The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-15 00:00:00

THE INQUIST

was held et the home cf Mr. Jao. Bothers, the Grey Thorn-
ton Ina, in Tibtkerpe. The Janata' of the cottons were
-:trued, sad dented all knowledge of the deemed having
Rhea birth too child. The old as., however, it any be ob
'erred, meseed to be Winded in the affair. Mr. B. H.
Clematis, aargem, of Wetwaag, was then rtqnsetal to es-
swiss the body. From oatmeal epreereneee. Mr. Clement
wee at cam of °Males that the demised bed remedy been
delivered of a &U. The hit _Urn wee the. adjourned anal
the following day, to enable Mr. Clement to make a post
merino ezemlastlea of the body.

On the following day the Inquest was resumed before Mr.
Cwyera
Mr. Oleuthat—l have made a post stories' examination
of the deceased, and find that she had been delivetel if a
child. My opinion is, that the child was full grown, and
that the delivery had taken pleas within a week of the de-
ceased'. death. From certain appearances which I fir.d, I
am of opinion that the deceased had not received proper as-
sistance at the birth.

--Mary Tailor—The deemed was my half cousin. In the
beginning` of this year ale was in aervies, but left h. r place
about Yana het, and has since been staying at my
father's. She had been poorly a long time, but I did not
know she was In the family way. Teen had been reports
of it, but she denied it. S 2111 slept with me, and kept in-1
creasing in size. Sim became ill on Thariday the 20:h of
September lest. On the day before abs ma out gleaning.
Oa Thuraday morning, between 7 ard 8 o'clock, she mu
plained of being *swell with pain In the lass, and went out
of the beam several times. I did net go with ker. I went
out tt glees in the afternoon sod was absent from the house
about an bear sad a half. When I RIM home I found the
door was locked. The cleared came down stain to open it,
and was up stabs again before I could get in. Alter I had
fed the vies, tad put the kettle on, I went op stairs into the
tam were deceased wee. I saw a quantity of blood on the
floe, and said, " Oh, Hannah, what's all this ?' Sim said,
" Dos'* be frightued, Ws nothing more than you au." I
did not mot for a dome. She would not have a doctor sent
for ; she said my father had plenty to pay without. I know
nothing about the birth of a child ; I had no knowledge of
her hubs, ffiVell birth to one until after she was ezusised by
the dewier. I have had a child myself. Sarah Britton was not
ar oar house as the 20:It of September ; she came last
Friday, the 28th. After the them I found the blood on the
floor, until be: death, the damaged was never able to go
out of her room. She died la the aiiht of Saturday, the 29th
of September.
Sarah Britten: I have known the deceased about eighteen
months. I was to the habit of travallog that way every
month or sin weeks. I came there last Friday. I had not
bees there tor fuer weeks before. It never struck me she
was preguat. She always told me she got no better. She
said she got a sold at Mr. Swale's, where she lived, which
made her lege and body swell. When I saw bar last Friday
she was Issuing black sod had a purging. Her arms were
feeble, and I thought she had a lever. At 12 o'clock at night
she commenced moaning. I laid the body out, and did not
remark anything particular to indicate childbirth. I have
b en a muse in f yen, and have seen women in labour, but
never delivered one. Wben I first went into 'he home on
Friday, I ailed Mary Taylor how the deesued was, and she
said Man was very ill, and would never ems down stairs
alive. Alma: an boor after wards she said if 1 wished to see
her alive, I was tog) up stairs, and 1 did so.
There being now no doubt that the child bad been eon.
ossied, the inquest was again adjourned until Friday, in
order that search might be made for the body in the
meantime.
INQUEST ON THE CHILD.

Oa Friday an tannest Was luild on the body of the ela;ld,
which had been found buried in the plantation, near that

Robert Walker, the constable of Tibtborpe, said I
searched yesterday alumnae in a plantation, and about GO
yards from the cottage, I saw • place where the roil looked
Is se ; I stash in my spade, and found a female child, about
nine inches under the ground, wrapped in an *pr. n. The
guild is now In the same state as when I found it. There is
a dark place oa one aide of the bead, near the eye. It was
wh te sod fresh in other pane. I drew it out by the feet,
aad did not tomb hoe the heed with my spade.
Mr. Clans at—l have examined the child brought to me
by the last witness. It is a fall grown child. The nails a d
stir are perfect. There is swelling upon the upper part of
the skill, which might arise filen the child feeling upon a
hard subsiauce, such as the Boor. The right isse is also
',swollen up. sad very much discoloured, which mn-t have
been mused daring life, as an such appearance could be pro-
duced hyvie.leuee atter death. The forehead aul eke right meth
are also math seal' n, and errant appearunees whist
be causedby t base from some blunt insrumene. I found a
great deal of err tvasated blood beneath the ac-lp, and the
other parts xhieeiting talents' injuries. Th.re are two
treetnree on the head, the ens en inch sod a halt, and the
other two Mattes in extant. The membranes of the brain,
as well as the Imam were in a heathy and natural stet ;
the chest was expand. d; the vessels were distended, and a
considerable quantity of blood was la the pulmonary arteries,
which would not have been the case if the child bad not
breathed. From the hydrostatic test, and from the above
appraises:es, I am satisfied the child was born alive, and
has freely respired.
The ground where the body of the child was found was so
hard that It was thoseht very improbable that the .'erased,
is bwe weak Mate, &add have been &hie to dig the soil, and
burl Ma e.lld. Stroll suspicion was exclud that Mary
Filer, Joseph Sambre and Sarah Britton were imolieated in
the death gad concealment of the child. Te.sy were therefore
MIMI tats custody on the &irons r's servos., to asiai-
vwdith of the ear .a.r's jury, and the inquest was further
adjourned until W dterley, with a view to obtain further
'dium %ahem the prisoners.
At the adjuornad inquest, the only additional evidence
offered was given by Mr. Clement, who adctd that it w a tie
opiates that the deceased bad net bad any prutemlonel abSillT•
soft at the parturiti-n; that two persons had byes presene ;
and that Me deviated had never been able to take the child
into the *butte and bury it—The eor ner 0• en west
through the evidence, pointing out the atateeial pane, tad
the jary bevies crawl ed tagetter, mum. d a verdict of
" Wilful murder /whist Mary Taylor and Barati Britton,"
who were committed oa the coroner's warrant to Turk
Ramie to take their Vials at ttds next se-izre. The "minicar.
made se dam*, Squad a emend denial of their volt.

MI7IIDIA AT 01

.:-CILOUCEITER, SON•

DESIRUCTION OF LIFE Artitlgii)pmuy
• BY A RUNAWAY 11U.IIR.

On Saturday mornir g last a fatal accident occurred
at the Prestos-Wrest Station of the Whitehaven end 'Far.
mitJunetioeßailway, whisk was attended with a serlan-
eholy lose of lire. As the p °Wore down train was
0014 the line from Rimers to Wideskaveo on triprgt :
lylogbetwees the latter.nemed teem as the iillage et At.
Bees, where the iodination begins to have a &seam towards
the town of about 1 in MO, the Moir that of the steam,
sad pat on the mover whiskl In esoseasemes OM* hear
Wow Wag spat the nib, rues to take Whet ; the weak
wee that the traim premeds& at a fearful rate to the Medea,
at the extreme and of width it received a slight check from
the 11 Meese, Ansel there to merest onion from
over the rails. it knocked down a yard-well, separating
premises of the niltray tomptny tram the adjoiaing wet-
hag-houses, tore away the eater wall of a substantial stoop
boat boner, occupied by Mr. Nominates, a respectable
solookauter curled away the whole of the kitchen belong-
ing to the building, and broke through the partition well
between that somnolent sad the back_ -porton, sad there
lodged, more than half of its hop balk being within the
residence. The peemegers who had sous by the trait,
seeirg that they were parsing through instead of halting it
the station, become greatly excited, and several of the&
leaped from the earring.. on to the platform, 'attentively
without injury to say of them. The rest retained their
plasm until the train and tender were unhooked from the
looomo.ive. Tee engine-driver, stoker, and guard saved
themselves by jumping to the Around the moment they per-
ceived that an saddens was inevitable.

-The moat melancholy yarn el
iikWiffair is, that when the
engine burst into the kitchen of Mr. Penniagton, a little
girl named Jane P.-unington, about ten yews *ld, the
daughter of the occupier, was seated at the ire siagieg, and
watching the preparation of breakfast for the family. She
was instant) y knocked down by the stones and timber
forced into the room, acd the off•wheal of the engine passed
over her body, crushing end dreadfully metdating her. She
was killed instantaneously. Her brother, Matthew Pm
nington, about eight pars
stepped into the parlour, the wall of which was the next mo-
meat thrust in, with the fire:grate, fire, chimney, and house-
hold furniture. Toe child was thrown to the floor, and the
heated grate and burning coals, coming in contact with kis
forehead, he was such burned and otherwise injured, but
not, it seem, mortally.
The tarmiLie being situated in a populous portion of the
town, a crowd soon collected on the sot, who rendered
prompt ambiance to back the supine and extricate the body
of the poor girl from the ruins. Saturday being a holiday
for the school children taught by Mr. Pennington, he and
his wife had not arisen at the time the melancholy event hare
paned. Had It transpired on any other winking day the whole
tastily would have been seated at bre .kreet, end the conse-
quences must, in all probability, have been still more diode-
*roue. As it was, the scene presented was distressing in the
extreme ; a mingled mar of stones, mortar, household fur-
: share, ornaments, domestic utensils, and children's wearing
apparel, with the great engine standing over the wreak,
bitching forth rarer, smoke, and fire.
The cause of the accident is variously stated. The rainy
is an incline, sloping to Whitehaven tor nearly three miles,
but at the gentle gradient of one in a hundred feet. There
had been a severe frost on Friday night, which bad rendered
the rails extremely slippery; and the engine-delver states
that, although he used the ordinary precautions of putting
on the breaks, and even of reversing the engine, long before
retching the station, no effect was produced thereby. This
statement, however, is controverted; and it is alleged
that no effort w.s made to check the speed of the
ewes, notwithstanding the ice upon the rails, until
the train had arrived too neer the terminus for the
breaks to avail. The ,engine-driver, it is added, is not a
skilled or practical engineer, but a stoker, recently promoted
to the post of engineer from the Whitehaven and Mary-
port Sae.
In the afternoon of Saturday a coroner's jury was sum-
moned to hold an inquest on the body of the unfortunate
child, but alter having been sworn and attewieg to view the
remains, the inquiry was adjourned till this (Monde))
morning.

•
DAT.— (Frees our Co t..)—A shoetitng event has
juts occurred here Two ea board • vessel lying in
the rime here tell out, mad toughs at beard their boar. Ore
of them threatened to throw dm other overboard, and node
two ameeipt to easy his threat late 'Recut oa. B. me-
esided is the egessd, threw kis mate ism mor r pit stress,
and he was drowned. Lest night, at six o'clock, a cormet's
impost was hill us .he body before 8. Meyer, 11 q , coroner,
+nen the toiletries Sets were elicited. Toe d. reused,
William Co, k, wee engaged with the primoer, Charles
Gooderom, is loading • bet lying in the Severe with
Oskar. some timber had been placed ..a board
imp overly, and the parties had a dispute, in Goa
sequence of the owner of the boat exert smog low
dissalisfattios at the eiresseteaor, end • go. d dell of
ill-feeling appears to have bee. emoted between .he parties
oat ofthseircammattoe. Oa Friday the goers' bet. g re-
newed *, t eo petite cosameased fighting in the c his of
the boat. mad afterwards came out on deck, where 0 odgrora
11,11 heart to utter a threat seines Cook They .. r. sera
straggling tau thee. and 0 Winos merle two stomp a to
throe the other man overboard. He did sot wee at pro,
bat at Is t ht. Not Cook ens Is the animal* ef ca. b 0., and
this . &Owe.% ly et-opal down, eels a h Ad of him by the
lege, mot throw his • complete somersault °v. r at tv the
river. Tao swam wee rasoiag v. ry rapidly et the time,
sad the water wee deep whirrs Cook fell He sunk .toe,
and d .e.ie es the top of the water wi h ha go
re' , with. Ometeirost koked apathetic Ily on. H masts
mak and app.•• sad ma mare as the earit.ce, when he
goidnally oimpterand to AO so ace. alkyd,. Th.. mean.
ream rook pleat at midday, in the pews& of several
perms. motes or w us pat out in boats to the mess a the
soittriaaat, am, bat dieter...lth of the s sm... which eat
seller. by the late miss, rendered their .Sur a eh *rim.
The men Chodervis sad mother porous on tesrd she vwl
-
ammo' Vewellys Jesse, looked cm, bat mote so *Rom,
.toner by throwing out a rope or otherwise, to Neve the poor
fel4ove.l4. The body wag sot picked up shill y. s rday
(Saturday.) The priselpal whams, who witaveoed the
whole tresseetion, wee Mr. Bunts, • painter of Oloac et. r
who w. a eheseed is pelages • boat ass at the time He
taM*ewls to the fort nee seta Oucdgrum picks, up the
forte to
-d by the It pd, end throwing mu into the ws er. T..
man Ihewellys, cal !KA to Metall worth seed by tn.,
prisms warm he hrsw Cook overheard, Incise gm, on
with hlo 11..4 he r.ver, the earease adjouraed tit, in.
noi • et r e ck Ms sight until tomuorrow .
T ' •..., .ud the primal were both yeses men.

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THE EXPRESS, MONDAY -EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1849.