The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-09-01 00:00:00

TR I,I7IIZRLL.

The remains of the-il-bc-itii;;;rere interred on Tuesday
morning with impressive solemnity in the churchyard
at Abergele, and amidst such unostentatious demonstra-
tions of sorrow and sympathy as the townspeople could
manifest. Every shop was closed. The silence of death
resigned in Abergele and Pennon. There was not even
the tolling of a funeral boll to break the stillness. A
large number of the relatives and hien& of the deed
were present. All were in deep mourning. They
assembled at the Bee hotel, at ten o'clock, and thee
formed the sad procession to the churchyard, which lies
within two or three hundred yards of the hotel. The
iwooession was net at the entrance to the church by tha
rector (Mr. Meredith), and by the Rev. .1. Tayl. r, vicar
of 9amberliridge, near Pre,ton, who lost now.. 'illatives
in the accident. The opening sentences of the burial
service were read at the entrance to the tow.r, where
the eoffies lay, after whieh the mourner, entered the
sherds, and the solemn service was proceeded with,
while outside men were sngsged in removing the coffins.
The p-alms and the lessons and prayers had been read,
hut the congregation could still see s.ffins being carried
on the shoulders of the men. and it was neapsery to
wait for some minutiae until the remains of all the
suff,rers hal been conveyed to their last resting
pianos. Teen the mourners proceeded to the grave.
Outside the churchyard, all round, was a large crowd.
People stood or salon the walls, and turn and boys were
grouped in the trees which from entail,, overhung the
grave. The conduct of these Wol,ll peasants was
exemplary. Not a word escaped them, and all of them
peel on the scene within the graveyard with a respect
nothing short of reverence. Nothing could well have
exec-sled the severe solemnity elt the proceedings.
When the mourners reashed Cho huge grave they found
there, side by side, at a depth of some seven or eight
feet, 32 coffins. There ws re the remains of 33 persons
there for intermeot ; bet iu ono ca.,' so little bad been
left of • 11U1.111111 body--only what liscl been gathered into
a very small paper parcel—that the remains were put in
with Ito.', of soother psrson. All the coffins were
covered with black cloth, bet tle re were no inscriptions.
On the foot of each coffin was • bit of white paper
bearing • uumher. The mourners ranged themselves on
thise sides of the vast grave. The Rev. J. Meredith
read the conclusion of the burial service. Every passage
was uttered in faltering accents, and the responses were
given amid heartrending hunentatione. Probably no
wore painful scene vu ever witnessed in any churals
yard.
A meeting of the relatives was afterwards held in
refs rens) to the erection of • monument. The general
feeling was in favour of a simple inscription of the
name and a brief statement of the maener of their
death. It was farther suggested that the grave should
be purchased and vested in the names of two or three
trustees, to prevent the possibility of its being diet urbed
at any future time. It is understood that the railway
company will defray all the expenses of the puroheae.

Till ADJOURNED IRQUEST.

The Inquest was renuml on Wodnes.loy morning, by
Mr, E. Pierce. the.co!..2ner:
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-11171...iitler. (of the Northern Circuit) represented the
eompany, and Mr. Cawkwell (general manager), Mr.
Binger (tho local manager), and Mr. Day were also
present on behalf of the oornpany. Mr. Goddard
spiwared on behalf of Lord Farnham's relative.; Mr.
Galbraith on behalf of Sir N. and Lady Chlnnery'a
relatives ; Mr. Cain on behalf of the family of Mr.
Feobbell ; Mr. Edwards Wood on behalf of the family
of Charles Crime, Thomas °titan, and Catherine Stern,
lady elduncres Inattl. Col. Mich, the Government
luartect.tr, was also present.
The Coroner wax assisted by Mr. Ellis Eyton, solicitor,
of Fliot, as aucsso.r...

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After the Court had bout opened, Lord Farnham rose
and seil that in the name of all the relatives of the
deoeased persona, it was his painful duty to may It was
their unanimous opinion that a duty bad devolved upon
the coroner which he was utterly incompetent to fulfil
—(applame). He threw no reflection whatever upon the
character of the coroner, but there had been • total
of dignity and order In the proceedings of
Monday, and the coroner was evidently in a state of
utter bewilderment. lie should feel it neoessary to
represent this to the proper authorities, in order that a
competent assistant might be sent down—(applaum).
Mr. Edwards Wood thought that the stricture' of Lord
Farnham were uncalled for, and that the coroner was
quite competent to conduct the inquiry.
Mr. Parry (a juror) expreered the Cone opition.
The Coroner said that his eels object woe to proceed
legally. He supposed that the obeervations of Lord
Farnham had been prompted by Ur. Haskell', who was
annoyed because he had been instructed to hand over the
recovered property to the police.
Lord Farnham repudiated the suggestion that Lis I
observations bad been prompted by Mr. liesketh.
The inquiry then proceeded, and was wricitieted witi
regularity and order.
Mr. Byten examined the witnesses. The coroner did
nothing and said nothing.
Evidence we, then called to proved the identity of
the remains of Elward Oaten arid Catherine Stern.,
Thomu Oaten said that hie brother eras a !area stout
man, lie was shown the human track la the church,
and after examining it be found clear evidence that it
was • portion of hie brother's body. A portion of the
hair still remained, lie had been shown a watch and
pile which bad belonged to his brother. On the day
before the occident his brother came te him and told
him he was going to Ireland with Lord Farnham by the
mail train next day. He had
Thomas Davis, butler to the late Lord Farnham, said
he maw Edward Oaten get into the train at London, and
shook hands with him.
P.C. Lewis stated that be had found the watch and
pips identified by the witness °uteri.
Elisabeth S!e.n identified the chain of a very small
lap dui, totally consumed in the fire, which her bitter
bad with bar in • little basket. This completed the
identitleationin these two iambuses.
Formal evidence was taken to prove the deaths of
Lord and Lady Parelmin, and their unmet, Sir W. and
Lady Chinnery and servant, and Judge Berwick, hie
raster, the little girl accompanying them and her maid
servant. The porter of the Queen's lintel, Cheater,
where they stayed, and who now them all into the train
at Chester, gave the necessary evidence.
Mr. Berwick identified a knife ite belonging to his
brother Judge Her wiek.and some bu tons of his sister's.
Mr. Ashy's, schoolmaster, of Kidderminster, preyed
that hie wife and daughter travelled by the mail train,
and that he had been shown • key labelled, which he
knew belonged to his wife.
Mr. Scovell identified some keys as having belonged
to his brother, and a diary containing the handwritinp
of his sister.... . .

Hon. Richard lhomat Maxwell identified certain
artkies found among the ashes as belonging to his lets
brother, including a watch and • gold pencil-cate. lte
&leo identified a number of buttons with the crest of his
bro.h.r on them.

Inspector Hughes (of the passenger department at
Chester) said that the doors on the near or platform '
side were not locked. Those on the off aide were locked.
William Owen identified the knife produoed as
belongieg to his brother.
Hinton, the rear guard in the train, mu called to
prove that the deceased guard (Smith) was in his van at
the time of the seetdent Hinton and Smith had been
arociat,d with the Irish mail for eight years, and tho
pour fellow was called upon to clacribe the appearanee
of Smith's remains. "I can compare theicappealaneo,"
he said," to nothing but that of a Week doggensation).
I know that be wore a trues. I cannot nay that the
remains found in the truss were eerteinly those of the
guard, or that they were found under the remains of the
brealt•van, fur the break.van was burnt to • chador.
(The guard here completely broke down, and implored
permisaion to leave the court, for he was utterly enable
to continue his evidenee ; he sobbed bitterly, and rising
up, wildly cried, " For God's sake, gentlemen, let me
go, for I can't bear it." He was quite unable even to
sign his deposition, and the poor fallow had to be
assisted out of the court before he had completed his
evidence.

Thomas Scott, butler to the lade John Harrimon
Aylmer, said that on Wednesday, the 19th, Yr. and
lire. Aylmer, their son, brother, and Mies Franks, left
Welworth Castle for Leeds, and thence to Dublin. Ile
identified the gold vatoh produced es the property of
M. Aylmer.