The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-17 00:00:00

N 7 JANUARY 17, 1848.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR

WOKING.

(FURTHER PARTICULARS it
It appears that the train which leaves Southampton
for London at 5.30 rem., and is due in London at 50
minutes past eight, proceeded on Friday evening as
far as the Farnborough station without arOhing
particular occurring; but shortly after lkiving that
station something was fund to be wrong with tie
engine; and on arriving at the point we have teen-
tinned above the train was brought to a standstill.
On this every precaution was taken to prevent acci-
dent by the other trains which might be on the line
running into that which had become stationary, the
second guard, Brownsmith, being sent clown the line to
exhibit his red lamp as a token of danger to approach-
ing trains. but, as the result proved, unfortunately
without; effect. In the meantime the engine-drivei-,
David Markland,- who was considered one of the best
and steadiest drivers on the line, being a fitter as
well as a driver, proceeded to examine the engine,
and, having discovered that the eccentric strap was
brdken, to repair the injury, and to tie up the i
clack of the fet'd pipe. While' so engaged a luggage
train was observed to be approaching, and a man
named West *as directod to go down the line and
look after Brownsmith, to impress upon him the ne-
cessity of xnaking hie signal understood by the driver
'of the lugs-age this was about forty minutes
'pest 'eight,- the train' having then' been stopping
neatly three-quarters: Of an. hour. At this moment
Markland desired the fiest guard, who was. holding a
light, to' enabje.bip 10, see.-to• make the repairs, to
,telLahe various pissengers laidao had got ont`of the
to a-est-life -their SeSi. Mdny of them did so;
and immediately afterwards,` notwithstanding thd
signals, the goods train ran into the back of the
passenger train, and drove it forwards with
considerable force, by which the ash-pan of
the engine struck Markland, who was sitting
under the engine, fracturing his skull in a most
dreadful manner, breaking his left arm, and
leaving him lying dead between the rails. The
collision also caused considerable damage to the last
four Gosport carriages of the passenger train, by
which some of the passengers were rather severely
injured; the stoker of the passenger engine, Thomas
Calvert, and Thomas Fortescue, the guard of the
goods train, being also dreadfully injured. About
half-past eight o'clock, the train being half an hour
behind the time, Mr. Miller, the company's agent at
Woking, dispatched a pilot engine up the line to look
for it, at the same time delaying the Guildford train,
which arrives at Woking at a quarter-past eight.
Shortly afterwards a man came down to the station
with the information that an accident had occurred,
and it was feared that Markland was killed. Mr.
Miller immediately dispatched messengers for medical
assistance, and proceeded with the Guildford train to
look after the passengers, but had got a very short
distance when the pilot engine was seen approaching,
bringing a portion of the train with it. Mr.
Miller consequently returned with the Guildford
train to the station. At the station Messrs.
Jackson and Waters, surgeons of Woking,
Mr. Miller, and Mr. West, the station clerk, paid
every attention to the sufferers. Mr. Waters, with
Mr. Scott, a director, went to view the body of
Markland, left behind. On arriving at Nine Elms,
Fortescue and Calvert were conveyed to St. Thomas's
Hospital, accompanied by Mr. Fletcher, when it was
discovered that Fortescue, who it is believed was
thrown from the train while applying his break, had
sustained a compound fracture of the left arm, and
several very severe contusions of the scalp, which
appear to have affected his brain, as he has been
raving mad ever since ; and though amputation of
the arm must take place, it has not yet been deemed
prudent to perform the operation, as, while he remains
in his present condition, very little hopes can be
entertained of his life. Calvert had the index finger
of his right hand destroyed, so as to render imme-
diate amputation necessary, his lower jaw fractured,
and some severe contusions upon his head ; but at the
last accounts he was proceeding very favourably.
The passengers who were injured were conveyed to
the Railway hotel, opposite the Nine Elms station,
where they were immediately attended by Mr.
Statham and two other medical genttfnen, when it
was discovered that the principal sufferer was the
Rev. Mr. Hutchins, of Atherstone, Stoke-upon-Trent,
who had sustained a fracture of the thigh. It ap-
pears that Mr. Hutchins has for some time laboured
under a stilt knee, and was sitting in a second-class
carriage with his leg resting upon the seat, when two
or three other passengers were thrown with such
force upon his leg by the collision of the trains as to
break it just above the knee. Mr. Hutchins was
accompanied in the carriage by Miss Hutchins, who
is rather severely cut in the forehead; the Rev. Mr.
Richings, whose arm is much contused ; Mrs. Rich-
ings, who received several contusions and a general
shock to her system; and Mr. Hutchings, a brother
of the Rev. Gentleman, who was so slightly injured
as to he able to leave the hotel yesterday. Four or
five other passengers, igis believed, were also slightly
injured by the broken glass, and by being thrown
from their seats, but no exact, information can be
obtained on that subject, as they were enabled to
proceed to their homes on the Guildford train
arriving in London, which it did about eleven o'clock,
P.M., instead of twenty minutes past nine, its usual
time.

IRELAND.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

DUBLIN, JAN. 14.—The spirit of insuh.mlination.
which has so long pervaded the sontli and we,t has
lately, it seems, manifested itself in th, hitherto
peaceable county of Wicklow. legEvpia 2i ail
says—
" On Saturday night two villains entered the house
~f a man nhined Jones, a work:nan in thi,
of Mr. Hume, and living in a cottage on the deinestie
of Humewood. They came in search of arals. Jones
happened to be from home, bat his wit*? W.,s:ob!iged
to get up and let them in. They made her light a
candle to search for arms, which was the object of
their visit. Not finding any they left„ saying they
would return again when Jones would ba at home.
They then proceeded to the village of Kiltegan,
was close by, and posted o: a tree on:the fair green a
threatening notice, ill worded and worse spelt, and
scarcely legible, but purporting to be written by the
Tiperary boys, who fear no one,' and saying
Nighty-six landlords and agents must die, and then
naming Mr. Robert Sunders, old Dick Fenton (Mr.
Hume B:agent), and Mr-Pendred, and ending with
the words, ‘. Revenge, revenge! Victory, victory !'
Now, perhaps, there is not a distri:A in Ireland where
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the people have less to complain of than in the
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it. At this moment the weekly average is 400 met:
and boys engaged in draining, fencing, awl other irn-
provements over the Humewood estate. And not
resting here, Mr. Hume has issued an order to his
steward to refuse no one :euiployinent.,.who may
,see,k,
it, till the works laid oat are completed,, and. whiciji,
are so extensive as to require at the present average
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ing notices in this part of the hitherto peaceable
county Wicklow ; a short time back Ur. Pierce Ma-
r-t
Ma-
hony, of Grangecon, was served, either himself or
steward, with a threatening notice; and so was Mr.
Greenham's steward, of Stratford-on• Slaney, and
others that we could name. An investigation is now
going on into the above matter, but there is little
doubt the miscreants do not belong to the neighbour-
hood of Humewood or Kiltegan electoral division,
but are from the neighbourhood of the town of Bal-
tinglass, which is the property of Lord Aldborough,
an absentee landlord, which is in a most wretched
state; besides this, there have latterly been several
strangers from the disturbed districts prowling about
the barony of Talbotstown, Upper and Lower, but
upon whom we are given to understand the authori-
ties have an eye."

THE MURDERS AT CASTLETOWNROCIIE.
An inquisition was taken on Friday last at Castle-
townroche, before Mr. Richard Jones, County
Coroner (assisted by Sub-Inspector M'Leod) and a
respectable jury, on the bodies of Catherine M'Carthy
and Margaret Reynolds, her niece, whose deaths were
mentioned in the Reporter of Saturday last. 'lt
appeared in evidence, that the aunt, Catherine
M'Carthy, kept a huckster's shop at Castletown-
roche, by which she acquired about 601., and having
got into delicate health lately had brought her niece
to attend to the business. That two men came to
her house to lodge on Tuesday night week, one of
whom was in the habit of lodging there before. They
sat down by the fire, and spoke in a friendly manner
to the deceased, who were the only inmates of the
house; but one of them kept his head down when
persons came in, for the purpose of concealment. In
consequence of the door and windows being closed
all day on Wednesday, and up to three o'clock on
Thursday, the neighbours suspected that some-
thing wrong had occurred, and sent for the poliee,
who broke open the back door, which
was bolted inside. The front door was
locked and the key taken aw4y., On entering a
bedroom next the kitchen they fo id the aunt and
niece lying dead in the sam he 'niece was
quite naked with the bedcloth rr over her..
There was a considerable quantity of Moth and some
blood in her mouth, and the mark of a large finger-
nail under her jawbone ; the back rind shoulders were
quite livid, the body was cold and stiff, and life ap
peared to have been extinct for at least a day. Tne
aunt lay near her, with a small piece of whipcord tied
tigatly round her throat. On searching up stairs,
one of the beds appeared to have been recently slept
in by two persons, two boxes were broken open, some
small articles in them were tossed about, no money
was found but a halfpenny in a drawer; a dry blad-
der, such as is generally used as a purse, appeared to
have been turned inside out, as if rifled of its contents.
Mrs. M'Carthy's cloak, two coats and sinalclothes
which belonged to her deceased husband were mis-
sing; a pair of old trousers, which appeared to have
been recently worn, and wet, were left behind. Mi•
chael Troy (who lived next house to the deceased)
and several other witnesses, proved they saw the two
strangers in the house that night, and deposed to other
very important facts.
1)r. Tuckey, having been examined at great length,
proved that the deceased came by their deaths by
strangulation.
The jury found a verdict accordingly.
JAN. I.s.—There is but little intelligence of note
from the provinces to-day ; and beyond a few of the
ordinary cases of assault on the person and robberies
Of arms in Tipperary and Longford, the accounts
would seem to indicate that the Special Commission
has not been altogether sped in vain ; and that a ces-
sation of murder may at least be calculated upon.
In the Queen's County four men have been remanded
fcr further examination on a charge of conspiracy to
murder Mr. John Robinson Price of Westfield-farm ;
while from the same quarter it is reported that
" Captain Fireball from Kyle" continues to ply his
vocation after the following fashion :
" A threatening notice was served on the house of
John Lalor, of Trummera, and a shot fired into his
window. The notice was signed Captain Fireball,
from Kyle.' It ordered Michael Hogan to give up
working on the railway, or death would be his doom.
It also stated, no stranger would be allowed to stay
in the place. On the same night a shot was fired
through the window of Daniel Kenna, of Trummera;
and a notice posted on the door, signed, Your truly
Fireball from Kyle.' It intimated death to one
Michael Carroll ; if he, a stranger, continued to work
on the railway that he would be shot."

THE REV. MR. TIGHE AND MR.

JOSEPH HOL NI ES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—With the sole object in view that I may not
lie open to the charge of asserting that which I am
not prepared to avow, I beg to observe that the state-
ment which appeared in The Sun of Friday last, re•
lative to an occurrence in the Roman Catholic Chapel
at Ballaghadiren on the 6th instant, is substantially
correct.
Allow me to add, that when I alleged my brother
had expended 20,0001. in keeping down the markets
in his neighbourhood, I meant that he had imported
into the district provisions to that amount (at great
risk to himself from the rapid fluctuation of prices),
which he disposed' fat first cost. His means, which
consist of a fee-simple estate of 1,100 acres in the
county of Sligo, would obviously not admit of his
sacrificing so large a sum as that mentioned.-1 have
the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
A. E. HOLMES.
5, Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, Jan. 15.

A small appointment became vacant recently in
Dublin, viz., that of Solicitor fir Examining Bills of
Costs, conaected with the Auditing of Public Accounts
in Ireland; the office was offered to Mr. J. M. Cantwell,
an active and able solicitor in Dublin; but we under-
stand that the Lords of the Treasury, after further in-
quiry, have decided upon reducing the emoluments of the
office, which will now be discontinued as a separate ap-
pointment, and the duties will, in future, devolve upon
the Crowe Solicitor ir. Dublin.
EXTRAORDINARY CASH OF BIGAMY.—An extra-
ordinary case of bigamy was investigated on Saturday at
the Cheltenham Police-court A richly dressed female,
who has lately introduced herself into fashionable circles
in this town, under the name of the Lady Ada Alice
Wyattville, was placed in the dock, chargt d with bigamy.
From the evidence produced against her it appears that
she was married on the Bth of November, 1838, at Ken-
sington Church, under the name of Octavia Sarah Moore
de Bellevue (at which time she described herself as the
daughter of Lucius Moore de Bellevue, Marshal of
France) to Mr. Henry Wyatt, architect, son of Mr.
Matthias Coles Wyatt, the celebrated sculptor. Subse-
quent to the marriage the parties went to reside at
Boulogne-sur-Mer, but they separated after a short re-
sidence there. It further appeared, that in May last the
prisoner was charged with bigamy at the Marlborough-
street Police-court, London, by intermarrying with a
person named Kolles, from which charge she escaped.
The offence now charged against her is, that she con-
tracted marriage, on the 17th of December last, in the
parish church, Cheltenham, under the name of Lady
Ada Alice W 3 attville, with Mr. Thomas Hinckley,
civil
engineer, her first husband, Henry Wyatt, being
a
live
at the time. The prisoner was fully committedtrial
at the next Gloucester assizes.
DEATH OF MRS. DAwsoN, SISTER TO SIR ROBERT
PEEL.—We regret to state that this lady, who had been
ailing for a considerable time, died on Saturday morn-
ing, at a quarter to five o'clock, at the temporary resi-
dence of her husband, the Right Hon, George Dawson,
at Brighton. She was eldrst daughter of the late Sir
Robert Peel, and was consequently sister to the ex-Tro-
mier and to? LOT Ileuley,