The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-10 00:00:00

IRON-PLATED SHIPS.

A writer in a contemporary says :—Every Eng.
lishman who has read your columns containing the
interesting communications on iron-plated ships
must have been struck with their vast import-
ance. No greater testimony of their value can be
adduced than the instantaneous effect produced
by them in the official regions of Whitehall. No
sooner had your notices appeared than there was
running and rushing too and fro at Whitehall,
and now, as if by magic, the world is told that
another steel-plated vessel is ordered to be laid
down. It is to be 400 feet long, and calculated
to carry an armament of surpassing destructive
power, &c. If I am correctly informed, this
vessel is to embrace all the defects as well as the
advantages of the former iron plated vessels—
that is to say, of the Black Prince and Warrior
class. The new vessel is, in point of fact, to be
nearly the exact copy of prior forms. To be pre-
cise, let me indicate the nature of these defects,
premising that the question of the routine of the
attack and defence of these kinds of vessels has
been so ably discussed in your columns that fur-
ther comment at my hands is unnecessary.
Permit me to specify certain grave defects of
construction in iron clad ships as hitherto made
—defects which it is the present intention of the
Admiralty to repeat in the build of the new vessel.
All the iron plates hitherto employed in defend-
ing the sides of ships have been secured in position
by a series of bolts and nuts fitting intcecorrespond-
ing perforations drilled through the iron plates as
well as the wooden or iron hull of the ship itself.
Some of the belts are as much as 20 to 24 inches
long by 2 inches diameter, and have either a square
or conical head at one end and double nuts at the
other. On the impact of the shot—be it either of
the 68-pounder round or any of the various kinds
of elongated projectiles—if the plate, in a large
number of instances, be not perforated the bolts
are nevertheless driven inboard with very destruc-
tive effect. Having myself been present at many
of these trials I can testify to the grave nature of
the casualties to be apprehended unless the proper
steps be taken to remedy this defect.
At this particular stage I wish to point out in
what manner the influence of the press might be
brought to bear for the national advantage.
As soon as this defect was duly ascertained and
acknowledged by the authorities, thinking men
were devising means to overcome the evil. To my
own knowledge plans were submitted in the latter
part of last year to the Admiralty Board—plans
which, in the opinion of that Board, completely
obviated the grave defects before mentioned. Of
my own knowledge, too, I can state that the only
reason urged why the ships then building should
not be constructed was that the contracts, embrac-
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Lords could not then interfere with the execution
of such contracts without great inconvenience to
the public service. However difficult it may be
for the public to credit the announcement, it is still
a fact that notwithstanding the approval of the
new plan by the Admiralty, and the evidence of
their own committee, the old system is about to be
repeated. _

The defects of the present method of fixing iron
plating are these :-1. When struck by shot, the
bolts arc either driven inboard or broken, or the
plates are cracked from hole to hole; if the plate
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edges. 2. In a seaway it is next to impossible,
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TILE MURDER NEAR NEWCASTLE.

On Monday morning the inquiry into the circum-
stances of the death of Thomas Harrison was re-

sumed by the coroner, J. M. Favell, Esq., in the
Ship Inn, kept by Mr. Thomas Kinnaird, at Pel-
ton. The court was entirely an open one, a number
of the surrounding villagers, consisting chiefly of
women, being present. Mr. Theodore Hoyle, pm,
accompanied by Mr. Shipley, appeared to watch the
case on behalf of the widow and relatives of the
deceased; but the prisoner, Lockey, being in custody
under remand of the magistrates at Chester-le•
street, was not brought forward. Mr. Squire, su-
perintendent of police, was in attendance.
The coroner opened the proceedings by reading
the depositions previously taken.
Elizabeth Loekey having been sworn, deposed—
I am the wife of Milner Lockey, and lived at Ur.
peth Mill. He worked at the coal mines. On
Saturday night, the 29th of September, about half-
past six o'clock, I was in the kitchen, and Thomas
Harrison was in bed in the kitchen. Milner Lockey
came in and said, " Now, honey, how are you com-
ing on the night ?" I said, " What has brought
you down here the night ?" He said, " You ---,
you'll find it out before it's long." I said, " Don't
you come here to make any kick-up, or I'll be
forced to send fcr a policeman." Then he called
me a " flaming --. I said, " Lockey, can you
prove me a --- " He said, " No, I can't." I seal,
" Where's your face, or where's your tongue, to call
me that name ?" He sat down and put off his hat.
He then came to me and worked with a knife about
my breast and stomach. I knew afterwards it
was a knife. He then stabbed me through the
right thigh with a knife. It went in at the inside
above the bone, and came out at the outside. I
bled a great deal. My boy Samuel, who was in bed
upstairs, came down and said, " Oh, Lackey, don't
kill my mother, and I'll call you father-" Mr. Har-
rison spoke and said, " Oh, Lockey, don't kill your
mistress." Mr. Harrison get up in the bed, and I
gave my boy a wink to go for help. Harrison jumped
up and put his arms round Lockey's waist and said,
" Oh, mistress, take that knife out of the man's
hand; he's run it through my heart." Harrison was
bleeding from his breast. I worked on till I got the
knife out of Lockey's hand, and popped it down
into my breast. I put it in open. I could not shut
it. I spoke to Mr. Harrison twice over, and he did
not speak. "Lockey," I said, " thou's murdered that
man ; ' and he said in reply, "Ay, you --, I'll
murder ye before it's long. Harrison sat down on
the chair and never moved, Lackey took hold of
me, and brought me away from Harrison. He said,
" Now, we'll have a cup of tea together, and it'll be
the last cup of tea we'll get." Harrison was then
leaning on his hand. His elbow was on the bed.
He never moved to my knowledge. He said, " I'll
gan' through the hale fleet this night, for I know
I'll be hung for this job." He told me to put the
kettle on ; so I took to the door, thinking I would
make my escape, and he followed me for fear that
I should get out. He in the meantime asked me for
the key to lock the door. I said, " Lockey, there's
neither lock nor key on my door." He then took
me and put me on the chair. I asked him to spare
my life on account of the fatherless bairns, and he
said a second time, "I'll gan' through the hale fleet
this night." I said, " Then let me go to the door for
a few coals, honey," and he never spoke. I went to
the door and saw Hart coming, and I flew to him
directly I saw him. Another man was with him,
but at a short distance from him. I told him as well
as I could what had happened. I think I told him
Lackey had murdered the man. When Lockey and
Hart were talking I made away up the bank as far
as ever I could. I could not run. When I got round
the turn in the bank I heard Lackey coming. He had
not a hat on his head. He shouted two or three times,
" You --, take time." I called out several times,
"I'll be amurdered woman this night." I shouted
" Murder !" three or four times. I flew into Mr.
Heslop's barley field, and the gate was open for'
me. It is called the " Wheat-field," and is near the
mill. I then got away from him, and I saw him no
more. I think he went up the lane. Many a time I
tumbled down on my knees that night. I went
away to the colliery, and the first door I got to I
went in. I gave the knife to a policeman. [The
knife was here produced.] That's the knife Lockey
struck me and Harrison with. I tried to shut it,
but could not. Mr. Harrison was a decent and well
behaved man from the time he came into my house.
Lockey has ill-treated me before. I brought him
before the magistrates at Chester for assaulting me;
and many a time I would have been a murdered
woman if it had not been for the neighbours. When
he called on me a fortnight before he threatened
what he would do. I never heard him use threats
to Harrison. He asked him how long he was to
" byde," but he said he could not tell, for he was
looking for a letter every day to take him away home.
By Mr. Hoyle—l could not see the knife moving
about in the wound he inflicted on Harrison ; but
when he ran it into my thigh he gave it two or
three pushes. I believe Lackey had a little sup, bnt
not a great deal of drink in him. He appeared to be
sober. I was at that time living away from Lockey.
The magistrates told him he had not to " fash" me
any more. This is about 14 or 15 weeks ago.
John Wright, the next witness said—l am a farm
labourer with Mr. Heslop, and live at the Ridings.
It is about half a mile from Urpeth corn mill.
About half-past 7 o'clock on the evening of Sept.
29th Samuel Wilson came to the Ridings. He said
his mother had sent him, and I was to come down.
He said Lackey had com'd and killed the " bum"
man, and .was going to kill him and his poor
mother. We questioned him again, and he repeated
the same thing. I and Hart then went down to the
mill, and Mrs. Lackey came out. Lockey followed
her, but never came outside the doorstead. Mrs.
Lockey- saw Hart, and made to him. Seeing Lackey
in the door at the same time, she said, " Oh, Ned,
go in and help Lockey to bed." Hart turned to
Lockey and said, "Do you want to go to bed,
Lockey ?" He said, " No ; it isn't my bed time yet."
Hart said, " Where's t'other man ?" Lackey said,
" Oh, I'm the man." He said that twice. Hart
turned away, and shouted on Mrs. Lockey to come
back, as she was going up the bank. He said,
" Betty, come here ;" and she shouted, " Yes." She
came back, and Hart went to meet her. They spoke
together,' but I did not hear what they said. Hart
came to me ; and Mrs. Lackey went up the bank.
I believe she was walking. Lockey was still at the
door. I went to Mrs. Heslop's, and sent Richardson
for a policeman. I left Hart with Lockey.
By the Jury—l did not go into the house; and
I never saw Harrison until they were laying him
out. I was frightened of Lackey.
By the Coroner—We each had a stick.
Samuel Robinson, sergeant of police at Chester-
le-street, said—On Saturday evening, Sept. 29, I
received information that Lockey had murdered the
bailiff at Urpeth Mill, and had stabbed his wife.
In company with another officer, I proceeded to
Upton Mill. We searched a house or two on the
road, and got there about ten o'clock. I found Harri-
son dead, and leaning on the bed. I found a large
wound, about an inch and a half in length, under
his left breast. His shirts were saturated with
blood ; and there was a great quantity of blood on
the floor and by the bedside. The shirts had holes
in them corresponding with the one in his body. I
got assistance and laid him down by the bedside.
After searching for Lockey, I went to Urpeth Col-
liery and saw Mrs. Lockey in bed. She gave me
the knife produced, which was bloody. Its point is
a little turned. I have measured the blade. It is
4 inches long, or a little over. The blade and haft
together are 91 inches long. It is a new knife,
and catches back with a spring. It was bought at
Mr. Forster's shop, in the Market-place, Durham.
I have seen Mr. Forster, and he has identified the
knife. The man, however, who sold it to Lockey is
ill. I believe his name is Forster, but I am not sure.
By a Juror—lt was sold on Saturday, the 29th,
about 11 o'clock in the forenoon.

By the Coroner—l continued searching for Lockey
during the night ; and on Sunday morning the 30th
I was present at his apprehension by police-constable
Mallaby, in a pigsty behind Urpeth Mill. I said,
" Lockey, I charge you with the wilful murder of
Thomas Harrison at this place last night, by stab-
bing him with a knife, and also with attempting to
murder your wife by stabbing her." He made no
reply. After searching and handcuffing him, we
brought him to Chester-le-street lock-up. He is
now in custody there, under the remand of the ma-
gistrates.. He is not present, because the magis-
trates thought he had better not be brought, in order
to keep down excitement. When we got to Chester-
le-street, and while his clothes were being taken
off, Lockey said, " This would not have happened if
my wife had not used me so badly." He made this
statement voluntarily.
David Mallaby—l am a police-officer, and I live
at Kibblesworth. O❑ Sunday morning, the 30th of
September, I received information that a murder
had been committed at Urpeth Mill. I proceeded
there, and saw Harrison lying dead on the floor. I
then came to Pelton and joined the sergeant. We
returned and searched the mill. About half past 9
o'clock I apprehended Milner Lockey in a pigsty at
Urpeth Mill. I said, " Now, Lockey, you'll have to
go with me ;" and I took him to Sergeant Robinson,
by whom he was charged with the murder. I
searched his pockets, and found £1 Bs. 6d. in money,
a handkerchief, a watch, and a small clasp knife,
which I produce. He then asked for his hat, as his
head was cold, and I went into the kitchen for it,
and gave it to him, and he put it on. I produce
Lockey's shirt, which has blood on the left sleeve
and left breast. His trousers have blood on both
legs at the front, and on the left I^g at the back ;
also on the left skirt of his coat, It was a wet
night, and Lockey was as wet as could bp. He said
he had stopped in a holly bush in the wood all night.
John Mowbray Hudson said—l am a surgeon, and

live at Chester-le-street. On Sunday morning the
30th Sept., about 6 o'clock, I was requested by
Sergeant Robinson to got° Urpeth Mill, ari: a murder
had been committed there. I went, and saw the
body of a man lying on the floor in a cottage. I
was told his name was Harrison. He was dead.
On the left breast about an inch below the nipple
was a punctured wound, penetrating the cavity of
the chest, and aboat an inch and a half in length.
I saw a great deal of blood upon the floor and on a
quilt. He had on a flannel and an upper shirt. I
made a post-mortem examination of the deceased
on Monday afternoon, Oct. 1. I had the body
stripped, and on the left elbow was a recent incised
wound right across the joint, about an inch long ;
also other two of the same description on the tide
of the elbow. The woun lon the chest proceeded
through the muscles between the fourth and fil:,11
rib. The heart was entire and its covering. The
left lung had a large wound in it corresponding
with the wound in the chest, commencing a little
beyond is s margin, towards the centre of the lung.
A large quantity of coagulated blood was in the
cavity of the chest. I examined the heart, which
was quite empty in consequence of the loss of blood.
The large blood-vessels were also empty. The
pericardium contained its usual quantity of serails
fluid, which proved that it was uninjured. The
viscera was empty. A portion of half-digested food
was in the stomach. Tile rest of the organs were
perfectly healthy. I consider the cause of his death
was from hemorrhage from the wound in his left
lung. (Knife produced.) That knife is sufficient
to inflict such a wound.
Mrs. Lockey recalled—When Lockey came into
the house, he took off his hat and put it on the
table. (Hat produced.) I think that is his hat.
My boy Samuel will bell years of age come January.
Francis Oughton, miner, said—l live at Pity-me.
I saw Milner Lockey a week gone last Saturday
about a quarter or 20 minutes past nine o'clock in
the forenoon. I met him at the end of Framwell-
gate. He had some clothes carrying. He said
he
was coming to work at Upworth. I carried his
clothes about a quarter of a mile. He said to rue
"Things are not pleasant at home," because there
was a man named Harrison stopping with his wife,
and if the one•eyed was there when he went
home, he would put an end to them both. He said
he would not be hanged for them, as he would
put an end to his own existence at the same
time. We walked together to Pity-me. I keep a
publichouse there. He was in my house about two
hours. He had one glass of whisky, but he was
quite sober. He left between 12 and one o'clock.
He went along the Newcastle-road.
This constituted the whole of the evidence offered.
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury retired to another room, and after an
absence of about five minutes, returned a verdict of
" Wilful Murder" against Milner Lockey.
In the neighbourhood the shocking affair con-
tinues to excite the most intense interest. On Sun-
day the lonely cottage, which was the scene of the
dreadful tragedy, was visited by a number of
curiously-disposed individuals ; Mrs. Lockey hav-
ing previously granted to the bailiff, now in posses-
sion of the mill, permission to show certain parties
through the interior of the ill-fated building. The
chair, on which Mr. Harrison leaned back after re-
ceiving the deadly blow, up to Monday retained its
position at the bedside, and presented some marks
of blood; similar indications of personal violence
being observed upon some of the materials in the
bed. Mrs. Lockey, however, having resolved to
return no more to her old habitation, has taken a
house at Urpeth Colliery for herself and children,
and thither the furniture is being gradually re-
moved, She has now, to a great extent, recovered
from the severe injuries inflicted by her cruel hus-
band, but still remains in a comparative state of
weakness. The reports in circulation concerning
the motives by which the prisonerwes actuated in
the commission of the crime are numerous and
varied. Somewhat singular it is, that up to a cer-
tain period, he seemed to have spoken of his wife
with great affection and respect. It appears that
about eleven weeks ago he went to lodge with a
woman named Jane Dowson, at a place called
Leasingthorne, near Bishop Auckland. When there
he is represented as having frequently talked of
Mrs. Lockey in a eulogistic strain, and on his
return from Urpeth, apout a fortnight previous to
the murder, he told his landlady how well she
had behaved towards him. He mentioned too
that Harrison was staying with her, but never
said that he suspected anything wrong be-
tween them. On leaving that he went to another
house, where he seems to have indulged in a
similtlx tone of conversation. There, however, he is
stated to have received a letter informing him that
his wife had been at Pelton with another man ; and
by this communication lie appeared to be much put
about. The police have not ceased from prosecuting
their inquiries, with the view of rendering the
evidence in support of the capital charge complete ;
and at the investigation before the magistrates at
Chester-le-Street, which is expected to take place
this week, some fresh facts will probably be elicited.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

In the week that ended last Saturday 1,075 deaths
were registered in London. This number shows
but a very trifling increase on that of the previous
week. If the deaths in the present return are com-
pared with the average mortality of the first week
of October as obtained from the previous 10 rears
1850-59, it will be seen that the public health, as
tested by the mortality, is in a not unfavourable
condition.
Small-pox carried off' six children, measles 52,
scarlatina also 52, diphtheria 12. There were five
deaths from scarlatina in Islington East. Two
widows died, one at the age of 99 years, the other at
102 years, the latter at 6, Castle-alley, Whitechapel.
A girl, aged three months, died of " erysipe-
las, a week after vaccination ;" a boy, aged six
weeks, of" gastric irritation from impure milk." A
sugar baker, aged 23 years, was suffocated in a
charcoal cistern. And a labourer, aged 60 years,
was destroyed by sulphuretted hydrogen gas when
at work in a gaspipe.
Last week the births of 982 boys and 834 girls, in
all 1,816 children, were registered in London. In
the 10 corresponding weeks of the years 1850-59
the average number was 1,465.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.088 in.
The mean reading was above 30 in. on five days.
.
The highest point attained was 30.28 on Thurs-
day. The mean temperature of the air in the week
was 51.9 deg., which is 1.3 deg. below the average
of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The mean temperature of the water of
the Thames was 54.2 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 85, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The wind blew from the
west and north-west; on the last three days from
the south-west and west. No rain was measured in
the week.

In the 13 weeks that ended on Saturday, Sept.
29, 12,916 deaths were registered in London. That
this mortality is relatively very low will be mani-
fest when it is added that last quarter fewer per-
sons died by 1,150 than in the same period of 1856,
fewer by 1,343 than in 1857, fewer by 1,429 than
in 1858, and fewer by 3,094 than in 1859. It
will further be observed, that as the population
has increased, the smallest number of deaths
was obtained from the largest population.
In consequence of the coldness of the summer,
and the unusual quantity of rain, the diarrhoea
that carries off many hundreds of young children
at that season was comparatively idle. The mean
temperature of the air in the quarter was 56.8 deg.,
which is five degrees less than the average of four
corresponding quarters (1856-9), and six degrees
less than it was in the same period of last year. In
concurrence with this decrease of heat the deaths
from diarrhoea and cholera, which were 2,920 in
the same quarter of 1859, fell to 788 last quarter.
Certain other epidemics visibly declined; for in the
same periods smallpox numbered respectively 287
and 99; scarlatina, 778 :and 471; diphtheria, 190
and 71 ; typhus, 502 and 311; dysentery, 104 and
28; and remittent fever, 33 and 13. But several
diseases in the same class (the zymotic) were more
fatal • for comparing still the summer quarters of
1859-60 measles rose from 231 to 579 !
.• "oopteg..
cough from 243 to 350 ; rheumatism and rheumatic
fever from 58 to 76. Instead of 172 infants who
died in the summer of last year from want of breast
milk, only 100 died last quarter; and instead of 69
from thrush, only 30. The greater coldness of the
weather increased the mortality of pulmonary com-
plaints ; the deaths from bronchitis, which in four
corresponding quarters ranged from 474 to 562,r
thosewere inf thefrom
pneumonia,quarter which g
that justfrom377
to
581, were 606. Those from diseases of the heart
also rose considerably, and were
quarter
From a re-
view of the above results of the itwillbe
eobvious that a great portion,
not the whole, of
total
that improvement in the h
mortality has
which,
implied in a reduction of public
the
fallen to children, and these chiefly of tender age. .

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