The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-21 00:00:00

VIE FATAL ACCID
AI ENT ON THE MIDLAND
RLWAY.

NA,NOOTSFIELD, SATURDAY.

The adjourned coroner's inquest on the bodies of
thetwo uuf.rtun ate tradesman, lIIr. Jones and Mr Antill,
were by the Ire collision between a snail train
isiabi pad emelt', en the Bristol and Binaingluunbranch
el the clan railway, will resumed this day.
This IfWalla deposed that he was the driver of the
mai; non engine. Owing to the late arrival of the train
ion Birmingham hr did not leave Gloacester till two
minutes le:fore bee o'clock, which was 28 minutes after his
tidal tune. l'reweeded .11 right at about the usual speed
to they arrived sear the new engine pit about Shortwood,
wkth 118 observed eke fire dying off from the driving
.11. knew that there was something the matter, shut
Woe steam, and vone to a standstill 'little on the up side
tithe Maogotsdeld station. Oot rff the engine to ascertain
tM
tome, and luund that a set-pin bad slacked hack.
Tightened it on spin end got on to the engine.
the (sooner—Bow lung do yens think you were detained
at MA; t•to ?
should my that we were standing there about
Pia itoi.eri it to:itlit have been a few seconds more.
Ti'" Cm some delay to pulling up. Should think the
iesiottorse mtogether was Omni ••• Minutes, from when
e shut Wt.en I cai.ed to the guard to go on, he
p 0'11" (meaning the under guard) " Ism gone
bje„..-• I ~denied that lie was gone bark to stop every-
tliutthat sdfbllw tottlii•lt. The guard had no soon,:
...kee, the weed than I heard a train and the other engine
;Fick us. 'fns fog was 'o ileum that we could not see the
• r eagles till it was upon us. The force of the collision
hreise the carrier' all to pieces ; in feet the engine ran
Mr iiigh the said Ile of the carnage. When we began to
slew away. we fuund the deed bodies among the ruins.
Dv of th.an was income the woodwork and tne other was
tip up m the chimney of the engine. Others were
ep,,,nsly Lott. We had sine paismigers and only two
Duped i..iory. The driver of the plot engine had told
use, at (iaair• alt r, that he was coming on to Bristol, Oat
Bettina ••• timid es to the time.
By the firmer— The th pety-guard had not returned to
Ms train at the time of the accident. I cannot say of my
sea lunorledge whether he went beck at all. His
dity wes whit' the train stopped to go back 400 yards,
end *ma fog signal on the red—that was if he had time
sloes—he holding his rid light in his hand.
Mr. Sanders. ',semi manager, handed in the rules for
pods. the :Pith requires that whets a train is stopped by
my anuses' cause the nap!, if there be one, or the un-
der saanl if two. shall immediately go back with danger
sods to stop any train, and shall, in addition to his hand-
lowa, take sin riplanive and two fusee signals. At a
g,,taace re 400 yards he is to place so explode', and at a
/dame of h.d yard* two explosive signals, and be is to
nano iit•lbiting his danger-light coospiatoudy, till re.
by the driver's whistle.
chme,,phee Tampon. who had joined the train at the
edritauoti, deposed that when they came to •standstill he
Bolted oil of the windows for a little time watching the
&mood fireman, and then he went and walked round
se /wise. L'post the driver's whistle sounding he ran
hmi, sad had his foot on the step and his hand on the door
• mums his seat, when be heard • noise, and looking
and sew the train eisne upon bun. He had only time to
Imp elf .4 to the op rail when the engine smashed into the
dins. This withers considered that when the accident
happened the train had been stopped sin, seven, or eight
nesetes. Beard no orden given, and saw no guard go
bark; bit it might have happened without his notieseg it
Kr. Thome. Bird Hall, merchant of Liverpool, was a first
▪ reier.Pr. attoinpanying a Spanish gentleman, Mr.
DA on a trip to Weston Super Mare. Considered that
Me train stopped from rive to tea minutes. The •toppag•
Oeil the witness) occasioned no apprehension la any mind.
lord heard as engine approaching, mid the next second
eases d • pistol had be. I I firert at my head. I heard a
.15,11•11 at the same moment (for it was like ligbtniug) I
Mod myself emerging from • heap of broken splinters.
bine not an affair to me ul three seconds, but was in-
Oldandles. The witnem added that he asked the guard
misequently what bad happened, and that be replied,
•rd, it is dreadful and asked him if he could bear
Onion yto a person haviag been sent out with a light

Dead pointamen at the Weeterkigh station,
pad that the mail train passed him at thn a minutes
Wanseav'elock, and the rages* at ten matinees past sic
idle! They were both going at the usual speed. Wit-
asn's duty was to keep the red ',grid on fur five minutes
sha the passing of a train, and the maim signal fur five
Or lager, which be did.
/sae further evidence having boon given—
The C.Jrunrr summed up, and the jury having remained
Metier in deliberation, returned the following verdict :
—.That the deaths of William Antell and John Jones
sere eared by the collision of a certain locomotive pilot
tope, with a mill trait. of carriages then stationary upon
lbasilvay line of the Bristol and Gloucester branch of the
Liked liailway, near to the Mancotsfied station, and that
WA eolliueu was caused by the neglect of duty of Abra-
Ma Pakias, the guard, and Win. Mayeock, the under-
paid of Arch railway train ; and the jurors desire to ox-
pus their opinion, that at each station upon the railway
Owe notion or danger signals are exhibited, the time of
natiansami of the caution sigeal should be ten minutes, in
ration to the usual time of five minutes for continuance of
W dearer signal.,•
This verdict being one of " Manslaughter ageisst both
pare," the coroner at once issued his warrant fur their
anittal to Gloucester gaol.

AN ATTEMPT TO GARROTTE A WEST
RIDING MAGISTRATE, AT WAKEFIELD.

The unenviable notoriety which Wakefield has
maned during the past few weekl, dem net appear soon
July to quit it. We have now to /01104 yew is the tetra
dna, au *diary to robbery, the gerretea, geetionaly entirely
takamen here, although it has been Ea MIL Mai fa the
teigbbourbood for some time. The eirehallielleill illasectid
eitt ibis ease are as follow. On Frisay midst, only a
Ink after seven o'clock, John Buff, Req use of the
Imo wool-staplers in the Wert Riding, and in the corn-
amiss of the peace, was proceeding to his widow at to.
Isle's. The night we. beautifully clear, • strong frost
keg ia the air. He had arrived within a few gems of his
inelmure, when he was guessed upon frees
Mail by a ruffian who had Dols 7 wept ever the paye-
es; sad clasped so tightly rowed the throat as to prevent
Mr hot alarm tieing reload. Mr. Belli is rather sport in
Oboe, with a arsdesey to corpulence of
thetahabi and the
eiddeames of the attack sad the eeverity of reatment
intintly &vivid him of pommel= ; he was fast becoming
Immible from the rush of bleed to the heed, when be ab-
utted usher weal appreeelnas him is heat. apparently
wish the Limnos at robbing him. Mr. Buff then coar
nand eat with hie het, sad this straggle
he* the garrotteee ld,
apeidkealabsilintently released to ho A
ble
be a
h egg set"Mader." Jut at this juncture
neon grationes =aiding in the ems seighbeurbood,
mm up, sod the dttM enchant bed only tins ea threw Mr.
hal Coned, en the paged, end make e/4 Were Mr. Lee
en ieStually awe le sunder minket Mr. Buffo's
Wpelted sp, wee issindiscrig eene•yed how, end bis
Weal nen sent AL On aumbetka, his injuries were
had te bee* elf IN& ekes. The asks about the
ffe.na spdre pin et the AN 'were such dietaided with
nook sad the dna se his system would so doubt be great,
kir wises Mahe ame_afelkahileg. From Ilse sudden
talme
_et ikeentnek Mr. mown eneMe es give soy sesame
mninseief the Masse who emnised Lim It is ine-
ludible, the elides keen Mr. Beet mead have • great
dim to the maks et the sorbet,
lila k Ms% is a key retired leselity, they so doubt
2benid MIA Wtellory wadi hew key key natter.
Writ lee inelled the greatest earemeMen end aline
linsgibewheed; Mr. Deakins glikkeeki *fuer-
reillorheheMy ated Trot imeed k the
ewsis sewn and
n
IC."'dieir, sad the rsilway statism were
It trio the teent.
warewly, to panne any eemplelese pauses Neap-

MAIADIWIT EXICTTION AT Tl3ll:l.—The phyei-
in Wed to report es the ease of Anemias Illassondl, who
stsitested at Turas on the 12th, but was, after removal
bus the scalstd, found to be alive have mode their swo-
llen They lay that death was mind by asphyxia sad by
!Stint) aspermaisg. in coos. vases of the obstruction of
spa ef sir sad of blood throegh the prewar* of the
that hub was tot instantaneous Woman them was
heartiness( the apical marrow, tiers being so luzw
ase Nature of the vertebra of the seek ; sad, Really.~
nn▪ ePitalesemition was not ememplisbed—diet,beammetle
I.lllseleisaL of the spinal marrow wee chess; sad. assianditra
""sir strangulation mid suspessisa were sot mddelen y
rsslstl. They aid, that the thickness sad shortness of
'tan's seek, and the excessive development of its
'ma. were the enures which primate& the letenclid an-
ima Isattioo and fracture.
Scull AT TILE ARSENAL GATES. A corms-
laden Worm us" that on Wedsesday eight, great ex-
!Nast paraded 4 the antes!, as the men were leaving
Len nark, sad who, whoa neer the gates. commented "mast aid yelling against the pollee, mashing en satyrs
ia order to testify their feelings against the •
r▪ ill awarding is view of the rabble teaseling about
tm Inoue, of the establishment" Oar comespondent
01l bias of this public mede being adopted, statiar that
y' pfinte place was sat apart for such purposes, &ad
am has resolved to wait upon the authorities to
171. the system of meereiling dna' away with altogether.
...Taw Ulu Wiii be complied with, we doubt; but, at all
same plan may b. resorted to, which shall avoid the
s=l_ sat the Min wan to feel, of being publicly searched.
-ssl...._the above wee in type, we have received a further
upon the sut, which itappeara that
itlpPlasties of private search isfr to ombe adopted.—KastisA
....A ?AMD:a HINT.—As a party of Arabs were
aito Out boar bunting, in the neighb.narhood of
.lootte, province of Algeria, they were rather alarmed
non, a pinther and its y..ung start all at once from the
Ceenc.cel. The animals bed ; but the Arabs went after
Z.,140 COliptiltd her to seek refuge in a thick.clump of
Sae she turned on the defensive, and as one of the
MePPrnacheil too near, she rushed on him and left him
ill blood. bhe then weal a little further, and there
671111 with wither Arab wounded him grievously in the
14'ash, fell, the sight of blood seemed t irritate her,
kung Lira by the head with her teeth, she mutilated
rt fellY• She then went away. The man was eon-
once to Tents, but he died before he reached the