The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-27 00:00:00

MARCH 27, 1862.

within • very short period of each other, and they all
arrived in safety at the lar Tunnel, which was the
nee* tunnel on the road to Lesion. It was • regulation
of the ecenpany that two trains "humid not be in a tunnel
MOM ms Mew and the signal-ism at each end of Oda
tams' were esgsbed to signal whin a train had =seed
:2/Wore anstber ban =a dieted to enter, and the
no doubt erase from some unfortunate misunder
standing with Nord to the signals, or from the machinery
being imperfect. As he had stated, the Portsmouth train
pared into the kennel, and while it was there the suer-
slun train came up, and from some cause or other it was not
stopped, but prooseddfi into the tunnel. The signal-men,
however, had encended in giving • signal of danger, the
effect of which wee that the driver of the excursion train
stopped it, and was proceeding slowly to hesitant of the tun-
nel. While he was doing so the third traineame up at full
speed, and the consequence was one of the most dreedful
collisions that, he believed, bad ever easimmi woes this or
any other railway, the result being a meet onelnent Ism of
Iffe, end the Whelks el the nest sireadhl Weds upon a
harp smear of the pmempar The gideliff aid his wife,
who were prootrowsla a Oil thin seri...4the emir-
Am kiln, were liminegisseil is the oar-
Weep zeta they lissome billelleft sal shins
wen broken the injuries thw received wee the most
minas character, and be Weed that the *WI would
Dint entirely recover fres these bikinis. The adendents
bed thought fit to pay ass of 7001. into court es a can-
to the plaintiff end his wife for the injuries which
admitted they had sensined through the segligens
of own sonents ; ba be sal las must essbalist he
was utterly at • lain to rielesl what gebripbthis
amen= of compensates was esfesi at, sad he Wined
that when the jury bad Lisa the we they wadi be d
ophden that this sum we sitedy lesimushe osespossaties
for the bow ad injury the pimbilth had sustained.
The ass fir the plaintiff was lbw gene into. It appeared
the he bed for twenty.esemi peem maid es the
of s muralist, and skim d ibis end at
Msl, and was ocasibeed very MAN a hit
his. employed by ssv st the .seirlitp:M
MI NM bad hem very !snared, mentimei is weeks
bald* mimeses be the subject. It gm emeemlei thsl
ever Woes the melds= the plaintiff beg
from iessfcemig he basins= which bwe mess=
him in a net moan of 4001. per sram► amt that there
werePtlalli_ 4 hie brain haviag sminimi • did, and
also that Li whole mem warns wee ediested. and il was
very doubtful whiten he weal we awls be able be
follow his ocenpatien as be dhl hien Dr. llemews, •
medical gentlemen of
=W lbfiqilier. Adam. one of the ner-
d the La
gave des uDr. Travers, end Dr.
Oesssed eise ea meditics of the 'plain-
tiff in conformity with the above statement, awl ens
of these gentles= said that at *MS there tem
so much beat at the both of the pintail's bead that it was
plainly perceptible to the band dies held Mme abilie,
as tho was user a lire, end. emerdieg to the evidence
of the tiff, ibis heat ees asenwanied by intense pain.
The wife al the plated! 4141 Del appear to have received
injuries of so meimbl a shissam, Teat It was proved the
she emilased a vow severe blow was the base-pin, which
prevented her born =Wag bar fed te the grand ter
several weeks. and that she also seetebeell a rent did of
pain and inoosnelase is casersseess el this nefesteiste
accident.
Mr. Bovill, in theorems et a mod ebb epeeist to the Jew
on behalf of the company, said that this wm the Ira Woe
the gentlemen of the county bad tees Inaba* with an
inquiry arising oat of this udaraints toned; and they
had observed that the &lectors bed net put any ei the
FoL;t&eitrolirbility, but eeaawry griadmitsalt Set baev
they 'hir ti;
for the negligees of their smeents, ruins
their readiness to give fair and rem
every person who bad really bees intend
throb affair, es they already bed dosein • pen 'mobs
of ans. He then aid that it was alms= emeemeen
for him to rand the bey Usk is mew NM 11.111111
injury was millaissel by • raiway sesident, dos s
claim was made for oomperseliss, the moot af the
injury was always Tory ma exaggerated, and it baser
the duty of the di:eases alike we that exorbitant stuns
were set paid whin the psalm bed set rewired Wear to
:=liiro the ,best that were reemesslsksmi be eon.
ia the present we thee ism el 7001. wee ample
for the damage that had hem daps,as
_is all probability in
the awes of a few mesas the pie eliff and his wife would
lee
perdselly reavered.
These medial gesthmen wen essmined as witnesses for
the aospay aid they slated their opinion to be that
neither the 42 cm:ar
lalie wile bed sustained permanent
Wily, sad wield lllmittely entirely recover.
Mr. Judas laving sum= up, the jury re-
tired to cielbssie wen their meth=
In about en beer they metersed into court and gees a
verdict for 1,0001., being 1001. in addition to the we paid
into court.
Another use the mem description wee then proeseded
with.
lifirjesat ghee end Mr. B. Rigby appeared for the plain.
tiff. The delindeste paid 4001. into court.
It agmesei is thin an that the plaintiff was a =mg
malt 01.1.11111 lessr, and be stated his mange to be
21. Ne, per impish winter, and 2. sa. in some= buds
whisk he and mess Ire v
Be dapithat **Whe
S. the
bed. width ellested hied he ales at Nana
awn pain Is the an. In addition to tide he sated
AM was =me occasions be wee seised with giddies= mid
wield almost fall down imensible while walking in the
bed.
The defence in this cue was auk tie mine as in
the leak and the cause was net blawpbt is • essoindon
mall a late bon. It was nesbeelood the% erreral of the
ether antic= bad been settled.
Omni Clonerr.—(Before Lod Chief dirties Erie.)
Tirknd jury ignomred the bin against Wr. Clarke Legge,
theE km stationaster, far manslaughter, snag ea
d the Clayton Tunnel widest.
Paths course of the moniing the defendant sarriodund,
he fide that the different inquisitions taken by the coroner,
him with the same offence, might be disposed of.
darris on. G. Denman, Q.C., who was specially renamed
for the defence, addrund his lordship, and mid he under-
stood that in thin area his learned friend Mr. Hake was in-
structed to prosecute, and he was desirous to know what
anise he intended to take with reference to the matter.
Mr. Hake said that as the grand jury had ignored the
bill of indictment after • full consideration of all the fade,
be felt that he ought not to prooeed with the case upon the
taken by the coroner, and he should, therefore,
t ribiti kel erdship s sanction, withdraw from offering any
mason k rt of those inquisitions.
The learned Judge intimated that it was his opinion that
NB Ins the proper course to be taken.
Vodkas of Nut Guilty were then formally taken in all
km moss, twenty-two in number, and the defendant was
aired to be discharged.
abilerd Gates, 58, a post-office letter carrier, wee charged
with steeling a letter containing five 101. Bank of England
notes, and Sarah Gales, alias Gender, U, was charged with
the property, knowing it to have been states.
Mr. Murrell and Mr. C. Pollock conducted the meson
tion on behalf of the Poet-offers authorities ; the prisoners
were defended by Mr. Merrifield.
It appeared that in the month of October last, • letter,
containing five 101. Bank of England notes, was posted is
London by the morning mail to be delivered to • lady, named
Hobden, at Brighton. It was proved that this letter arrived
safe at Brighton, and in due course came into the hands of
the male prisoner, who we one of the letter carriers there,
to be delivered ; but it never came to hand, and nothing
was heard of the letter or its contents until some time after-
wards, when it was discovered that the female prisoner,
who passed as the wife of her companion, but who, it ap-
peared, merely cohabited with him, had changed four of
the miming notes at the shops of different tradesmen in
Brighton.
Both prisoners were convicted, and the man was sentenced
to four years' penal servitude, and the woman to eighteen
months' imprisonment and hard labour.
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