The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-27 00:00:00

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Grew, confirmed the evidence of the preceding witnesses
r to the fact of there berg no erre of steam before the
sordoeios.
Jacob Bdwards deposed that ha was formerly stoker on
heard the Cricket. He was dent employed in June, 1846,
and was discharged in Mal lut. A man named Kent Wei
&molly engineer of the Cricket, and then a man arid'
Clerk, and during that period he had seen prisoner ea se
engineer, bet he was not swore of his being tubsequilittp
appointed io Clerk's place. The machinery was all seer it
June, 1846. It was a high.pressure engine. There Wen em
valves, two lever and two spring valves. There wan web
to the lever valves, which were used someillote to dear
the lever to keep it free. He had likewise sees these me
red so as to confine the valves, by tying them down, sad
preventing them from acting. He bad seen this repeatedly
am. while Clark was earner, and he had quarrelled with
Min about it. The effect wee to increase the steam, and
are the engines to work more freely, and he had known
the engines get hot from the heat of the steam. Whoa them
valves were tied down he w any. steam go up the
tunnel. If the valves were not tied the steam would mumps
from these valves whim the ram-gauge marked a preomme
of 44, and he had observed when the valves were tied dews
that the mercury fa the puge would bubble up, and lei bed
seen it mark as high as When the gauge.—C
All the time Clark was b the boat the prectieer77:lll:lll4l.
down the valves was contissod. lie frequently
of it, and reported the eirenierance to the ownerset
know of any repairs Mist termired to the boilers, but=
one occasion the steespipe hand. When the
were tied down no stewsit A mould grape.
_Duties the
time Kent wengineer le shemail the lewd attmied Oaths
larboard boiler, white Hi net segiods. Menem media
with the spring mirth bosom be did net undergend them.
—By Mr. Bodkin •. It the splay valves acted he must hoax
the swipe of the steam.
Mr. Win. Wilkinson, as engineer, deposed that he had
towtosatly Mewled_ by the Cricket, and was on MGM bar
abost two Ware blew the explosion, when he .peed
OM a lime was WNW to the lever valve on the steetheasi
=woo a=roost It them wils.,—Herman Iteed,•
mther, end Mr. W. Warren, an eth
gisser WO similar widows.
Bithard Pater, the Mime at the Cricket at the time at
the domes& this the prisoner was the engineer,
seedbed the of the leer, sod had bee in that path
Asa about a The Mrs were attethed to the Isms
et the reltsti-vedve di the time that be was es lewd
thiourea. Ho did set who wry node" et the wiles memo,
sad was est aware Mather they Med hotly er sot ; bat he
bed seen *eyrie:ram pour oil into there. Witnene was
ohindhe en the dash at the time the explodes took place,
eri be thl not Ames any steam blow of previously. He
ballsemi dims was min In the engine-room at the time.
The Mesa blow a when the boat wee lying along-
side Lims. sad the time occupied by the
inizon
Jemmy between Ore said the Fox-under.the.Hill pier
wee net more them sin or soma minutes. There were SO
pulleys for elegised to ran throngh.—Cromexamined : That
woe a fault ditto wegroer. There were pulleys on the ether
boats of the ecmpay, the Ant and the Bee. The effect el
bating the aced inn through the pulley would to to enable
the engineer to miss the valve. The steam gangs only
marked a of 241 b. or 261 b. to the inch, when they
were at ateneo-bridge, and the steam would be some
what exhausted by going the remainder of the journey.
The steam-page was the only. guide to the engineer of the
amount of pressuro.—Re-exanuned : The valves would gene-
rally open at a pressure of 391 b. to the inch, and that would
indicate that they hod attained the full power at which the
boat was usually worked. The prisoner knew very wall that
there were no pulleys connected with the valves. The natal
MOWS of the engineer was in the engine-room, but it was
her him on account of the heat to take every-
to some en de* and get a little an, and the es-
dome is.
heel Within said he had been employed on board the
West ahem twat menthe at the time of the expiation. He
err the prhonor ammo eat of the engine-room, and the ex-
=to! pier in about a minute end a half afterwards.—
ined : He saw the prisoner 'tending in *pr-
osody the most dangerous part of the vessel in the event of
is espiseles.—Re-rambeed : No one else but the prisoner
bad way 11011W01 over the mogine.—Phipps, another man
=as board the meth corroborated the preceding
Mertire, the impish' ef the meal, said he had nothing
wheenor to do wide the weriting of the engine, and was not
more that any iirestisme were given to the prisoner as to
the emennt is pose it was to be worked at. The weed
was ant bseme than meal at the pier on the day the explo-
des hoppuriL He had gar es shore, and as he was re-
tesslaiths astleolos tosh them
Mr. Bamluisa, the tessomm to Mee. Joyce, the builders
stir hollers fa qessdon, mimed that they were finnhed in
Joe, 1646, end after they had been Axed in the Cricket, he
Mended to them for six months. The engine wee intended
to work eta proems of not less than 461 b., nor more than
60Ib. to the inch, which was regulated by the weight upon
the lever. One of the valves was loaded to work at a weight
of 11111 b., but this was the extent at which the boiler could
lowered without the valves opening, unless some extra
weight was applied. The engine was repaired in August
bet, when the boilers were examined, and a new tube wee
one of the boilers, and several ethers were repaired.
rthlsi in
period the boilers were subjected to a toot by hydrae-
/1r Ph=e, awl ere reed well a power of 1601 b. to the
The void then resumed its employment, and
TIC valves wore pat in good ardor. No lines were re-
quintile the valves, mei If the messes wished to mer-
le& riledsee they worked prom* or not, he could do so by
gibe gtha deck. The bonus were Noted in the lest in-
seams at the ease pramaro.
The wither Windom was here recalled, and in answer to
'weir pat by 8u jeans Wilkins, he said that on the day
lairs the accident he saw the prisoner use a broorhandle
to epee re of the valves. He need great forte, mi seneh so
es he MI MI stick.
Herha, the last witness, was then crose-examined.—
The boiler was not tested at first until after it had been put
as Used the veer la July, 1846. It was tested again in
Plush, 1847 to the mate extent, and et that time it was put
:=1 repair, and the valves were also repaired. The
of the valves were not good, and this was remedied.
They would allow the reaps of the steam, and they were
MI6 tlebtee to prevent this from happening. The levees
war oho loaded with fire.bareweighing ninety-nine pounds.
Is his stbeism if one valve had acted, the explosion would
net lam Whoa plass. He did not observe upon one mansion
whim ammo repairs were executed, that one of the plates of
the inner had bulgeL The state of the boiler was misted
eat to him, but be loseddered it was the aatural elate Mike
holler.—Btherantinoi : Om lever would Net it of
00, sad the oiler at it, The teller was • Suited the m-
eat he stated after the state of the boiler was misted out
to him.—By the jury: Sixty was a sate working pauses.
Mr. W. Joyce memoir of Bromwich, deposed that he
semtraMed to build the nmehinory of the Cricket, except the
beam width was hankirl by Mr. Trotman. The whole
was under his direction her six months, and sees then handed
ever to the proprietors. When the boilers were sent home,
there was a alight convexity in one of them, which he no.
timed before it was placed in the steam boat. It was not
veal to have strings or pulleys in the lever valves, and he
ma met aware that they were used. He saw the wreck after
the , and observed that a portion 01 the boiler,
isies
at lout a ton and a half, bad been driven
through the stern of the Twirl. He
net think that if the boiler had burst at
a Imre of 601bs. to the inch it could have driven
sea a veil& in the manner this appeared to have been
ohm. Mathexamimad.—Thwe wore tubes In the boiler
midi mint by eights always le be covered with water, but,
of serna,if the lest seammod en one side, the water would
tivemist Aram ohm, Ord ve bar the boiler to the other.
The *eat Mahe at the bones alight elver to be made of
the lee e Tres, era, be believed, they wen ao made in the
Ll=salmis. It might be herr, if practicable, to hove
With tithe boilers mile sumac instead of fiat.
Lord Dimmiss : Why is it not pmesSeable ?
Mr. Jere : Hoene the ethos rale not be made tight.
Ormeemmelestlem esatinued.—He esseidered the boilers
wero)impalyilmilleil. Did not know that ems dthelooles in
the bar use set belted, but if it as is it wail be a gross
=lt ths halm were left unoovored by mem thr he
it semi mime a great increase of led, • sag the re-
am tithe water reale of course cams a very,esel sad
maim sagends• et eisera—By a juror: N
the wiles bream of the arm, if the Tavel bad hoer is
ITardor, they wail hem relieved the boiler.
Ws. Ti.setrie _hdleserker, deposed that he made
the beams Ise the edges* dearer. The front plates were
made of thairleldre Ira, which he considered was per-
fectly sit for the parr. Ha paid 151. per ton for it, and it
we the mho doeseigthan leo always used foe that purpose.
Re dr ail set bath billeted at trying the boners at a
peewee of be, bat lee Its, wee the amount of power re-
=dyes fit, Yr. Jors.--Crossenentined•. He observed that
a slight toonverity k both of the boilers when
they were 'Get eat, bat he corkiered it was merely occa-
sioned by the working of the pletea He never made a high
warm boiler before for a stearthmenal, but he had made
SISSISI her milroads.—Re-examised : These boilers were
=meg mouth for the raper it which they Were in-
tim. Thereaus%odepteed that he was chief engineer sad
elitisir a the Admiralty, and, by aimed=
silleettl of le inspected the Cricket after the
Medea, rid made a oireful examination of the materials
of re baser In his opinion, et the tier of the explosion,
them meta have been a pressure of, at leer, 130tb. to the
Rune WA. It iri&t have been greater, beat must have
' beet ISS at leaf. The other boiler did not buret, but was
isll4lol, and although in that state, it bore, upon a tat
beteg Implied, a pressure of 1361 b. to the inch.
al meared it impossible for tree riles to have burst at
a Fewer of 60 or 66. If the tube. bad Degree red hot
they atilt have generated en explosive hem whisk
meal We imased the
did althea& the wives wen
ell spry but the Wes did set press awe as ear ressee;
• and As wee of opiates that the expledea same bre the
proems 0 steam esereled be the usual WOMB eat the
eireoseateste of U. rod Wag at the pier hr hie mimeos
without rem blewhig- of assisted him la swims to
that The MIMI of the unexploded baler ap-
parel Oa lls& it healthy Miss when he saw thou Or the
aerbeth but it was pedals that previous to tide ems mar
bed leer taken to MOM their healthy setion.—Creee-
misesithed: Believed Ade mast have been thews with ell
Or bet valves. He shoal& sadder the sr ddsery ray
l' • Illiser• if eel thigh Whit Old of the bet reeked per
•," • rib. Ho heath is stated that one of U. rim wee so
tt; ..J tfree thee b odd net be moved. The olesei rade
air Wee es apt from a high premiere on tom a
, • sad he did not thhik that it meld
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