The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-06-13 00:00:00

I CONTEMPT OF COURT.-EXTRAORDINARY
CASE

At the Scarborough • County Court, Dr. Rablah,
physician, practising at Scarborough, sued a large number
of persons for various sums due to him for medical
attendance. In the course of the beano,: of one of the
cases, 1)r. Rablab, in reply to AfP Williamson, who was
engaged to conduct the defendant's case, made use of the
remark, " I go in for honesty, you lawyers do not."—His
Honour (Hr. F. A. Bedwell), addressing the plaintiff,
said, "How dare you has. the audacity to make such •
remark in a court of justice ; it is an offence for which I
have the power to commit you to York Castle for con-
tempt of court, bu, instead of doing this I shall fine you
and you will be detained in custody until the money
is paid." Dr. Rablah made two attempts to get out or
court, and at the second attempt he was warned by his
Honour that if he persisted in trying to leave the court,
he would increase the tine. The money was eventually
brought to the court, and the doctor was released.

NARIWW ESC.tPE OF A TRAIN IN A TUNNEL
An accident of an altogether exceptional character
occurred on Wednesday afternoon in a railway tunnel on
the London and South-Western Railway, and a train
passing through the tunnel at the Moment had as narrow
and marvellous an escape as it is possible to conceive.
As the three o'clock express from Portsmouth to London
by the direct Portsmouth route was running through
the Catherine-hill tunnel, between Godalining and Guild.
ford, the passengers were shinned by finding that heavy
brake power was being applied to the whole train, and
by hearing the engine whistle sounding loudly. The
train was pulled pp quickly, and the passengers, after •
short but anxious suspense, discovered that a large por-
tion of the tunnel had suddenly given way at the London
end at the moment they were approaching. The train,
when brought to • standstill, was within :10 or 10 yards
of the mouth of the tunnel, and but for the fact that the
Itriver when in the middle of the tunnel had observed
what looked like is great mist suddenly obscui ing the
light, and, suspecting that something was wrong, applied
the brake, and signalled the guards to do the mane, the
train would in all probability have been buried in the
ifebris of something like £lO yards of the tunnel. The line
was promptly blocked in the rear, and after a time the
train was backed out of the tunnel towards Godalining,
and the passengers were transferred, through huge gape
made in the roadside hedges, from the train to various
vehicles, by which they were conveyed to Guildfonl by
the high-road. The passengers were greatly startled
when they realised the narrowness of their escape, for
the ruins of the fallen portion of the tunnel covered
both up and down lines, and lay in great masses of earth
and heavy masonry. In explanation of the accident, it
is said that during the day there had been some blasting
tor chalk in close pnochnity to the tunnel, and it is con-
jectured that the shocks loosened the tunnel work to
such a degree that only the vibration of a passing train
was required to bring it down. tlangs of workmen were
at °Hee Set to work to clear the line.