The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-20 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1851

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

MONDIT, OCT. 20. 1561.
The State of the Weather at each of the following places at
Nine o'clock on Saturday stoming. The nations us
arranged in order of latitude.
Omer of
Wind.

Nam et Place.

Wuid.
W. Gentle Breeze
P.W. Gentle Breeze
W. Fresh Breeze
&W. Gentle breeze
&W. Olathe BrCate
Gentle Breeze
8. Ovate Freer^
B. Gentle Breeze
B.W. Gentle Breeze
S.W. Gentle tarn ze
N.W. Gentle Be., ze
B.W. Gentle Beer&
O.W. Gentle Bre,,
S.W. Gentle Bra. te
B. Gentle Breeze
B.W. Gentle Breeze
&W. Gentle slfouic
W. Cats
&W. Strongliteen
8 . Gentle Breeze
B.W.W. Strong .reere
W. Gentle Rye re

State ct Weather.

astoßros
HASTiNue .

TCHIeBI44I .....•

ewutrox
Lamers,'

Y,arouva

WHITBY

BLWITOCK

Overcast
Clouding
Patti al amid/
Parttu:iy Ckaudy
PartiaLy Cloudy
Fohry
Scud—Rain
Partially Cloudy
Overout
Overcoat
Partially Cloudy
Partial G&W,
Overcast
Overcoat
ClocAlona
Cloudy
orthdly Cloudy
lleavy gain
moron
Overact
Rah •
Rain

THIS DAY, Nocor.
Coarse of Wind. Strength of Wind. Mate of the Weather.
strong Breese.
Tho returns from the following places did not reach this
office in time for publication on Saturday; they therefore
indicate the state of the weather on Friday morning at
eine o'clock.
Unsure
Utnautoal I M.W.

1,114►

Calm
Gentle green:
Gentle Breese
Cala

Pauttally Cloudy
Partially Cknay
Cloud:ors
Partially CILIA,

COLLISION ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
—HORNCASTLE, SATURDAY NIGHT.—A collision took
place yesterday morning at the kirkstead station, on the
Great Northern Railway, the nearest station to this town,
and distant from London 122 miles, by which a fireman be-
longing to the Great Northern Company lost his life, from
a gross act of negligence on the part of emplop,f connected
with the station. It appears that a down train of empty
coal trucks arrived at the station shortly before two o'clock,
when the engine was detached for tke purpose of taking in
water, the trucks being left upon the main line, with a red
light, the danger simnel, displayed upon the truck at the
cud of the train. Before the engine returned to the trucks,
however, a down passenger train, a return excursion, known
to be due at that hour, dashed into the trucks with such vio-
-1
lence that ten or a dozen of them were scattered in frag-
ments over the line, while the engine of the passenger train
itself was so seriously damaged as to be entirely unfitted for
future service. The driver, who jumped from the engine,
fortunately escaped with a few bruises, but the stoker was
lifted from the ground horribly crushed and conveyed
to an inn in close vicinity to the station. Medi-
cal attendance was procured as soon as possible, but
his recovery was at once pronounced to be all but hopeless,
and the poor fellow, after lingering for a few hours, died in
the greatest agonies. The passengers who travelled by the
second train were, of course, greatly alarmed, but for-
tunately escaped all serious injury, which is considered
almost miraculous in so violent a collision, and when the
engine which headed the train, consisting of only five or six
carriages, was so seriously damaged. As soon us the con-
fusion consequent upon the catastrophe bad in some degree
subsided, an enquiry took place into the circumstances
which led to its occurrence, when it was discovered that the
signal man attached to the station had absconded, and up to
the present moment no traces of his %hereabout has been
heard of. ilia absence from his post was at once deemed
presumptive proof that the accident had arisen mainly, if
not entirely, from some culpable negligence on his part, an
opinion which was fully confirmed by the result of the in-
quiry, as the " all right " signal was found to be displayed
after the occurrence. It apmared that it was shown when
the truck train came up, and it is supposed that the signal
man had either left his post or fallen asleep before the pas-
senger train approached, so that the " all right " signal
remained when the danger signal ought to have been sub-
stituted.

--
REMARKABLE CHARGE OF OBTAINING MONEY BY
Fast n.—A gentleman, named Lindsay, who has for some
time resided at Windsor-terrace, in Taunton, was committed
for trial by the magistrates, on Saturday last, on the charge
of obtaining 501. by false pretences, from a lady named
Williams, who also lives at 'Windsor-terrace. It appeared
that the money was obtained by using a series of threats
against the lady referred to, to the 'Aka that an informa-
tion should be laid against her for using a crest without pay-
ing the duty for an armorial bearing. Mrs. Williams having
subsequently communicated the affair to some of her friends,
they persuaded her that there were no grounds for such a
complaint, and advised her to have the case investigated
before the magistrates, which she accordingly did. The
accused had for some time been on terms of close inti-
macy with the daughter of Mrs. Williams, at which the
latter was much annoyed, he being u married man, sixty
years of age, and the young lady scarcely twenty. The ac-
cused was brought up at the Session Court, on Wednesday,
when it was announced that some arrangement had been
come to between the complainant and the accused, and the
counsel for the former stated they did not wish to Area, the
charge, hut would be satisfied with the prisoner's pleading
guilty, and by his entering into his own recognisance' to
come up for judgment when called en. The prisoner ac-
cordingly pleaded guilty, when the chairman (C. A. Moody,
Esq., M.P.), after consulting his brother magistrates,
announced that the court would not countenance the
arrangement proposed, and left it to the prisoner to retract
his plea of guilty, which he did, and was tent back to prison
to await his trial. Major Lindsay was placed at the bar on
Thursday to answer the above charge. Mr. Phinn prose-
cuted and Mr. Stone defended. The prisoner was found
guilty, and the chairman, W. Miles, Esq., M.P., sentenced
him to be imprisoned with hard labour for nine months.—
Western limes. _ _

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS AND .MORTSON'S PILLS.
—On Saturday forenoon an inquest was held at the King's
Arms, High-street, Bow, on the body of Alfred Higgs, aged
five years, who died under the following circumstances:
The deceased was the son of u connector's agent. On Fri-
day week the child was taken ill and placed under the care
of Mr. Garman, a surgeon, who found the deceased suffer-
ing from scarlet fever and an affection of the brain. The
surgeon prescribed for the deceased, who appeared to get
better. The father thought the medicine did not do any
good, and accordingly refused to let the child have any more,
giving the deceased five of Morison's pills. More were given
on the Monday and Tuesday, but the deceased got untxm-
mimes, and the mother refused to let the deceased have any
more of the pills. The deceased died ou the following day.
The medicine. beef tea and wine, prescribed by Mr. Garman
were all taken away by the father, who was a teetotaller.
The foreman of the jury said he did not believe that Mori-
son's pills did any harm, for one of his workmen took 3,0 of
No. 2 at a dose. Coroner—l am of a similaropinion,for I had
en inquest some years ago, where ono of the witnesses, an
old woman, declared on oath that she took 300 one morning
before breakfast without any difficulty. It seemed very im-
probable, but, from what I had heard, it was very likely to
be true. The mother has acted very wisely in not letting
the child have any more, for it might have placed the fa-
ther in a very peculiar position. Marty years ago a man
was convicted of manslaughter, at Hull, for administering
Morison's pills ; and, recently, a man was committed to the
Old Way on a similar charge. Mr. H. German, of Bow-
rood, said that he found the child suffering from
morlet fever and an affection of the brain. The
Wad irenealii Rai applied, and when he saw the child
assist It was much better, and quite conscious. Witness
subsequently saw the child, and, on finding it so much worse,
qmstioned the nurse, who said Mr. Higgs had taken the
medicine, &c., away, and had given the child Morison's
pills. Witness scat for the father, and told him as the
remedies had not been applied his services were of no use,
and then left the house. On the next day he heard the
deceased was dead. Witness was of opinion that if his
order had been obeyed the child would, in all probability,
have been still alive. The coroner, having summed up,
said the case, which was a very peculiar one, would, no
doubt, resolve itself into one of natural death, although
the conduct of the father was highly improver, after a me-
dieal gentleman had been called in, to withhold medicine
and food which had been ordered by • duly qualified
practitioner, for the father had no right to take the child
into his own heads. The mother had, in his opinion,
acted very prodastly in not administering the pills to such
as extent as Mr. Higgs desired. The Jury, after a short
consultatims, agreed to the folowwling verdict That the
deceased died a natural death, tri may have been acce-
lerated by withholding the nutriment ordered by the me-
dical gentleman." The inquiry then terminated.
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