The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-03 00:00:00

tlemanirould be at the trouble to take the defendant to the
station and to come to that court, if the defendant had not
been guilty of the conduct described. Luckily for the de-
fendant there were no marks of violence on the horse, or
he would have been sent to prison without s fine, and that
was the only thing in the defendant's favour. Re should
fine the defendant 40a., or a month.

WANDSWORTH.
CAUTION TO OWNERS OP DOOB.
Joseph, Walker, a farmer living in the Harrow-road,
answered to two warrants which charged him with suffer-
ing a dog to be at large after having been cautioned of its
having been bitten by another dog in a rabid state, and also
with assaulting Henry Stevens, one of the witnesses in the
Clue.
It appeared that in the early part of last month a mad
dog was found running about the neighbourhood of Roe-
ha.mpton, causing very great alarm to the inimbitants.
It was proved to have bitten several dogs, and it
tried to bite persons as they were passing. The deg
was ultimately killed by Polioe-constable Bond, at
Kingston-vale. In consequence of the complaints made
to the police that the prisoner's dog bad been
bitten by the other, Constable M'Queen waited
upon him and acquainted him with the fact. The prisoner
admitted that he had a dog which had been bitten, and 60
constable then asked him the reason he did not destroy it. u
He expressed his determination not to destroy the dog, at
but threatened the constable if he did not go away. The 84
constable afterwards saw the dog in the street at large and it
unmuuled. The prisoner was summoned in the first SI
instance, but he did not appear, and a warrant
was granted. On the day he ought to have answered to
the summons he met Stevens at Putney, and accused him
with putting the police on to him. He then 'truck Stevens
a violent blow in the fees, causing it to be very much
swollen. Stevens came to the court, and a second warrant
was granted.
The prisoner was fined 31., or one month's imprisonment
in the dog case, and an additional fourteen days bard labour
for the assault on the witness.
THE CATTLE PLAQUE EILOULATIONS.
Inspector Usher appeared for a spmmons a7.inst Mr.
Clark, the secretary of the South Western Railway Com-
pany, for suffering cattle to be removed along the line
from Nine Elms to Kingston-on-Thames, in contravention
of the orders in council of the 24th of March. He stated
that the man who drove the cattle from the Metro-
politan market produced a license signed by a justice of the
peace for Surrey, but it was not suMcient.
Mr. Delman granted the =unmans.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.I ii

INQUBST.—(rms DAY.) I i
This morning Mr. William Carter, coroner for ' SI
East Surrey, opened an inquiry at the Catch= Junction
Hotel, into the circumstanees attending the deaths of
George Drew and Selina Drew (husband and wife), and
William Webb, the two former of whom were passengers
in, and the latter the guard of, the 8 p.m. Brighton up-
train, which met with the accident on Monday.
Mr. J. Sharpe, of the Home Circuit, instructed by Mr.
Miller, appeared on behalf of the relatives of Mr. and Mrs.

Mr. Bury Hutchinson, solicitor, London, appeared for
Jeffrey, the signalman.
Mr. Carpenter watched the proceeding* on behalf of the

railway company.
James Thompson was the first witness examined by the
Coroner. He said—l am in the employ of the London
Brighton, and South-Coast Railway as engine driver. On
Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, I was in charge of an
engine attached to a train which was composed of 18 t
passenger carriages. The fireman who was with me was g
Charles Beckwith. There were four guards with the
train. One of the persons dead (Webb) was head guard
of the train. The inspector of the platform at Brighton,
Mr. Payne, started the train. One part of the train was
for Victoria and the other for London-bridge. It was not
a stopping train at all stations. The first stoppage was at
Redhill, and the next stoppage would be East „I"
Croydon. Nothing unforeseen occurred until we came 1
to Caterham Junction. As I came towards the
latter place I noticed the signal " All right."
and we passed through the station at the usual speed of 30 1
miler an hour. The signals were the distant signal below
the station and the semaphores at the station. As soon S
as I passed the station I saw a train in the siding, at the
right side of the line. The train showed a red light. I s
proceeded on and saw that it was • chalk train, g
and before the oollision took place I found
that a part of it was on the line. As soon as the collision I
took place the engine I was driving went down the ern-
bankment at the left side of the line, and broke away
from the carriages. I shut the steam off when I saw the 1
trucks on the line. I went over with the engine, and the I
first thing I did on recoveriug myself was to pull I
out Beckwith, the fireman, from under the tender. I got 1
the fire out of the engine as quickly as I could, and then
went on the bank when I found many of the carriages
smashed in pieces, and off the line. Webb had charge of
the first break van. I found him on the ground, partly
under a carriage. I spoke to the driver of the ballast train 8
on the night of the accident. 8
Coroner—What was the subject of your conversation? S
Witness—He said he got • signal from the signal-man.

The drivers always act on-signali.-
Coroner—Had you any conversation. with anyone else?
Witness—Yes, with the signalman. I asked him, " How.

ever did this job happen?'" and he said, " I don't know,
I never gave him a signal to go on." I don't know
whether that is true or not. We were at Redhill at 9.24,
which was behind time seventeen minutes, 9.7 being the
proper time. The Dover train preceded me about seven or
eight minutes, although it usually follows me. The Dover
train was not a stopping train at Caterham Junction.
A Juror —Can you undertake to say whether you noticed
that the chalk train was in motion ?
Witness—l cannot indeed.
Mr. Hutchinson asked permission to be allowed to ask
the witness some questions with reference to the signalman.
The Coroner thought there was no necessity fur such a
course at this stage of the proceedings. There was no pre-
sumptive charge, and the only way in which the signalman
was as yet affected was in the mention of his name.
Mr. Hutchinson said the witness had given evidence of
a statement 'natio to him by the driver of the ballast train,
to the effect that he had received a signal.
The Coroner—But he has not stated be got it from the
signalman.
Mr. Hutchinson—That is assumed.
The Coroner-1 think you had better reserve your re-
make at present.
Thomas Reece examined—l am in the employment of
the Brighton and South Coast Railway as first-class under-
guard. I was in charge of the Hastings portion of the
train on last Monday. I left Hastings at 6.67, and arrived
at Hayward's-heath at 8.27. The Brighton train was not
at Hayward's-heath when I got there, and I don't know
when it arrived. We got to Redlull, but before
we arrived there we got a signal to stop as the South
Eastern train was in the station. We were going through
Caterham at 23 or 30 miles an hour when we saw the chalk
train as we fancied, on the down line. The collision
occurred in half a minute after. Before the collision I
saw a white light, or " all right," in the distant signal.
On seeing the white light Thompson was warranted in
going on. We saw the red light of the ballast train when
we were within 200 yards of it.
Coroner—lt was impossible to stop them!
Witness—Yes.
[The inquiry was proceeding when our report left)

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