The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-01-13 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, .c.

Thsrirestxa Acettsgar.--I.aat week, whilst a number of
workmen and others were standing on the ride of the railway, op-
posite Catrougate, looking at a dog-fight, three waggons, chained
together, and loaded with Ironstone, came along with considerable
velocity ; the road at that place having a declivity, and it being
impossible at the moment to stop them, the driver called out to the
crowd to make way • the confusion, however, made a young man,
instead of getting oir the marl, run &emu to the other side, In do-
ing which the horse trampled him down, and dragged the first and
second waggons '.ver hint, but the third Was stopped by his body,
and the alarm being given, it was attempted to get him out, but
he was en completely wedged under the dreadful pressure, that it
was necessary to unload the waggon ere it could be done, when it
ind that r his - k his had been bent

aunt; an..
the servant= .. , Alf LIP was lout., -oat its he lay on his -back . legs ~t over
Sikhs he saw him standing at the door with a whip in hi* hand t hint, until his feet ware turced down upon his face, crushing in se-
he said." Am you going is pay me for toy stores ?" He told hint rend of his ribs upon his lungs, from which the air escaped, in-
be did not recollect him, but that if he would call next day he Hating the skin of the chest ! A surgeon having been seas got,
%aid arrange the business; he remained in the street creating a attempted in vain to bleed him, and after linger g for about half
itdisturbance. Winne. then went out for the purpose of giving an hour, he expired. We understand the unfortunate man bas '
In charge, upon which he struck him several blows in the face left a widow end acveral infients.—Gkreemer Herald.
bidi his fist, and also with the horse-whip. lie then gave him in 3l el. A SCIIO Lir Eve ,T.—last week an interesting girl, of
&Mtge to an officer. about tour yearn of age, at Falkirk, having gone too near the fire
' !Ain Am.?? said, if the Jury did not require it, he would call in the absence of her niother, her clothes caught the flames, and '
MI more Whimsies. ' ere the neighbours heard her screams, was so dreadfully bunted
"rte Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty against Wilson, and that she expired en the following Saturday. Her face, neck,
gMky against Raker. and antis, were literally roasted hard and black like a cinder !
`‘e Conn? ordered him to psy a fine of H. to the King. Seidel Paper.
• ••'lrithelrt Wilco:and Clark: Andreae:stood indicted for assault- fl earn it E. c TIoW MF. N . —On Monday week, Mr. Iledley, of
leg James Hope. Rurleighitreet, Sunderland, whose daughter, aged ten years had
The prosecutor stated, that Wilcox was the landlord of the been buried on Christuiss Eve, wishing to remove the body to
Clown mad Anchor public-house, in Someni-town. On the even- another and what he conceived a more eligible part of the thumb-
ing of the 29th December he went into the parlour, and called yard, found the coffin empty, and, on father examination, it was
lira pint of pewter. Whilst he was sitting there. Wilcox came discovered that the body of an infant, two years old, which had
aleilditl sat bylthn with his pipe, and puffed the smoke in his face; been buried at the same time, and nearly on the saint spot, had
desired him to desist, but he only increased the insult. He been also removed. Suspicion immediately attached to two string.
t,
got up and spotlit° Andrews, who was sitting opposite; en, and one of them was apprehended that afternoon. It was not
which Andrews went out, and again returned with a pint till he was threatened with being handed over to the infuriated pot
containing filth, which be threw in his face, and rata away. palace for summary punishment, that he would acknowledge where
rem followed, and Andrews knocked him down, and Wilcox he lodged, and on arriving there, his accomplice was also secured.
Meese that lie would kill him. Mn. Medley's child was found in the corner of the room, covered
"'CNA, A MAN—Have ynn nay witness to prove that Wilcox torn- with straw, but carefully packed up, and addressed to 3lr. James
mlllted any assault ?—1 have not. Jamieson, Leith-street, Edinburgh. 0.1 Tuesday morning they
' 'CNA! It PIA N.—Then Wilcox must be acquitted. were taken before the 31a stratus, and after a careful investigation,
ir,switeas was thee desired to leave the bier; and was called by the committed to Durham jail. floe of them represents himself to be
Wier defendant as a witness. He SiliWO positively no assault was Thos. Thomson, of Dundee, and the other John IVetherley, of
berownitted on the complainant. Renfrew, but there is reason to suppose that the latter, if not both,
."Two other witnesees, who were in the parlour, declare.] that no of these sautes, ; it ..;
is
..ctmous—Nitecustle Courant.
11th was thrown over him, and they would swear must positively Tuesday afternoon, about five o'clock, a female was observed to
'Mr was not snuck stall. cast herself headlong into the Union Canal. Instant alarm was
• ".4The Cil A ERMAN said, there must be a mistake on the part of the, given by two girls, spectators of the awful cireminetance; and, not-
iyasintiff,' and the defendant must be discharged. withstanding that iminedizte aid was procured, and she bad been
lie was forthwith discharged. scarcely three minutes in the water, the vital spark was extinct
, before she was dragged to the bank of the Canal. The body, we
• i pine APE or Co P: T ICTS ?ROTA Tti it Hue II s.—Ott Fri- understand, has been claimed by her relationc—Cakdenho, Met.-
- slip last, John Spencer, aged 29, and James lksekwith, 26, con- eery.
!Urged to escape from the Illanymede hulk at Chatham. Spencer Sunda.: Wright, during Divine Service in the afternoon, ten of
heel convicted at Mulford, Lincolnshire, in January 11122, and the convicts under RelitCllCC of transportation in the jail of this
terkwith at Bradfovd, Yorkshire, in the July of the preceding city, endeavoured to etlect their escape, by breaking through one
ygpt, and each were eenteneed to seven years transportation. On of the walls of the day apartment in which they were enabled,
:10,1 same liar Charles Elliott, John Dickinson, "has Benjamin end afterwards opening a connuuttiestion with the outer yard by
'bottle, and Wm. Ash, also convict., effected their escape from the common sewer. Having accomplished this object, stud even
'the Ethaliaa, at Woolwich. Elliott was convicted for highway cut the ba' of the grating in the sewer, they returned to their
'rubbery .at the Old Bailey Seesiona, the min February 1819, as apartment, and both up and plaistered, with the greatest slid, the
was also tiuttle fee a similar offence on the 34 July, Ine2, and both break which they had made in the wall. While waiting • favour-
. ere tramilmeted for life. Ash was also tried at the Old Haile), able moment to carry into effect their scheme of getting into the
14th January inn, when he was irentenerd to seven years tram, outer court, and overpowering the door-keeper, they were all seized
inentdon. Infrwmation was yesterday recrind at each of the Po- sad placed labor. Their operations had not escaped the vigt-
See ()dices, with an accurate deseriptten of the men. lance of the servants of the jail; and such measures were taken as
' . elf kliEllll. HOAl.—Some days ago Mr. Pagan, of Fen- must have prevented even a chance of these ruffians of xeing their
gliteh-street, Landon, received a letter, bearing the Edinburgh escape. -Edinburgh Paper.
purporting us be written at the request of his brother, On the &Menu's'', of 'Thursday, a man, who had been indulging
alien within a likOri distance of tkeScriab metropolis, who was ten freely in spirituous liquors, was found lying dead in the (fans-
Mr described by the writer to be at the point of deattllt, and en- maket, hie death having been canoed by excersive intnzieation.
'bilking Mr. ramin nitre off ouverpt of the lettev, if mediae, 1 The same day a woman in Diekson's clear, in a drunken teensy,
ti arrange his allidnt. Mr. Fagan made instantrarangements, and hanged herself in herrn house, where she was found lifeless by
int off the following morn); (mete other side of the Tweed. 'De- ! her neighbourc—f :taken, IfFrold.
tutus of Trigging every pride coneolatiou tit the last IWfilefitl : An 'metope at micelle saw committed yesterday morning, by Mr.
Wit beloved blether, be never nested until set down at the dr, !C. Waters, the landlord of the Tuna public.hinise, in BMA-
"oh we. to hie ingrate weeder, be !emitted that his bret so far street, Holborn, who cut his throat wither tram, whilst in bed; a
*PSI being at the peingile'deeds, was making the very test use of -inter-on was vent for. who seseetthsp and dressetthernrowed ; be is,
ire, is ike ,rijoym„t of a seeweeisemett table, and a prime party now in • 'lout:dal state. We love not beard what -caused bill to
rod Amen friande.--Grgoar Pupa, • commit the rid' act.