The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-24 00:00:00

THE COLLIERS' STRIKE.

Yesterday ten men were brought up at Bilaton
before the stipend' for Staffordshire(Hr. Labe Spooner),
charged with intimidating men on their way to work. The
defendants were conducted to the town by bands of
music, and some 2,000 men. The men neembied monad
the police-station, and the proceedings had to be twice
stonsuou account of the uproar outside. Hajar WHaight,
the ty chief creatable of Staffordshire, and lln=ten-
deaf 'Orem emit out and found one of the mom
the mobsome what excitedly, and thecrowd bustling a polio.-
man who was ordering him to move no. The major added
the force of hie authonty, and directed hie attentioo some-
what protoloently to • big fellow with a great stick in hie
hand. The roam refused to move 00, arid the major deprived
him of kis weapon. The man then threatened to "do for"
the deputy chief constable. Major M'Knight then clutched
hint by the collar, and wheeled him round into the bands of
one of his officers with a force that &Mount:id the collier.
Several of the mob then rushed towards the major, armed
with heavy sticks, sod were about to belabour him, when
some officers interposed, deprived the men of their cudgels,
and wasted them. A stone was then thrown, and it was
only the prompt action of the major sod his men that pre-
vented an extessiv• outbreak. The major himself dis-
armed and arrested three men. All the sticks that the
mob powered were takes from them, and the men who
were suspected of aiming stones weresearched.
The three roads leading to the court were then cleared for
some distance, and the approached kept by a double line of
policemen. Whilst the space was being kept the men in ass
direction refused to allow a hone and cart to pan into the
open apace "if they could not doss," and a dietaries°, wee
immioent. The police interfered, and were arresting the chief
actors, when an attempt was made tandem* the men from
the custody of the officers. Another melee ensued. The
police, however, kept their sabres in their scabbard' and boat
the mob back with their truncheons. They brought in four
men and order was restored. A large number of policemen
remain on duty is the station during the night, aad the nine
mem who attacked the police will be brought up at a special
swims to-day.
The men charged with intimidation were nise of them
convicted and sentenced each to six weeks' bard labour, and
a woman who had assisted to 14 deys. The penes intimi-
dated was a collier in the employ of the Earl of Dudley.
He had gone to work at the wages which the men on strike
refine to accept, and when he was neurone home from the
pit he was met by a band of music, and a mob which tall-
, mately swelled to 6,000 men, by whom he was ociarealy as-
' sailed and threatened with death. He was supposed to owe
his preservation to the pretence of a policeman, who hear-
ing that he was being mailed, went up and walked by his
side.

THE Pti•fiILAUGHTZIL OF • POACH= BY •
Pouches.—The inquest at the Southwell Howe of Cor.
rectioe, Nett', on the body of James Skidmore, aided on
Thursday evening. The coroner r. Newton) said that if
the blows which the deceased had received, had been give.
bye private individual, a very different offence would have
been committed from what had been ia this cese. A police
MB= in the execution of hie duty, eves though be ha-
aided blows which were the caws ofdeath, if such amount
of video°e was necressey for the discharge of hie duty,
would be protected by the law—else so one would be
toyed who would undertake the office. Still, if the policeman
had used more violence the was ricasary, be wan liable
to be punished. The jury then retired to comeider, sad
were left by themselves for about tea minutes. On the
return of the coroner, the foreman unwanted that, after
coosidering the circunistatiose of the case, the jury U0111:11.
moualy found a verdict of "Manslaughter" when the
police constable Stanfield. The constable was then called
in, and the decision of the jury communicated to him. The
warrant of the coaxer was then made oat for his committal
to gaol on the charge of manslaughter, sad the police-
man was then looked up. The termer said be should
accept bail for the accused, bum& is 100 i., and two sum
ties in 501. each.—Notts Guardian.

Fan DI Ss—This somewhat unusual verdict
was found oe Thursday by • coroeer's inquest which
was held at Sheffield on the body of Esther Pritchett,
who had palmated herself cm the meeker Tuesday with
a preparation used for destroying rate. Jos. Pritchett,
the father of the deceased, said she was 21
years of age. She bad sot lived with hilt 'tee three
or four years, bet had 00039 backwards and forwards when
she had • mind. He could rot tell how she had got her
living—sometimes she worked and sometimes she did not.
She worked at crinoline newieg, but he suspected that part
of her time she had not got her livieg honestly Thomas
Stead, who lodged at the same house with the deceased,
mid she was taken ill about 7 o'clock cm Tuesday *resin.
She was writhing at the time. She tumbled back. I went
to her and said, " What's • miss ^ She said, " That in-
fernal powder has poisoned me. Lord have mercy upon
ma," She spoke no more. I wasstragsling with her for
more than five minutes before anyone canto in. She strug-
gled violently, and twitched like. Her legs were as stiff
as a poker. I was these when she klied—ball ao hoar
after she began to struggle. The following letter was pro-
duced :—" Dear Mother and Patter,—l hope you will for-
give me for what I have dons. 1 feel 1 can't live ear loafer
la this world. May the Lord help me." Two or
three unintelligible words followed. The creaser briefly
summed up, and left it to the jury to say if they
could, consistently with the evidence, return • verdict that
the dimmed was in an nneonod state of mind. The jury.
however, after a very brief deliberation, found that the de-
ceased had feloniously taken away her own life. The de.
I °maid wee buried on Tbunday night shoe( 10 o'clock, is
Beregreave cemetery. The workhouse hearse was used. Is
order to prevent confusion, the body was removed to the
werkhosse in the and the time and plass of Ismael
were kept secret.—Maelle Independent.

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