The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-04 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, TUESP EVECING;-SEPTEMBER

DREADFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.
(THIS DAY.)

SHARE LISTS.-.THIS DAY.

Two o'Cwcz

ELEVEN LIVES LOST.
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BUNCHEBTER, TIMIDAY.

There have been several variations to-day in the
market for British railway stocks. A fall of
about 1 per cent. has taken place since the
morning in Lancashire and Yorkshire, South
Eastern, and Berwick stocks. Most other de-
scriptions are fairly supported, at yesterday's
closing prices. London and North Western
stock is now quoted 1001 to 101, ex div. ; Great
Western, 71 to 1, ex div. ; Midland, 1251 to 1 ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1001 to 1101 ; South
Eastern, 87 to 1, ex div. ; Great Northern,ll4l
to 1151, ex div.; Caledonian, 04 to f; and Eastern
Counties, 541 to 1.
Lombardo-Venetian Railway shares are flat, at
11 to 1 dis. Indian and Canadian railway shares
are quiet, with little change in price.
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This morning two tmius of excursionists were
returning from Manchester to Burnley ; on as-
cending the incline to Haslingden, twelve carriages
broke from the first train, and ran beck into the
second. Eleven persons were killed, and nineteen
badly injured. Many were leas seriously hurt.

SHOCKING MURDER OF A YOUNG GIRL
NEAR PONTEFRACT.

(From the Leeds Mercury of this day.)
The usual Sabbath evening quietude and repose
of the inhabitants of the small but not unpicturesque village
of Upton, near Pontefract, were startled on Sunday evening
by the announcement that a dreadful tragedy had beam
perpetrated there, the victim being a girl of only fourteen
years of agc, and the suppoeed murderer her fellow-versant,
a youth of seventeen. but whose conduct has evinced an
amount of hardihood and wickedness, which we hope are
bat rarely found in one so young.
The vdlage of Upton is distant between five and six
Mild{ from Pontefract, and a mile fmtn the well•knovrn vil-
lage of Harlsworth. It is (milt upon somewhat raids(
ground, and consista principally of farm-houses, scattered
here and there, the population not exceeding more than
from 150 to •Ard persons. Vi.ton Farm, the mene of the
murder, is in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Spink, who,
however, has only resided there about twelve months. The
Lou,.. comprises a kitchen and two sitting rooms on the
ground floor sod three bedrooms above. Immediately be-
hind the kitchen, and about two yards to the right of the
beck door, is an outhouse used as a coal place, Am, and it
was here that the body of the to tmlered girl was discovered.
The common-red from Wakefield to Aakern, kr., skirts
the boo.. :.n.I the only buildings near are a number of
cottages, occupied by labourinr men.
Tle• general facts °onto-coal' with this horrible tragedy,
m for as they could be collected upon the spot, are these :—'l
On Sunday aft..runon, half-part 2 o clock, Mr. and
• Spink, who were but reerntly married, left hones to
visit some friends at Derringtou, a place four miles distant.
The house was left iu charge of the deceased, Elizabeth
Mitelo.ll, who was fourteen years of age, but whose height
and strength and fully developed appearance conveyed the
impres.on that she was much older. She had been in Mr. I
Spink's service since Martimuar last, her parents residing
it North Emma', a village about a mile and a half /nal
Upton. The only other perm, in the house was George
Thorpe, the farm servant who n accused of the murder.
He hag been is Mr. ttpint's IPOTVI,e since the latter end of
March last, his parents being also in humble life, and re-
siding at a place about eleven miles distant, called Fenwick,
near .takers. Thorpe, it i, said, was • lad of a sullen and
mores disposition. There appears to have been little con-
geni.dity between him and the deceased, notwithstanding
winch, we understand, it is alleged that he bad made ha-
proper overtures to the girl. How far this is true we are
unable to affirm, but the whole of the fact. upon which this
rumour is founded will no doubt be elicited at the inquest.
It appears that after Mr. sod Mrs. Spink had left home,
A mos Cookson, a young woman ethteen years of age, who
males near, joined the decease! and Thorpe, and continual
with them until about tire o'clock, when she returned home
to tea. During the afternoon some joking took place, in the
ernes .4 which Thorpe attempted to obtain poseemion of
• headslrees, which the girl Cookson bad on. This
displeased the deceased, who was not inclined to view
Thorpe's conduct over leniently, and she pulled hie hair
souls what severely. This seem* to have gristly annoyed
him, fax he relapsed into a state of sullenness, in which be
used language of a threatening character towards the de
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The murder most hare been committed shortly after eve
o'clock, although it seems sie;.ewhat siuulu that no alarm
would have bees heard by, or attracted the attention of,
those living near. Shortly before six oclock, however, after
having partakes et tea, Cookson returned to the house, and
wan horrified to find the deceased laid, apparently dead, in
the co &house. She immediately ran and gave an alarm.
Mr. Joseph Thorpe and several other person* were attracted
to the spot, sod the deceased, who wax found to be quite
dead, was removed into the house. Mr. Meson, surgeon,
Hffinsworth, was sent for, and he arrived, but his we-
enie were of no avail. The deceased, he discovered, had
been shot in the left side, near the spine, just below the
shoulder bone. Information of the murder was at once
given to Poliee•coustable Skelton, No. 2119, of the West
Semis Comitalsolary, stationed at South Emmett, who pro-
ceeded to 17ptoo, where he minainel all night, having
placed Thorpe under surveillance. Yesterday morn,
Skelton communicated the fact of the murder to Mr.
Supei:otendent Hall, 14 Pontefract, who was mimed
dui:us the day in the exunination of the premises Rod in
the effiloctiou of evidence, assisted by Detective lespector
Wetherell, from the central WaketiehL Col.
Coble, the chief constable, audt'apteln Williams else visited
Upton during the day.
The result of Mr. Mall's investigations was that be took
Thorpe into custody on the charge of niunler. I o the course
of the examinetion of the house. Mr. Hall found that • gun,
belonged to Mr. tipink, hut which had not been used
liv him since March last, bail evidently been fired recently.
This gun hail been removed from one of the sitting rooms,
coniiiiiinicating by a door with the kitchen in which the
deceawd sod Thorpe were sitting, but which the latter had
iso right to enter. Some shot and reps had also boon disturbed,
sod a por.ion of • cap which had been used, similar in size
and appeorauce, was found in the kitchen, as if it had
dropped from the nipple of the gun as the party who bed
used it was returning it Sothis plane from which he obtained
it. A poet itowiew exandnation of the body of the deceased
was also made yesterday, by Dr. Clark, of Aekworth, and
Mr. Ibeson, and we are informed that a large number ot
ahot, were extracted, which correspouded with those removed
from Mr. Stink's drawer.
The positron in which th, body was found favours the
sumeisitiou that after the departure of Annie Cooking,
aleeit five o'clock, the prisoner had quarrelled with the de-
esseed. mud lemur; possessed himself of the gun, she had
lessen.. alarmed by his threats, and had attempted
too taupe by rushims out of the hack door. Unfortunately,
slit wan not sufficiently rapid in her movements, and the
iminderer must have deliberately shot her in the back as she
was entering the cal house in her attempt to getaway from
him. The deceased on receiving the shut, had fallen upon
her face, her feet towards the door, upon which her brutal
murderer coolly left her, and quietly returned the instru-
ment of death to the place whence he has I obtained it.
Yeetenlay evening the prisoner was conveyed to the
Lockup at Pontefract, where tie will undergo a preliminary
tiallliUlltllll2 this dee, with the view of being remanded
to • future day. ho leaving the farm he lode some
et hj companions, who were aciembled, farewell, but
he appeared, nevertheless, somewhat dejected. He has,
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when he has uttered oaths and blasphemy. His father, a
respectable, hard•workiii.i nein, visited him yesterday, and
the poor old Mall 611111e11/01inea,ly heartbroken.
The inquest on the body of the unfortunate girl will be
toonorrus lWesfucielayi, before Mr. Marriott, of
ter, the coroner for the district.

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