The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-10 00:00:00

WANDSWORTH,

George Rolert Kilsbyp, 40, a clerk. Edward Irifsko, 37,
painter, and Sarah Kelsby, 32,married, were placed in the
dock, before Mr. Ingham, charged with wilfully shooting
Henry Cook with a pistol with intent to murder.
Mr. Superintendent Butt, of the V division, was present
to watch the case on behalf of the police.
John Sole, a locksmith, living at No. 3, Chapel-place,
York-road, Battersea, said—On Monday night I was sitting
outside the Prince of Wales, in Battersea-fields, trom half-
past 9 o'clock till 10 o'clock, and during the time I saw the
prisoners walking to and fro, About 10 o'clock the master
of a grocer's shop (his name is Cook) came out to put up
his shutters. The prisoner George Kilsby fired off a
pistol at bin side while engaged in putting up the shutters.
The prisoner was about three garde off when be fired. He
walked towards him.

Mr. logham—What wee the effect of the cliimharge of the
pistol.' . . .

Witness—lt made a wound in his side. He walked a
little way, when he became exhausted, and he was taken
in-doors. He did not say anything. I saw blood ODOM
from his side through his shirt. When the prisoner G eorge
walked towards Cook the other prisoners stood back. I did
not hear them say anything. After the man was shot I
saw the prisoner George go into the Prince of Wales. I
did not notice what became of the others. Cook's house is
next door to the Prince of Wales.

Mr. Ingham (to the prisoner George)—Have you any
questions to ask the witness°
Prisoner—l shot the rat.
The prisoner tppaired is a very melancholy state. He
stood with his back leaning against the wall, with his eves
cast on the floor and his right hand on his breast. The
other male prisoner was about to make a statement, when
his worship requested him to defer it until he had heard
the case.

Mr. William Austin-1 keep the Prince of Wales. I know
nothing particular about the case. All I know, the prisoner,
George Kilaby, came into our place on Monday night about
10 o clock. He came the same as he had many times before.
He took a pistol out of the aide of his coat and showed it to
me. He said it was what he shot the rata with, or what hs
poisoned them with. Ido not know what be said exactly.
I bad just comedown stairs. I heard the report of a pistol
as I was coming down. I went ant of the door and met
Cook. He told me he had been shot. I iusisted him into
his shop sod upstairs, and sent for Mr. Kerupster, a sur-
geon. I saw his side examined. I did not see the other
two prisoners.
. . .

Oi; being further questioned uto the obser►ations of the
prisoner George, the witness said that when he showed the
pistol he observed, " This is whet we kill the rats with ; I
shot him." Ho said that he had done for him, or something
of the kind.

Mr. William Payne—l am a baker, and lire next door to
Mr. Cook. I saw the priaoners walking up and down in
front of the three shops up toped 10 o'clock. The prisoner
George asked me if Cook was at home that wax before 10
o'clock. I told him that I had seen him go out about 11
o'clock in the moraine, and I bad nut seen him wince. After
that I heard a shot fired. I went out and paw Cook shot.
I saw the two male prisoners go into the public-house toge-
ther afterwards. The prisoner George did not give any
reason for wishing to see Cook.
Police-constable Wright, No. 294 V, said—A little after 10
o'clock on Monday night I was on duty in Batterse►-fields,
when the witness Sole came to me and told me that a maul
had been shot. I went to the Prince of Wales, and in the
bar parlour I saw all the prisoners sitting down. I asked if
the roan who had shot another man was there. The prisoner
George got up and said, "It is me, I have shot the man."
The pnsocrer Edward said " Yes," and gave me a pistol. I
took the prisoner George into custody, and on the way to
the station I remarked what a beautiful night is was for the
harvest people, as they would be able to see to work all
night. He replied, "He won't work to-night." I searched
the prisoner, and found upon him five percussion caps.
The pistol was produced, and the officer stated that the
discharged cap was still upon it. The officer further stated
that he found some tea upon the prisoner George wrapped
in one of Mr. Cook's labels.

Police-constable Kialing, No. 289 V—ln consequence of
information I received, I went to Mr. Cook's house, and
found him lying on a bed. Mr. Kempater was attending
upon him. I went to the station and found the prisoner
Edward and the female there. I detained them. The pri-
soner Edward said he had been fetched to see his brother,
who was ill. His brother told him that he was going to
fight Cook, and be endeavoured to persuade him not to do
so, but he persisted in going. He also said that he was not
aware of his brother having a pistol about him, and that if
he had been aware of it be should have taken it from him.
I afterwards went to the prisoner George's house, and in a
box in the front room upstairs I found a canister of pow-
der, a quantity of shot, and some percussion cape. I found
different kinds of shot. Some of it is dust shot and bullets.
Mr. Ingham—Does any of it fit the pistol?
Witness—Yea, air.
A small hand-pistol was held up, and the officer tried it
with a bullet, but it was too large.
Mr. Ingham looked at the shot, and said there were buck
and snipe shot. . _

The officer tried the buck shot with the pistol. and found
it could be charged with that description of shot.
The officer neat produced the wounded man's waistcoat
and held it up, and one side appeared to be completely
riddled with shot.
Mr. Ingham—How many holes are there?
Witness—Ten, sir.
Mr. Ingham—And on the inside of the holes there is a
quantity of blood?
Witness—Yes, sir.
Mr. Ingham—He must have been wounded with buck
shot, am the dust shot would have made invisible holes in
the waistcoat.

The constable, in answer to further goe.dions, said he be-
lieved the female was the wife of the prisoner Edward.
Mr. W. H. %amulet, surgeon, of Bridge-road, Battersea,
rid—About half-past 10 o'clock 1 was sent for to go to
Cook's house. I went and found him lying oo a bed. There
was a 9uantity of blood on the right side. On tipping up
his shirt 1 found a spot about the size of the palm of my
hand, on the base of the right long. There were 18 wounds,
about an inch or an inch and a.balf apart from each other,
produced by some large kind of shot fired at a distance of
between 3 and 4 yards.
Mr. Ingham—Look at the small shots ; will they COMM
inch wounds!

Mr. Kempster—They would be produced by shots of thin
kind. I examined the wounds, sod could not find any shot.
at the bottom of them. I could not find any shots in the
clothes, sad it was evident that they were internally. The
man is not yet dead, hut it is impossible to say what the
ooneequenees will be. He is still in a very precarious state.
This was all the evidence the police had to offer that day,
sad Mr. bighorn inquired whether then was any yd.

deuce at present of the motive, and he was answered in
the negative.
The prisoner George was asked if he wished to make any
statement. upon which he shook his head and said he had
nothing to say.
The prisoner Edward then made a statement to the effect
that on Monday evening, his brother's two sone came to his
bonze and stated their father wished to see him, as he was
.v7wirents sahisw wifehi went
encat Wligtthborldthr7fehimhorna
appeared quite delirious. He said that he wanted him to
accompany him to see Cook. He accused Cook with having
been intimate with his wife on several occasions, and said that
bis wife had left him. He was going round to see Cook about
his wife, and be wanted him (the prisoner Edward) to
go with him to see fair play. He (the prisoner) advised him
not to go, but he would, and be and his wife went to the
Prince of Wake. They went into the bar parlour and had
some ale, and his brother took out two pictures, apparently
likenesses, and gave them to Mrs. Austin, the landlady.
He then confirmed the statement of the witnesses about
their waiting outside.
Mr. Ingham discharged the female, and said be would
take two sureties in 501. each for the appearance of the
prisoner Edward. He remanded the other prisoner for a
week.

The 'nuclear Edward wee visibly affected, and was re-
moved with his brother.

FATAL COLLISION ON THE CRYSTAL PALACE
RAILWAY AT LONDON-BRIDGE.

Yesterday afternoon a very protracted investiga-
tion took place before Mr. John Humphreys, cos of the
Middlesex coroners, at the Three Crowns Tavern, City-road,
into the circumstances of a collision which occurred on the
sth of August., at the London-bridge station, between •
Crystal Palace passenger train and a ballast train, by which
Mrs. Harriet Coleman, aged 42, lost her life.
Mr. Farmer, solicitor, and Mr. Lyman, assistant super-
intendent, apt:eared on behalf of the London, Brighton, and
Smith Coast Railway Company; and Mr. Cook represented
the husband of the deceased.

Mr. Farmer said that he was prepared to admit that the
collision took place on the London, Brighton, sod South
Coast Railway Company's line.
Yr. Thomas Coleman, 4, Craven•lnuldings, City.tead,
photographer, husband of the deceased, said—On the sth
of August my wife left home for the Crystal Palace at three
o'clock io the afternoon. She was then in her usual health,
and was not under medical treatment, but she was not of a
strong constitution. She returned at nine o'clock with her
lip bleeding. She said that she had received an injury in a
collision on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway.
The next day she continued ailing, and I sent her to Dr.
Payne, under whom she continued till she died. Since the
accident one of her teeth fell out. She said that she received
the damage from • person falling violently against her
through the shock of the collision.
James Coleman, the son of the deceased, a boy about 12
years of age, said—M7 mother and I went down to the
Crystal Palace in • third-class carriage, though she had paid
for the second • claim We left the gardens about 6 o'clock to
get to the trains, and we again only got • third-clue
carriage. When we got near London • collision took
place. The people were jerked from their seats, and the
who was sitting opposite to deceased was thrown
personforward against against her, and cut her lip. I was thrown
up to the top of the carriage. I noticed that the doors
were locked immediately. The people were going to get
out, and that was the reason they were looked. There
was great screaming and fright. The train proceeded up
to the station in about 3 minutes. It was not dark. We
came home in an omnibus, and my mother was very ill.
By the jury—She did not go to the Official before she
left the station, but got &drink of water at the refreshment
*tag-

By Mr. Cook—Then was -a great ;crowd at the statics,
going and coming, and there was no room in the second-
class carriages. The porter put us into the third.class car-
riage at London bridge.
Mary Brown said that she was called in to nurse de-
ceased a fortnight since. She was confined to bed. She
had a bruise on the shoulder. another on the hand, and her
mouth was cut. She complained of inward pain, and was
very nervous and restless. She died on Thursday lut. She
said to witnesathat the collision had caused her injuries. She
was not a sickly woman.
Mr. S. H. Cornish, M.R.C.S., mud that he received in-
structions from the Brighton Company to see deceased, and
he visited her on the 13th of August. He found her with
her mouth cut and tooth loose, but she wan not in bed.
She was very nervous. He reported that there was no
' danger to life or permanent injury.
By the Coroner—ln some constitutions shock to the
system is longer manifesting itself then in others. It is,
however, rather unusual for a shock to produce death after
an interval of a month. A railway collision is calculated
to produce a more severe shock than most other collisions.
Jesse Buckland, switchman in the employ of the London,
Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company, said that
at dusk on the sth of August a mixed passenger train was
coming in from the Crystal Palace, and there were some
empty carriages corning from the station at the
same time. The latter were going to be shunted.
William showed the driver of the pilot engine driving
them the green light to come steady, and then told him to
stop. Witness signalled the up train to come ou, for the
pilot engine would have stopped in the proper course even
without being signalled to stop, before getting on the main
line for the purpose of crossing it. Witness, however, saw
that he was going onto the main line on which the passenger
train was coming, and showed the red light. He applied
the breaks, but he could not pall up before the engine went
for a yard or two upon the main line and the engine of the
arrival train came into collision with it. Both °Deus
IMO stopped by the concussion. Some of the passengers
jumped out of the carriages on to the line, but witness
made them get in again, and shut the doors. The carriages
were shaken. The buffers of the pilot engine were broken.
The third-class passenger carriages were nearest the engine.
By Mr. Farmer—Witness-signalled the up train to stop
when be saw the pilot engine going onto the line; but the
up train was then only twenty-five yards off, and its speed
could not be materially checked before the collision.
The court was then adjourned for further evidence.

THE PATAL APPRAY BETWEEN REAPERS AND
HOP•PICKERS IN SUSSEX.

I u our impression of Mouday we gave a brief
account of a serious disturbance which took place at Ildimore
on the previous Wednesday. Mr. Kell, the coroner, has
since held an inquest on the body of Mary, wife of Timothy
Welsh, who bad met her death in the disturbance.
Henry Speen, carter, at Udimore, deposed that on Wed-
nesday he went to Heathfield, with a waggon belonging to
Mews. Coleman, his masters, to fetch some Imp•pickers.
On his return he stopped the waggon at the Broad Oak,
Brede, where every one had about a pint of beer each.
When they got there there was a party of Irish reapers.
who had their swap hooks with them. They were quar-
relling among themselves, and inquired if there was any
Englishman who was inclined to fight. They said
no. The Irish seemed as if they had had some-
thing to drink, but they walked very well, and proceeded
along the road. They followed with the waggon, and
overtook them near Son len Farm. The youngest man
I then Caine up and inquired if witness's party bad a mind to
fight, and with a stick struck a labourer named Robins
across the lege. He thee went back behind and commenced
throwing Mopes. He knocked Robins down in the road,
and the rest of the Irish came upon him. Witness's party
then got off the waggon, and they all got fightiog amongst
themselves, till the Irish went back to see about their swap
books the hop-pickers then ran sway. The deceased got
hold of the fore horse's head, and be bad got bold of it too.
She began hitting it about with a bat on the head, notwith-
standing that be told her to leave the hone alone. One of
the Irishmen, who was now in custody, and who gave
the name of Robert Lynch, went at him with a swap
book. He stooped his head under the horse's neck,
and the man struck him on the shoulders, cutting
through his clothes, and making his shoulder bleed
very much, the blood running down his arm to the fingers.
He then passed under the chains between the fore and
second horse, and the man chopped at him again with the
swaphook, which struck the chain. The deceased had
hold of the fore horse's head, and the horse swung her off
and threw her down. One of the Irishmen kept rattling
the chaise and making a noise, and the horses got fright-
ened and ran away. The two front horses went over the
woman, but the other stopped and swerved. He tried to
hold on and stop them, and he did not see whether the
wheels went over her or not. He dept hold of his horses,
and, finding himself cut and bleeding, hastened to get home
with the hones and waggon to Little Fagg Farm. Mr.
Adamson, a surgeon at Rye, dressed his wound a little
before 10. He was still disabled In it. He never touched
one of the horses with the whip.
At the close of the inquiry, which lasted upwards of five
hour,

The jury found "That the deceased came by her death in
ennaequeoce of her unlawfully having seised the rein of the
fore horse. which threw her down and the wheels of the
waggon accidentally passed over her head."
On Monday Robert Lynch, labourer, late of Deptford, was
charged before the Rye magistrates with assaulting Spears.
After a lengthened bearing the chairman, Mr. Pomfret,
said that in the opinion of the bench there had been so much
confusion and lighting among the parties that it was difficult
to say what was the truth. He feared the Irish had met
with much provocation, and as the complainant's wound was
not deo serious a character as had been anticipated, the
bench would treat the affair as a common assault, and in-
flict a fine of 40a. and meta.

In the comae of the day the fine was paid by subscription
amongst the Irish reapers.

Therimminan Surcznz--Yesteniay morning an
inquiry was held by Mr. John Humphreys. at the Plough
Tavern, Bow-road, respecting the death of Thomas James
Wren, aged 42, who had committed suicide on Sunday
morning last, with great deliberation. He was found hang-
ing by • and from a hock in the kitchen, and the cord wan
tied with extraordinary tightness round his neck, sod a
handkirehief was also firmly stuffed into his mouth, no
doubt to make the strangulation certain. He appeared to
have endeavoured, as far as he was able, to thrust the hand-
kerchief down his throat, and there were marks of blood
upon it. the deceased bad been weak-minded since about
three months ago, when he was knocked down and run over
be an omnibus, and his wife was in coaeant dread that be
would murder her. The jury returned a verdict of " Tem-
porary insanity."