The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-03-04 00:00:00

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ACCIDEgn AM) OVVENcts.

RAILWAY ACCIDEZI T.—On —Tuesday afternoon, during
the brief stoppage made by one of the Hawick and
Kelso trains at Stow Station in its progress to Edin-
burgh, • passenger got out for the pnrpose of getting
• drink of water, but before he could return the train
had started. Making up to it before it hal gone far, lie
endeavoured to grasp the door-handle of one of the ear-
derma, an effort in which be partially succeeded, but
afterwards nilased hit footing, and fell behind the oar-
riage, In the space occupied by the coupling gear. Here,
as the unfortunate mini lay acroas one of the rails, the
wheels of the suoeseding carriages ran over his body,
which was In consequence nearly *veered in two.
An accident occurred on Thursday on the North Lon-
don Hallway, near Bow, by which four men were
severely injured. A portion of the embankineet fell,
and the men in question were temporarily buried. By
the latest accounts they were in a very precarious
state.

A , colliery belonging to Messrs. Lamb and Moore,
Pettiberteh., beer Wigan, *us folitld to be on fire on
Sunday. The fire was discovered at an early stage Of
Its progress, and efforte were made to build up the head-
ing AO as to limit the combustion to the piece where it
originated. These efforts were suocessful, but in the
course of the afternoon an explosion took place, which
I broke down the barricade, and, the fire spreading, five
horses in another part of the mine had to be abandoned
1 to their fate. Fortunately no human lives wore sacri-
ficed to edd to the misery which has recently been
eithPsioned by coal pit aecidenta. The fire is not yet
extinguished, and is not expected to be so for many
days.
Suspicions Dearn.—On Wednesday evening a jary
assembled II t the Board-room of St. Marylehone Work-
house for the purpoee of investigating the circumstances
attending the suspicious death of en unknown young
woman, of respectable appearance, about 23 years of age;
hot, in consequence of the press of previous engagements,
Mr J. S. Brent, the deputy coroner for West Middlesex,
who was to preside, did not arrive. The jury were
informed that the case of the deceased excited very grave
suspicion. The summoning officer stated that the body
had been found by the master of a steam tug in the
Regent's Canal, Park-road, on Tuesday morning about
balf,past 1 o'clock. She was 5 feet 3 inches In height,
medium proportions, with ruddy complexion, light
brown hair, and grey eyes ; dressed in brown jean stays,
black and red striped petticoat, black merino shawl,
black twilled jacket, alpaca dress, leather boots, /cc.
The body, which had been examined by medical men,
bore several marks of serious external violence. The
right arm was broken in to places, and a clavicle bons
was also broken. The jury, having viewed the body,
separated, with an understanding that they should
hold themselves in readiness to attend again as soon as
the deputy coroner could conveniently stucimon them.
The inquest on Mr. Cotherll, who was killed in his
own bonse by en explosion in his lamp of what he had
bought ea paraffin oil, was brought to a close on Thurs-
day. A friend of the deceseed, who happened t, have
been summoned on the jury, was called as • witness,
and he stated that sfter the explosion he borrowed the
can in which the oil was contained, applied a light to a
smell portion which exploded instantly, while a light
applied to some other oil did not even set it on fire.
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased was killed
by the explosion of a highly dangerous oil,and expressed
their opinion that the sale of these oils should be placed
under Government regulations.
SARNSLIT.—FATAL AGGIDIINT.—On Wednesday, as
a man named Itohinson was attending to II machine
used for cutting horse food, and worked by a small
engine, at the New Gawber Colliery, he, by some
means, got entangled by the machinery, and being
caught by the fly-wheel, was killed on the spot. We
understand he was formerly groom with the Moors.
Thorpe, of Barnsley.
THE BUNTON SAVINGS BANK FRAVDB.—The Rev.
Horatio Samuel Fletcher, incumbent of St. Leonard's,
Bilston, • magistrate for Staffordshire, and late trea-
surer of the Bilston Savings Bank, was on Thursday
placed at the bar of the Birtningharn policemourt,
eharged on • warrant with feloniously appropriating to
his own use various sums of money received in his
offielal capacity from depositors in that establishment.
In opening the CR3O Mr. Tidd Pratt, having given a brief
detail of the evidence he was about to produce, stated
that the Government, after the result of the investiga-
tion had come to their knowledge, had deemed it their
duty to lay the matter before the law officers of the
Crown first, to ascertain whether the trustees and
managers of the bank wete liable for the amount of the
defalcations; and, secondly, whether • criminal prase-
cation was proper in the case. The result was the
transmission of a written authority from the Attorney
General, which Mr. Peatt read, for the institution of
the present proceedings. Mr. Pratt then gave some
formal evidence relative to the prisoner's defalcations.
The prisoner, who had been arrested the previous
evening at Solihull, and who looked miserably haggard
and careworn, declined offering any defence by the
advice of his solicitor. Mr. F. S. C. Bymersley, the
stipendiary magistrate, then committed Fletcher for
trial at the next Stafford Assizes, announcing that bail
—two sureties in £250 each, and himself in £3oo—
be acoepted.
A fearful boiler explosion occurred on Thursday
morning at the Corbyns Hall Malleable Iron Works,
near Dudley, resulting in the death of six men. The
boiler was carried • distance of a hundred yards by the
force of the explosion, but no damage of any material
kind was sustained by the engine immediately attached
to it. Besides the six men who died on Thursday, from
ten to twelve others were severely injured, several of
whom are not expected to survive.