The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-13 00:00:00

YORKSHIRE.

PURSUING A RUNAWAY TRADEIL—The Ht ,
Guardian of Saturday recounts the adventures of a pollee-
effieer named Wirth y, who was iel.t from that town to the
United States, to seize certain moneys with whim a run-
away grocer, named Merrill, had absconded to Amerna
Brierley arrived in this country on Tuesday, by the Cam-
bria. We have noticed (rays toe local paper) on former
occasions the clevitneas with which the bankrupt grocer was
made to hand over his money, and also We trouble which
Brierley subsequently had through the attempted revenge f
Merrill and hi. wife. It appears that Mrs. Merrill had con-
trived to slip a few pounds into her idiot., and to COUCLIIi a
gold watch in her hair, with which legal procee.linga were
in-titure.l against Brierley, under th- hope of getting back
some of the money. Fit at came a ant in an action for twice,
damages 2.000 dollars. Then a warren- for larceny w..s
reed. Then two more writs, one for false imprisonment, and
another tor assault end battery. Then another writ in an
action for trove.r, and last though not lent a writ in an action
for slander. In all these the damages were laid at '2,000
dollars, and bail had to be given for 1,500 dollar-. The
British consul promptly gave bail in every case t and the
writs were all discharged on being brought by affidavit be.
fore the judges in superior courts. The action for larceny
came off at the Court of General Sessions, New York, May
15. The British consul accompanied Mr. Bfrerley to court,
and the Me was in courtesy taken out tat its regular order.
Mrs. Merrill swore moat positively that she and her husband
Came from England only to see their friends. and to see how
they should like tne country—that they left all right in Hali-
fax, and only took the name of Smith on th • voyage from a
little family difference. As to the money, she said it was all
her own. Some she had before her marriage (17 years ago),
1001. had been lett her by her aunt about three years ago.
and more than 1001. had been given lies by her father, wt c'
was a rich farmer in Craven, and had lately retired from
business. Her husband did not know she had this money
(about 2501. in all); she had often lent money to him when he
want. d some, by pretending to go out to borrow. Her hus-
band paid her all the money back, perhaps a week before
they set off to America. That was the fist time he knew it
was hers. She swore also that Brierl, y had not 1 ft them a
cent., but subsequently admitted having put some gold pint s
into hi r shoe, and also a watch and guard into her bonnet.—
Merrill, her husband, also swore that he left England in
good credit, and that his credit was rood there still, tor any-
thing he knew. His story of the d. pasture 11,111 Halifax did
not agree with his wife's, which he xplaMed by saying that
lie hardy knew what he w..s doing since this affair. He
swore that his debts its England only amounted to 2501 , and
the goods and hook-debts to 50/, besides a large quantity
of hay. He drilled being a bankrupt, rthd swore he did nut
know he was one. Even when the legal documents from
the Leeds District Court of Bankrup•c: were pro-
duced, he raid he did not know what they acre,
and never saw anything of the k.tid bef ire.—The
Record. r stopped the case, but, on the ~01,a,,,,an of the
caun.el for the defence, permitted it to go on tor the purpose
of eliciting the true character of the plaintiff. On the cross
examination being resumed, Merrill swore that he had lett a
young woman to manage his business, anti that he had niver
written to h. r -ince he left. An intercepted letter was pro-
doted, in which he had told hit to sell all up and fill .w tins
on whiett he sod, •• I thick I olitt'tth write to t.t•r t.) do tha',
hot Fro so boUnrt d about it I don't exactly know." The
watches he had ou him he said he bought in England, Inc
he refute-d to say whether he had paid the duty on them, or
on the cloth he also had with him—The Recorder said tnere
was no sired for the counsel for the defence to say a word ;
and the jury. without leaving the h tx. returned a verdict or
Yoe guilty.—Brie rley was strongly advised to indict Merrill
and too wife for p. rjury ; but on inouiry tie found that Mer-
ril (who had been working as a ;inner) had immediately
alter the ,rial gone to his lodgings, got all has clothes, and
gone off—no sits knew where."
HFSIIIRS. . . •

RAILWAY ACCIDENT ATC.!ItTEWE.—A serious Reel-
dont took place on toe London and N ,rth W, at, ru It iilar
at Crewe, Cheshire, on Sunday evenimr, by a luggage tram
running into a train filled wit•issildi, in ald almost stationary
at that place. The troops in cite last-mentioned train be-
longed to the fith Regt., and were on their way from
Portsmouth to 'Manchester. They had left Portsmouth at
ab.mt three o'clock that morning, My the South W, stern
lire, and on arriving at Bus.on—quare were put into an
emp•y train 3G carriage, which tad taken up from Man-
cheat, r and Liverpaol on the previous day a great number or
persons tin one of the cheap trips This train left London on
Sunday morning soon after six o'clock, and reached Crew.
abaut seven, It had stood there about half an hour, and
the officers had partaken of r, fr shments and r“eated
themselves in the carriages, when a train was seen
approaching them from behind, and the engineer
attempt, d to get the bakes reversed and to move forward ;
but beer, he could get the train into anything like a speed
sufficient to remove it out of the way of the appeaseling
fag-
gage train the latter ran int.) them, breaking and upsetting
:t honcho:, a luggage van, and • I caTri-Rts, and a. rt.
nusly hut not dangerously hurting m any of the passing, ra.
•1 he officers of the regiment were in Ike last carriage, and
but fir the lutzzaae van and horsebox beim; loe',ind them
would prof:W.4 have um slued. M,iox /lungs!, who was

in command, jumped out, and fortunately escaped unhurt ;
but Captain Harvey, Captain Freto , Cgptain Bethune,
Lieut. Gaynor, Lieut. Snider', Lie at. lldunt, Lieut. Blunt-
WI, Ensign Smith, Miura. W. Pdrrie, the bandmaster; G. •
()Hirer, armour sergeant ; Harry COX, paymaster sergeant ;
Joseph Lynch, colour-sergeant; and David Woodhouse,
drum-major, were all more or les. hurt with contusions

about the need, face, or the hits, and most of them have
been confined to bed in consequence of I air, arisi• q either
from wounds or oat of the severe injury done to
the nervous system by the shock. Two valuable horses
were killed in the bores-box, and another had a narrow
escape. The whole number of officers and soldiers injured
is said to have been about sixty; but many of these, on
arriving at Manchester, had so far recover, d tut to be
able to take care of themselves. and refused to place
themselves in toe care of the surgeon or the reilway com-
pany, or their own surgeon, who 'tappet ed to be in the
train at the time and escaped unhurt. Ir is not appre-
hended that any of the cases will I,e fat; and, indeed,
Capt. Bethune, Capt. Harvey, Lieut. Daunt, and Lieut.
Gaynor, were reported last bight to ior only suffering from
contusions and lacerations of the face, which are likely to be
of slight inconvenience only. The cuts-ions and lacera-
tions of toe face are said to be the result of the parties
having heard the alarm given be the r ilway whistle and
looked through the windows of the ckti4ges just as the
collision occurred. Thor engint-driver of the luggage-train
was taken into custody, and his conduct will no doubt be