The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-31 00:00:00

ECCLES RACES-YESTERDAY.
TRAFFORD PARK STAKES.

True Girl

GRAND STAND PLATE.

Misfortune

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SPORTING NOTES.—A sentence in this article inserted
yesterday, should have read as follows :—" Why Con-
vulsion and Tobolski did not wake the pace good for the
' Stakes,' I cannot guess."

SUICIDE IN A POLICE STATlON.—Yesterday evening
an inquest was taken by Mr. Bedford on the body of
Edward Beck, aged 37, an omnibus conductor, who
committed suicide in a cell of the Vine-street station of
the C division of police, with an iron tip of his boot heel.
It appeared that the deceased was addicted to excessive
drinking, and that he left his situation as a conductor
about a fortnight ago. He frequently suffered from
severe pains in his head, the effects of his intemperate
habits, and of a sunstroke he received when in India.
About half-past 3 o'clock on Sunday morning he was
observed by a policeman in Jermyn-street, who took
him into custody as a suspected person, on which charge
he was locked up at the station-house, Vine-street, Pic-
cadilly, and about 5 o'clock in the afternoon he was in
his cell in a sitting posture, having his arm in the pan
of the water-closet, and it was discovered he had cut a
vein in the left arm, which had been done by the sharp
edge of an iron tip he had wrenched from the heel of his
boot. Deceased was attended by a surgeon, who ad-
vised his removal to St. George's Hospital, but he died
before his admission into that institution. Mr. Hast-
ings, house surgeon, said that deceased died from loss of
blood, having cut an artery. Verdict, "Temporary
insanity."
THE LATE CASE OF SHOOTING IN BERMONDSEY.—It is
said that Mr. Stevens, whose death was caused by one
of his tenants shooting him in the street, was the pos-
sessor of very considerable property in the parish. The
perpetrator of the crime has not yet been apprehended ;
and it is feared that serious consequences will result to
Mrs. Lawrence from the shock occasioned to her by her
husband's dreadful act, as she is very far advanced in
pregnancy.
PAGE-GREEN, TOTTENHAM.—The thirteenth purchase
of the Conservative Land Society, and the fifth estate
in Middlesex, has just been made at Page-green, Tot-
tenham, near the Seven Sisters'-road, Stamford-hill, close
to the railway station. This new property is situated
near the Markfield estate, which was recently sold at
such a large profit.
ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAlLWAY.—Yesterday morning a fearful, and it is feared
fatal accident, attended by the loss of at least two lives,
occurred at the Euston-square terminus of the London
and North-Western Railway under the following cir-
cumstances :—Saveral workmen were engaged on diffe-
rent portions of the rails close to the station, and just as
the half-past 6 down-train was on the point of starting
seven or eight men were in the act of carrying across
the line close to the terminus a long portion of an
iron rail, at the very moment that the engine which
accompanied the train emerged from the engine-shed.
The men imagined that they could effect their transit
before the engine arrived where they were engaged. The
result, however, unfortunately proved that they were
wrong in their calculation, for before they could clear
the rails the engine came up, striking the iron rail that
they were carrying, and knocking the men about right
and left. Notwithstanding this frightful collision four
of the men succeeded in getting out of the way of the
engine, while two others, named Edmund Woodland
and Abel Robertson, were not so fortunate, the engine
and tender having passed over them. They were in-
stantly picked up bleeding and insensible, and conveyed
to the
.University College Hospital. In addition to
serious internal injuries, Woodland's shoulder and ankle
were dislocated. Robertson, besides many internal
wounds, suffered frightfully about the back and head.
How the other men escaped comparatively uninjured
was almost miraculous. Had the engine been going at
a rapid pace the whole body of workmen engaged at this
point would have been inevitably killed. No hopes of
the recovery of the wounded men are entertained.
SINGULAR AFFRAY AT GARELOCH-HEAD.—On Sunday
week the usually quiet watering-place of Gareloch-head,
in Dumbartonshire, was the scene of an extraordinary
disturbance, caused by an attempt on the part of the
servants of Sir J. Colquhoun, aided by the police and
others, to resist the landing of the passengers from a
Glasgow steam-boat called the Emperor. It appears that
great dissatisfaction had been created in the minds of
many of the inhabitants by this steam-boat plying to and
from Gareloch-head and other watering-places on Sunday;
and Sir J. Colquhoun, sympathising with this feeling,
resolved, if possible, to prevent the disembarcation of
the passengers on that day, basing his right to do so on
the ground that the landing pier was his private pro-
perty. Accordingly when the Emperor reached the
pier on Sunday forenoon it was found that a strong
barricade, composed of barrels, herring-boxes, and large
pieces of wood, surmounted by a heavy gangway,
completely blocked up the passage to the shore,
while . before and behind it a numerous body of
gamekeepers, gillies, and others, including some
policemen, were stationed, to repel the passengers
should they attempt to effect a landing. This at-
tempt the passengers were not slow in making. A rush
was made from the steamer, and, notwithstanding the
free use of bludgeons and other weapons by the party on
shore, a large body_of passengers got a footing on the
pier, took the barricade by storm, threw the materials
into the sea, and, having beaten back their opponents,
secured an easy passage to the shore. The scuffle,
though brief, appears to have been rather fierce, and
some hard blows were dealt on both sides. Having
gained their object, the passengers set about enjoying
themselves in a harmless way, and at the end of two
hours returned to the steamer, which they were allowed
to enter, through the pier, without molestation, and
were soon on their way again to Glasgow. It appears
that the title of Sir J. Colquhoun to the propietary of
the pier is questioned, and that the affair is to be fol-
lowed up by an appeal to the law courts.
The Criminal Tribunal of Granada, in Spain, has just
been occupied several days in trying a priest named Jose
de Ruiz Aguilera, charged with the cure of the parish
of Quentar, for the murder of his curate Jose Vilches.
It was proved that the accused had entertained strong
animosity against his curate, owing to a quarrel having
taken place between them so far back as eleven years
ago ; and that in July last he fired a pistol point blank
at him as he was returning to the church, in his ecclesi-
astical robes from a funeral. The tribunal condemned
him to death.