia dead . The accidents on this line seem much on the increase : on Friday a young man named Westmoreland had both his legs fractured most severely , a loaded waggon of earth having run overhim , and only at a short distance from the former accident , and it is not above ten days since three men were killed on the line between Penrith and Heaket . I " ..
Death of . a Jewess from the' Excessive Heat Ot the Weather . —On Monday , Mr ; Wakley , M . P ., held an inquest at the Crown and Anchor , Kingstreet , Seven Dials , respecting the Death of Mrs . Sarah Simon , aged fifty-three " , lately residing at No . 43 , in the same street . The deceased , who was the wife of a salesman at Devonport _, and of the Jewish persuasion , complained , on Saturday last , very much of the heat , which greatly affected her health , and about eleven o ' clock the same evening she suddenly changed" in her countenance , gave a deep sigh , and expired . Two medical gentlemeu were immediately called in , but life was totally extinct , and their opinion being that it was from the effects of the hot weather , the Jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death . _•* - '"¦ - ' " - _" >• ¦ *
Fatal Accident ; on Board the Ariel ( a new steam ship belonging to the Peninsular Steam Packet Company , fitting for sea at Depcford , )—On Sunday evening , shortly before seven o ' clock , a frightful accident occurred to John Wallace , superintending engineer , in the employ of Messrs . Penn and Son , whilst directing the fixing in of a pair of oscillating engines of . 300-horse power . The deceased was in the act of stooping when his head came , in contact with the balance weight of the cylinder , ' which in an instant crushed it acainst the overflow , or water pipe . The head was compressed to a thickness - of about two inches , smashing nose and eyes together . The remains ofthe poor fellow were released with some difficulty , and removed on board the Dreadnought Seaman ' s Ilospital Ship . The surgeon said death must have ensued at thc instant of the accident , the bones of the head nnd skull being literally broken to nieces . Wallace has left a wife , but no " children , to lament his untimely fate . ,
Fatal Accident ' at Rochester . ' —Oh . Monday at midday a small bout , yacht rigged , was observed from Rochester bridge , sailing on tbe Watery of the Med way nnder heavy canvass . When nearly oppos _* 'te to ' the Castle , the wind blowing fresh , on a sudden she capsiscd , _iiiuTthe two men that were in her were seen struggling in the water , and before assistance could be procured they had sunk . The bodies were picked up about three hours after the accident , by George Ladbury . a waterman , and liis brother , by the application of creepers . The names . of the men whose lives are lost ave Henry Macphersona
, married man , aged 34 . living in St . Margaret ' s , in this city , and Joseph William Dives , aged 19 , a native of that _i-Iacc . Maepherson could swim very well , and it ia supposed that endeavouring to save his companion , whom-he found to be drowning , he lost his own life . The body of the young man Dives was taken to the Queen ' s Arms , at the foot of the brid ge , and the other was conveyed to St . Margaret ' s , to await an inquest , wliich ' was held this morning at half-past ten o ' clock . The boat being a very unsafe sailer was sold ' about . i week ago for SI ., and it is stated that she was not fit to be used in this river .
Death in _Wiiitkcross-Stri-st Priso . w—On Monday evening , Mr : J . Payne , the Deputy-Coroner , held an inquest at the Debtors' Prison , Whitecrossstveet , on the body of William Caudle , aged 84 whose death occurred at that gaol . The deceased had been a waiter at a club-house . Mr . Thomas . Douglas , the deputy-governor , stated that he was admitted on the 10 th ultimo , on a warrant from the-Westminster Gonrt of Requests , being committed for _hMlays-at the suit of George Rces . . The debt and . costs _amoiuiti-d-to £ 2 Is ,. lid ., and was the amount , ns stated by- _dfceswed _' _s . wife , ofa tailor ' s bill . Mr . _VVfidd ,. the prison surgson , said tliat he attended deceased ; on the . 11 th . of June , lie was then labouring _uudcv pulmonary consumption . On the 1 st instant ho became worfe , and delirium followed ! Ilo
i was also much debilitated in his whole , frame ; Re-; actum did not tuke- -dace , and lis expired ou Saturday , Uv * 4 th instant . The jury returned a verdict of j " . Natural Death . "' Suiniffi i * wm i ¦ UusnASD _' & Ii . _L-usAc . E _, —An inquest was Hold on Saturday at the Coach and liorscs , Greek-street . Soho , before . Air . Bedford ,-on ' the body of Charlotte , ' _llnbertson , aguil &> . Deceased had i' lately _bfen rcsidin * wiih her son , - Mr . Phillips , a - . _Iwii-drasscr , nt No . 22 , Princes-street , Soho , having j loft he ?* husband on . account ofhis _i'l-usnit'e _, Before i leaving she had fmir times _attempted to tlestvfty htv-• _isclt , solely ou account of his brutality It was -j thouEbt _, after _her-reinoval . that she had " abiiiidou « l : her design , but on Saturday morning she was found - hanging by a rope to jthe top of the bcdslcad , and - q \ _iue dead . Verdict , *• Temporary Insanity . "
, An accident of a remarkable nature occurred at Dawlish * a lew days since . -V wan i „ i \« . 'Pvcvcnlive bemce , while looking from the ' cliffs overhanging tha ¦ cutting of a railway , his foot slipped , and lie fell * i depth ot thirty feet , and in his descent a pistol wide 11 i , he had in his pocket by some means exploded , but , ' YiOiideif ' uI to relato , ho escaped this 'double accident ' _« ' with only ' a slight scratch . _—Devonport Telegrap h ,
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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/ns3_11071846/page/6/
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