The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-24 00:00:00

AN UNFORTUNATE 31E1110.Rk.

At the Brighton County Court, last Friday, an
action was brought by Mr. Clifton, hairdresser,
Preston-street, against the Rev. Erskine Holland,
to recover £lO.

Mr. Holland was in the habit of frequently going
into the stationery shop, of which Mrs. Clifton had
the superintendence, as a customer, and would go
there sometimes to get change, instead of going to
the bank.

According to the plaintiff's ease, defendant came
into the shop in a hurried manner on Tuesday, the
25th of November last, and asked Mrs. Clifton if
she could give him change for £lO. Mrs. Clifton
was serving a customer at the time, and, knowing
she had not sufficient in her till, said she was afraid
she could not, but that she would go to her private
cash-box and see whether she could. She had got
a £lO note in her cash-box, which she had changed
a short time previously for a Miss Hutton. She
took this out, wrote her name upon it, and
sent her boy out to get it changed. The
boy brought back a £5 Bank of England
note and £5 in gold, and gave it to Mrs. Clifton
who handed it to the defendant, who had been wait-
ing in the shop, and Mrs. Clifton then went to at-
tend to a customer. Two days afterwards, on
Thursday, Mrs. Clifton, upon going to her cash-
box, missed £lO, and it then occurred to her that
Mr. Holland did not give her either a note or a
cheque for the £lO change. She went to Mr. Hol-
land on the subject, and he said he could not recol-
lect having been in the shop on the Tuesday ; that
if he had received the £lO he did not know what
he had done with it. Mrs. Clifton had several in-
terviews with Mr. Holland, who distinctly said he
had not asked for change, or received any.
Mrs. Clifton, Emily Turner, shopwoman, and John
Taylor, errand boy to plaintiff, and Thomas Chap•
lain, a young man in the employ of Mr. Rotting,
butcher, Preston-street, who gave plaintiff's boy the
change for the £lO note, and plaintiff himself, were
examined in corroboration of the above facts.

Mr. Roupell having addressed the jury for the
defence, called the Rev. Mr. Erskine Holland, who
positively denied having asked for change for £lO.
He had neither note nor cheque in his possession for
some time before or after the day in question, but
had on that day borrowed a sovereign from his
daughter, who corroborated this part of defendant's
evidence.

The jury found a verdict for plaintiff for £lO,
adding that they wished to exonerate the defendant
from any dishonest intention.—Sussex Express.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT ABERDEEN.

A very serious accident took place in the flax-
spinning manufactory of Messrs. Prichard and Co.
Broadford, Aberdeen, on Monday morning, about
half-past ten. It occurred :n the preparing and
spinning-room of the new patent mill—a building
of five stories, being filled with spinning frames on
the fourth and fifth stories, while the lower stories
were occupied as dry homes—the engine and
boiler being on the ground foor. The hands had
just resumed work after breakfast, when a loud
crack was heard ; and immediately the flooring of
part of the fourth storey was seen to be giving way,
falling with a terrible crash, and carrying the floor-
ing of the other two lower storeys with it. The fifth
storey seems to have given way about the same
time ; and the whole mass machinery, flooring,
iron beams, stones, bricks, &c., fell too. There were
some 30 or 40 women, along with three or four
overseers, employed in that part of the building at
the time, but luckily most of them had just time to
make their escape to a part where the flooring was
still sound. Three of the workers, we regret to say,
were seriously injured, whit, as we write, there are
still other three missing, supposed to be buried
among the debris, and an active search is being kept
up for them. The three nissiag are—Margaret
Johnston, aged about 60 ; Lydia Carpenter, between
30 and 40; and Susan Wash, about 20. Those
hurt are—Margaret Smith,4,o, fracture of the skull
and arm broken; Christina kait, a young girl, frac-
ttired thigh and scapula, anc other severe injuries;
Elspet Mowat, wound in he'd and slightly scalded
by the steam, which immediately filled the whole
building. It is remarkable, considering the num-
ber in the place and the extraordinary nature of the
accident, that so many contrived to escape unhurt.
It is impossible to say as yet what was the cause of
the accident. The building in which it occurred was
very strongly and substantially built, with iron
beams supporting the flooring, and it was not very
old. It is thought possible that the foundation may
have given way from the great weight of machinery
contained in the building, the ground having at
one time been of a somewhat marshy nature. In
answer to inquiries made just before our parcel left,
we were informed that the three women buried in
the ruins had been dug out. A sufficient number
of doctors were in attendance immediately on the
accident
immediately conveyed
the infirmary and attended
tto
to.—Scotsman.

ALLEGED NEGLECT A 2 7HE WHI7E-
CHAPEL UNION.

Last evening Mr. H. Rages Walthew, the de-
puty-corner for East Middlesex, opened an inquiry
at the Catherine Wheal Tavern, St. Peter's-road,
Mile-end, Stepney, respecting the death of Joseph
Beaver Smith, age 67 years, formerly a master baker,
but recently an inmate of the Whitechapel Union.
Mary Ann Smith, of No.lo, Willow-place, Globe-
road, Mile-end, deposed that the deceased was her
father-in-law. He had been compelled to seek
shelter in the union through pecuniary difficulties.
The son was about to take the deceased out, as he
(deceased) had complained of the manner in which
he had been neglected in the union. On Monday, the
15th inst., witness proceeded to the fever ward of
the Union Workhouse, in Charles-street, White-
chapel, to take the deceased out, and when she got
lyingwin in a dirty room with
windows wide open, the
otherth e r there shepau foundper e
withdeceased
the
ceilings black, and the walls covered with cobwebs.
The deceased appeared to be dying, and witness
said to him, " Old man, what have you had to take?"
He replied, " Mary Ann, I have had nothing." Wit-
ness remained in the ward about an hour, but de-
cecsed had nothing while she was there. Witness
asked the nurse what the deceased had for food,
when she said, " Arrowroot ; sometimes half a pint,
and more if they can take it." Witness asked for a
blanket to wrap round the deceased, and the nurse
lent her one. Deceased was then placed in a cab
and conveyed to the nearest public-house, where
witness gave him a little brandy and water. De-
ceased was seen by Dr. Snell when he reached home,
and she understood that deceased was suffering from
fever. Dr. Snell examined the deceased, and di-
rected her to give him a little more weak brandy
and water, which seemed to rally him, but deceased
gradually became weaker, and died on the following
dayM.
r. Charles H. Mayer, the master of the White-
chapel Union, said that the fever ward was formed
from a portion of the old Whitechapel Workhouse,
and was considered by the Poor-law Board to be fit
for the purpose for which it was used. The deceased
had been taken away from the workhouse against
the wish of the medical officer (Dr. Champneys),
and the following, entry was made in the infirmary
book by that gentleman :—" I do not consider that
the patient Smith is in a fit state to leave the work-
house, as he is suffering from fever, but his friends
insist upon removing him."
Jane Grundy, the nurse of No. 24 fever ward, ad-
mitted the windows were open, but it had been or-
dered by the medical officer. She denied that the
room was dirty as described. Deceased never made
any complaint to witness, but on the contrary he
always expressed himself satisfied. There Were
several persons to prove that the deceased could
have anything he required. She denied a statement
of the first witness that she had said nothing was
given between the meals.
The Deputy-Coroner said that he should adjourn
the inquiry for the attendance of Dr. Champneys,
and to give time to Dr. Snell to make a post-mortem
examination of the body.

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