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—0—Fatal Accident on the North British Railway . —On Friday evening a collision took place at the Portobello station of the North British Railway , attended with loss of life and serious injury to several persons . The mail train for York and London , which leaves Edinburgh at 5 . 55 p . m ., and passes Portobello , without stopping , at six o ' clock , in approaching that station at full speed , eame into violent collision with a pilot engine and tender , employed at the station in shifting trucks from one siding to another , and
which , by some extraordinary culpability , was at the moment directly inlheway of the mail train . A terrific crash ensued , the tender of the pilot engine , which was in front , being pitched upon the top of it and overturned , while the mail train engine almost surmounted the ruinous heap . In fact , the latter engine was lifted entirely from the ground , though the tender remained on the rails . The concussion was most severely felt by the passengers in the mail train , eight or ten of whom were much cut and bruised , but all oi them , fortunately , were able to resume their journey . A railway
porter who was on the pilot engine was instantaneously killed , while the driver of it had his leg broken . The driver and stoker of the mail train were also much scalded and bruised , but were able to proceed to Berwick . The wreck presented a frightful spectacle , the mail train engine being , as it were , jerked on the top of the other engine and tender , and so near was it to the parapet wall of a high bridge , that the slightest outward deviation would have precipitated it fifty feet below . After- the delay of an hour a new engine and train ,, were obtained from Edinburgh , and proceeded onwards with the passengers and mails .
Shocking Colliery . Accident . —An inquest , which arose out of the bursting of a boiler , has been held at Poole , in the parish of Illogan , on the body of John Phillips , twenty-one , a miner engaged at the Wheal Uuy pit , near Redruth . It appeared , from the evidence adduced before Mr . . Carlyon , the county coroner , that , on Saturday week , the engineer of the Wheal Uuy mine , Mr . Edmund West , had taken charge of the engine at three o ' clock in the afternoon . A few minutes afterwards he stopped the engine , banked up the fire , and made everything , as he supposed , quite safe , and then obtained leave from the agent to go into Redruth to settle his money accounts . At eight o ' clock in the evening he returned , and tried to get the engine to work , but he found something the matter with the boiler lift , it
did not bring the water to the pumps to supply the cistern whence it was forced i : ato the boiler . He therefore stopped the engine again , and sent for : two of the pumpmen from Redruth , the deceased and a man named John Harris . When they arrived they went into the boiler to work with a lighted candle , and while they were there in their presence the engineer tried the gaugecocks . The centre one was dry , bm \ lie upper one was not . In about twenty minutes afterwards the explosion took place . The engineer was standing in the doorway . of the house when it happened , " and was not . aware at the time but 1 ihit the deceased , had cume up from underground till he was foumi under the rubbish . In answer to the jury , who put the question very directly as to ^ vhether the gaugecocks had been tried , the engineer said that he believed both the deceased and Harris were
present at the time he tried them . This evidence was corroborated by John Harris , who adde ' d that they found a piece of stick under " the «; lack , ' wiiich prevented ils coming down in its proper place . They lemoved it , and the deceased went to the cistern to throw in some , water oil top of the clack . Ten minutes afterwards witness hear . tl the report of a loud explosion . Bricks and stones fell all around him , and the shaft of the pit became filled with smoke . Su specting what had happened , he went and found that the boiler had burst . The agent of the mine , Mr . Thomas Mines , deposed that the roof of the boiler house was blown off by the explosion . The ripper end between it and the tube was crushed from one end to 1 the other , and a part of it , about ten feet from the b « iler , was blown
out . From an inspection of the remaining portions of the tube he liad no doubt that it had become loaded from the want of a sufficiency of water in the boiler , and this was the cause of its bursting . Another engineer , however , John West , deposed that he had examined the remains of the boiler . He found it all blown to pieces , but he saw nothing in its colour or appearance to indicate that it had 'burst from a want of sufficiency of water in the boiler . It was impossible , in his opinion , to state how it happened . It might have arisen from the engineer neglecting to feed the boiler , or from the safety Talve having been fixed by expansion owing to the heat , which was very possible , when , as in this case , the engine had been idle for several hours . The jury , after some deliberation , returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "
Fatal Accident at Queenshead , near Halifax . — On Wednesday week , Mrs . Hannah Shackleton , a widow womanwhokeeps the Huger-hill Toll-bar , at Queenshead , met withher death in the following singular manner : —It appears that she had spread out some linen to bleach in a field opposite her door . Shortly after she discovered a young stirk which was in the field in the act of trampling upon and eating the linen . She ran into the field for the purpose of driving the animal away , when the creature turned upon her , and the ground in the field being as high as the wall , and falling about a yard into the road , the stirk pushed her over , backwards . Her head came
m contact with the kerb stone , causing an extensive fracture of the skull . Drs . Fawthrop and Jowett were promptly in attendance , but pronounced her hopeless . She never spoke afterwards , and died in a few hours . Wrecks on the Ddtch Coast . — The Dutch , range of coast appears to have experienced the recent Equinoctial gales as severely as our own shores , perhaps more so as regards the number of disasters and the loss of life and property . The havoc amongst the shipping was most considerable , and of the many vessels wrecked during the storm was the . celebrated lied Rover steamer , which for
inany years , it may be remembered , was a favourite passage boat between London , Heine Bay , arid Margate . The unfortunate event tooic place during the height of the sale on Friday night , while on iier nrst outward trip to Grongea . The . Red Royer , some short time DacK , was purchased . off her old station for the purpose of being converted into a screw Tsoat , and to be employed in the Dutch trade , tne conveyance of cattle and general merchandise ; she underwent a tnorougU overhaul , hull strengthened , paddle-boxes remoyed , new engines put into her , mid fitted with the screw propeller . Other alterations and improvements--were-made in order to render her a w . < f . ni ' andun ( ler the command of Mr . CuUam , master , she leltthe Thames on Wednesday on her first voyage across to the Dutch coastScarcel
. y hud she got into anything like sea-room before she encountered the gale which has proved so destructive in all airections oi the coast . She steamed on in the hope of weathering the storm and she was reported by two vessels , since arrived , to be making all way to her destination . Friday afternoon , however brought more ieaiiufc weather , which tried the vessel severely and she was blown ashoi e 021 the beach about two miles from Scheven « en and the master and crew , and some persons who had been permuted to take a voyage in her , were saved . On ths samenitrht another vessel , called the Sirene , bound to Stettin from Cherbourg went ashore near the * spot where the lied Rover was wrecked , and melanchol y 10 add , oaily two out of the ship ' s crew were saved In tne vicinity of the Doomsdens , fifty fishing boais , each containing live men , were out -. vhen the storm set in , and out of that number omy five had returned when the mail left . The worst fears are entectumed lor the fate oi" the remainder of the fishermen
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Shocking Railway Accident . —On Monday morning the remains of Jeremiah Chapman Dooly , a station-master at Astley , on the Liverpool and Manchester portion of the London and North-Western Railway , were discovered by his wife between that place and Bury-lane station , the head of the unfortunate man having been apparently severed from his body by a train which had passed along the line during the night . He had left the Astley station between nine and ten o ' clock on Sunday evening , and walked to Bury-lane station , and , after partaking of some ale and spirits at a public-house , returned along the line soon after eleven towards his own residence , situate between the two stations . He never reached home , however
, and his wife went in search of him early on Monday morning , and found his body on the line as described , the head being rolled to some yards distant . The line had been repaired near where his body was found , and it us conjectured he might have stumbled forward with his head against the rail , whilst passing over some holes left in the road by the men who had repaired it , and , becoming insensible , had remained there until the train passed over him . No train passed in the night except the north mail at half-past three o ' clock . He bore a good character for activity and attention to his duties . He was forty years old , and has left five children dependent on his widow for support .
Fatal Gun Accident . —On Sunday George Hopkins , a miner , residing at Breame ' s Eves , left his father ' s house about , nine o ' clock in the morning for the purpose of shooting small birds ; and when getting over a wall out of a piece of land belonging to his father into an orchard , put the gun against the wall . On getting on the lop of the wall he took hold of the barrel to raise the gun up , and the gun went off , either from its striking against the wall or from the shake as he raised it up . The whole contents of powder and shot entered the lower part of the stomach , and . penetrated to the spine , carrying with them part of his-wearing apparel . Deceased lingered till the following day , when he died .
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Death from . Starvation . —A very painful case of death , result ing from hunger and starvation , occurred in Leicester last week . The victim was a poor idiotic woman named Mary Woolmer , who belongs to the Luttenvorth Union , and had been removed by the Leicester Union to that place several times . She was removed in 1850 , when Mr . Chamberlain , the clerk of ihe Leicester Union , wrote to them , telling them the woman was an idiot , and requesting them not to let her out of the house again , as she would onlv
entail additional misery upon herself and expense upon the union it being her practice to gq out for a time , return in an advanced state of pregnancy , and stay to be confined . Mr . Chamberlain requested the officers at Luttenvorth to put her in No . 15 , or the idiotic class , and they wrote to say they would do so . On the 10 th of July ( three months after the above occurrences ) the poor woman was again in Leicester , and was nearly killed by being run over by a horse and gig . She was sent to the Leicester Infirmary , and as soon as she was able to be removed she was sent home to Lutterworth , and another pressing request was sent with
her that she might be properly taken care of in the lunatic ward , and the officers were begged to do this as an of charity to the poor creature , and to prevent her ajain being the sport of the vicious and brutal . Notwithstanding this entreaty , and an assurance that she was placed in such a ward , the woman found her way again to Leicester , and has been living in a filthy lod g ' ing-house in Abbey-street , and subsisting by begging . Last Wednesday week she was taken into Mr . Buck ' s surgery apparently dead , and Mr . Buck at once had her removed to the ' workhouse
where stimulants were used , aud proper remedies were applied , but the poor woman died on Friday . On Sunday evening an inquest was .. held before John Gregory , Esq ., coroner , and the jury returned the ibilowing 7 ; verclict : — " That the deceased , Mary Woolmer , died from exliaustion brought on from want of proper food and clothing ; and the jury are of opinion that the deceased ought not to have been ' allowed to go out of the Lutterworth Union Workhouse again , after the letter sent by Mr . Chamberlain respecting her , a copy of which has been read to the jury . ' '
Caution to Road Surveyors . —T . Taylor , Esq ., one of the deputy coroners for the West Riding , held an inquest at the Coach and Horses Inn , Beechfield , Barnsley , upon the body of Matthew Hirst , of Darton , who met with , his death under the following circumstances , which were stated in evidence before the jury ' . —Deceased was employed in conveying some large oak trees from Chapeltown to Darton on the 2 nd instant , and about seven o ' clock in the evening he was on the Sheffield road , at Beechfield , when another conveyance was going the same way . To give it the road the deceased drew his team on one side . While he had hold of the head of one of his horses
he fell over a quantity of stones , which had been left there by the men employed in repairing the road , and the wheels of . his waggou ran over him , and injured him so that he died from the effects of it . It was proved , by the evidence given before the jury , that it was the duty of a man named George Wilson , who is employed as assistant surveyor , under the Barnsley Police Commissioner , to have had the stones and rubbish removed from the > road . The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter'' against George Wilson . The coroner then issued his warrant for his committal to York for trial at the next assizes .
Death from Hydrophobia . —A most melancholy circumstance occurred at the toll-gate , near Black Hill , on Wednesday last . About six or seven weeks ago , Mrs . Newton , whokeeps the tollgate , had her little granddaughter , a child five years of age , who was playing at her door , bit by a hound-dog belonging to one of her neighbours / which was in a rabid state . It was followed as far as Annfield Plain by a number of men , who destroyed it , bnt not before it had bitten several dogs on its way . The child was bit in the face and lip , which l } led profusely . Medical advice was
obtained , and the child s face healed , no unpleasant symptoms occurring until Sunday , the 26 th ult ., when the child complained of her head ; through the course of Monday she was thought to be a little better , but at night-slie grew worse . On Tuesday two medical gentlemen attended her ,. ! and continued to do so until heir death , which took place the following evening , in great agony . An inquest was held on Friday last on the body , by Mr . Favell , when the verdict was " Died irom , hydrophobia , brought on from the bitu of a dog . —Newcastle Chronicle , .
Suicide . —On Monday night , about twelve , a gentleman committed suicide in the coffee-room of the Saint Albans Hotel , Charles-street , Haymarket . The deceased , whose name is supposed to be Bloomfield , entered , the cofiee-room of the hotel above-mentioned about eleven o ' clock on the previous night , aud called for supper , which was supplied to him by the waiter . At that time deceased was busily employed writing . About a'quarter of an hour afterwards , on the waiter entering the room to attend on a customer
he found the deceased lying on the floor apparently lifeless . A surgeon was speedily in attendance , and pronounced-life to be extinct . On the table was an ounce bottle which had contained prussic acid , and which was empty : , A letter and bundle of papers sealed up in brown paper , and directed to the coroner , were also found on the seat . It is supposed from letters found upon him that the unfortunate deceased had held an appointment at St . Domingo . Only a few pence were found upon him .
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¦ : —0—Suicide and Suspected Murder . —On Wednesl thrown over the neighbourhood of Nelson and t S ' H Stepney , by the untimely termination of two lives at \\^ W of the first-mentioned thoroughfare . The house w \^ i of a familyatiamed Elliot , which consisted of tlie fat u " " ^ eli ^ two children , a girl aged four years and the other a Knw 11101 ^ eighteen months , and a maid servant , aged six teen T ? N with the girl , had gone to rest on Sunday night , withnnt a ^ reiice of anything to suggest the faintest presentiment of u ° CCllr ' was to happen . Next morning the girl failed to come 1 ^ to her domestic duty ; her mistress , however , conclud T " i 1 ^' had overslept her accustomed hour . The eldest child ^ ^ stairs to the children ' s bedroom . The servant girl w . ? anus ^ i and , on turning down the bedclothes , the mother was \\ m ^\ on discovering her child to be quite dead , and apparentlvT ' " ^ lenoe , for there were several bruises on its body , gj . v fo . alarm , and her husband proceeded to the bed-ro om mirf ^ * & met the servant girl close to the parlour door , or oil \ h ° ¦ a . asked her what the matterand what cimicu iici wiiat wtta uirtucaaim
was , ? he had h ? ^ ' ^ wjo , wiiat Pile had hp . "" ill which she made no answer . Mr . Elliot , on discovering V ° r ^' body of his child , made haste to the surgery of Mr . Tavm 5 Commercial-road , and returned with that gentleman toWls " ' ^ Mr . Taynton examined the child , and pronounced tln "' ^' beyond the reach of human aid , and had been dead for s U - Mils There were two bruises on the back of the child , and the * 1 ™ ° * ' r ' much swollen , leading to the suspicion that poison had 1 1 as ministered . After the father had in some measure rec ' ove ? - ^ his alarm , he proceeded in search of the summoning oflicer ^ M ? end Old-town , to give information of the death of the ch "> ld ° r his return home , he made inquiries after the servant X \ ' - \ f disappeared directly after the child was found , Search Vi for her in all directions , and after every room and even- close ?^ house had been looked into , a woman named Sarah Eltham « , \\ ascended into a loft .. over the top rooms , where she ibuiid tw weltering in her blood , which issued from two wounds in her /
. fin * * i . nfi ** AM Mnnwnnnh 4 , s tits * 1 \ n /]<« li .. « -. . 1 * 1 . ¦ * "vit [ . On a nearer approach to the body it was discovered that the H 1 i twisted her apron strings tightly round her neck , and aUocuU throat with a razor . The bod y was removed into a lower room ! Mr . Taynton was again sent for , only to remark a second umiulnu ! resources at his command could be of the least service . Mr . Steve ! !' the summoning officer , on being made acquainted wiih the sceuni death , made inquiries respecting the deceased girl , and ascertain that she was the illegitimate daughter of a poor woman , vlu , ried to a labouring man , residing at 250 , Hoxton Old-town , " 'rhu « hl came to her mother's dwelling with the two children of her masier
and mistress on Sunday afternoon , took tea with her mother , am ! left about six o ' clock in the evening . She appeared very attentive to the children during her stay with her mother , was very cheerful and did not exhibit any symptoms of eccentricity or mental derail ment . * Burglary in the Strand . —On Saturday morning a very large robbery of watches , jewels , and articles in gold and silver was perpetrated on the premises of Mr . Jones , watchmaker and jeweller , oi 338 , Strand , nearly opposite to Somerset-house . Mr . Jones ' s L
cannot at present be precisely estimated , but at a guess it is considered that the value of the property stolen is £ 600 . The police are displaying their usual activity and ability , and we hope will give n good account of the thieves . Throughout the whole of Saturday Mr . Superintendent Pearce , of the F division , and Inspector Field and Sergeant Langley , of the detective force , were actively employed corresponding , per telegraph , with the different cities arid towns in the country on the subject of the robbery , furnishing a description o ( the property stolen , and the numbers of certain watches .
Frauds of CoNViCTS . —Some of the convicts in the bagne of Ceuta , in Morocco , belonging to Spain , have for some time past been ill the habit of writing letters to different persons , in which they promised , in return for a sum of money specified by them , to he paid to a particular person whom they named , to state where large sums of money and valuable property , secreted in different places at the time of the war , or the proceeds of robberies , could be found . Hundreds of persons have cheerfully paid the amount demanded , but it is needless io sa . y that in no case has the promised treasure been discovered . The Government has sent instructions to all the provincial authorities to take measures 'for preventing this fraud , and has ordered a stricter surveillance to be established in the bagne .
The Northern Banditti . —Part of these desperate characters are now in gaol at Liverpool , for the Didsbury burglary , and part in the gaol at York , for the robbery of Mr . Clough ' s house , near Bradford , awaiting their trials at the winter assizes . On Monday a man named John Barry was also brought before the magistrates at Bradford , and committed to the York Assizes , as the receiver of Mr .
Clough ' s gold watch after the robbery near Bradford—for which to had paid 30 s . The magistrates at Bradford did not admit the press to any of these examinations , but the particulars of the inquiry have oozed out , as such things always do ; and we learn that Barry was apprehended by Mr . Richard Beswick , chief superintendent of He Manchester police , one of the most active and successful of wofficers -who have turned their attention to the detection of inis *
daring robbers . Mr . Beswick is stated at Bradford to have appwhended Redmond as well as Barry , and to have given information W which two other of the four men now in York Castle wero taken . Barry was known to be a travelling thief , living chiefly in Ch aru-istreet , Manchester , and Mr . Beswick and Inspector Miiy bury ilftU seen him at Manchester till a few days after these burg laries , wlw « . on taking Redmond , the latter confuted to having sold the AValcl . Barry . He had been absent some weeks , but the officers found in . last Thursday in a beer-house in Charter-street . A man * m Cooper proved that he saw lledmond , one of the burglars no « . York Castle , sell Mr . Clough ' s ' gold watch to Barry , and the iaik , as above stated , was committed for trial at the next , Yak Assrcw .
Highway Attack on Hunslet Moor . —It is only a ^ " ? ago that the authorities were much occupied vlili inquiries wio ^ outrages of a most formidable charater , perpetrated ut the * e « ^ of the town , and through the exertions used on that occasion * « happy to sa ' y that the result of those investigations was the » P 1 " ia sion of the numerous party implicated , and their committal w »^ at the next assizes upon the most conclusive evidence . > ^ this week to record another of these lawless occurrences , m ^ the speedy apprehension of the miscreants engaged in u J , ' , that two ruffians have been foiled in an attempt to commit a 1 ^ upon a solitary pedestrian in a lonely spot , and this is princip « g be attributed to the single-handed but vigorous resistance " j ^ to h Hariuo 10 »¦¦
encounter from their intended victim , Mr . Josep , ,, encounter irom their intended victim , Mr . Josepn w » - ^ chant , Nonh-street . After a desperate struggle the assaii . u i ^ flight without obtaining the least , booty , and lortunatflv i ^ j ^ j , man who was . assaulted had good opportunity of nialunj , ^ acquainted with their features . The conseqnence Us * »< - ' ; V , within twenty-four hours after the occurrence one ut those _^ m the hands of the police , aud the other was traced oUt l ' ] V t ,. , ii morning . On Wednesday morning they were broug ht up ^ " .,. „ nation at the Leeds Court-house , before John Coupe , ^ , D . W . Nell , Esql The names of the 'prisoners are Jubn ^|( j | h , William Williamson—the first a tall pock-mar ked ini ^ . { , ui other considerably less in stature . Both prisoners rc&wslet-hall .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1700/page/4/
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