Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT

ON TUN

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW

- RAILWAY.
•
(From the Glasgow Bulletin.)
This (Tuesday) forenoon a lamentable accident occurred
on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, by which a stoker
was killed, and an engine-driver and several passengers

or less injured. It appears that the 825 express
from Glasgow, when about a mile and a half on this side of
Greenhill Junction; ran off the rails, crossed over those on
the down side and, fell over the embankment; carrying the
telegraph wires along with it. Only the barest account of
the accident has reached town, but the death of the stoker

at least has been ascertained

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LOSS OF H.M.S. HERON.
We are favoured by the Secretary of the Admiralty with

the following report of this unfortunate occurrence

(Copy.)

REPORT OP MR. R. MINDRY, GUNNED

H.M.S. Victory, Portsmouth, June 10, 1859

Sir,—Being the only surviving officer from the wreck of
her Majesty's brig Heron, I have the honour to report, for
the information of the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, my proceedings immediately before the wreck,
and until my arrival on board this ship. On Sunday, the

Bth of May:l had the first watch (from 8- to 12 p.m.)

nine 0'

Del the captain left his order-

as follows

Course

book with me ; it ran

by N. Shorten sail on any

midn,

Ulit I was

appearance of a squall and call m
relieved by Lieut. Porter, of the Trident, who was taking
%
passage, and doing duty —the ship at the time was under
topgallant sails
mainsail, and jibs goin
five the following morning of t

single-reefed • top sails, courses, boom

g 1.8 ; a. fine starlight n

)th 1 wa

'my bed, against the main ladder. I rushed on deck, caught
a rope which had fallen to leeward, and succeeded in
getting on the ship's bottom, where I found a number of
men. I immediately called for a knife, and Samuel Hands-

cut away the f

3oat, the ship then sun

but not

ca into the

THE MURDER AT
WEST BROMWICH.

The - inquest was held on Monday afternoon at the Stone
Cross Inn, before Mr. G. 11. Hinchliffe, coroner. Mr.
Watsonrsolicitor, appeared to watch the case on behalf o
the murderer, who was present in castody. The first
witness was Win. Partoun, the milkman, who lived near
the Old House at Homo, at Tame Bridge-cottage. Ho
deposed that as he drew near the house, at about 8 o'clock
on Saturdaymorning, he heard a noise as of one person beat-
ing another with a stick.- At the door he overheard
the deceased say, " I would rather do the work myself
than she should stay." When be got into. the house he saw
the servant girl in the back kitchen, the deceased and

n. lie we

the prisoner being in the kite,— . ,iicering the house
when he saw- the deceased running out of it, with a child
in her arms, and bleeding profusely from the throat, through
which -he saw that a knife had been thrust. I t was a large
knife, and was driven into her throat from the left side,
and was up to the hilt within about two inches. Did not
perc3ive the point at the other side of the throat. Prisoner
followed the deceased out., and the
,next thing witness
perceived was prisoner carrying her in and laying her upon
the settle, and then getting a napkin and attempting to
stop the blood. Prisoner seemed much distressed, and
delay had been manifested in sending for

alter some

1, said, Will nobody go for a doctor ?"
Wit-
wss heard the servant say to the prisoner, •"I told you
_t would come to something some day." Prisoner
replied either "I did not mean to hurt you," or " I did not
mean to do it." Sarah Ann Griffith, the servant., deposed
that on the morning in question. the quarrel of the previous
day was resumed by deceased telling .prisoner that he must
get his breakfast as she had got hers the previous day.
Afterwards prisoner flogged her with a whip. Subsequently
she said, that this was the first time that he had beaten her,
and it should be th'e' last, and seemed, about to leave the
house. Deceased pas,ed through the hack kitchen, but
returned with the baby in one hand and shaking the fist of
her other hand, and went into the kitchen. Witness did not see
1, but saw the prisonertrvinm to stop the

a surg

cries jn

flowing .of the blood. Deceased was, very provoking in her
manner on Saturday, as on Friday. Mr. W. Kite, surgeon,
.deposed that after a post-mortem examination of the body,
he had come to the conclusion that death had arisen,
first, from loss of blood, and next from suffocation, whidt
had been occasioned by the wound in the throat, s punctured
wound, extending from the left to the right side, and
meeting in the middle... Such a wound might have been

sultation, the" jury • returned a verdict of
laiiist the prisoner, who, during the
med t

e investi2:ation,

Itertain a full