The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-25 00:00:00

lin and to the governor, "it was me that did the mur-
der. There was nobody else with me. All I said about
Moore was false. When I got to the rectory the door
was fastened. I knocked. Mrs. Steggles came to the
door. I knocked her down when she reached the kite-
ken. I struck her with my fist. She fell. When down
she cried out violently. I then took a small case-knife
belonging to my folks. My little brother called it his.
I cut her throat with it, I think, in two places—at least
I cut twice. I then knocked her on the head with my

boots, or high-lows, the same that were produced at the
assizes. I kicked her seven or eight times. I knew
she was not quite dead. when I left her and went up-
stairs. I took the pistol out of the rector's bedroom,
and hid it in the Mill Mount ; and the coin taken from
the same box as the purse I hid in the lane leading
from the road going to Mr. Pulbam's house. I went
up-stairs with the intention of plundering the house.
I took the purse and its contents, three sovereigns, and
a sixpence found in a box—the same box that held the
purse. The pin produced at the trial I know nothing
of. The knife I took from the same box as the purse
I took a little gold brooch, I believe, from the same
box, but I will not be sure. I left it on the outside of
the window at the back part of my father's house.
When I ran down stairs, after being up about ten mi-
nutes, I went to the kitchen and looked at the deceased.
She was lying on her back. I did not see her move,
but found she was breathing. I then kicked her two or
three times more on the head. Immediately after I left
the house. Returning by Mrs. Ford's fields, in the
second field I washed my shoes, which were a little
bloody, I'm the ditch. I kept the footpath, except going
on to the Mount, all the way until I got to Mr. Sal-
mon's meadow, which I crossed and I left the coin by
the brow of the ditch in the lane, as stated before, under
a tuft of grass. From thence I went home. I went
and got my mother a pail of water. My brother John
and mother asked me to go up to. Mrs. Francis's. I
went. I returned and stopped at home until I got my
dinner. I say most positively no one had any hand
in it but myself. I had thought of doing the
deed some days, even a fortnigh
times dreamed about doing it, and ' before.
once that I had done
it, and that I was not found out. Z went to the house
with the full intention of murdering Mrs. Steggles, and .
to get what money I could find I had INin of the
house before on a Sunday—either $ fortnight or three
weeks before, intending to do it, but could not. I did
not see any person about to prevent my doing it. Ido
not know that I had any spite against Mrs. Steggles,
but there always appeared something on my mind until
I had done it. None of my family knew of my having
I several
committed the murder. They did not know that I had
any more money than usual.
As another proof of the awful state of ignorance of
the family of Flack, it is stated that soon after the
extreme sentence of the law had beeninfiicted, the father
who was at work at Bury St. Edmund's, purchased of
a hawker in the streets what purported to be the "last
dying speech and confession" of his son, observing that
he would keep it as a memento for the rest of his life.

SERIOUS COLLISION IN THE TYNE.--A fearful coll!sion
took place on Monday in Shields Harbour, by the Sir
John Easthope, screw collier, running into the William,
passenger steamer from Newcastle. It appears that in
the afternoon, about quarter flood, the Sir John East-
hope came in from sea, light, and was proceeding amongst
a fleet of keels and other light craft to the Spints to load
when the pilot encountered the William in the middle of
the harbour, lying-to to deliver passengers into a boat.
The Sir John Easthope is a heavy vessel, and was
propelled with her screw, and it seems was hugging
the south shore for the least water. The steersman
of the William tried to get out of her way by run-
ning in to the south, but fearing a jamb, he had
changed his mind, and had put his vessel with her
bow to the north, and was running across the
collier's hawser, when his vessel was struck a most tre-
mendous blow abaft her funnel by that vessel. She was
borne on the bow of the collier a few yards, and then on
falling off sunk, and all her passengers, men, women,
and children, were thrown into the water. A most
frightful scene ensued, and, but for the cool intrepidity
of the seamen belonging to the vessels, near to, who put
off to their assistance, and police boats, and steamers
which ran to the aid of the drowning people, a most
fearful tragedy might have taken place. As it is, after
a most careful inquiry by the authorities to-day, no one
seems to be missing, and the only persons seriously in-
jured is the steersman Renwick, whose thigh is broken,
and a passenger of the name of Forsyth, whose arm is
also broken. The passengers, more especially the females
and children, were in a most exhausted condition when
brought ashore, and some of them were found to have
received severe cuts, but with care they were all brought
about last night. The passenger vessel lies sunk in
mid-channel. She has a quantity of ship's beef on board
of her.
RAILWAY COLLISION AT EUXTON.—An excursion
train from Leeds, by the Lincolnshire and Yorkshire
line, to one of the watering places on the coast near
Fleetwood, met with an accident at the junction of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire line with the London and
North-Western, at Euxton, near Preston, yesterday
morning, and a smash ensued, which had the effect of
blocking up both lines of railway for some hours, but we
are informed that no serious injury was sustained by
any of the passengers. The passenger train is said to
have run into a London and North-Western luggage

train.
THE DERBY ELECTION.—We understand, that in con-
sequence of certain proceedings which have been taken
out against the Conservatives (relative to the late Derby
election), measures are preparing and writs have been
issued for the purpose of bringing to justice some of the
pure men of Derby, professing Racal politics ; and we
can state that other parties residing in the borough of
Shrewsbury, also Radicals, will come under the autho-
rity of the law, for their mal-practices at the late elec-
tion, and for purloining certain letters and papers be-
longing to Mr. John Frail.—Eddowees Journal,