The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-07-02 00:00:00

THE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE
GREAT NORTHERN R.ILWAY.

NEWARK, Monday.
Thirteen of the wounde passengers Bull remain at
Newark. but, under the care of Mr Job and the other inedi-
cal gentlemen, who have ',ten unremitting In their attentmn
to the sufferers, they are progressing favourably. Mr.
Henry lelend, of Leeds, who in 13 mg at the " Ram Hotel,"
and sth on Saturday was reported to be to a moat critical
state, has had • favourable tern, and It is now thought that
ho will recover. Gerard Toll, the Dutchinan, also at the
"Ram," is likewise slowly recovering. Mr. T. Greer.,
of Stockton-lane, York, who wee very severely in-
jured, still lies at the " Angel Inn," but he is now
much better ; while the other Injured person at the
" Angel," Mr. Pitts, of Leeds, will be able to re-
tails home In the course of a day or two. Mr. Booth, a
Halifax, who was token to the "Clinton Arms,' has also much
Improved, and will doubtless be able to return home during
the week, as will also Mr. William Mellon, of Chopeltown.
road, Leeds, whose wife was killed by the collision, and who
has been staying at 23, Wilson htroet. Seven of the iojored
persons still remain at the hospital, and although progressing
favourably, It is thought they will not be able to bear removal
for smile time.
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itTi;;l;.g...i:, the paragraph which had appeared in the
papers respecting " plundering of the dead," the Coroner re'
wanted, at the conclusion et the inquiry on Saturday, that
he could say from his own information, and from the matter
ite brought tot fore the jury, that the paragraph was a most
shameful and scandalous libel upon the Inhabitants ef
Newark, and especially upon the pollee, who, he be-
lieved, had acted with thorough consistency and blind.
nese throughout, end had taken carrot all the property
found upon the person,. It was produced, as the jury
would recollect, and identified by the friends of she
deceased. As regarded the purse which was stated here to
have been found on Mrs. Robinson, they would remember
It was said to be in the hands of Dr. truing, who was now
In the room. That gentleman was in attendance on the
poor creature with other medical men. He found that puree
under the body of the lady, th husband having stated that
she alwaas kept it In her hoe no When taking the body up
he found it lying under fur, and soon after gave it
over to 601X1 o otter parson whose description was
mentioned. The purse was traced, aunt found to Inane
got into the enstody of Mr. Eaeterlield, the Newark
stationmaster. The purse was produced by Mr. Etstertield,
and sea identified as the one which the doctor picked up
under the lady,c ontainirg some few shillings. No insurance
ticket or passenger ticket was found in it, and the purse, he
believsrl, was handed over to the person who he thought
was entitled to t. So far as that went, it was a most shame-
ful libel, and no scandal upon the persons who were now pre-
sent. The superintendent of the police had wished him tine
Cornoner) to bring the matter before the public, that it
might be mentioned while the raporturs were present.
A report from Chief-Constable Liddell was read as to the
disposal of the property found, which showed that nearly a
vans load had been sent to the railway station, everything
having been identified.

• The inquiry into the late accident on the Great
Northern Railway was resumed and comiluded on
Tuesday. The chief engineer of the line stated that
the broken ankle was of the best quality, and that the
tbew WWI imperceptible to ordinary tests. Tile jury
delivered the following verdict:—

"We balm that Mid sr Kershaw Burst and others came
by their deaths on the Great Northern ft dlway, within the
borough of Newark, on Tuesday, the 21st inst., by the acci-
dental breakieg of au axle belonging to the waggon No. 3 238,
belonging to the Manchester, 8:a fliold and Lincolnalote
Railway C 'many. From the evidence given we believe that
the 'name train was driven at too great a speed from Itch-
ford to the tcnie of the accident. We are also of opinion
that the fracture in the axle which caused it to break had
been in existence once length of time arid that the arts w as
not tit ortpe, anti we think there ehould be some limit or
max iortu at time of Use. WO are also oi opinion that there
shoull be some means devised for the periodical testing of
axles, the j dry being of opinion that the present system is
defective."

The &bure recommendations the jury desired might
be forwarded to the Board LI Trade.

In the course of the inquiry—_

Mr. Samuel Job, surgeon, tp.id All the patients are
petting on satisfactorily. It Ake this oppottunity to temitr
oy thanks to the townspeople generdly for the great
kindness and the consideration they huve given to the suf-
ferers.

The Coroner: I am sure that Is very satist ictory. I have
been a ',Went at Newark for a number of seats and have
. . . . .

Owe) s found the inhabitants vet y sympatbeti;; In case of any
occident. Have you (addressing Mr Job) had any complaints
of any persons as to loss of proper;?
Mr Jon: I have heard of two or three complaints, but
y have all been rectified since. All the wounded have
alt expressed the greatest gratitude fur the kindness they
have received.

Coroner wished it to be known that Mr. Wlllhm
Rehineon, of I,,eds, had c died upon him au! elated, wdh
reference to an insurance ticket which could rot be fun,] on
the body of his wife, who wan killed, that she had given it
to hie niece in London.

THE CHARGE AGAINST THE NEWARK POLICE.

Mr. Thomas E.rn, Mayor of Newark, has sent the
following letter to The Times :

I trust you will allow me the ounce unity affordel by the
vast c i.ctilation of The Times of making known as widely as
p.misible the 11 et that there is no foundation kr the odious
cemsations brought against the Newark pllte,, and others,
iii the article which is being • stensively e Tied from the
Leeds Mercury of Saturday last referring to the dispohal of
the property of the passel gers of .hoill-!sted • reunion train
on the c,urrence of the collision near Newark
. . . .

After expressing the "fear lint a wholesale system of
pluoderleg the dead and ibjurad was pursued by some in-
famous persons who were hovering round the scene of thia
terrible disaster," the writer of the article makes the fir. t
el:mettle charge on the authi ray of Mr Thomas liar rach
of Morley, ',rho saw a policeman take two rings elf the
fingers of a dead lady who wore a black silk dress." The
answer to this in that the rings had been numbere I .0 corre-
spond with the number placed on the body, 811.1 were given
up to Mr. Compton, the father of the unfortunate lady, at the
Inquest, several days before the article appeared.
With regard to the watch belonging hi Mr. C. A. Wilson
which " appeared to have been taken out of a black hag, the
lock of which had evidently been tampered with," it will
be best to allow Mr. Wilson to speak for himself. In a
letter to the Linda Mrreury of this day that gentleman
say Will you please state in your earliest issue that I
have received tidings of my missing watch? It Is safe lathe
custody of a friend in London, at whose house I had been
showing the contents of my bag and transacting business,
and where, in the hurry of packing up to catch the troll],
the watch was Inadvertently left The I, jury to the lock of
my bag must have been caused by the railway accident."—
Signed, C. A. Wilson.
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The article next Rtates that •' no further information has
yet been received a the large FIMI of money of which Mr.
Major K. Hurst's deed body was despoiled.' The to nth is
that the deceased gentleman's purse, containing £33145 Int
In notes, gold, and silver, and a gold chain with locket at-
tached, had been handed to Mr. Simpson, of Leeds, the ,
solicitor of the deceased's friends, at the Priday's inqu ,st.
The expressions heard by Mr. Turner were very likely to
have been made use of. The statiommaster and superiuten-
dent of police had wisely directed that the scattered pro- ;
perty and articles of clothing of all kinds with which the '
ground wasliterally covered should he collected, and car-
ried too hovel close by, lest It sh-uld he trodden underfoot,
awl loot; and It is not improbable that the persons engaged
might say, "That do, let's get away," when they had col,
hinted as much as they could carry at one time,
In the nildat of a calamity to sudden and heartrending it
would no doubt be claiming too much for the parties who
were on the spot to assume that no error of judgment in
dealing with the emergency could vector but lam per-
,loaded, aler the closest inquiry, ho which my fellow.magis-
teatcn have joined, that the imputation of vile motives and
the application of infamous terms to either the police or .y
other inhabitants of this borough scent unwarrantable as
they are cruel.
P S —Since writing the foregoing the Superintendent of
Police has called to inform me that Mr. Robinson has just
been to the police-office to say that his deceased wife's in-
surance ticket had, like Mr. Wilson's watch, been left in
London with tier friends.