The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-04 00:00:00

LICHFIELD RACES.-TUMWAY.

THE. COPT LAND HANDICAP of 5 nova. each, 1 ft, with 2.5
added. (lee mile.

Mr. T. Wrinfil's Twinkle. 3 yrs, Cat Mb
Mr. T. Wiltliew's Molers, 3 yrs, est 71b
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THE CHAMPAGNE STAIM of 5 sows. each, with 50 added,
for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; Mks, 13st 71b ; winners, fie.,
extra. Half-a-mile.
lord IT‘tirldire's Master.lrenton
Lord Stamford's &made! Leo
Six rao.

THE. STA rTORDMHIRE STALLS of 100 SOTS. added to
a haudimp sweepstakes of 10 son. 'lab, 5 ft, and 2 only if
declared ; winners extra, lee. One mile and a halt.
Lord A. Paget nd It an. at-Arena, 4 yrs. sat 3113 1
Mr. Markley's Wymatay, 3 yn, 7st lit
Earl Westmoreland ad Coronet, 6 yes, Sat alb 3
Six ran.

BETTING AT MANCHEETER.—TDANDAY.
STOCKTON HANDICAP.
6 to 4 apt Lad y Troops., (0
3 to 1 Avalanche (t)
5 to 1 Any other (off )
ST. LEGER.
7 to 4 apt Kettledrum (t)
Sto 1 Lady Ripon (t)
9to 1 Hartman (t)
19 to 1 Janus (t)
12 to 1 Aurelian (t)
20 to 1 Calor Ou (0

DISTERMINED SOICIDI ON A RAILWAY.—On
Monday afternoon an inquest was held at the Manor House,
Beeston, by Mr. Blackburn, touching the death of Robert
Blacker Chadwick, 22 years of age, a blacksmith, who
resided at Fernley, and who destroyed himself on Friday
afternoon under very melancholy circumstances. It ap-
I petred that he lodged with a man named Nicholson, coach-
man to Miss Payson, and they had dined together about
noon on Friday. He then returned to los work, ap-
parently all right, though be had not been in perfect
health for some days. On the previous Monday he
Lad a severs fit, and tears were entertained that he would
not recover, but after a time be rallied. He left his work
on Friday a little after three o'clock, and shortly before five
o'clock he wee men sitting in the Lure leather; from Faro-
icy to Middleton, near which the Bradford, Wakefield. and
Leeds railway passes. /le then appeared quite semible.
Aleut a quarter pest five a passenger train from Wakefield
was seen approaching, and the deceased ran towards it
across a corn field, and thus reached the embankment of the
line, walked cautiously down the embankment, and in the
opinion of both the engine-driver, the stoker, and the
guard, deliberately threw himself in front of the train, with
the intention of committing suicide. The deceased
immediately afterwards was taken up from the
bottom of the embankment, quite dead. bin bead
being fractured and his body frightfully mutilated. It
was proved that the engine.driver whistled to warn the
deceased, and that, had be wished it, be might have escaped
from danger. Nicholson, with whom he lodged, said he
had no idea that the deceased bad destroyed himself, and
suggested that be had been going to visit a sister who re-
sides at Middleton, and that in crossing the railway be had
accidentally fallen, end thus been run over by the train.
Joseph Jackson, of Morley. the uncle of deceased's father,
proved that the family was subject to mental derangement.
His uncle was in an asylum, and his aunt destroyed her-
self, but he (witness) never heard that the deceased showed
any signs of insanity. The jury were of opinion that the
deceased deliberately threw himself upon the line and
thereby killed himaelf but that there was no evidence as to
the state of has mind, and a verdict to that effect was
returned.—Leeds Mercury.