The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-25 00:00:00

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J3A.W INTELLIGENCE. 0 EXECUTION AT MANCHESTER.-( THIS DAY.)
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(MK DAY.)
(sr ILICFRIC retiOsebel.)
--e- MANCHESTER, Beruitnae Noumea.
t , COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Burrows was hanged for the Hopwood murder
4 • • (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) at 8 o'clock.
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IA RE ROBERT FERGU6O6. All available pares from which a view of the gallows
r This was an application for reams from . could be obtained were densely crowded. Strong men went
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r • Mr. line" opposed She application for Iftdi'Gregur, into fits owing to the pressure hours before the execution.
warehousemen.
0 The people generally were very ruffianly and callous,
The baihrupt was • sort of travelling draper,
t sad his anlioadon for release was opposed on but usual feinted- When the drop fell • rain on the top
r the ground of fraud. It appeared that in March, of a building opposite went into convulsion, and was with 1
He, bankrupt called upon • &bluing creditor, dilSoulty rescued.
• Hr. M'Gregor, and represented himself to be a
The convict's mother had an affecting final interview with
pciffYingve a reOfnerenbilloiewilito MateurcEtheikedßoy'din, ofßedCfhlraiireded.ra7e, and him on Wedheedeyr and his father law 'um.
1 mimed two wog& of goods amounting to about 261. upon It is said that the prisoner made no secret of his guilt since
on Thursday.
I application being made to Messrs.
_Boyd, they said they his conviction, and was not expected therefoce to make a
knew a person named Ferguson at fikefford, and gave bins formal confession. He was reported to be very penitent, 1
a very good character. Mr. ll'Gregor thereupon onmented
and in the opinion of his cadet' comforters stood in better
1 to complete the order, and the bankrupt afterwards oh- hope .
seined of goods. When Parma, of Sheffert', mof forgiveness an 99 out of every 100 people out-
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I As a to for payment be repudiated the claim alto. side the gaol. The most strenuous efforts have been made
I thee, and said that be knew nothing of the matter; his on his behalf since his condemnation, and they only ceased
same being Charles Ferguson, and not Robert Ferguson. kit evening when all hope, of reprieve were gone.
' Judgment was obtained against the bankrupt so long ago
I as September, 1863, and his arrest was not effected until - - --- -- - - ---- -
t very recently.
BURNT TO DEATH WHILE SLEEPING.
The bankrupt insisted that in March, 1889, when he ob-
baud Mr. Welregoe's goods, he resided at Shaffer&
Mr. Payne, the City coroner, held an inquiry at
• Ms Honour-If that be so the petition is clearly wrosig,
• for no mention is made of Eihefford in the description. This St. Bartholomew's Hospital last evening, relative to the
was • ease far the diamissal of the petition. , death by fire of Benjamin Reilly, aged two years.
• Catherine Reilly, 24, Cross-sweet, Herron garden, said
t Petition dismissed.
that on last Monday night she went to bed on the door with
her two children, leaving • candle alight near at hand, as
l THE POLICE COURTS. she expected her hue home, he being at work.
She wa awoke in the early morning by her fingers
t (THIS DAY.) being burnt. She found the deceased child, who had
been ill, in flames, and she had great difficulty in
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• ........y.- extinguishing the fire. The deceased was dreadfully. in-
' jured, and e had him at once carried to the hospital.
I BOW-STU:RT. Witness's hand was much injured by the fire. The candle,
4 lITIALING NEWSPAPIRS.
Charles Spew, a packer, about ten years in the service which had been placed near the bed, had evidently set fire
to the bed clothes while she was asleep.
e of Messrs. Smith and Sons, the news-agents in the Strand, Mr. J. Henan, house surgeon, said that the deceased
4 was charged with stealing from hisemployers a large qua- was brought into the homital on the early rooming of
tity of memo
Tuesday last much injured by fire, and death took place
gentlemaincen •the office of Mesas. Smith, soli- . ter
eitors, conducted the prosecution. He mentioned that IWT'he jury. a verdict of " Accidental death."
l Sergeant Thomas was instructed in the case in cense-
I quence of some suspicion having fallen on the prisoner. .
4 Sergeant Thomas of the A division detective force, GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Bootliutd-yand, said - From instructions I reosived I --e-
-k watchedthe premises,lB6,Strand,lastevening. The prisoner This morning the fortieth half-yearly ordinary
it left the premises at 7 o'clock with two parcels dirested as meeting of proprietors was held at the KinisCross station,
li, oto be sent by rail. I followed him to the Kennington- Colonel PACK!, M.P., in the chair.
Is road, where I stoned hits. I told him I was a police - The report, of which an abstract has already appeared in
a caw, end sawn is what he had got with him, ; ,L,, rl,- the Krems, was taken u read. The total capital of the
plied, " They are paperswhich I amgoing to sus none: company is now 16,808,6141. 15s. The net revenue of the
I take them to my business in the morning." I asked half-year amounts to 447,0001., out of which the directors
him if they were his property, but he was overcome and recommended dividends of 21. 10r. per cent. for the half-
made me no answer. I told him I should take him year on the original stock ; 31. on the 11 stook, and 2/. on
in custody for stealing them. He replied " What the A stock, leaving a balance of 624/. to be carried to the
e- I have done I have done for my wife and family." next half-year's account. This dividend is less by ss. per
on I took him to the station-house in Bow-street cent. then in the corresponding period of 1865.
where I examined the parcel and found that it contain The CHAIRNAN regretted that on the present occasion the
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le 108 copies of 28 different publication-mostly weekly dividend was decreased by one-half per cent. The company
publications, but including two copies of the Yeau Some had earned in the half-ear 50,0001. additional, but owing
"ear of the papers are not published till Saturday, being only to circumstances which were beyond the control of the
)4. supplial, to the agents on Friday. These would sell more board it had cost 47,0001. to earn that amount. The receipt"
ta egUss during the week. On searching his lodgings I found both from passengers and merchandise had increased satis-
ke a large quantity of newspapers. factorily, but in mineral traffic there had been a slight
Mr. Reeves, manager to Messrs. Smith and Son, said the decrease owing in a great measure to the warm weather.
as Mr.
was a packer in their service at a salary of 11. es. The inciesuseof expenditure had arisen from the relaying of
per week. He identified the wrappers and lists enclosed the line, the substitution of steel for iron mils,
le, in them as Messrs- Smith's property. The prisoner had the provision of additional locomotives, the enhanced
oir bean in the service, he believed, about ten years, certainly price of coke and coal, and the additional train miles run
ns more than seven or eight years, and had always borne an over. There had also been a considerable increase of out-
excellent character. The value of the papers was 26e. lay from the rise in the rate of wages. The company erre
Sergeant Thomas said be believed the prisoner was a ployed nearly 9,000 bands, and the increase they had been
sober ad man, and he certainly kept a comfortable home. obliged to make in wages amounted to no lees than Mr. Reeves said the prosecutors did not desire to peas 13,000/. this half-year. On the let of February, the Great
c of for heavy punishment. Northern and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Corn-
ea The prisoner pleaded guilty. , . panics took possession of the West Riding line, and since
l d Kr. Flowers was glad to hem that, and was always glad, that date the traffic of the company to the West Riding
rsli when he could, to comply with • desire for leniency ex.- had passed over it, effecting a saving of 20 minutes
362 by the prosecution. It was said that the prisoner between Leeds and London. The traffic by this route
ton Les"dione this for the sake of his wife and family. 'ilia already justified the anticipation of satisfactory result.
a week were by no means bad wages for a man in such a The Royston and Hitchin line had been worked by the
position. Great Northern Company since the let of April, but the
lad The prisoner said he had had great difficulties to contend Great Eastern Company had not up to this time carried
The with, and bad applied to Mr. Smith for an increase of out their agreement to double their line from Shepreth
tombs wages, which Mr. hmith had not thought fit to grant. and Shelford and to provide proper accommodation for the
Mr. Flowers said that what the prisoner had done would Great Northern traffic at Cambridge. Having briefly ad- '
vie make matters much the worse for the wife and family. He verted to the schemes affecting the company which were
td.
len was glad, however to find there was no proof of what he sanctioned by parliament during the past session, he con-
bad at first supposed, that the prisoner had kept a stall eluded by moving the adoption of the report.
1r and supplied it from his masters stock. The smallest Mr. HUGHEI4 complained that the directors, nearly all
et penalty he could impose was three months' imprisonment. of whom were self-elected, were continuing, in spite of
lerl.
nen MARYLEBONE. past experiences, in a reckless system of extensions and
Si GALLANT assess roux nuowNisc.-• CONSTABLE subscriptions to other companies, including the bankrupt
is REWARDED. Chatham and Dover Company.
Several other shareholders complained of the proposed
tel. Sarah Goss, aged 40, was charged with attempting to
W eommit suicide. increase of capital, but ultimately the report was adopted.
Daniel Collins, 203 S, said- About 1 on Tuesday morn- -
dm big be heard loud screams of murder in the Hawley-road,
, Sentish-town. On proceeding there he saw the prisoner WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)
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sitting in the road, and salted her what was the matter.
She was very excited and said she had no home. He SArcarar, AUGUST 25, 8 8.14.
ese told her she must stop her noise and go away. She L Extreme. 504,
,w 1 said she would go to her long hone and make a hole B. T.( W. lto ~.----..---, W. 1i Ito
iiii in the Thames. He followed her for some distance, and 12 XI D. it
.hit when he left her she rushed on the canal bridge tharn ' -
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to and threw herself over. He ran back and after throwing Abade.
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off his overcoat, belt, and lamp dived in after her. Leith
13. His first effort was unsuccessful, and on his coming Archaean 29 RR 61 a. 3 4 a. o 0.C6: 3
OW to the top of the water he saw through the darkness Ofeencaeta• 22.21 00! 21. E. 2 4 8.8. - ro 007! 1
'Ms the prisoner struggling at a distance of. The water at Valenta__ i 29.76611 &W 6 I as. W.
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rellia the place . was very deep, being between two locks. He Llvemool 130.01 68 && E. 3 3 &S. E. cm 0.2 2
se, a dived again, and, coming near the prisoner, he seised hold Holyhead . J 29.07.621 8.8 W. 4 2 8.8. W. co , 0.16 3
I nisi of the hair of her head. She struggled most violently pence es 8.8. E. 6 2 B.N W. ro -; 4
saw, whilst he was swimming with her to the side. When he Brest . lmee e3l 8. 5, 6 B.W. to I ! 4
ih is pt there a constable pulled her on to the towing-path.
uld,oncsn
heiori -.in 13:41, N.l.\.E. :1 : N. el, 1- 1 ;
F 2 He (Collins) was so exhausted that two gent emen .1 to
pop him on to the bank. The prisoner had been in St. Plymouth 130.06 64, S.S.K. 3, 2 8.8. K. fro I- I 2
Weymouth ,30.06 63 S. 1, 3 &W. c -1 1
soap Pancras infirmary up to the present time. Portsmouth "30.10 62 S.W. 2' 3 8 ff.& c 0.01 1
doe Prisoner said she was sorry. She had been upset for the London -
Ws het two weeks. She recollected nothing of the occur- 241mm:oil - 1
bass RIM& Scarborough 20.05 60 && W. I 1 1 I 8.8.6. t 0.08 1
411.4 Mr. Mansfield remanded the prisoner and commended 21% lets '30.04,M && 1212 as. 0- 2
the constable for his hnalanna H. Ur vntoo •nn the. 'Aaron eLeieer

N;. Mansfield remanded the prisoner and commended
the constable for his bravery. He wrote on the charge
sheet—" The °Meer behaved with great gallantry in sav-
ing the prisoner's life at the risk of his own. I award him
amu of 20s. With the permission of the commissioner, I
hope it may be received."

WORSHIP-STREET.
SINGULAR AM) PAINFUL CARR.

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George Francis Dap, of Norris-street, Horton, answered
• summons, requiring him to show cause why he should
not contribute to the support of • little boy, horn to him
by Caroline Hood, of 12, Clarence-terrace, Haggerstone.
The first hearing of this case was on the 21st of June
lost, before Mr. Ellison, and unavoidable circumstances
compelled its frequent adjournment.
Complainant swore that she was a married woman,
that ten years ago last December her husband left her
with four children, and that she had not seen or heard
anything of him from that period—that she had since
peen birth to two children, of which defendant was the
father, she having commenced living with him about a
twelvemonth after her huahand's desertion, passing by the
same of Caroline Day, and, together with her children,
being maintained by him. In June, 1863, however, they
separated, and she now sought to affiliate the last child
kern 31st July, 1860.
Mr. Ricketts, for the defendant, contended that com-
plainant, being a married woman, could not maintain a
cue of this kind, and pleaded not liable, and called one
George Syrtis, who swore that on the occasion of the
separation he obtained from defendant 61. for the com-
Plebunt, which he gave to her apparently as a parting
gift.
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A Mci. Taylor, on the other band, said that although
sub rank bad been received it was in fact but the moiety
c 4 a sum Mrs. Hood had saved by her exertions as •
needlewoman, in which work she excelled.
At one of these hearings a very respectably-dressed
ytth,about 17 years of age, came into court with the child
for whose affiliation an order was being sought, and with
tom in his eyes stated that since the previous adjourn.
meat his mother Mrs. Hood, had died of cholera—she onhar .
death-bedinformed him that his right name was
William Charles " Hood " and not " Day, •as up to that
moment be always had deemed it ; he had always called
TAY his father, and fully believed that Mr. Hood was
dead, his mother's death had of course greatly distressed
him, sad the child in question was thrown entirely on his
heads; he had supported the little fellow since her demise,
but his circumstances prevented his longer doing so.
Mr. Cooke, in dealing with the cue, said—l very much
regret that I cannot make the order sought for. Beyond
say doubt you are the father of the child. It is most un-
fortunate that the mother's sad death should
have occurred in the interim of taking out this
summon and that of the order being granted, for
bad it been made during her lifetime you would
assuredly have bad to pay, and even now on all principles
of justice and humanity you ought to support the child.
Defendant said that he was very sorry the matter had
been brought into court, and that he would give a shilling
yr two when he could, and left the court [Wowed by the
Youth with his young charge.

As
ArrscnoNkra Nircs.—The wife of s mer-
chant was walking a few days since in the Rue du
Faubourg-Saint-Antoine when a young girl about 13 threw
bersaH on her neck, exclaiming, " Oh, my dear aunt !"
The lady released herself from the embrace, telling the
child that she was mistaken. "Ah !" said the girl. in a
sorrowful tone, looking attentively at the lady, " I see I
haft made a mistake ! and she went away as if to hide
her confusion. Not long after the lady missed her purse,
and all at once the idea struck her that the child might
have taken it. She accordingly returned, and after eon-
'Mashie search discovered the child in a wine-shop with
her father and mother. They were all arrested, arid the
Parse was found on the mother.-oaZipaini.
It is rather curious that Brigham, a seafaring
town in South Devon, with a population of 7,000, should
ha without a resident attorney ; yet such is the case.—
Chalinalord Chronicle.