Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-25 00:00:00

affluence, was reduced to positive embarraisment,

obliged very considerably to retrench in
and he might observe to the jury that
e mind—such as his was—the loss of posi-

deed he
his expenditm

tion was as severe as the loss of fortune itself. In this
state of things he felt himself exposed as a delinquent
by the act of the directors, although he had committed
no fault. He had waited to the present time, until the
five years for which the appointment was made had

expired; and now he so
company for the course wt
him.

lit compensation from ti
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Mr. Thomas Daniells, late manager to the Phcenix injured. The two men were firemen of the pit,
Company, was then called by the plaintiff, and examined and were descending the shaft, in order to make
by him. He said : I recollect you entering upon the their usual daily examination of the works pre-
duties of chairman of the Phoenix Company, in Novem- vious to the men commencing labour, when the cage
ber, 1853. The business of the company was then in a in which they were suddenly stopped, at a distance of
transition state. I recollect some business on behalf of about twenty-five yards from the bottom, having met
the company coming up from Cheltenham at this with some obstacle in its progress, as the engine still
period. continued working lowering the rope, which dropped
The plaintiff, at this point, proposed to put in the into the cage. Either just after or just before the
deed of agreement between himself and the defendants; unwinding of the rope was completed, the cage fell t 9
but it was objected that it was not stamped, where- the bottom of the shaft, killing Knight on the spot, and
upon the plaintiff at once handed £lO, the sum requi- most seriously injuring Valentine,
site to legalise the document, and also. a further sum of COLLISION ON THE LANCASTER AND PRESTON RAIL-
one guinea, to the clerk of the court, as his fee. The WAY.—About a quarter before six o'clock on Tuesday
deed was then received and read, and put in evidence. morning, a collision took place at the Maudiand Sta-
Examination continued.—l recollect you being dis- tion, Preston, on the Lancaster and Preston Railway.
missed from the service of the company. It was by a An engine belonging to the Lancashire and Yorkshire
resolution of the board. [The minute-book of the con- Railway Company, which had brought a luggage train
pany was here Noduced, containing a minute of the from Manchester that morning, was running out
directors, authorising payment of £5OO to the plaintiff of the Maudland Station, and was brought to cross
to open an account at Cheltenham.] This was dated the the Lancaster and Preston line of rails, which, at this
21st of November, 1853. Several other minutes and point, intersects the rails leading to the above-I:aimed
exti ' the directors station, when a goods train from the north came_up at

racts of resolutions from the books
were also read; and one dated the 19th of June, 1854, a rather rapid rate. Before the. Lancashire and
to the effect, that Mr. John Lea having failed shire Railway Company's engine could clear. the
to bring . the amount of business to the corn- line, the engine was struck by. that. of the h
pany which he had represented he would be train, and thrown completely on its side across
.enabled to do at the time when the engagement with and down line of rails, the force of the ci
him. was entered into, and that, in consequence of his causing the other engine to mount on the top
having misapplied the sum of £5OO, and other sums of prostrate one. There is a signal where the. -
money which he had received for the purposes of the took place, but we understand that the drive
company, he be requested at once to resign the office of Lancashire and Yorkshire Company'- ---
chairman and director of the company, or otherwise was not tur
proceedings would at once be taken against him for the one was in

!eilision

ured, as the men in charge of each

recovery of the money which had been advanced to him, leaped off the tenders a few seconds before the collision.
Cross-examined by Mr. Wilde, Q.C.—The business of Several rails were displaced, and the line was not suffi-
the office was not materially increased after Mr. Lea's ciently cleared to allow of uninterrupted ti gic. gutil
appointment, rlaintitr executed the deed on the 16th after ten o'clock in the forenoon.