The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY PERIODICAL TICKETS.

On Wednesday, two cases of importance to rail
way travellers wets decided in the Sheriff's Court, Edina
burgh, by Sheriff Halliard. Mr. Btsphen Monaghan Un-
derhill, residing In Absroorn-place, Portobello, was charged
at the instant:leo( the North British Railway Company with
travelling in • dret-Class Can IMO, on the 21st of De-
amber last, b..tween Edinburgh mid Portobello, without •
ticket. Mr. Robertson, 8 8.C., appeared for the defender.
From the evidence led on the pert of the railway mammy, I
It smeared that Mr. Underhill had been travelling on the I
day in question with • monthly composition ticket, the date
of which had expired a few days previously. It also came
out In evidence, however, that altar he had been
challenged, Mr. Underhill went to the audit-office
of the railway company, end, cm his explaining
that he had been travelling on hie old ticket, procured a new
ticket for • month from the expiry of the old ticket, thus
covering the 21st December, the day referred to in tbe charge
amnia him. On the new ticket being produced, Sherif
Mallard at once samiltied the defender. and allowed him one
guinea d expellees, holding that, as an authorised of
the railway company had pentad him a ticket extending his
right to travel on the day libelled, there was now no founda-
tion for the charge. The awned case was one in which Mr.
Stephen Walter Underhill, father of the defender in the pre-
vious men was chanted with travelling In a railway carnage
between Limo and Portobello, on the 29th November last,
without having • ticket. Mr. Robertson appeared for
1 the defender In this case also. It was found that the des'
fender hod, on the 18th of November, premed a
ticket from Linton to Portobello, which he alleged
he did not use. On the 29th of November, bang
at Grant's House, he had taken • ticket from Orant's House
to Lintou, and, without stopping at Limon, went on to
Portobello. whom he gave to the gatekeeper the ticket from
Linton to Port bean, which he bad bought on the 18th of
the same month. The date If the ticket having beets di.-
covered by the atation•waoter, Mr. Underhill was sent for,
and on his explaining what be had done, he was charged
2a. 4d. ea the fan from Linton to Portobello, which was
marked on the book of the ticket. Sheriff }Lollard held that
the railway company had in this rem also removed any foun-
dation for a shrug* against Mr. Underhill by accepting a
compromise. It wee always in the power of the railway com-
pany, in such caws of a breach of their reguletionr, either to
be merciful, and content themselves with charging the full
fare, or to institute a prosecution against the parties; but
they could nut do both. Whenever, therefore, the railway
company wished to prosecute these mow they must not °out-
promise thou. H. assoilzied the defender, and allowed one
guinea of *spasms against the company.

TEIRICLIt DEATH AT GATASHEAD.—A man
named William Naylor, about 28 or 27 years of age, em-
ployed as • puddler at the umeufaetarry of Misers. Hawke,
Crawahey, sad Co., Bomb Shore, died at Gateshead on Wed-
nesday morning coder horrible circumstances. It seems
that he bad loft his home on Tuesday about noon, and during
his paregrinatioas had gene into a public-house. Whilst
there it is 'aid that he drank • pint of raw whisky for •
wager, or some similarly foolish iodmement ; but the eon-
sequences ot the act may readily be csceired. Very gem
alter this rash deed he was seized with an alarming dinar,
end was conveyed to his own brutes in the Oak-tree-yard,
Oakwellgatm Dr. Morrow attended him soon after hie
arrival, but although every effort was made to save the
sufferer's life he gradually sunk under the baneful effects of
the Honor, and expired on Wedaseday morning about two
o'clock. The deceased mu • married man.—ltlesoesstle
Chronicle.

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