The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-23 00:00:00

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AN ATTEMPT TO MURDER a police constable named
Coleman, was made on Sunday last, at Dagenham,
within a few yards of the spot on which the pollee.
man Clark was murdered in 1846. The poor fellow
was attacked by three ruffians, who, after brutally
'Busing him, threw him into a pond hole. He lies
at present in a sad condition, and his recovery is not
certain. Nobody has been arrested for this outrage,
but suspicion points out one person as implicated.
AN APPALLING ACCIDENT, by which the whole
family of a working man, named Charles Webb,
have beeu suffocated, has occurred at l'illgwenlly,
Monmouthshire. The family, which consis
outed
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of
Webb, his wife, a daughter, and two y
n
children, occupied the lowest part of a swell tole-
raePt. Latterly fife streets hive keen a good deal

broken up by extensive drainage works, and it is
thought that a gas pipe must have been broken
lose to the unfortunate man's house, or else that
an opening must have been made into one of the
sewers, and the noxious gases have entered his
dwelling. On the evening of Thursday the ill-fated
tamely retired to rest. Next morning, long after the
usual hour, the house remained closed, and on forcing
an entrance the neighbours were horrified to find
that the father, eldest daughter, and one of the
children, were dead ; but the mother and the other
child manifested some slight signs of animation.
The still surving sufferers were immediately removed,
and the medical gentlemen persevered with their
exertions to restore animation, and with some
success. The patients, however, remained in a state
of insensibility, and the hope entertained of their
ultimate recovery is very faint.
A HORRIBLE AND FATAL ACCIDENT occurred to two
poachers, a few days since, on the London and
North Western Railway, near Winsford. A gang of
fifteen poachers were out with nets and snares, and
on their way some of them attempted to cross the
railway while a train from Liverpool to London was
passing. A married man named Foster was knocked
down, one leg cut off, and one arm put out of the
socket. He has since died. Another, whose name
we have not learned, a widower with a family, was
run over, apparently by the whole train, only the
nose being lett unmangled on the upper part of his
body. One of the dogs accompanying the poachers
was also killed.

A CowlslON occurred on Saturday morning
between two luggage trains at the Twyford station
of the Great Western Railway. It appears that
about five o'clock a down luggage train was standing
at the Twyford station, and another, closely following
it, approached. Owing to a thick fog prevailing at
the time, the second train was not seen by the
officials at the station, nor was the danger signal
observed by the engine-driver in sufficient time for
him to shut off the steam ere, coming at a slow pace,
the train ran into the break-van, and threw several
trucks off the metals. The trucks were much
damaged, and by the force of the collision the guard
was thrown with great violence against the side of
the van, and his head was driven through the glass
door, whereby his face was severely lacerated. A
considerable time elapsed before the line could be
cleared of the debris.

A FRIGHTFUL ATTEMPT TO MURDER occurred in
Sheffield on Tuesday. A foreman, named Thomas
Champion, who was disliked by the workmen under
him, and was discharged by his employer, Mr.
Fewsdale, an extensive joiner and builder, went into
the workshop and shot a workman named Henry
Grayson, with a six-barrelled pistol. He also
attempted to shoot a man named Kenyon. The
pistol missed fire. Champion was seized. Five
barrels were found loaded.

A MILITIA MUTINY occurred on Sunday at the
Strood station, Chatham. A party of the North Cork
Rifles, who were left behind to guard the baggage of
the corps, mutinied in the morning, and resolutely
refused to load the baggage. Their conduct beiug
very violent, the officers in charge accordingly sent
off to Chatham Barracks for the assistance of the
military, a strong party of whom arrived, under the
command of Major Gordon. Five of the ringleaders
were marched off to the guard-room, and order
being restored, the Rifles departed for Aldershott.
A DREADFUL OCCURRENCE has taken place at
Preston, near Lavenham. Mr. William Green, who
had for six months been an inmate of Melton Asylum,
was considered to he so far recovered that he might
be removed, and accordingly on the Is.; inst. he was
taken to his brother's, the family consisting of two
brothers, respectable farmers and millers, living on
their own property, and a sister. Last week, being
left for a short time with his sister and his aunt,
Mrs. Lewis, who was there on a visit, be attacked
them with a poker in so violent a manner that Mrs.
Lewis's skull was fractured in two or three places,
and the sister also received very dangerous injuries.
On Mr. Henry Green returning borne shortly after
nine o'clock, he found his aunt, who is seventy years
of age, lying on the floor against the door, in an
insensible state ; his sister in a chair, washing the
blood off her face, and his brother pacing the room,
brandishing the poker, which was bent round by the
blows he had inflicted. Mr. Green exclaimed,
" Good God, William, do you intend to murder us ?"
to which the manaic replied, " No, brother, no ! "
and his brother saying, " What shall I do with you
till I have attended to those poor creatures ; I must
chain you up." The noor creature replied, "Yes,
chain me up," and fetched a halter from the passage.
His brother took him to a constable, and a surgeon
was quickly procured, who paid every attention to the
sufferers. The lunatip was conveyed to Hadleigh
police•station on the following morning. About nine
o'clock on Sunday night Mrs. Lewis died. On
Monday the wretched man was committed to Bury
Gaol for trial on the capital °harp. Miaa 9Fer
lies in a very precarious state,