The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-09 00:00:00

A PAINFUL DIVORCE CASE.

Yesterday afternoon, Lord Penzance and a special jury
had before them a very painful divorce cause. Mr. Alfred
Milne, the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for Salford
Hundred, prayed for a dissolution of his marriage on the
ground of his wife's adultery with Robinson Fowler, until
lately the stipendiary magistrate for the city of Mau-
chetter. Mrs. Milne was formerly a Miss Brooks, and
is very highly connected, and there were six children the
issue of the marriage which took place in 1854.
Both the petitioner and co-respondent were members of
the bar and went the northern circuit. They were on
visiting terms, and one evening Mrs. Milne went out to
spend the evening and sleep at a friends. She
did not return, but the next day her hus-
band received a letter with the " Peterborough
post-mark on it. He went to London to see the respon-
dent, and ascertain the meaning of her conduct. He then
discovered the connection which existed between her
and Mr. Fowler. Those persons went to Paris and other
laces on the Continent, and were visited by the petitioner.
Several pleas were put on the record by the respondent,
but no attempt was made to substantiate them.—The
jury found the respondent and co-respondent gulty of
adultery, and against the latter £1,500 damages were
given. Mr. Fowler is a married man and has three
children. He has been married once previously, but was
divorced. The case has created considerable excitement
in the north, owing to the high position held by the
parties.

THE BROCKLEY WHINS RAILWAY
ACCIDENT.

Mr. Bernard Batigan, who was a passenger in the train
that met with the disaster on Tuesday at Brockley Whins,
writes to the Times as follows :—The day was tolerably
clear, although damp, and there would be no difficulty in
seeing a long way ahead. We went all right
till we got to Brockley Whins station, which i 9
the junction for trains from Newcastle, Shields,
and Sunderland, and through which there appears
to be a large and ceaseless traffic of coal waggons. We
had got to this station, when suddenly our carriage, which
was the seoond from the engine, appeared to rear on end
like a horse, and passing upwards, seemed to crumple uP
with a sound like that of crushing in thepalm of the hand
some stiff paper, although with a noise, of course, much
louder. 1 felt that a fearful collision had occurred, and
expected that we should be destroyed. Happily for us
it was not so ; we were able to open the door of our com-
partment and escape to the embankment, with little more
than a serious shaking. But when we looked to the fore
most first-class carriage (or what was a carriage) and the
first compartment of our own carriage, we were 'horrified
to see nothing but a mingled mass of wood splinters and
dead and dying men and women. The sight was sickening.
Help was at once given to the unfortunate sufferers, and
the dead and wounded were extricated with as much care
and speed as their difficult and horrible position would
permit. One man appeared to have been crushed literally
to a pulp, and every bone in his body was probably
broken. Several ladies were shockingly injured, but,
unless I am mistaken, their injuries are not fatal. The
cause of the accident has not, of course, been yet
clearly explained. From information hurriedly obtained
amid the confusion, it appears that the points which had
admitted the coal train on to the line from Newcastle bad
not been properly adjusted for the express train, and con-
sequently we ran on the same line as the coal train, and
into it. How any of us escaped is a marvel to me. The
engine had mounted-the hinder part of the coal train and
run over it a short way. The first carriage had been
broken to chips, save one or two fragments, which apps'
rently had been crushed out of the carriage as you would
squeeze out the pulp of an orange, and upon one of these
fragments was impaled a man, crushed to death. —We
are glad to learn that Mr. C. Pond has already taken
steps to procure a benefit performance for the wife and
six children of Mr. Frederick Younge, the well-known
actor in Mr. T. Robertson's plays, who was killed in the
collision at Brockley Whins, on Tuesday morning. Mr.
Chatterton has kindly placed Drury. Lane Theatre at the
disposal or the committee which Mr. Pond is about to
form ; and we can have no doubt of the cordial co-opera
tion of the members of the profession, with whom, as with
all who knew him, Mr. Younge was a great favourite.

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