The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-07 00:00:00

STAMFORD AND ESSENDINE,

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The Marquis of Exeter, the principal proprietor of this
short line, has taken the working of it into his own ltantl.
The marquis has purchased new rolling stock, and has com-
menced running the trains with officials of his own ap-
pointment, the agreement with the Great Northern for the
working of the line having expired. The first-class car-
riages now bear the coat of arms of the marquis. •

The late Atrocious Outrages by Trade

Unionists,

At. the Warwickshire Quarter Sessions yesterday, before
W. Dickins, chairman, two journeymen brickmakers,
named John Stone and Edward Gregory, were indicted for
having, at Acton, on the 21st of August last, feloniously

killed three horses the property of Messrs. Lewis. The
prisoners were also indicted for maliciously stabbing four

other horses, the property of the prosecutors. The case

was one of peculiar atrocity, and almost unparalleled in the

annals of crime in the Midland Counties. The prisoners,
both young men, were active members of the Operative
Brickmakers' Association, and the prosecutors, Messrs.
Lewis, who are brick manufacturers at the Lozells, a suburb
of Birmingham, were members of the Master Brickmakers'
Association. In consequence of differences that had
taken place Messrs. Lewis decided to employ no workmen
in their brickyards who belonged to the trade union, and
this evoked very bitter feelings on the part of the men
towards the prosecutors. The outrage, the subject of
this prosecution, was committed on the 21st of August
last, at which time a man named Murphy, in the employ
of the prosecutors, saw a light in his mister's stable,
but, thinking it was only the waggoners employed by the
firm, he did not take further notice. In a short time
afterwards he saw two men go out of the stable and run
away in the direction of Wheeler-street. He subsequently
found the doors of the stable locked, but the loft window
WAS open. Murphy procured assistance and a light, and
examined the stables. In the three-stall stable one of the
horses was lying on the floor quite dead, having been stabbed
in the chest, and another died in a short time from similar
injuries. Murphy next went into the other stable, where
there were four horses. One of them, a valuable entire
horse, was dead, having, like the other, been stabbed in the
bosom. The whole of the horses, seven in number, had
been wounded in this way, but the majority of them sub-
sequently recovered. Some two or three months afterwards
the prisoners were apprehended, and committed for trial at
the late Winter Assizes, when, owing to the absence of a
material witness, the, bill was ignored by the grand jury.
The evidence, though purely circumstantial, was now ma-
terially strengthened. As regards Gregory, a witness named
M'Kenzie, who lodged with him, proved that Gregory left
home between 5 and 6 O'clock on the night in question, and
did not return until between 5 and 6 on the following
morning, when a number of spots of blood were found on
his trousers. Gregory and Stone were drinking together
at a publichouse some two miles from the stables between
7 and 8 o'clock, but at 9, when a row and fight took place
there it was observed the prisoners were not there. Tho
witness M'Kenzie identified a billycock hat, having a pecu-
liar band upOn it, which had been found in one of the pro-
secutors' stables as the hat usually worn by the prisoner
Stone, and the latter, it was shown, was seen carefully
wiping his boots the morning after the outrage, and dressed
in different kind of clothes to those he usually wore. As a
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the affair he should be killed by the union men, some of
whom had threatened him, and had since been placed under
recognisances by the magistrates to keep the peace. Other
corroborative points were also adduced tending to fix the
bothente nee found, the on
learned
chairman said the outrage of which they had been convicted
was one of the most aggravated character, both with Inpass wereing s guilty
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indictment.
theprisoners, who
re-
spect to the injury done to the prosecutors and as an
offence against society at large. If trade associations were
to lead to such outrages they were anything but a benefit
—they were a curse to the country at large. There was no
doubt whatever that the diabolical outrage of which they
had been found guilty had arisen out of the association to
which they belonged. He understood that Messrs. Lewis
had been injured to the extent of 2001., and that another
gentleman in the brick trade had a valuable horse destroyed
which was worth 500 guineas. The Court was bound to
protect society to the _utmost, of , its power, and therefore it
was his duty to pass the heaviest sentence upon them that
the law awarded for the offence of which they had been
convicted. He then sentenced the prisoners each to 14
years' penal servitude.

Death in the Snow.

On Sunday morning a sad tragedy was discovered to
have happened on the hill of Drummouchter, near Calvine,
not four miles from Blair Athole. A party of travelling
tinkers—John M'Kenzie, Catherine Cameron, his reputed
wife, and Duncan Cameron, her brother—had been stay-
ing in the neighbourhood for a day or two, and they passed
Friday night in the Strowan wood, near Blair. They had
resolved to start for Inverness-shire:on'Saturday morning,
going over the hills instead of by the road, and with this
view they began refreshing themselves by drinking two
gills of whisky at inns a few miles from each other. They
left the Bruar Inn about one o'clock in the afternoon, tak-
ing with them a bottle of whisky. They were next seen
going northwards by the farm-manager at Calvine, and
then seemed quite hearty, the woman appearing the best
traveller of the three. This was about two o'clock, and
shortly after they met another tinker, named Alexander
Stuart. It would seem that this meeting was considered a
favourable opportunity for attacking the whisky bottle,
as Stuart states that it was then produced and emptied.
He was afterwards sent to Strowan Inn for another two
shilling& worth of whiskey, and returned to the party
with it about five o'clock, giving- the bottle to the woman.
Her brother, Duncan Cameron, had left for Calvine, in
order to get shelter, as the night was coming on wild, and
with every aiipearance of a heavy snow storm, but
M'Kenzie and his wife seemed determined to brave it out
on the hill side. They seem to have quickly fallen asleep,
as did Stuart ; but he woke up about seven o'clock, and
could hardly move with the cold, a wreath of snow having
accumulated at his head. He states that he then tried to
rouse the others, but failed, and, in order to save his own
life, he almost crept along to Calvine, where he found
Cameron, and got food and shelter, but said nothing
about the two persons he had left. About midnight M'Ken-
zie himself woke up, quite stiff. He says he did all he could
to wake his wife, but without effect. Unable to walk for
some time, he got along on his hands and:knees a good bit,
and ultimately made his way to a byre at Calvine, where he
lay beside a cow till morning. Then he told his story, and
getting some food for his wife, he and Stuart proceeded in
search of her. They found the poor woman quite dead and
stiff, a good distance from the place where she was last seen.
It would appear she had also awakened, and found herself
helpless with the cold, but had made desperate efforts to
reach some place of safety. The marks among the snow.
showed that she had dragged herself along slowly for sub:art,
and then falling among stones, had rolled down the hillwhich
to the side of the river Garry, at a few yards
her dead body was found. Poor woman ! thirf:°lgehrinloonvleyf2o7r
years of age, she had perished partly thrwouasg
strong drink, for Stuart states that shsehon
husband getting any of the last twoa
drop,
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of not allowing his wife to become
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skirt of an old gown, .
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-shire, clad only in a loose torn
an old shawl, and some rags about
Her person, indeed, was not entirely covered,
and when the wind dashed the shawl aside, the breast was
exposed quite bare. The poor creature had no stockings,
and the old boots she wore scarcely protected her feet from
the ground—certainly not from the snow. When the facts
became known in the district a good deal of excitement was
caused. The body was removed to the church at Strowan
about noon on Sabbath, and was buried in the churchyard
by the parish authorities on Monday. It might be thought,
from M'Kenzie's conduct before her death, that he cared
but little for his wife; but his subsequent demeanour, un-
less he is a capital actor, gave tokens of there having existed
a very strong affection between them.—Dundee Advertiser.

EXECUTION OF THE CONVICT BROWN.—Henry
Brown, who, with Thomas Lindon (since respited), was
convicted at the last Liverpool assizes of the murder of a
man named M'Oarthy, whom he had killed by gouging
out his eye with a pistol, was executed this morning at
Kirkdale. He was visited yesterday by his father and his
wife, and seemed to be deeply affected by his position.
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