The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-02-04 00:00:00

TUI 11401:1RXID INQUILST.

At the adJaurnsi inquest LI lir: amnia, which was
held at Lydd on Saturday, further evidence eas heard
es to the loss of the liorthattet John Bader, the
swain; Samuel Rinpton, muter of the steam tug
City of London; Thomas Roger., the pilot on board
the Princess; and George Pont, maser of the bigger
Mazy, repeated th tr reveral narratives of what they
had °boned on the ditostrons rdght of the co listen.
New aid important light was thrown on theprothedings
of other rattail in the rz,litcad, by James Sumner, of
No. 2 Vetter,. Coast-guard Elation. He sten d that
the w.t:ta of the Corona, which so unfortun .tely
o otrived to shut its eats and *yew against U. North.
fleet in her no:x.o'MT, tonaista I not of a Daemon as
ban bt en r,porta,l, but of :wo men oil • natty vetoer
The sachet watch of a brigautme had seen lights, but
could snake no hing of them, and an belies barque
lying within 500 yards of the Northe t tanaluad
otti rly ignorant of lb catastrophe till next morning.
A curios. tocid,nt occurred. John Beveridge was
valid to ive hi. oval, 1.1.:t. Mr. Beveridge tea gentle-
man upon whose head some Shyly@ winters have
tosttered snow; lits'eaunteuance, and perhaps in
• epeeist =peer the solemn manner in which he ittssed
tie b.aytt open being sworn, had the effoet o! in res.
sin.: the beholden with tin conviction that some
unusually impottant evidence woe forthcoming.
What'a your name?" said the Coroner. "Jobs
Beveridge," rep:ied the witness. " Were yon • Oil-
Inger by this it-fate] ship " No, sir." " Yoa were
one of the crew thin?' "No stir." Then what are
you?" Tin • Bab cuter." A blank silence fall open
the Cruet, the Coroner look•zg at les clerk, than round
at the Jury, and back at IA r. Nevcridge in • pass:ed
war. Me. Bee.erid,s hitnae:f quietly looking straight
before him and eyhlent y ready to answer non oath any
farther questtou. " Wh,t do you know about the or. oh
of the Northeast?' th. Crrotter at lot ' asked. "I
know clothier, except," ladled Mr. Beveridge In •
cantinas mariner, to which his iroid Bentch accent gave
additional effect, "what I hay. read about it in the
nee spa, or." Aftnr the o listernataan caused by this
declaration, oh oh wee made by Mr. Beverlixe with
indescribable imperturbability, had partially eubeided,
Kr. Beveriige was asked to explain how be knowing
nothing of o e wreck came to br in the inquest room as
Lydd' " Well, air, I'll tell you •• for sal caa under.
stand it myself. I vot • telegram on Monday at
Bcreick-an•Tee,d, 'bore lii,., te ling to. to come
down to Lydd to give evidence at the icqueet on the
Northfleet. I wires back to say I knew nothing about
It, aid what about my expenses. On Thursday I got
this note from Naos. Patton and Co., which say.,
"The Coroner requiem lon at the inquest without fail
on Satardsy at Lydd, co you had better leave Berwick
tc-mortow. You oil ; have to go by rail through London
to Folkeetooe, and tleu take *orlon on. /Gamed is
• cheque for expeores, £3,; we win pay you any further
reasonable expense. Vat be due.' I cid not know
what it all meant ; bat aie the money for the expenses
was there right enough, I came away." This astonish-
ing story told ly Mr. Bevelklge, without the movement
of • omule of the Goa, was received with uncontroll-
able laughter ; and when it subsided, sir. Beverfdp
quietly roamed his seat at the back of the emit cafe
ta the ix oeseion of funds for hie "expenses." How
the mistake in identity arose doe' not clearly appear,
but the John Beveridge wanted was a passenger on
hard the Northflnt, who happened to Lae on deck at
the moment nf the collision.

Tbe Rev. Stylemon Herring furnished an exact
'mount of the snff,rere, dlitinguislainic the lost from
the mewl in *soh dams Of 42 married men among the
misrule* only two steeped ; of 42 women, only one ;
and 0152 obildren, only ow.; wbereas out .1 208 angle
men nearly a third (61) wore loose Idol in taking oars
of therasolves. About Use moo proportion of the
orew wars fortunate, namely, one marrisd and nine
single saes out of 33. The total number of doodle
eseertoioed is 292.

Tho subscriptions towards Ws relief of tits survivors
now amount to £5,60.

THE MUSILLO.-OFFICIAL

It is DOW *kW that the Murillo was the vessel that
oat dew. the Northeeet on the eight of the 22ad
She arrived at Cadiz on Thursday evening, sad hod
been newly painted on the starboard bow, Week end red
to water floe; liot the Spanish consul in Leodea
explains that the Murillo wee painted in Lades sad
Antwerp just before starting cm her voyage.
Derpoducies mode before the British consul by NM
engineers of the steamer and en Inglabmae who was
tairrr on board, oust...oustoust...etteousetatAiolly the
allare of the disaster, the description of the
the time of the oaturrenos, the appeerause of
the ship rtin into, this elite froze the hoods for aegis-
tance, the voices on how& of women end childrea,and
other cif:enmeshes., ooiael ie with the accounts in the
English prase of the dissster to the Nortbeeot
The parties interested to the coulter admit that she
came into eolltaion with soma vessel on the night of
the disaster it Don •i.cse, but deny that the vessel
wu the Nortbdiet. Tat, externsi marks of tho collision
are scarcely pereepablo on the Murillo. A survey by
the Lloyds' cure. 7,1 hu furnished evidence of a all-
deion aith a ...isle., ship.
Pending the ism° of the procioectitigi instituted, the
=Wax aud acme of the crew here been plac..d under
arrest.

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LIISON, Fab•uary 2 —Tw..) pateeng.n. Oa hoard the
Nusillo tcstify t Int they eitt.natly heard odes lot bolo
from the Hartbeest alter its oollielon, sod were
horrified to Ind Ile Murillo sheer ms off.

LIAVISO C4DIZ FOS -LIIIII-0-1.

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The following telegram has been received to-day by
Meisr... Clark, Yu:lettere, and Co. Weettninscer, from
Pmts. Sesto,Liation :—"Murlllo coming Supposed
was ordered sway from .