The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-18 00:00:00

lETIAORDIFAHY DEATH OP A BOY AND
ARREST OP HIS PATHILE.-(THIS DAY.)

This morning a man who gave the name of
Richard William Weoloatt, and described himself as •
eshinot maker rambling at Horton was apprehended by
the polies and take. to the
ceasedton gooliosataties,
reargsel en snapkdoia of havingthe death of his son
Thomas George Woolson, by drowning him in the Regent's
Oasal, ow Tuesday night.
The fasts are said be he se follow :—On Tuesday night,
between 8 and 9 o'clock, a boy of the name of John
Pritchard was =ring the beaks of the Regent's
°anal, near the Branch-bridge, when he saw the
man in custody kneeling by the side of the trate ,
bat what he was about he could not tell. The Ix;
*eked him if he was drowning a dog, when be
said, " No, was not ; his little boy was in the water."
At that moment the boy saw the hear of some one in the
water, and be saw that the person was alive, and big fus-
ers were moving as if attempting to swim. Both the man
in custody and the boy tried to get the body
out of the water, and whilst so engaged the
inns in custody dropped some sugar out of his
pocket. This he picked up, sad whilst doing so the body
sunk sad did sot rise again. At that time the men had a
pair of slippers in his hands, which he stated belonged to
Ids boy in the water. In an after conversation, the man
said that be had seat his child for some sugar more thee
two hours before, and that finding ha did not return home
he went to look for him, and found him on the towing.
path. Whilst walking under the bridge the boy ftll
into the water and his slippers fell off. The boy,
seeing Sergeant Stammers, 4 N, on the bridge, told
him what be bad seen, and the prisoner wail niterwards taken by him to the polioeutation, and when the
(keno was reed over to him by Police-sergeant Junes
33 N, he said, " I did not cause his death." on
king placed in the cell, the prisoner said, " I hope nutting
salons will take place, as I am innocent." lie after.
wards said, " This affair m' ht torn out very serious yet
I moan the affair of my boy drowned."
I All last night the camel was but no success
attended the efforts of the police until this morning, when
the body of the child was found near the New North.
road bridge, only a few yards from the spot pointed out
by the boy as the place where he first eaw the man in
custody leaning over the water.
The body was examined by Dr. Buckle, of Upper.
street, Islington, and be found no external marks of
violenoe, but as to the cause of death be could not state,
as he bad not made a post mortem examination.
The affair has caused a great deal of excitement is the
neighbourhood. The prisoner will, it is understood, be
examined at Worship-street this afternoon.

FATAL CAB ACCIDENT IN CH!SWELL•STREET

An inquiry was held by Mr. W. J. Payne, deputy
coroner, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, last evening, re-
specting the death of William Knight, aged 42 year.
Mrs. Charlotte Knight, 124, City-road, widow of the de-
ceased, said thatherbusband was &hairdresser. On Wednes-
day last he went out to take a walk after having recovered
from a serious fit of illness which had kept him at horse
for five months. Afterwards she saw him in the hospital,
and be mid that he bad been knocked down by a haws
cab in Chiswell-street. His ribs were broken, and be crawled
on to the pavement. Two men then carried Aim to a
chemist's shop in Finsbury-square. The chemist said, "In
the dirty state that you are in, you ought not to have come
into my shop. You have dirtied my chairs." He was
then island lying on the floor of the shop. A cab woe
sent for, and he was removed to the hospital. Witness
did not know the name of the chemist. Her husband was
in great pain.
John Morgan, 12, Union-street, Shoreditch, said that oe
the evening in question be saw a great number of people
crossing the end of Chiswell-street, near Finsbury-square,
The deceased was in the middle of the road when a ban.
som cab came round the corner at the rate of six miles
an hour and knocked him down. The cab was coming
from the City-road, when the deceased was struck by the
hone. He was dragged along the road by the wheel. The
cabman pulled up as quickly as he could. Two men then
picked the deceased up and took him into a chemist's shop.
Nobody took the number of the cab.
Mary S. Smith, 5, Hollywell-lane, said that after the
cabman drove off the deceased was carried into the the
mist's shop, and when he was going to sit down on a
chair, the chemist said, " Don't, for you will make it is
• mess." The men put the deceased on the floor, and the
chemist said, " It's an hospital case. It have nothing to
do with it." A cab was then sent for, and the deceased
was carried to St. Bartholomew's. Witness was present at
the time. The ooroner's officer said that one chemist is
Finsbury-square denied that anyone came into his shop on
the evening in question.
Mr. Waters, house-surgeon, said that the demised died
on Monday from shook to the system, caused by the
breaking of Az of his ribs.
The coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death
through being run over by • hansom sob."

THE TODMORDIN TRAGEDY.

FUNERAL OF THE REV. A. J. PLOW.

The funeral of the Rev. Anthony John Plow,
8.A., vicar of Todmorden, and his infant child (says the
Lads Illetrerry) took place yesterday morning at the pariah
church. The weather was very boisterous, showers of hall
and rain falling. Notwithstanding, many hundreds of per.
sons aseambled in the churchyard and the roads adjoining.
The funeral was fixed to take place at 10 o'clock. Leo(
before that hour persons began to assemble both in the
vicinity of the church and in the church, which wad
crowded. The choir was augmented by members of the
Rochdale parish church choir. They met in the school,
and shortly after 10 o'clock marched to the church,
headed by the churchwardens. At the same time the
corpse of the departed gentleman was borne from the
vicarage on the shoulders of four men. The coffin wu of
oak, and was covered by a of peach, ornamented with
yellow and scarlet. the corpse was a number of
clergymen of the district an adjacent towns, all in sue.
phase, and three clergymen walked on each side of the
bier. The body of the infant was carried by four boys of
the choir in surplices, and came just after that of
the rev. gentleman. Following the bodies were the
mourners, embracing representatives of the familia
of both Mr. and Mrs. Plow. After these came a
long procession of teachers and scholars of the Sunday
schools, and many of the congregation. We noticed also
in the procession some of the dissenting ministers of the
town, and in the church were many clergy and dissenting
ministers who did not join in the procession. At the
church gates the mournful procession was met by the
officiating ministers and the choir. The Rev. Ralph
Blakelock, curate, read the opening portions of the burial
service, end then the choir sang, "Brief life is here our
portion." The coffins were borne to the front of the coin.
amnion table, and there reeled, while the service was cost-
tinned. The choir chanted the 90th Psalm, and the Rev.
Dr. Molesworth, vicar of Rochdale, read the lesson. The
choir then sang the hymn commencing, " Brother rest,
thy toils are over," after which the sacrament of the
Lord's supper was administered to the cler"y and
mourners. The Rev. Mr. Page, of Liverpool, and the Rev.
H. A. Plow (father of the deceased gentleman) officiated.
The coffins were afterwards borne to the grave. Mr. W.
Greenwood presided at the organ, and while the
sloe was leaving the church played "The Dead 41Zr"
At the grave side the service wee conducted by the Rev.
Mr. Page and others. The hymn, "Jesus lives ;no longer
now," concluded the service. While the mourners were
standing round the grave, a pitiless shower of hail and
rain came on, and but few heard the prayers, owing to the
noise made by the hailstones falling on the hundreds of
umbrellas. The number of persons assembled to witness
the funeral was very 19 end must have been con.
alterably over 2,000. The of the surrounding
perishes, as we have before =, mustered in large
numbers to show their respect for the departedclergymes
there were some thirty of them took part in the prooesnon
and service. As a mark of respect for Mr. Plow, the
tradesman*, the town agreed to close their shops from
10 to 12 o'clock. There was a strong force of Lancashire
end Yorkshire pollee-odicors prevent. The vault is at the
east end of the church, near the place where the young
woman was buried who was murdered the same night that
Mr. Plow received the *arias which caused his death.
Mrs. Plow is mach better, and was able to leave her bed
yesterday monde,.