The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-07 00:00:00

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George Dumper and Toes William Mons were indicted
for the wilful murder of Joseph Death at Hythe, on the
24th of Daeumbar last.
The doomed was an 'old man, a labourer, living at
Hythe, just opposite to Southampton. Oa the evening of
the 24th of December last deceased wee drinking at a public
house at Hythe called the Lord Nelson; he was rather in-
toxicated, and left to go horns at about half-past 12. He
was subsequently seen some way on his road horns, but be
arrived there, and the neat morning, soon after ah
o'clock, he was found in the road, dead and cold, wit►
frightful Injuries about the head and tau, and the shall
fractured la Wan pieces; his pockets were also turned in.
side out. ♦ largest was called to see him, and, in ids
opinion, there was as doubt that death was the result of
great violence, probably caused by repeated blows with a
stick, or kicks from heavy boots. On the spot were found
fragments of two stinks, apparently hedge stakes, and in a
deli was foss& a beams stick with bleed and hair on it.
This went to sham that two persons had been swaged in
the murder of the wafortunate Imo.. The iridium to eon-
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ZeriFtep;l;soasTs ;IthtiupTonTritretionoi thisas:id6d
crime Was patty oinsanisteatial and partly 'ociasisted of
statements node by the prisoners at different tines.
After an invadolem, wit* hated daring tint great part
of tire days, the jury Semi Dumper Godelty of as aura-
vaied smokalaster, sod Agana Wave.
The lesessi Net enters& Damper to be trans-
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TAB COLLIAION ON Tall LINOS NOZTIIIIIN AT STOCKTON
Gawp Weibwrs, eagise.driver, was charged with the
manslaughter of Hr. Thomas Grainger, civil engineer, at
Stockton, on the 21st of July, 11362.
The Leeds Northern forms a junction with the Clarence
Railway a little to the north of Stockton, and runs on that
line northward to Ferry-hill. The Clarence proceeds in a
Ilse from thence to Stockton town southward, the
straits
a warn and going a little to the west of
BMWs taws. The Cannot Railway is on. of those old-
fashioned Ines that drifts on the right hand, and the
Lade Mortise= has to run a little elan their line in that
airiness el ails, afar leaving the Clarence, before it goes
oss tae Imp lks of rails common to the country. The Leeds
ISlAllms to Stockton and Perry-hill was opened in June
Obit year, sad the made of running their trains from the
Cloramis on to their own line in July last was for a points-
inn at the junction to turn them on with a switch, ,the
nib being open to the Clarence mamas to ran along
Sisk own line to Stockton. The potnorman also kept
sepsis for the regulation of the trains, and to indicate
; which were when the red disk was turned on the
for
train had to stop ; when turned off all was I
dear. On tha 21st July the train from Ferry-bill was thir-
teen minutes behind bar time at the junction, sad the en-
gine-driver of bar an aggissehing the points noticed that
the signals were right, bet just so he was about to take
them the longer signal win put on, and he immediately re-
verted him engine. Bohn be could stop, and asst as he was
turns the owns, a 1 train, which was shunted
Ma Os prawns psi hem Stockton is to Leeds
Nankai, isms into hie train, slightly grand the omen
and task" smi then smashed up • On dam end two
weed doss A. anoint al ponies wen hurt,
and the knosead, Mr. Moms fir, an eminent
▪ who was ponsika
_oink sessivol a compound frac-
tare ofhis eight lig. Metiish ha Mod is this 26th. The driver
of the hippo train ass the phew Wilburn, who was a
servant Wtie Lose Notthoin Oinpony, sad who after the
acilion bed bin rammittod es • mover's inquisition for
msadangkiir if aransid. linsid et the onepany's
ser-
Tants wee* neinind today, es will as a aushor of persons
who vitamin the osilidos. It ',gown that the points-
man, as sem as be sew the possimpor train wan from the
north, put up the signal that all was dear for her to come
oa. Welborn was standing with his waggons on the
Clarence lino beyond the junction, and towards Stockton
town, at this time. His waggons were towards the jana
tips, and the engine and tender at the other end. It was
sworn that if he lnd attempted to shove his waggons from
the place where he was stealing towards the junction, he
should have had a person at the tail of them to see that all
was clear, which he had not. Just after the pointsmin
turned on his signal for the passenger train, he observed
that Welborn bad started his waggons, and was shunting
them towards the junction, along which the passenger train
had to pan. He seat a man down to meet him, to tell him
to atop, but he wm busy talking to two men
who were es the trader with him, and did not
down the puma sikaring to him. The pointaman then
Wool ea the ui Ike of Mow, which the driver of the
li Mho. where stated, end tried to stop
bin Lwis. eljdosessr„ hew or, had not ohioned it, and
it was see man his train app aching the jungles that the
fireman ban past the wispon, and saw the passoner-
train oosskg, and it wee them se= Ls= tho lug-
gsgends, lot too late, sad the . It was
shows that a person shunting ginkgo nog the Clarence
lino to the junction had to keep a goal lookout, and that
before he attempted to push his waggons on to the Lads
line he mast have a signal hen the pineman, different
to kiss an for the piiiinpar two, the all was clear,
whisk signal he had never wand Ss" but kept shunting
his trash,, though he had no issinithr that the train
from the ands was past.
Mr. O.IIIIIIMII addressed *Ow di no prisoner, and his
lordship summed up.
Tha kry hod the Omsk Oval K stanolaighter, but
rosimnsatin bit to messy.
His Lensed% in prig saslano en the printer, re-
nnin strongly on the anissnalas of his conduct.
Ms ant end him to six manthe liqdnament.