The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-12 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1640.

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GREEN DRAGON COMMERCIAL INN, CHESTER.
NICKSON, in acknowledging the liberal
'• support he has received from his Commercial and
other Friends for several years past, begs to apprise them that
in consequence of the increase to his business, he has added to
his former accommodations extra sitting and bed-rooms. R. N.
sincerely thanks them for past preference, and most respectfully
solicits their future favours.

AN OLD-ESTABLISHED TAVERN and HOTEL, with a
CAPITAL LIQUOR SHOP, and TAP ATTACHED,
situate in a highly important and very populous town,
within 30 miles of London,
TO be LET or SOLD, by Mr. G A RDINER.
The premises are extensive, including good Garden, ex-
cellent Stabling and Yard, together also with a very superior
Liquor Shop and Tap ; they are situate in (he best part of a ca-
pital market town, and have been many years successfully carried
on by the present Proprietor, who is retiring, and, to an active
and intelligent man of business, presents an opportunity of car-
rying on an almost unlimited trade in Wines, Spirits, and Beer.
The Freehold will be sold, or a Lease of 14 or 21 years will
be granted.
Particulars of Mr. Gardiner, Auctioneer, Bcc., 17, Hatton-
garden.

DitEADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE
HULL AND SELBY RAILWAY.

--
INQUEST ON THE BODIES.
On SAturday morning the Coroner for the County
arrived by the train at the place 'where the catastrophe
occurred. The three bodies of the persons killed on the
spot had been removed into the jurisdiction of Howden,
to a public-house, called the Railway Tavern, at the
Bowden station, about half a mile from the place of the
accident.

The jury then proceeded to the extremity of Brind,
where alter remaining about an hour, three shells con-
taining the corpses, arrived on a truck, drawn by a horse,
when the lids were removed, and the Coroner and Jury
took a view of the bodies. They presented a most
awful and terrific spee'acle, every fe aure being dis-
figured or obliterated either by wounds or blood ; and
the bones, especially of the female, almost all crushed
into atoms. The lids were again screwed down, and
the truck was drawn back to the inn. The bodies were
each dressed as when taken up from the fatal spot, and
their tattered garments testified bow awful must have
been the crash which, in the twinkling of an eye, plunged
them into eternity.
On returning to the house witnesses were called to

identify the bodies. The first called was Henry Ennis
Ainsworth, who deposed that he lived in Worship-
street, Hull, that he had seen and knew the body of
Mr. Nicholas Veltman. He was a general merchant.
Saw him the day before yesterday at hik own house in
Hull. Had just seen all the three bodies, and could posi-
tively swear to that of Mr. Velttnan.
John Holmes, auctioneer, Leeds, ,sworn.—Had seen
the three bodies, and had some lithe difficulty in re-
cognising his cousin's ( Mr. Stead's) body, but if he
saw the papers, &c., taken from the body, be might be
able. ( A messenger was here sent to the station for
them, and in the interim the Coroner called for any one
who could identify the body of the female to come for-
ward, but no one answered.)
Charles Farr, living in Howden, was sworn—Had
seen all the bodies, but did not know them. Had taken
particulars of the female. She was a short person, and
appeared about thirty-five years of age. She lay out
two feet from the north side rail, and was quite dead
when he found her. He got females to search her
person, and found 6s. 6d. in the pocket, a silver
thimble, some trinkets, a penknife, and a white
pocket-handkerchief. She wore a dress of good qua-
lity, but not a costly one, and looked like a person in a
state of mediocrity. He should have taken her for a
housekeeper, or something of that kind. Her gown
was brown, and the shawl was nearly the same colour.
From the pocket of Mr. Veltman was taken 181. 11 s.
Gd. in gold and silver, from another a gold watch, and
four bills of exchange, all of which were given to the
police at the station. From Mr. Stead's person he
took a gold watch and silver guard, which were very
much crushed, and the glass broken ; a toothpick and
memorandum book, which were given to the same po-
lice, No. 1, on the station.
Jonathan Dunn, police No. 21, deposed that he was
on duty at half-past eight yesterday morning, 500 yards
west from the place of the accident. He was on the
north side, and all was then right. When the train
had passed he went to the south side, and saw some-
thing hanging over in the first carriage next to the ten-
der, called a truck. He noticed this to a man named
Blanchard, who was close by repairing the road. He
had no sooner done so than they heard a great crash,
and they ran to the spot, First, saw two people under
the waggon, whom they got out alive, one with his leg
broken ; next they saw the woman lying
on the line
quite dead ; also two gentlemen between the rails with
an overturned carriage upon them ; seven carriages were
all passenger carriages. When they had got the bodies
out be saw a large iron casting laid cross-corners on the
north and south line, over which the wheels of the car-
riages had gone. It was the corner over the north rail
of the north line, and was quite sufficient to overturn
the carriages.
By a Juror—Not one of the three bodies either
breathed or stirred. The carriage on which the casting
was, was not thrown over, but all the rest were. He
saw a rope over the casting, but no chain. The rope
seemed severed and cut into pieces by the friction of
the metal. It was half-an-inch in diameter. The
articles found on each of the deceased parties were here
produced, sealed up, when
Mr. Holmes was recalled, and identified the hand-
writing of Thomas Stead, io his memorandum-book, &c.
The brown silk purse, containing 3/. I Is. Gd. could not
be identified, but was supposed to belong to Mr. Stead.
The property of Mr. Veltman was here handed over
to his nephew, Mr. Kuhling, of Hull; and that of Mr.
Stead to Mr. Holmes.
The CORONER inquired if the Jury were satisfied
that the two bodies were those of Stead and Veltman ;
and, being answered in the affirmative, be made out
warrants for their removal and interment.
[The rope was here produced which had been used
to fasten the casting on the truck ; it was evidently
nearly worn in two by friction in several places, and
had been cut by the casting.]
A Juryman asked if the weight of the iron had been
ascertained ?—A gentleman replied about three tons.
Examination continued—Neither the engine nor the
tender was thrown off the road, nor the truck upon
which this casting was laid. They were all on the
road, as was also the truck on which the casting
was laid. Seven carriages next to the truck were
all thrown off the rails, and crushed to pieces.
All were overturned. All the seven were laid upon
the road, under which the two bodies were laid.
I did not notice many persons upon the road. The
carriage train was only coming at its usual speed. They
my idea, from twenty to
twenty-four miles an hour.
to
werileytr,avellipngh,illaicpcso, according
—When you say that the ear-
was on the rails, do you
rmi aegaen containing ther tlt e casting
roadlt was on the rails, until
hold in my hand is about
two inches in circumference.
we took it off. The rope I
Richard Hesketh—l live at Selby, and am an en-
gine driver on the Hull and Selby railway. Yesterday
morning, about seven minutes after eight o'clock, I
started from Selby with the train, I managing the engine.
Everything was right at Selby. I got off the engine
and examined the coupling, which is the chain that at-
taches the first carriage to the tender. This carriage was
the truck upon which the metal was placed. I cannot
say whether the casting was either fastened or tied to
the truck by chain or rope, or whether it was not. I
did not make that observation. The casting was laid
fair and level on the truck. It projected a little over
each side, as it was longer than the truck, and over-
reached about an inch and a half on each side. It did
not reach more on one side than the other. All was
right until we got near to the Howden station, at least
I saw nothing that alarmed me until the time the acci-
dent occurred. I was about half a mile on this side of
the Howden stationfa,lwl thefmhreon the aiinn e gave a jump. I
before the engine
perceived nothing
jumped. I had been looking forward.
en looked back
engine
king forward. The engine,
after the jerk, began to go faster. t
and saw that the engine, and tender, and one truck,
were separated from the rest of the train, and that I
had left the passengers' carrages behind. The engine
was not off the line at all, but the two bind wheels of
the tender were off. All four wheels of the trnck were
off the line. Neither engine, tender, or truck were
over-turned. As soon as I could stop the engine
got off and went to the passenger carriages.

1 tender
nr edme r
the
ere
efnrogmine. 6 0
Theto loohied yards
wheels
sTtotedw
were thrown off, in my opinion, in consequence
having stopped the engine so suddenly. According tyo
my idea, as near as I can speak, .I was going at the rate of
23 to 25 miles an hour. This was about our usual
speed. It is customary to let off our speed when ap-
proaching the station, but we had not got to the spot
where we usually do so. This was not a dangerous rate
to travel at, provided the road had been clear ; it is
slower than that at which passenger trains generally
travel. I have been employed upwards of seven years
as an engine-driver ; first, on the i Bo.ton, Leigh Junc-
tion, then on the Liverpool and Manchester—after-
wards, in Belgium; for Brussels, and Antwerp, and now
upon the Hull and Selby.. I.Th e Jury expressed them-
selves perfectly satisfied with this witness's conduct.]
William Greaves, whose face was severely cut, was
next examined. He said--I reside at Leeds. lam a
guard in the employ !Jf the Leeds and Selby Rail-
way Company. I was in charge of
.the train that left
Leeds at seven o'clock on Friday morning. When we
ar-
rived at Selby, the engine eras attached to the Selby and
York train. The carriagesfrom Leeds, which I had accom-
panied, were put the last on the train. Before we
started for Selby, I went from one end of the train to
the other, and ascertained that all the " couplings 7,
were safe. I noticed that a truck followed, and was
attached to the tender, between it and the passenger
train. There were six carriages from York and Selby,
and five from Leeds, and 000waggon with passengers'
luggage, making altogether eighteen. Everything ap-
pearea to me, as far as I could see, to be safe and right.
I observed nothing calculated to excite any alarm, or
apprehension of danger.
having
ironn that it would
be safer to put trucks, . or castings upon
them, behind the passeng,er:carriages ; for if anything
fell from them, they v!ou.d in that case do no harm to
the passengers. It is considered conducive to the
safety of those who may be passengers to place the pas-
segers' carriages at a distance from the engine. It
is,n therefore, usual to place the goods between the engine
and the passengers'earliages, as in safer thecident hap-
pening to the engines it w.ould be for passengers
that the passengers' carriages should be placed last. In
this case, were the engine to get off the line, the car-
riages at the greatest distance from the engine would be

the most secure. I have seen this occur, and it is the
cause from which accidents are most to be apprehended
on railways. Before we started from Sol'iy I did not
observe whether the casting was fastened to the truck
by any ropes. This casting bad come from Leeds, but
not by the train which I arrived by.
The CORONER asked how the casting had come from
Leeds to Selby? One of the Company's servants
answered that it came by the goods' train.
Mr. Blarke, in the Company's employ, stated that
the speed of the carriages having been slackened, they
might have gone over without being overturned.
Examination continued—We were travelling, at the
time the accident occurred, at our usual speed.
The inquest was then adjourned till nine o'clock on
Tuesday morning, at Loftsome-bridge inn.
The table of the machines, which was the occasion
of the accident, now lies at the side of the road, and is
a ponderous article, weighing upwards of three tons and
a half. In falling on the south line, from which it re-
bounded under the cariages, it has penetrated the
earth, and actually cut in two a stout sleeper.
About one o'clock a hearse arrived from Hull, ac-
companied by a post-chaise, containing a relative of
Mr. Veltman, and at two the unfortunate gentleman's
mortal remains were removed for interment at Hull.
What renders this awful catastrophe still more la-
mentable, is the heart-rending bereavement created in
the young family of Mr. Veltman. His amiable wife
was awaiting his return in the station-house at Hull,
when, instead of her eyes being gladdened by his arri-
val, she was destined to hear the appaling intelligence
of the tragic event. She is left with three young chil-
dren, and is now enciente. Mr. Veltman was only 36
years of age, was a native of Germany, and has been
in an extensive business as a general merchant in this
country about-15 years.
The only clue as yet found calculated to lead to the
identity of the woman is the following mark on her
chemise—" E. Lee, No. 3."

SWINDLING-CAUTION TO THE

PUBLIC.

An account appeared in the London papers a short
time since, of a " gentleman,' accompanied by a " lady,"
having hired a valuable horse and gig of Mr. Mellett,
of Egham, under the pretence that he was only going
to Hounslow, and that he would be back in two or
three hours. The parties were traced the next day, by
Mr. Mellctt, to the New Inn, at Bedfont-gate, where
it appeared they had had an excellent luncheon without
paying for it, and that the "lady" had borrowed a silk
cloak of Mrs. Retthew, the landlady, under the pre-
tence that they would return to dinner at four o'clock,
having ordered lamp chops and peas to be ready at
that hour.

Nothing further was heard of their movements, or of
the horse, chaise, harness, or cloak, until within the
last day or two, when Mr. Mellett, after driving
over a great part of Surrey and Middlesex, at last
got scent of the party, and traced them to
Twickenham. At that place he found his chaise in
the possession of Mr. Smith, a respectable coach-
maker of that town, with whom it had been left by the
swindler, to be " thoroughly repaired and newly paint-
ed." The fellow, however, diddled Mr. Smith out of
a much better chaise, which be borrowed for a fort-
night, while his awn chaise was undergoing the repairs.
He represented himself as Captain Shaw, of Hampton
Court, and stated that be had bad six weeks' leave of
absence. Mr. Smith, not exactly liking the appearance
of his customer, dispatched a person to Hampton
Court, to make the necessary inquiries, where he found
that a Captain Shaw had certainly just had leave of
absence for the time he had named. The coachmaker,
thus deceived (for the fellow must have had some
knowledge of the respectable gentleman he personated)
lent him his chaise, and has not seen it since. During
the short period that the messenger was gone to
Hampton to make inquiries, Mr. Smith asked the
swindler (who was not aware of this) to walk into the
dravring-room and take a glass of wine, for the purpose
of beguiling away the time. The moment the soi disant
Capt. Shaw entered the room be cast his eyes upon some
old portraits, and exclaimed, with great apparent warmth
of feeling," Why bless me, Mr. Smith, those are the very
same old family portraits 1 have been anxiously looking
for ever since my poor father, rest his soul, died in 1830.
Pray, where did you get them ?" " I bought them at
a sale, some years ago," replied the coachmaker. " Aye,
that's very likely," replied the other. " I dare say
they have been hawked about from sale to sale ever
since the dear old man died. If you've no objection
to sell them, fix your price, and I should be most happy,
my dear Sir, to buy them." " I don't set much value
on them," said Mr. Smith, " but I should not like to
take less than a guinea each for them." " A guinea
each ! my dear Sir," said the victimiser ; " I'll give it
with pleasure—put them into the chaise." Into the
smwhe hreas going
nots o
seen
on, in a few ay
thechaise the five portraits were put, and off drove
d ssin,
ce and
.
sharper the swindler, promising to return, to see how the
re pearsto
hism chaise
r.
it
at the five
same time with the guineas for " the family
portraits."
After leaving Twickenham, Mr. Mellett traced him
to Richmond, where he found the horse he had hired of
him at EBham, at the livery-stables of Mr. Wayland' at
Cumberland-yard, of' whom he had hired another horse,
under the pretence that his own was unwell, and that
he would return the next day. Mr. Weyland has not
since seen either " Captain Shaw" or his horse, which
the harness the knave " borrowed" of Mr. Mellett

exactly fitted.
Upon further inquiries being instituted, it was disco-
vered that ho had got one pound advanced upon the
cloak (his "lady" bad borrowed of Mrs. Retthew)at the
George Inn at Twickenham, and that he had offered to
dispose of the " family portraits" as undoubtedly Van-
dyke's and Sir Godfrey Kneller's, to a party at the
Black Horse, at Richmond, for two guineas. The
sale, however, was not effected, but there is no doubt
that, long before this, they are safely deposited in the
store of one of hi: " uncles." On the day before he
hired the horse and chaise at Egham he was at Wind.
sor, where he sold a fine Norwegian puppy to an inn-
keeper (who had not the most remote idea of the cha-
racter of " Captain Shaw") under the pretence that " it
was a great bother to him, and he wanted to get rid of
it." There is very little doubt that this is another of
his " borrowings" or unpaid for purchases.

THE SABBATH•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sut,—ln the debate of the 14th inst. (The Sun re-
port) on Mr. Hume's motion for opening the British
Museum and National Gallery to the public on Sundays
after divine service, at such hours as the houses of the
licensed victuallers, or sellers of beer, and gin-shops, are
now legally open, Sir R. Inglis and Mr. Goulburn as-
sumed to themselves a high religious superiority above
the proposer and supporters of the motion : " systema-
tic desecration of the Sabbath—commencement of a
system by which the Lord's-day should be treated as
a common one—by which, as far as the amusements
of the people aro concerned, there should be no differ-
ence between the Sunday and the Nonday—dang,er-
ous step of sanctioning, any species of amusement on
the Sabbath —of recognising Sunday as a day of
amusement—of violating the Sabbath by epel;ng
places of amusement—thence other and worse innova-
tions—thence a revolution fatal to the morals and reli-
gion of the people "—such are some of the expressions,
whereby these two eminent organs of religion, that is,
of the religion of the Church, or what claims to be the
Church of England, declared their conscientious aver-
sion and opposition to the motion, upon the ground and
principle of the amusement of the people being a dese-
cration of the Sabbath.
Now, what says the Lord and Founder of the Sabbath
what commands he concerning his own institution, and
the observance of it ? " Remember, that thou keep
holy the Sabbath day ;" to keep a day holy, is without a
doubt, to devote it to its appointed use—whether the
days of labour to their labour, or of rest to its rest ;
" six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hest
to do ; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord
thy God ; in it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou
and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy
maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within
thy gates :" he forbids labour on that day—nothing
more, nothing else ; he does not forbid play ; rather, by
forbidding labour he would seem to permit, to sanction,
play ; I had almost said, and why should I not say,
that he actually invites and encourages to it ? Yes :
unless there be found elsewhere some modification of
the commandment, or some definition of the term, to
the effect that in certain passages the word labour is
to be taken as meaning also play—otherwise I am
free to confess the persuasion which I feel, that both
the gambols of the liberated labouring cattle, and the
pastimes of the liberated labouring people, were con-
templated by God as parts, and pleasing parts of the
appropriate celebration and consecration of that da-.
which he ordained to be peculiarly his own—to be
observed in a peculiar manner to his honour and glory.
He proceeds to give the reason of the institution :
" For in six days tise Lord made heaven, and earth,
the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh
day ; wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and
hallowed it." And the probability is that be had so ar-
ranged the order of his creation for the express purpose
of providing, stamped with that high authority d
are stnd
ora-
ex-
ample, such a grateful recurrence of repose an
tion for those who should be doomed to the lot of ser-
‘itude and habitual toil. The repetition of the com-
mandment in Deuteronomy, c. v., speaks more decidedly
to this point, where the following emphatic addition is
made to it—" That thy man-servant and thy maid-
servant may rest as well as thou and sympathy with