The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-15 00:00:00

mit MURDER IN IfOrrIERMAMSHIRE.

The adjourned inquiry into thia painful care war
yesterday at Walkeringham,ui before Mr. T. W.
Denman, the deputy ooroner—Mr. Burnaby, the coroner for
the district, being present. Mr. Baynes, surgeon, said he
had examined some clothes of the prisoner, which were in
the possession of the police. There were stains of blood,
he believed, on the overalh, but he could not say whether
they were caused by hump blood. The stain were prin-
cipally on the left leg overall, below, upon, sad above the
knee up the thigh. There were also upon the trousers
fall front stains of blood, that part not having been pro-
tected by the overalls. He was sure that the stains on the
trousers were blood stains. There was a stain upon the left
slee►e of the shirt, just 'bore the wristband, but at present
he could not say by what this stain was caused, as it
appeared to have been in water. On each end of the pri-
soner's scarf there were stains, perhaps of blood.
James kßarel, church schoolmaster, said he lived within
eighty yards of where the murder took place, and where the
body was found. On Tueeday night, the 6th instant, he
beard two reports of guns or pistols about 11.20 p.m., being
then in bed.

John Wet deposed that on Wednesday morning, about 7
o'clock, be went to where the deceased was found, and saw
two footmarks by the south side of the barn buttress. On
Thursday afternoon witness and two men, named Booth and
Wells, found some footprints in Peaker's garden. One of
these (the left) was perfect, but he did not observe any nail
marks. Several other witnesses were examined, whose
evidence more or less implicated the primer.
John Cooper, polke.offlow—l received information of the
murder about seven o'clock on Tuesday morning. Saw the
body, and took the cravat off the neck. In company with
heeman Kew I went first to Mr. Henderson's, and then
to John Fenton's. I said to Fenton, "Where have you
been this morning. Your boots look very wet." He
replied, "I've been up the garden." I asked to
ass the clothes he wore on Tuesday. He said be bad
those (clapping his band on those he had on) trouser
on. A voice, I thought his mother's, answered, "No,
John, they are in the water." I then went into the brew.
house, and found in a bucket there the trousers produced.
I told him I should take him into custody, when he said,
"Oh, Lord, Cooper charges me with murdering Spencer !"
In the prMoner's waistcoat pocket I found two pistol bullets
and five gam caps. After starebiag upstairs I went down
into the brewhouse, and under the sink I found a tin bucket
with these ousalls is. The water was discoloured, being
'lightly red. Prisoner's boots looked as if they had been
washed. The jury, after a lengthened inquiry, returned a
verdict of "Wdful Murder," against John Fenton.

The annual meeting of proprietors of the Royal
Exchange, Manchester, was held yesterday, and refused to
nun:Sion a vote by the committee of 2001. to the rifle fund.
A dividend was declared at the rate of 61 per cent.

THI FATAL BOLL= BIPLOBION AT TOTNIAL—
We gave • telegraphic notice yesterday of • fatal boiler
eierden that bad taken place at the South Devon Station,
otams. About I o'clock • loud report was heard is
the town, similar to the discharge of a piece of o
sad shock was felt is the homes on the northM=J
Fore-street as of a slight earthquake. It was soon found
that the boiler of the Tornado engine, which had brought
down the luggage train, had exploded while rit the elatim,
and that the engine-driver, named Amos Hall, was killed.
' The explosion took place while the engine was under, or
very near the goods shed, and the force of the explosion was
so great as to carry away a portion of the building The
engine-driver was blown from hie station on the engine into
the air and fell on the next truck ; his death must have been
instan;aneons. The stoker, Richard Rice, who was also on
the engine, was not killed, but is very seriously insured. The
ceatre of the goods station wee blown dawn, and fragments
of the roof and boiler were burled to • distance of many
yards. The pointeman, Duneford, who was in close
proximity to the engine when the boiler exploded, fortu-
safely escaped. Intelligence of the accident was tele-
graphed off to Newton and Plymouth, and shortly after an
engine arrived from Newton, by the aid of which the da-
maged locomotive was removed to the water-engine, when
the fire in the wood work was extinguished. Venous rea-
sons for the explosion are given. By some the engine is
mid to have been a defective one, and only used on o.xa-
skims when others were not available; by others the accident
is attributed to too much steam having been generated just
as the train was about to be shunted. Neon. Harris lied
Owen, medical gentlemen of Totaea, &rived at the station
soon after the accident, to render such easistauxe as ciroum-
stances might require ; but their services were el no avail
to the engine-driver, as he was peat all human help from
the moment of the accideut, and Rice, the wounded dotter,
wadi sent on to his home by the up 1.40 north mail train. Hall
leaves a wife and two children.
COUNITZELTZITLWO MUDS MARKS.—A large whole-
sale customer from London walked into the warehouse of
one of our leading button manufacturers. A member of
the firm, who was in attendance, held out his band for the
friendly greetiug that usually preceded business
lions. To his great surpriee this was indignantly
rerusp-
The customer then threw down a parcel of buttons, asking
the manufacturer whether they were not made by him,
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trade mark were printed am the wrapping paper, which
was of the same colour and quality as that used In
the menufactory. The customer then explained the cause
of his iedignatioa ; he had purchased these at ton per coat
under the prices he Lad been paying directly to the mese-
facturer, whom he ic cused of a breach of faith in mink,.
trig other dealers at a lower price. This we. at once dewed,
and the manufacturer offered to show his books in proof of
the denial. A furtle r examination of the buttons was
made ; some were polled to peon, and then it was
seen that they were sly imitaboas of the artiolea they
were supposed to be—that they were of Wirier gelidity in
syseyttung but external eppeamoce ; but the imitation woe
so eine that the insidernmar himself wee at drat deceived
by them. Further Investigation proved that the buttons
wigs imported from the miatinint, and that they wen pro..j
bably ands in
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