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PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD.

CAPTURE OF REFORMATORY BO I'S •

On the 30th of September two boys, who hqd
been committed to the Manchester and Salford
Reformatory, absconded, and so cleverly was their
escape effected, that for some time no clue whatever
could be obtained to their whereabouts, although
every effort was made, and a detective officer em-
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boy's photograph on his admission to this reforma-
tory ; and under the direction of Captain Palin,
copies of those of the two absconders were last week
despatched to the principal seaports and large
towns in the kingdom. On their receipt in„Lmeeidsll
fitheteitmioausster
names,of the
stmateinng dieitthyaotffitehey
eimmweedireately re-
cognised them as having been relieved there under
hands" from Bury, on their way to 'York and Hull.
Communications conveying this intelligence were
at once addressed to these towns, and two days
afterwards they were captured at Hull by an officer,
who instantly recognised them from having seen
their photographs. On being brought to the police
office they told a very plausible story, strongly de-
nying all knowledge whatever of Manchester, or
any connexion with its reformatory. Suddenly
the police superintendent held up before each of the
boys his own photograph. Like an electric shock,
the effect was instantaneous ; they changed colour,
and in a few moments one of them very doggedly
exclaimed, ‘!l'm beaten; we'll give in now." A
telegram was then despatched to Manchester,
and on the followine, day the governor safely
returned with them to their proper quarters at
Blackley. The criminal history of one of these boys,
a native of Birmingham, is most remarkable, as
well as painful. Though only 17 years of age, he
has been once in each of the fellqwing prisons
under sentence London (five years ago),
Liverpool, Nottingham, Bristol, and one (name
uncertain) ; twice each in Worcester, Coventry,
Warwick, and Salford—three times in Stafford,
five times in Birmingham, and twice in Manehester,
whence he was committed to the reformatory ; in
all, 23 times, exclusive of upwards of 100 apprehen-
sions, with discharges for unproved or minor
offences, committed in various towns in England.
It is gratifying to state that, although 30 com-
mitted boys, principally from Manchester and Sal-
ford, and mostly constituting the cream of juvenile
criminality, have been received in this reformatory
in the past 12 months, and although the facilities
for absconding are necessarily numerous, yet such is
the moral influence exerted, united with the main-
tenance of strict surveillance and discipline, that
(with the exception stated) not a single escape has
been effected since it became a certified institution.
--Manchester Guardian.

SUICIDE ON =MIDLAND RAILWAY.

The subject of the late deliberate suicide on the
Midland Railway, near Cheltenham, proves to be a
man named Edward Brown, a gardener, who re-
sided with his wife and family at Shurdington, a
village in the neighbourhood. He left his home
shortly before 8 o'clock on the morning of his death,
his family being under the impression that he was

merely going to his garden ; but he did not return

again, and in the course of the day the dreadful in-
telligence was brought them that he had been cut
to pieces on the railway. The third-class train from
Birmingham was rather late on Wednesday morn-
ing, and on arriving near the Sugar-loaf-bridge, at
Churchdown, half-way between Cheltenham and
Glocester, where the train was travelling at the rate
of 40 miles an hour, the driver saw the deceased
totter down the embankment on the Glocester side
of the bridge, and deliberately walk to the rails
along which the train was approaching. He then
placed himself face downwards upon the metals, his
chest resting upon the rails, and in this position the
engine and carriages passed over him, his body
literally cut in two, his head dashed to pieces, and an
arm cut off. The train was distant about 100 yards
from the deceased when he was first seen by the
engine-driver, while the act itself was observed by
an old man, named Paul, who was watching the
train from the Sugar-loaf bridge. Paul did not,
however, observe the deceased until he had got
down the embankment. It was stated at the in-
quest (the evidence given at which is comprised in
the above) that Brown had been drinking " hard,"
and lately had evinced symptomg of insanity.
John Fox, the engine driver, made the following
statement,—" I am an engine driver in the employ
of the Midland Railway Company. On Wednesday
morning I drove the train which leaves Birming-
ham at 7.5 and. arrives in Glocester at 10.5. Nothing
unusual happened with the train except a little
delay. I was behind time about 15 minutes at
Cheltenham. Between Cheltenham and Glocester
I was going from 40 to 45 miles per hour, which is
about the speed allowed, and when I got to the
Sugar-loaf bridge at Churchdown, I saw a person
step from the embankment at the back of the
bridge. I should think I was then about 100 yards
from the bridge. I fancied he was in the act of
stepping across the line, and I thought he would
not have time to get clear of the train. I sounded
the whistle immediately, and when I got within
about 30 or 40 yards ott
him I saw him in the act
of lying down across the line. I am satisfied he
knew it was a narrow gauge train. I felt the surge
of the engine as it passed over the man. I left the
fireman in charge of the engine and went back with
the two guards to ascertain what had occurred.
The train had passed over the centre of deceased's
body. My opinion is that lie deliberately com-
mitted suicide." The jury said they were satisfied,
from the evidence, that the deceased committed
suicide, not being of sound mind. He has left a
wife and two children.

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