The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-10 00:00:00

A MANIAC SAILOR. -A FILUVUL BC.REZ

SHIELDS, MIDNIII/DAT MORNING.
A moat fearful scene wu Intimated in South
Shields Market-place last night. A sailor named Thomas
I Cook had returned from a voyage that morning, end though
he did not show any loamy when he oeme home, it is sup-
posed that him brain most have been Minted by the extreme
heat that ham prevailed at Hamburg, whin his viral came
from. After tea he dressed, sad told his wills that he was
going out for a walk ; and it appears that shortly after he
left the house he was attacked with • sudden fit et
for he was noticed to run into St. Hillis Churchyard,eZ
with the agility of • oat, clamber up by a spout on to the
roof of that edifice. Be then crept along a water-way to
I the steeple, and clinging with his feet to a ledge running
round the sides not an inch in breadth, dug his fingers
into the tiroe between the stones in the sides of the tower,
sod in a most miraculous manner wrought himself to
the outside of it. He looked like • fly on the side of the
tower, end the crowd below expected that every moment he
would fall and be smashed to pieces. Having got to the out-
side he dropped with his hands on to the ledge, sad with
the weight of his whole body upon them nuoropel to
make the entire circuit in safety. Huts( got boa
to the roof of the church, he asnW watch
and threw it entougst the people. He then took
oft his necktie, coat, and linen shirt, tore these
into fragments, and pitched them amongst the crowd,
which by this time had numbered Fevers' hundreds. Having
disburdened himself of the principal part of his drem, he
scattered • Luaitistlypof coppers and cigars amongst the crowd,
and it was ht that Mwas reeling ready to leap from
the roof to the tomtit, when be must inevitably hive
been killed, bat the polio* sad • number of young men broke
through the belfry as to the roof, ;and though he made •
arcs snook apple them they overpowered him, and be was
removed to the police station where he was put into a strait
waistcoat. The medial men think that he will have to be
taken to a lunatic asylum.

A NARROW.

o'Est JUNi B.—Last

night the Isle of Wight mail packet Pe;trl, while peoceedieui
from Southampton to this port, broke the sliding rod of bar
engines, and was obliged to anchor at the Brambles, off the
harbour here. This evening a new eliding rod for the Pearl,
with some workmen to et it in, were sent from Southampton
in the mail packet Emerald. When the latter came near
the Pearl, a boat pushed of from the latter to receive the rod
and workmen. Just as the men got into the boat the Emerald
went a-bead, and the boat, with seven men in her, wee
✓immped, end all the =atoll into theses. Some them avoid
not sp.:eld they caught bold at the boat and were sr
sided to above water by those wise wof eld. The boot
the wee immediately loweredit and ketnnaisly the
whole of the seven men were picked with no other
damp than • good decking which, the beet et
the weather, was not oemeolt octeempenest. It wee •
wander, however, that some of then was not drowsed.
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