The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-16 00:00:00

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT STANDON

Bit! DGE.

After en rAleentreent of a month, the coroner
and jury eumesedel to lavatigate the circumstances
attendant apse the sachet which occurred near this place
• the 6th aldose, ro•moombi.il yesterday at the National
esboel4oolll of the village of Cresibery, foe the purpose of
(Mem waning the Wi.
The ntry
of *Mikes. woe taken up with the testimony
of Prise, the Aremm, who, it may be remembered, was
eampollei to withers* abruptly on the previous occasion by
Wham of strength. In addition to his former evidence he
dspresd as follows:—He saw the Velocipede engine just
=9:Mat the points. We were then hardly so much as
ile from her. The deceased shut off his steam end
reversed his eaglets as soon as be got through the bridge.
We were thee going at full 40 miles an hour. The brake
of the tender was applied, and the deceased blew hie whistle
to warn the pores to 4o the same. We ran some distance
before the spell litho train was checked on account of the
denim= of the tells tram previous rains which had fallen.
The reed from the bridge to the Standen coal yard
intliin down an incline of 1 in 330 I believe.
demesed did not weak to me after we came under the
bridge. We continued running with the steam turned off
and the engine reversed until the collision took place. The
edge et the tender to the Velocipede enginelwas clear of the
tap rails all but about halt a yard. The engine itself was
serer the rails. I think we struck her about the foot-plate.
Belleavi the accident we saw two lots of plate layers on the
line. The lot near Hatton-bridge gave us the red flag.
This was full three-quarters of a mile before we came in
Wolof the pilot engine. The deceased took no notion of
this signal, and did not reverse the engine until he saw the
pilot before him at the coal-yard points. lam sure the
deceased saw this signal. I remarked to him when I saw
titbit the driver of the pilot was probably going to cross at
the seal yard. He replied, " Not he," and ran on ,at the
Isom spied. I had put the brake on when I saw the
Mtlaired flag. The deceased told me to take it off,
r:et do so, and he put on more steam. He might
have Ismeght the train to a stand still, but he was
se etelleat• man. He would sometimes go a whole trip
without winkles • word to me. At another time he would
be.7dell, Sall would appear as if he could do hardly
tar see.
By the Coneee—l have known him during five years in
the woke albs company, and during that time I never
knew say shaVrought against the deceased fur careless
or realms drl .
Joke Greco id, said he was an engine driver in the
serviced the London end North Western Railway, and
bad been in the same employ during fifteen years. He had
been driver of a bank engine five years, and had had
charge of the Velocipede about 6 months. Witness knew
the deeessed, Thomas Reynolds, and was on very good
terms with him. He saw him at Crewe on the day the
collision occurred. There was a distinct understanding that
witness was to cram at Whitmore. Within a few yards of
the spot where they always booked off, the deceased blew
his whistle once, and made the usual sign with his hands
for witness to hook off and cross. Witness replied
by holding up one hand, which is understood
among the drivers to mean " come carefully,"
and then detaching his engine, proceeded on towards Whit-
more. It was always usual to cross at Whitmore when
they got well up the bank, but if they did not get on so
well the bank engine ran on to Stafford. Witness had
rossed at any other station than Whitmore or
Stafford with an express train before the day on which
the accident occurred.

--oe-oiaCr=iiiki,tiarti, did you cross on this occasion at
the &tandem eoal-yard ?
Witness—After I had detached tho engine I ran as fast
as I Gould—it might be 80 miles an hour. Reynolds was
coming at 40 miles an hour or better. I looked round
several times, and fancied he was not slackening
speed, as he ought to have duos. I blew my
whirls three or four times before eatesieg the Whitmore
station and again when I got to he Males to alarm the
peliosman. When I got to the proper pullet for crossing, I
saw the steam of the express angles appeashing the station
about 160 yards in our rear. I araitaued standing on the
right-hand side of the engine. and I believe I ran forward
at from 80 to 90 mike an hour, as far as the Standon coal-
wharf, which is about 31 or 4 mike from Whitmore. I saw
two parties of plate-layers along the line. To the first
party I gave very violent moils to stop the en-
press, lest there might be an to prevent
our crossing at the coal yar4 aid I saw one
of them—a man I know by sight—e towards Ids red deg
as if to pick It up. I shoo, the shag_ seer Natierheidge,
and Dante to a stand just ever the paints. I then oil how
mate, " Now, Jack, losk hasp. Tura as over herb&
as soon as yea east." 1 revensed the lever, and the maim
returned dbestly. Oa lee beak I saw the egress
verb tollidiF—l &tali say from 46 to 60 mills an
hear. I esallsase Ischia, towards the express. I saw
the deemed shahs/ upright en the left band side of the
mime, aid the beenais at his brake. The deceased had
sea reamed hi Goghs at this time but stood up looking
at as awl I at him. I brave he now saw our
eilpplag, sad he then reversed his engine
asi the susesemest deemed oat of my sight. The trill
sea esatkated et bit beaks. I saw the chimney of the
sweet wakes pee oar hot plate, and I saw the face
of the threeseB I but I masa nothing more. The engine
was booked oat of ay hand at the same asoineet, and I
balkwarke ea is the down line. I cannot say how long
I emibuel !betel . .

Willem Lbw& irriessirm is the service of the oda-
taajadothastai slamia of the lam within ea to
a raideed a very "Wile. elpal " from the driver
mil Irma of ibe plet maim
luso nem ems et the peletemes at Whitmore, said
etas be saw than aloe tote the dation he put on the
ISM Bird Id plat amen 111 anal. When Grata
I Wit= op to paha, witness saw hint and
the ha& Oa kakis. book himself witness
saw the mime hada main WOW& the station very
rapidly, sad old eat to the *her of the pilot, " July
yea mad p ea quilt as remihie—tba eargl
was yea. At the some femme alms
Whaw phaeton at the Nell end of is oaths thew
his rail tithe Wham did the same. and flea SlMlneil the
driver mem let off has mean. Aim amiss the
papa well ea," voltam gave the wrens hh bead to amm
swift is, and dime/ his red he a pees is. The driver
pat hie besdoettli the lagers easedeL to has sue, %verb
'Mem

Odusem—What did hi meta by that ?
Inbasts—l amass day. I it as a sort ol' "ildleas"
He vs =MIN at dr time, sad it might haw beds ad;
101•1•111& _ .

A few 'Mimes were essidoed, the seesaw
easawd ap, ind the jury of 17 retuned *I S& vow
dist :—"lfe God that the deems* Thaws net
We des* beta thessilliew between the upon whisk
be wee deielog sad the ylist eal delete by Isla Glass.
Ale sollidea wee weft to the *messed% bawls. asibefeed
* amble We wed Wen waft to Whims* sadw bh
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MM
aatias to the red lei whisk wee shwa Ida
ma Steads& • Thee we de ast *ink
that any biatillig= beatiethoted to Jells Ores% lades all
the shreartsmese
erey d the sow Slat we would imps* to
feyslallea the lle
thetelf anyml==if red
lamas eeleg to a yalseled
the drives el
el}adeted eagle dad the debar et the pest mere who
aide Ma; sad we are abed spike that he wage ahead
the dew* ef the befitebyee siehlell be snowed to per Whitmire
abet hi hes *ea lleil bust that ph* that the *gine
tibia Wed rehted we moldy eat ef *e way."

HEREFORD MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

TIMIDAY EVININO
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The omesets an held it the iliiTskallT iiiiAt-
hadems Ode mewing wen eenalaly maw posaillog thsa
the sae at the Cathedral this awning. There wen be-
tween Mend 405 preautt The overture to " Lutherans"
seasessoed the Ant part—Awes played well. Herr Forme
Wig In ada Ron ftwlni " nun " with his usual=
tadnade a wesierft inganseles upon the Heref
rep* is this hie let egunnewee. lies. Endensoba end
Ms WWI. pub— Mandelelut's Swann duet, "Greet.
ing,"is espial style, buck ins net suitable to the tub et
the sadism% who mare* sensed it. Madam Obis
Novelly Om ems *mu* awl mole brilliant
by her riaderbg of a mattios by Oagnoni. Tlssm=
Gus asi Madrigal Hahn dllllll patterned Webbs:ass=
m" A geoso frisalship," legillmts ed
Ills Williams was ateseedla Lasts wetly Wok
" The slave girl's lova." The islothoillonts, and e
" Hail, ye leerees," putheasd, closed grll:41 1
part et the mart.
The sand istazsil with WOW,
ts W, " Oberon " over-
nnielPitally but the wind inniunen were sadly
tee Sir . 's glee, " When art thee, been
Agh" perkruted by the "Hain," resolved a nest inesi-
UM
save. The ems asplismat via awarded Madam
Ohm Mama sod Mr. Oho his,.., foe *Me hlbsel
dis et the duet "v. Isom sets," Ova Dmisseti's
" LAMM Donnas." The madrigal, " Ths lady
Orissa," ma badly psellesed by the shms,
who ems huddled together without the diglasst
arrawousuen as to ths parts they were dogleg
Modems Ohm Movello's Meng el ma &mar wis
a sidomMdlindurn wrowe~aw. Mr. Skis Reaves sang
" ND pata," with ohms assimpanisd is the harp by
key Troa. Th. swat .mailedwith Mr H. Bishop's
L uitatesiengsal ebeins• Seta., there's • 'tom," yang by Mrs.
Kiss MllnmA Hr. Hobbs, and Mr. H.
Idashy.

WIDIIIIIIDAT
.MOllllllO.

The esdatibel this mundos mhasted s marked Moraves
mud in the allindanon TM pedsommee iscladoilbada's
s mued arndo. "OA Thou art
"tillls oar !Velars," by Nos Uwe% and a esiession
"s service in C. TM palbommos et the
" Crislisa" whrwaxtressiai us* saihaoseray whoa our
The adiestisa M the cathedral deers easeanted to 1781.,
lisica_a Morns, ea the sus oolleolad the flrst day in 1849
of Mii• ibis IS smoked ON.

TRIAL OF AN ENGLISHMAN AT PARIS
Fos CHILD-STEALING.

The Court of Andras met on Monday to try en
Englishman, named Howard, for carrying off sad segues-
tratiug a girl under age. The ems excited extraordinary
Interest, and the court was crowded to excess, chiefly by
elegantly-attired ladies.
Howard is rather a good looking young man. He wears
' thick mustachios. H. was fashionably dressed, and wore
white kid gloves. He stated himself to be 32 years of ago, '
and of no profession.
The indictment, in which the name of the accused was
given se John Jules William Charles Howard Pal d'Est,
set forth the following tests: In 1849 intimate relations be-
came established between Howard and a Madame Gods-
froy, a widow, then aged 27. Howard was a man without
profession or resources, and had led a life of adventures in
daunt towns of Europe. It was in Hollsed and at
Dna& that his connection with Madame Oodefroy first
=l, and it continued when she came to Paris,
ookwas
up her residence at No. 41, Rue do Provence.
Itaisowieg deal Maims Godefroy bad had relations
with mew me•, be detained considerable sums of
money tees bus wader the threat of making scaudalous
revelatioat . lide ems penemod himself of some of her
Wogs, ikelitliOS *OS isi would make an abusive use of
the lead be aim relled her to give to him an order fur
111,101101.. pqabie M her by a banker of London, before he
would mom them. This order, fortunately, was subse-
quentlyTrize
seined the police. In ltiio Howard was twice
arrested ea Ma of cheating at play ; and was twice
tried bytes et Correctional Police, but was ac-
quitted Bow imitollielent proof. After the second acquittal,
however, an order was given that he should be expelled
from France, and he was conveyed to the frontier by
police agents. On the 18th of Ja:inary, 1851, having
secretly retuned to France, he presented himself unex-
outedly, at midnight, in the residence of Madame
Oodefroy. He was dressed In woman's clothes. He told
Madame Godefroy that he had returned because he could
not bear the idea of quitting her for ever without
taking a last farewell. At her request he consented to
leave the house. A few days after he wrote to her to
spaoCat, on being sent from Paris, in the custody of the
, he had been obliged to leave his trunks in the:pave-
ment he had occupied, nee de Monsieur, and be bogged of
her to send her jesewes-de-chansbre to get them, as if he
went himself he would be in danger of being arrested. She
unhesitatingly consented. The next morning at about 10
o'clock Howard arrived in the Rue de Provence in a cab.
Mme. Godefroy having been ob igeel to leave home previ-
ously, to accept an invitation to breakfast, had ordered her
femme•de-cAarisbre to convey to her her daughter, aged
five. Howard made the servant and the child get into the
cab with him. The woman wished to take the child to her
mother at ones, but Howard insisted on going direct to the
Rue de Monsieur. On arriving there, be told the ser-
vant to go to the house in which he bad lived, and
to ask it his trunks could be removed. The lestme-
de-eleambro went, but on her return found that
Howard and the child had driven off. lie proceeded
direct to London, taking the child with him. Two days
after he wrote from that city to the feromc-de.ehattibeir, to
request that his trunks should be sent to him together with
linen for the child. Msdsmo Oodefroy complained to the
Prefect of Police, and he sent an intelligent agent, named
Galbie, to London to look after Howard. Galbie, with
the as of the English police, succeeded in finding
Howard after twelve days' search. Howard did nut deny
that he had the child of Madame Gadefroy in his posses-
sion, but refused to say where she was. He, however,
promised to restore her if three conditions were agreed to:
—l. That a sum of 6,000 fr. in bank notes should be given
to him. 2. That Madame Godefroy should give him as
acknowledgment fur the 30,000 fr., to replace the draft for
that amount taken from him by the police. 3. That his
trunks and effects, left at Point, should be given up.
Oalbie consented to these conditions, and Howard gave
up the child to the English police, who confided her to
Galbie, and he brought her to l'aris to her mother.
Howard subsequently determined to make another
attempt to get possession of the child. He got a man,
named John Dew.., alias Orandville, an Englishman, and
a diemilieed'irsdustrie, like him, to assist hint. This person
was accustomed to receive letters from London, in the
address of which he was designated as a banker ; he oc-
cupied an apartment is the Rue des Pyromides, and lived
in costly style. Howard came clandestinely to France, and
went to his residence. In the month of September, he hired
an isolated house, at No. 9, Roe de Longctiamp, at Nudity,
on the bank of the Seine. He represeuted his name to ho
Count Deekaert, and said that the house war to be occupied
by one of his friends, Prince Pignatelli, who was very fond
of tithing. He bargained with a Mme. Seguin, an up-
holsterer, to furnish it for him, but she having learned that
he was insolvent, refused. Howard went to the house from
time to time. He employed a carpenter, a strangn to the
qoarter, and whose name it has not been possible to obtain,
to board up the window of one of the rooms on the
first floor, and a door opening into another room. lit
the boarding of the door, he caused a wicket to be con-
structed. On the chimney he placed an envelope, not
closed, in which were two sheets of paper, containing the
draft of a will, by which Joseph Dewes was instituted re-
siduary legatee of a person whose name was not given.
There were also two drafts of letters not signed, one of
which consisted of a request to a person not named, but
probably a notary, to give to the bearer all the bills of ex-
change or secunties which he might have, as also a testa-
ment. In the same room was a phial containing a liquid,
which turned out on investigation to be sulphuric acid.
On the 18th or 19th October, Madame Godefroy received
from Dewey, who was unknown to her, a letter, begging
her to accept, on the 20th, an invitation to breakfast at
Madrid, in the Bois de Boulogne. He said that his reason
for choosing that place was that one of his friends was in a
dying state at Neuilly and he did not wish to be far from
him. Madame Godefroy considered the invitation some
new trick of Howard, and having sent a reply that she
would accept it, she went to the Prefecture of Police
to state her auspicious. Two police agents went to
the restaurant indicated in the Bois de Boulogne,
and them found John Dawes and Howard. As the
preparations made at the house at Neuilly were not at that
time known, the pollee only considered themselves justi-
fied in arresting Howard, and that on the charge that he
had violated the order for his expulsion from France.
Dula eissetly alter left Paris without paying his trades-
men, and ft is set !mown what has become of bins. On
hearing of the arm* of his tenant the proprietor of the
beam at Null, treat to ft ,• and was greatly surprised
et
lading the damps tees Mot been made, the papers
awl the seinessis
_add. Net knowing what these things
=be Inhemed the yam med -had the boarding re-
am= the thee owl window. Nothing was done
imell lebeesey tillrostai, when Madame Godefroy having
led • amyielM to the police against Howard, an inves-
diodes wet sisemiseed. The papers found in the house
keine been thew. le Howard, he denied that he had
meths the., thee& he admitted that the writing bore
smut resemblease to his band. He expressed the opi-
aiea they mast have been prepared by Madame
Gedefroy who he said possessed great skill in imitat-
fog berthirriniup. Bat se the woman could have bad no
ream fee talstisadas such things, it was not doubted that
they uses the week. of Howard ; and a person skilled in
bestwddass dated that such was his opinion. As
to up d the window and the door, Howard
did net limy it WM be Ida hod caused it to be done;
bet be add that the teem wee Weeded for Daguerreotype
end wee ee prepared by the order of Prince
ra:ite 111.111 k Eves. however, if the room hot been destined
he this plumee, tbe bearding up of the door and the cut-
ting a a wicket is it were unexplained. As to the phial
•I` solAorie acid Howard said be knew nothing about it.
Ile added that it was poly lismed two or three days
Mem be meet, and than m Mealtime Oodefroy, her
lower bee pier awl the latter's husband,
bed ben test te vi it the plea it was probable that
one se el i m of them hod pawed t there; but it ap-
pend that Oh was net tree. The indictment come-
re
emamed thee the ineseiker of Howard, sided
SO onossoplior, wso le ossiamiteate Maims °ode-
. nd to emort hem bee, by thaemening to employ Illii•
' thuds add to hedgers her, it perhaps to commit a
IMIIdUM% be dpiatme to the payers. In addition to
irla thlleimmt to drew the morality of the
eseisol, tides ymemilleg to , after his expulsion
from lanes,be akimbo' • hen . from the captain of
the ermseme. es the emmily el a valuable nog which hs
bid sib. hem Itheleme Godefroy. This robbery, how-
ever, wee nee Meleded hthe ladimment.
The Preekleat then proceeded to interrogate Howard,
and that poses in reply to hie questions said—. I lived on
as allumese needs tome by my belly. It was more than
704 Ifirgatelf. yew. I. imemer, have always hoed In •
very armed de ad Amens the epithet of Await.
d'indatrit, which be Iden inflicted oo me. I name
traveled peal with a mirelar."
The Passideat —Bat is a letter which you wrote to
Mohan Godefroy in 1860, from the prison Maus, you
add se
Poisemsr—That letter was a confidential one; it was
written to my mistress. It is an injustice to make use of it
pima 1119 j but you may read it.
Piesident—ln this letter you speak of your resources
sad ef year uncle. Where is he ?
Primmer—He is now in court.
President—He has written to me, and in his letter he
says that your family has made sacrifices fur you. But in
year letter to Madame °edam you say that you travelled
in the say, that one of your aunts gave you 90,000 francs,
and that you travelled post.
Prisoner (vehemently)—The letter is false, and I never
wrote it.
M. Juke Fevre, counsel of the accused, complained
of the production of the letter, and the President said
that it had reached him too late to be communicated
, Pieta
The prisoner, in reply to other questions, said—lf the
pelke of Saxony say that I travelled a long time in Ger-
Mon, and visited almost all the watering-places in that
country, they are mistaken ; they confound me with an
Irishmen of the same name. It is completely false that I
am • swindler and a cheat at play. The note does not ap-
ply to me. In 1849 I was invited by :me of my friends to
thewinter at Brussels. There one evening Count de
one of my friends, presented me to a female who
la • bat reserved for loose women. This female was
thethfroy. Imamate relations became established
%Imes m If she preload@ that I extorted money from
Ur. It is false. How could I extort money from a woman
tube be none except what she gets by the prostitution of
bur perms t
I'M President—We shall see about that. However that
tli
ne, you hare been prosecuted for cheating at play.
cards were found in your lodgings, and your
laid a complaint against you far swiadling.
Prisoner—No, air. The woman -Godefroy arrived at
raris with the man who boom her. She had turned bee
Mirechambre out at doors ; and that women went to
a said, "If you do not take me back, I will have

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