The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-24 00:00:00

THE MURDER 11l NORTON-FoLO.I

Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Stone, accortp 'lli .1
by the ordinary of Newgate, the Rev. My
governor, and Mr. Under-Sheriff Davidson, th,.
went to the cell of the condemned prism..r, Ah.„,
Arthur Mackay, for the purpose ni sqn 14,
to him that the sentence passed 'upon li.:n w
be carried into effect on Tuesday morale;
September,• at 9 o'cloelr. The pri
only in hia nineteenth year, heard the
the greatest composure. and it did not app.., , „•
slightest effect upon him. This will be th.,
tion that has takon place since the panning .•
parliament for carrying out executions ,
within the walls of the prisons, and all th.:
rangementa have been made for carrying n.r ,•
in :conformity with the law. 'The
place in one of the yards of the goal of
cell where the culprit is confuted, andthe
a level with the pavement, and the (Ir.!, w,,l 1.
excavated underneath. The jury. it will ls.• •.,.1
recommended the culprit to mercy, and
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tion will, of course, be forwarded to ,r
State, but, having regard to the artgrseite.l
the crime and the opinion entertained by M issb .•
Lush respecting it, it is not believed that th.•
dation to mercy will have any effect. It hit
stated that the prisoner was apprebend.•l Med.
stone gaol, where he had been r•inem!bst
two months to hard labour for s•r., .
offence, and that his apprehension arose teem us b,
warders fancying he observed his resemblatve t I 14,4.
tograph that bad been sent to the prison. It
however, that the detection mainly arose insu .b..,
meats made by the prisoner to some of hit ...saps:eau.
in the prison, and that he confided to elle 'tom
the dreadful secret that he was the MIL
Escaped after murdering his mistress
gate. It will be recollected that the pn,uu
at large for a very considerable period
commission of the offence, and the polio tali c..l ?hit It,.
had succeeded in getting on board a vessel, ;ILI that h •
had left the country ; and but for the communvit, RI r•.
ferred to, it appears to be very probable that b.• s
have succeeded in eluding detection. The pri.,w•r
some relations in Loudon, and his father is stir.; e 4
a very respectable position; but he had nut
by any of his friends since his conviction.

THRILARQCISox HAMILTON 171,0 x 77U. L.l ri,

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The Marquis of Hamilton, one of di.,
in the late accident at Abergele, has written the
letter to the Times:—as Sir,—An account of the i• t: tal
accident which befell the Irish mail yesterday teen
who was a passenger in the ill-fated train and a wits •-•
of the catastrophe spay not be uninteresting. Wt• h
left Abergele about a mile and a half, and were about th
same distance from the Llanddulas station. when w •
were startled by a collision and shuck white
though not very severe, were sufficient to thr ist
every one against his opposite neighbour. I tat.
methxtely jumped out of the carriage, when a fe
ful sight met my view. Already the whole of
three passenger carnages in front of ours, the cans, na
the engine, were enveloped in dense sheets of flame a:
smoke, fully 20 feet high, and spreading out in every di.
rection ; it was the work of an instant. No words ca•
convey the instantaneous nature of the explioiou and
flagration. I had actually got out almost before the sh • s
of the collision was over, and this was the speetaele wit
already presented itself. Not a sound, not is scream, 1.
struggle to escape, or &movement of auy sort WA, app , • a•
in the doomed carnaHges. It was as though an elect,
had at once paralysed and strickeu everyone of thetr .•
pants. So complete was the absence of any ••
living or struggling life in them that, as soon a- th., to •
sengers from the other parts of the train w,r in - •
degree recovered from their first shod- and con.cescot. •..
it was imagined that the burning carriages were .1,•••::: .•
of passengers; a hope Noon changed auto f slum
horror when their contents of charred :eel eue date I , -
mains were discovered about an hour att. rwark. F:-...,
the extent, however, of the flame-, ti, • . 1 sine-
of the conflagration, and the alien •,, : civ
power to extricate themselves. no hunts • I w.c.!,
have been of any assistance to the
all probability, were instantaneously sat}' •.•
taw block and tetid smoke peculiar to paraffin. wit'..' I
in volumes about and around the spreading thine•. I
soon as I had in some degree realised the situation c.
placed my family in safety, I ran with all possible sp.
for a considerable distance on the down tine to stop
Irish mail, which was expected on the up hoe lc..
found that this had already been done. I belles-
Llanddulas station, where, possibly, they had ii.ll PW:•• I.; •
of the escape of the waggons which eaused rho t'.-
mity. On my return I found some of the female pa -air.
collected in a neighbouring field, out of re..!. ~t th •
dreaded explosion of the engine boilers, from is a.
ever,the engine-driverhadhadthe prosenee ofttut, I
off the steam before be jumped off it. The niece psoett-
gers were assisting in every possible way: Sear e••
being princilally directed to saving the mails and 1..•
ing carriages from the burning mass., and it was :AI ...I•
paring notes with each other that the fearful esise
lore of life was realised, and that the task of r ira:a
the blackened and charred remains from the burn:,.;
riagee began. I saw 11 bodies, if such they could be .
removed and carefully wrapped up sheets. Itey
the knowledge that poor Lord and Lady snit Ili
were in these carriages, there was nothing t....le..gitize
them individually, except a watch with Lord I and. on •
crest and coronet. Various other watch.-+. hll [l.",
rings, and jewellery were picked up and • •. 11
of by the police. ppolice. eountrlr kind Peisufferers by the collision. Meet of the wean',
happy to say, were but slight, chiefly tenth:lieu, an I et,•
about the head. After a delay of six hours the mat! tr..
very7l thie'eir waht°t, jIY
large numbers,
again started ou its journey to Holyhead, thegtvoi.:
figures and remnants of what so few hoursls:tor..l,.l
been our fellow-passengers still remaining in stir r"
and temporary boxes where the accident We:M.,:
The accident happened from carelessness, which .nr
the highest degree of culpability upon these conceal-
it. Some waggons, at the extreme end of whit
one or more laden with paraffin oil in casks, It ..•
allowed to esca down the line at the rate et tiie.
miles an hour on the same line of rails up which
Irish mail was proceeding at about an equal p
collision which ensued, arid which was quite ut, iv...
able by the engine-driver, threw the engine of the
train off the rails, and no doubt the escape of the titri•
from the broken barrel's, and its contaet Wit:: •.•
tires of the engine, as well as the c. •
itself, formed the continuous stream e:
which enveloped the whole fore part of the r:
That an engine of mischief so potent as paraffin
be placed without any exceptional protection at the to!
luggage train subject to any shock or collision which m
befall it, and which alone of itself might cause its esiil o:•:1•
is culpable remissness in itself ; but that by carele...te
the waggons should be allowed to detach thenasele-ot.t
an incline, and carry death to every living thing.oleat
ing them, is a most serious aggravation of the evil.
some powerful restrictions are put upon the po,tbilr t..,1
such contingencies, travellers by railway will hate
ithrmutarenthtaemneos.
tothemselves
dreaofth a
inevitablethe
,
to which the cc i Ire
perils of a collision by comparison appear mild tar ".!,
important.—l have the honour to be, sir. plur .
eel rant, •• lisn:•
" Viceregal Lodge, August 21."
danger

Captain Edwards, one of the pas.engor4
together with his son lost his life in the late riiiirsr
catastrophe, was a brother of Sir Henry Edward+, N. P
Sir Henry went on Saturday to the scene of the colli,g•Ni
and identified the remains of the bodies of his brother
nephew by the rings and other jewellery they wer.•
westing.
THE OrARD OF TUE FATED IRISH 111 tn.
Taanr.—Yesterday, the Rev. C. Phillips. incumbent of
St. Matthew's, Oakley-square, Camden-town, in th,
courre of his sermon, alluded to the late terrible milwir
catastrophe, ands poke in most feeling terms of the death
of the guard Smith, who, with his wife and eight vino.
children, had lived in the neighbourhood. The rev
gentleman spoke of the deceased as having 'wen a tes.
respectable and exemplary man, and a regular moinbe:
of his congregation, haring been present amongst Om.
the Sunday preceding the accident. So enlisted wer"
~sta shed

tat, !Ind one at ;11:etheetkupatteispierdu:0 stlghtae lomat,
of them
shed
ZS gmaa. tears.
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