The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

SHOCKING AHD NATAL SZ

INQUEST.--(TIES
This forenoon Mr. W. Pay .it
City and Southwark, held an tuy
Workhouse, Mint-street, Borough,
Miles, aged 35 years, who was tan
0/dMe?t-rsed!

- The deceased was a brash maker,
street, Walworth. On Saturday I
friend in the Brighton beer-house,
Arms station, with a friend. Al
laden, came to • stead in the roach
attached to it, not being
the deceased went, pushed at the ~
set.,ing it in motion. As be was mks
well pleased, an omnibus pin.-
Nelson came along ; be was st. ack
done. The wheels went over him, I
suddenly the hind wheels rested I
his body. When he was taken
surgeon's shop, where be was tot
skull was fractured and his i.l
injuries being dreadfully severe.
Henry Davis, omnibus driver 205,
deceased beating the fors horse of tls.
afterwards found him under the omnibus
pulled up instantly, but amid not avoid t
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury upturned a verdict of " Axidt
An inquiry was held by Mr. Richards,
at the London Hospital, relative 1
Taylor, aged 42 years, a carter
place, dt. George's-41-the-Fast.
It appeared from the evidence
afternoon last the deceased was driv'
horses in East Smithfield ; one of
be Bogged them both over the
temper, and conducted himself
a witness named Apr the
drinkh.g. Both horses kicked out
of the waggon struck deceased;
narrow that he could not stood
down under the waggon, which wi
of dust, and the wheels went over
was taken to the hospital, where '
day last.
The jury returned a verdict of

ATTEMPTED MURDER R 1
AT WEST HART,

Yesterday, at the West
Isaac Atkinson, an under-gameki
Mr. F. A. Mlthanks, Marie, near '
with shooting with intent to mi
fireman on board one of the sow
Stockton to the Continent. On
ult. the prisoner and prosecutor ludic.
at a public-house in West Hartlepool
little the worse for drink, and in r
out about some exciression one of
got to very high words, and went
The prisoner had a gun with I
excited at the prosecutor, who
when they got into the middle of
swearing, pulled the trigger up
and said he would shoot the prom
not the threat, sad remained i
the gun quite firm, and the pre
but the cap missed fire. I
twice, and both times the cap urn
were about Whitby-street at tl
act and, alarmed at the danger St)
The prisoner put his hand into bus
the cap would not go off, and tool
deliberately placed it on the nip
just in the act of raising the gu,
when Mr. Wright, of the Victor,
tracted by the cries outside,
seized the muzzle of the gun
taking aim. The prosecutor
charge. Both were taken to
Sergeant Newton examining tl
loaded with a full charge of pow,.
was much excited when locked
on for hearing yesterdsy, Mr. J.
prisoner, said the prosecutor had
Styzaker was present, and said
outing as he was of as excisable
when in liquor, and he found '
married man and he did not -
W. S. Grey, the presiding magistrate.
serious offence, but as the prosecut
drawing the charge, they would r
and trusted it would be a cauti,

SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT 1,
A short time ago we bad to chronicle
Ottery St. Mary ; now we have the
that a shocking accident ()wetted I
several persons lost thel,- lives,
were seriously injured. On 8
member of the Plymouth Br
Treble's paper mills, Exwick, ad,
to 150 persons, train the ruins of
by Abraham Harding, grocer, at .
leading into the square. Opixerix
the house occupied previous to the
saddler, consisting of a portion of
and 10 feet in height, and a chi=
hind it. At half-past 7 the congregatir
bouring chapel augmented the crowd.
cation of approaching danger, and 0.
listening to the preacher. 14esee'
thing giving way was heard, ear
tottered over and fell on the
had time to escape the mass t
The scene was of the most
In place of the one voice which
the cries and shrieks of a hum'
road was covered with the de,
mangled bodies of those on sr
groans of the injured and dying
tines of their friends, whom tb
brought to the spot. The unto
extricated, and conveyed to pt
homes, were those in whom .
attended by Dr. Whitby, Messrs.
geons, Ottery, and Dr. Jerrard, '
a state of the greatest oonster—
was speedily communicated
The names of the dead are:—.
of age, son of Mr. Gillum,
single woman, 20, (laughter of a thetmachinist;a,.
wife of James Lang, carpenter and Cuion
'
Bishop, widow of a miller (she buried her busbaed
week) ; Elizabeth Davis, a young woman, dremsbt
residing with her grandfather, a mason; Elizabeth Eta
16, living with her mother, a widow, who tee?' 1..
dairy. Emma Hake 16, daughter of John lb* ft
the Lamb and Flag Inn, and James log
husband of the woman ang who was killed, ono
seriously injurod that they are not expected to merge
The setiotudy injured persons are :—Elisibeth Itearseg
daughter of Samuel Rounsevill, 20, 'Aeon!
Temple, 20 ; Elizabeth Green, daughter of Jame Goa
shoemaker ; George Pyle, 8, son of Mr. Pyle. OS
Volunteer Inn; Gillam, a y ;
oung woman of 17, OM
the boy Gillam who was killed RiddyJeffrey.lollolll
of W. Jeffrey, of the Five Bells Inn ; Laney, II!
aioner from the Marines, working as a laborer, saltlq,
his wife, each aged about 50; and Robt. (Unison, 24,00
W. Churchill, 23, labourer, had his toe srouhrd; leloo
50, gardener to Sir John Coleridge, had his leg built 0J
11
is now an inmate of the Devon and Exeter Rosprtal
sides these, at least a dozen persons were Inas of 101
severely bruised. Lovell, a labourer, bad his ckslionn
in pieces, but escaped with slight bruises ; and mg
persons (waned with comparatively slight injyrno
strong wind was blowing at the time of the
it is believed that the foundation of the chimy no
sapped by water which had collected around ine eats
t
I'
ought not to have been allowed to stand' DO
Plymouth Gazette.
PERILOUS BOATING ADVENTURE.—
young men who went out from Douglas, Isle of
Masi
boat, on Wednesday afternoon, and who, aa tl!lra
been heard of up to Friday night, were
have been picked up. They are MefirlL C0U11043.,..2611
wood, boot and shoe manufacturers,
hampton, where they have three places m.";
They had bad very little experience in Wow.;
when they left Douglas the bind and the
against them. When they thought they woo
nine and a half from the Shore they the
°,,„„ii
miles; and alter turning the boa- houl
towards land they found that their Wring ' 01_M'27-,
impeded the progress of the boat to sea, to
withstanding all their efforts, they were ""--00
drifting. At 6 o'clock, when their hands were
blistered, and when they were wet through and
from thirst, occasioned by swallowing the us spray
beat into their faces, they saw a vereb M best 1141,70"
they made for the course she was running, aloiraly
le's_aar
a few hundred yards of her when a cont
fi
drove them into an altogether opposite &entice.
thee efforts to get back to land were fraide°;
hoisted handkerchiefs upon their WI,
soon blown off. Their thirst beesme sow 5°,17011
they bean to desire a speedy death by drono
than a ering one by thirst and storrsl;?
night was Doming on, however, the
Wtehaven, John Daugherty master, free( rtigi
Duddon May,Cumberland, providentially thlnu;„ tx
wind out of her course, crossed their rat
them up. Here they were hospitably
effort was made to get them into Don
°"`„,o
would not allow the Catherine to get in. The.
men and the boat were therefore taken on toPgu....di
which they reached at about 3 o'clock orso_ilff7o
afternoon. They could eat notbinc tbO
morning, but drank water moot greedily' Jus'
twined one hour longer °°°b•erled thelv:desolo7
down, so heavy was the storm c•
When picked up they must have been ton o°• •
Douglas. #
TIDY 4` co.
Despatches were received rote
brig aue...—a •
Colonial-offiee from the governors of /ong 170110,
lon. Despatches were sent to the goof'
Malts, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Daman.

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