The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-09 00:00:00

NANSLACONTIR ARLSOIOFROM ♦ RAILWAY COLLISION

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eserpe Toil" 26, wee charged with the manslaughter of
John Yam et Hull, ow the 24th of July last.
Tbs risme was an mese-driver in the service of the
North utter" Hallw Company, having occupied that
litanies fir upwards of two years previous to the disaster.
It war iplatatr shown on the trial that he had not obeyed a
dvakand stlippthis train. and that this was the mar of
the- 10- r..h 111 r. Yates owed his death.
Po the Moos it was urged that the permar had con-
ducted itlasalf with mead to the signals in a way white was
the halt sal asks of the rogimdrivers goriallzi=
though the aordant had happened, he could not be
sitol3 of sate Martel negligence rwould noir him
madasiglim The trent was under the charge of
C7v;d, sad as tits pitionir bad done everything in his
prim-
terap b, simipbs was more culpable than the driver.
The gamin Mergers" was clearly moved spew his own
ratimay, and tbelianted eownsel tenteoded that hems the
party who was Meters ofthe moldiest, if anybody at all, sad
thst he, end not the piteous', ought to be mods responsible
In a mat of justice.
The laarned Judge had just commuted summing up,
elm the kerma of the jury he sad his col-
Maims tad already rade up their Inds, end that they
would not trouble his lordship further. Their verdict wss
Gritty, with a recommendation to merry, on the good
that the artery company permitted their trains to be no-
mod In a loon and caroler way.
In rationing the primmer his lordship orerved that he
was tarry for him, but oonstdering the thousands of people
who travelled by railway, whose lives erre in danger by the
negligtmos of suginednvers, he felt It his duty to pews upon
him a were saatenr. However ha had already been
See maths In prim", and as the jury had reemonioded
▪ to aircy,the sentence of the court was that ha to
rebored du .6 months at hard labour.

NORTH WALES CIRCUIT.--Cinarza, Dec. 8.
(Before Mr. Him ChinaelL)
TRH DRAXHALL MURDER.
Hie lordship tea ids seat M 9.10, and bmiediately after-
wards the ease of Jesse Perrone Matkrows for the murder
of his fatherort Beindien, en the 30th Siderster, 1867, woo
celled ten. The prisoner is stard to be 33 years of age, is
thin, about medium height, and is by no mesas el utspre-
OL On the iadimment being read over to
ionibe iso=atilot Guilty" in an undertone voice.
Mr. any, Mr. Henan, and Mr. Horatio Lloyd ap-
peared on behalf of the prosecution; Seejeant Peery (spe-
cially retained) and Mr. Wlntyre fur the primmer.
The facts of the cam, as opened by Mr. Webby, were se
follows :
The demmesd, Jame* Henderson, • native of Scotland, was
• farmer at Hardy'. Form, to the township of Hirsnahall,
near He had occupied the farm since the Christ-
mos egillttand bad brought the farm to a Mate el ma-
eldership vation. At the time of his death be had lapoe
It • pod sink, Including, amongst *thee things, about 20
milking cows. lii. family minuted of his wife Jena lien-
demo, the prisoner at the bar, his eldest sou, who was em-
ployed at • cora factor's st Manchester, but cams heeled an
neon, to sleep ; another grown-up eon, • yonager
Doe wad Thomas, an unmarried daughter Jane,
• minted daughter who also lived In the hone,
Jeasy Ferlant • farm servant of the name el Shen
another farm mean of the name of Wood, two Truk
labourers named Dillon end Malucknay ; and • female 'le-
vant named Nancy Maluckney, the Mier of one of the Irish
labourers. The residence of the demand was a detached
farm-house, having in front a gad= and a lawn on the
south ride of the house, facing to • lane milled Hark-lane,
leading from Bestehen to Cheadle. There were on the
ground door • sitting room, front sad back kitchen, • store
room, • pantry, sad • dairy. Below the dairy is • cellar
which is entered from beneath the stairs; said outside the
pantry I. a Bight of stem leading *too too door within
which Is another light of steps !refine to the granary,
that not king accessible from within. On the bed-
room door are four bedrooms, two to the front and two
to the back, with a staircase, the landing of which is
between the two back bedrooms. The door of the
home chiefly used was the beck door, the front door
being very seldom used; and going in at the beck door,
you west op • short light of weirs to the bedroom door,
end then up mother light of stairs to the attics. The
frost room to the right, on ansoding The stairs, is the
me in which the deceased, James Badmen, sled. la
one of the back rooms slept the mother end the marred
daughter' Jeesy gralem, and ia the other slept the un-
married daughter Jane. Then, wending to the attic
storey, inn were two beds in one of the attic*, and in one
of them slept the other eon Thomas, over the room in which
his sister Jane slept, and fa the other bed slept the farm
servant Blues and lb. boy Wood. la the other attic, in •
bed placed upon the floor, slept Nancy Malockney,
the Trish female servant. In the granary slept
the two Irish labourers, their room bring to them
acceseiblo only from the outside. Oa Tuesday night,
the 29th of September, .11 these eleven persons were upon
the premises. James Henderson, the tether' wont to bed
between eight and nine o'clock. About the was time the
two Iris! men went to bed in the granary, sod also wawa-
where about the wee time, or perhaps a little earlier,
Sloan and the boy Wood want to bed. Nancy Malock-
nay went shortly after, and then there were lest up only
Mrs. Henderson, her daughter Jane, the prisoner James, end
his brother Thomas. Thom*, however, was not then at
home ; ha had left home Morn 7 o'clock in the enwing, and
did not retum until about 10 o'cleek. Thomas mot to led
so half-past eleven, then, therefore, leaving up the mother,
the unmarried daughter, and the primmer. About 12 o'clock
the mother mid daughter, Mrs. Headerem and Ism, went
to bed, having first jointl rem that all the doors were fast,
end particularly that the'back door—which was secured not
only by • lock, but by a large wooden bar placed across it,
end going Into a staple—was scene and that all the other
doors rod window, wen also enure. They wen to bed toge-
ther about 12 tided, leaving the prisoner the only person
up, who was welting in the sitting room. So, as far as we
can tell, matters remained until about two o'clock in than
owning d the 30th, when most of the inmates of the house
were alarmed by *report of• doter,.. And theist] of them
sgree that after • very short interval—aosee describe it
as being apparently about halls minute--they heard • second
discharge of nearing. They jumped from their beds ; ea*
out of their noms and at thewon timethe t the ter
ralied upon the lading on the II me of bedrulkom, wad
celled up the attic stairs to Ids brother Thome to get up, for
there were robbers in the nesse Acendingly, Thome and
Lean, the farm labourer, both got up, street • held, apedthe door, and were going dews the stairs—Thoreari first sod
the man servant following —when they waited am the stairs
while thu prisoner was India% a pm. The primer then
had • nags in his hoed white apparel as it it lid boo wt