The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-04 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING,

that she was in the family way ; she never said any-
thing. On Sunday she was poorly when she got up,
and as she got worse I told her she had better go and
lie down. She went up into her coon ; this was about
nine o'clock. She laid down upon the bed, but did
not undress herself. At halfspast ten o'clock I looked
into the roon, and she was asleep. I next saw her at
ten minutes after twelve. I asked her if she had taken
any medicine, and she said "Yes." I told her she
ought not to have taken it, from the state I found her
in, and from seeing blood on the floor. She said that
she did not know she ought not to have taken it. She
asked me to give her a cloth from her box, and I did
so
hdavleefttathkeen the room.
I told Mrs. Pagden she should
medicine. She has said nothing
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to me since. At the order of
Mrs. Pagden I went
and fetched Mrs. Hazel.
Mrs. Mary Wood Hasler,the mother of the un-
fortunate girl, was here called, and stated that her
daughter Sarah was not married, and was seventeen
years old on the 18th of April last. She was aware
in what state her daughter was,but did not think it
was SO near, nor did she think her daughter was
aware of that fact. Sarah was her daughter by a
former husband, named William Judge. This witness
(who desired to be sworn) detailed in the 12303 t straight-
forward and honest manner the steps she 'had taken to
ascertain the real state of her daughter. From what
she had learned from the girl it would appear that her
confinement was not looked for until November. The
mother bad accordingly advised her to give Mrs.
Pagden notice to leave and return to her home.
Mr. Walter Duke, surgeon, was then examined,
and deposed that between twelve and one o'clock on
Sunday, he wits sent for to Mr. Pagden's house, and
directed to • go up into Sarah Judge's bed-room,
where he found Mrs. Hazel. There were clots of
blood in the room. The girl was lying on the bed,
and he said "My girl, what has occurred ?" She
exclaimed " Oh, my poor mother." He save at once
what had taken place, and on looking about found a
flannel at the foot of the bed, in which was the body
of a female child; quite dead. After attending to
the removal of the placenta, Mr. Duke proceeded to
interrogate the girl, and she said, " I was on the
chamber, and it came away. I was in great agony,
and tore it asunder." He examined the body of the
child, and found the windpipe and all the vesiels
completelydivided down to the spine. The unfortu-
nate girl was frantic.
Mr. Duke here objected to state to the jury some
revelations made by the girl, holding it tie the privi-
lege of medical men not to reveal any communica-
tion from a patient made under circumstances of pain
and anguish ; but the jury unanimously decided that
it was their province to inquire into and bear all that
had taken place, and
Witness proceedfki—l asked what she did it with,
and she said, " with scissors, and they are in a little
box." She was in great agony at the time. [A pair
of scissors were here produced, witness stating that
they had been found in the box pointed out by Sarah
Judge.] I said, "I suppose the child was born alive,
and it cried." She said it did not cry, but it strug-
gled. She gave no motive for doing it ; she
seemed overwhelmed with grief. T°-day I have
made an examination of the body. In the left lung
I find positive evidence that the child had breathed. I
found that the right lung was near the spine, and not
dilated, and air might not have reached that lung;
independent of what the girl said, I should have stated
that the child had breathed. lam sure of that. It
might not have had an existence apart from its
mother. It was a small but a full-grown child.
There can be no doubt that the cause of death was
from the wound in the child's throat.
Some of the jury here pointed out the latter state-
ment, and contrasted it with the witness's indecision
as to whether the child bad lived, when
Mr. Duke qualified his statement by saying that
the wound was sufficient to cause death, but shortly
after adhered to the original one that it had caused
death.
In answer to a question as to when he gave in-
formation of the matter,
Mr. Duke replied that he did yesterday (Sunday)
to the coroner (Mr. J. G. Shorter), taking with him
a magistrate (Mr. F. Ticehurst).
Inspector Campbell, the summoning officer, said he
was required by Mr. Shorter to inform the jury that
although the matter happened at noon, on Sunday, no
information reached him or the police until ten o'clock
on Monday.
The jury tben consulted for a short time, and re-
turned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Sarah
Judge," and the coroner made out his warrant for
her committal to Lewes.for trial.
The pain. girl, who is at present in too weak a state
to be removed, is, still. at Mr. Pagden's residence.
At the close of the inquiry Mr. W. Duke returned
and begged of the deputy-coroner to dispense with
the necessity of stationing a police-officer at Mr.
Pagden's house, to ensure the safe custody of the pri-
soner, giving his honour for her safety, and offering
to be made a constable himself for the occasion.

Mr. Phillips pointed out the impracticability of
such an arrangement, and the positive necessity, as
the responsibility was great, to have an officer on the
spot.—Sussex Advertiser.

FATAL ACCIDEIVT ON ME LONDON
AND NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY.
An accident, attended with fatal consequences to
two passengers and injury to several others, oc-
curred yesterday morning near the Hampton
Junction Station on the London and North- Western
Railway.
The 9.15 AM. up train left Birmingham at the
usual hour yesterday morning and proceeded in due
course about a mile south of the Lienepton Junction
to' a place called Barks well cutting, in pessing through
which the ash-pan and a portion of the firebox fell
from the engine on to the line, and coming in contact
with the framework of the break-van, separated the
latter from the engine and tender, and threw if off
the up-line across the down rails. At the same
instant, and before the carriages had become station-
ery, the 9.15 A.M. down train from Leamington to
Birmingham met the up-train, and first coining in
contact with the break•vs.n on the down rails, next
struck the leading second-class carriage, and drove
it on the embankment, detaching it from the other
carriages, and creating a terrible wreck. Two of the
passengers in the second-class carriage were killed
on the spot, and a third was very seriously injured.
Several others were more or less shaken and hurt.
The driver of the up-train finding his engine and
tender detached from the break van, and observing
the collision which immediately followed, came on to
Coventry, a distance of four miles, as quickly as pos-
sible, to obtain assistance. , From Coventry
telegra-
phic intelligence of the accident was transmitted to
Birmingham, and in a very short time afterwards a
large number of, labourers arrived from both these
places and commenced clearing the line. -
The second-class carriage struck by the engine of
the down-train was found to be driven up the em-
bankment several feet, and within its broken timbers
were discovered the bodies of the two unfortunate
passengers quite dead, and others severely hurt. The
remaining passengers bad escaped from the wreck,
and were sitting on various parts of the line.
The names of the parties killed are Mr. Bedding-
ton, an optician, of Birmingham, and a youth named
Floyd, said to be on hie way to college at Oxford.
The best assistance that could be afforded was ren-
dered, by Mr. Robinson, the station-master of Bir-
mingham, by whose directions the parties most in-
jured were placed in carriages and conveyed to Coven-
try. The worst case was sent direct to the infirmary
at the latter place.
The engine of the down train was not much in-
jured by the collision. Though off the rails and
deeply embedded in the pernianent way, it remained
in an erect position, and the rails were so little dis-
turbed that it was soon replaced upon the line. The
debris baying been cleared away, the traffic was not
materially interrupted, and several of the passengers
came on to London shortly after the accident.
It is hoped that beyond the casualties referred to
nothing of a serious character remains to be told.
The circumstances attending the accident were
peculiarly unfortunate. Had the Leamington train
been a few seconds earlier or later no serious casualty
would have occurred.
The similarity of the catastrophe to that which ()r-
-curred to the tidal express train near the Headcorn
Captain station on the South-Eastern Railway a few days
since cannot fail to be remarked, and it is believed
they are the only accidents of a similar description on
record.
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left to • London and North-Western yailway,
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act% immediately on receipt of the intelligence of
, to render all the assistance in his power
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was in the van, escaped unhurt by falling into the
ditch. The driver and fireman of the down engine
leaped off as soon as they saw what had happened, as
were within 150 yards cf the theyspot, and could
therefore only put on the breaks and seek their own
safety. Few of the passengers in this train were
much hurt.
The Earl of Dartmouth Was in a coupe of the up
train, and escaped without injury, although the door
was a good dell splintered. His Lordship showed a
Prais"vorthv example in rend9ring r-',i7e assistance i
to those vh" h - h t
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