The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-13 00:00:00

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SHOCKING MURDEI? AT ;ROME.

FROME, MONDAY.

This neighbourhood, which during the past
twelve months has been so fraught with deeds of
blood,
is again the scene of a murder of a cold-
blooded, deliberate, and determined character. The
deed was committed late on Saturday night, but it
was far in the day yesterday before particulars

became generally known. No investigation has as
yet, of course, taken place, but we believe the fol-
lowing details will be found correct in the main :
About a week ago three labourers, named Byard
Greenland, Uriah Greenland, and Wm. Millgrove,
left their home in the rural village of Buckland
Dinham, about three miles from Frome, with the
purpose of seeking work in Wiltshire during the
corn harvest. They found employment in the
neighbourhood of Warminster, and there they
stayed until Saturday last, when all three started
for their homes. They reached Frome in the even-
ing, and visited two or throe public-houses before
they resumed their homeward walk. Soon after
eleven o'clock they left the town, all being sober,
, and apparently quite friendly. They had not pro-
ceeded far on the road to Buckland, when a slight
dispute commenced about the division of the money,
Byard Greenland, as leader of the company, having
been paid the whole of the sum for their work.
His companions were somewhat displeased at his
delaying a settlement—hence the origin of the
altercation, which, however, was of no very un-
friendly character. Byard said Uriah had damaged
a gun of his, and he should deduct eighteenpence
from his share. Uriah said that, however that
might be, it was no reason that Millgrove should
not be paid his share. Upon this all three laid
down their scythes upon the road, being about
half a mile from the town. Millgrove, who has
furnished these particulars, supposes the scythes
were laid down for the purpose of then and
there dividing the money. It would appear,
however, that this was not the intention of
Byard Greenland, for he at once rose his arm,
and directly afterwards Uriah fell, exclaiming,
" Oh, Bill ! he has hit his knife into I." Millgrove
immediately assisted the fallen man, and when car-
rying him to the bank on the road side said to Byard,
" Thee hast done 'un." Byard said, " Thee can't
swear that Bill." Millgrove replied, " I can." When
Millgrove had placed the fallen man on the bank,
both he and Byard went forward to the turnpike
gate, which was only about 100 yards in front of
them. Millgrove told Gane, the gatekeeper, of what
had occurred, and Gane recommended him to run
into the town and procure medical assistance. Mill-
grove did so. Byard, meanwhile, told Gane that
Uriah had ran against his scythe, and that it was in.
that way he got hurt. He at the same time told
Gane to take possession of his scythe, and see if
there was blood upon it. He then proceeded on the
Buckland-road, and it was afterwards ascertained
that he went into the cottage of his nephew, to
whose wife he repeated the story he had told the
gatekeeper, and afterwards, at another house, he
made the same statement. _ . .

In about half an-hour Millgrove returned with
Mr. Mallam, a surgeon, but upon their arrival the
unfortunate man was quite dead. Mr. Mallam, Ou
finding this, despatched Mil!grove back to Frome
to inform the police, and also prevailed on another
man who happened to be passing at the time to ride
to Buckland, and give information to Millward, the
police-officer stationed there, and to request him to
secure the person of Byard Greenland.
Mr. Mallam at length procured assistance, and
the body of the ill-fated man was conveyed to a.
neighbouring beerhouse, and upon examination Mr.
Mallam found that:a wound had been inflicted upon
the left breast, above the sixth rib, and that the
heart had been penetrated. Death must have been.
almost instantaneous.

In consequence of the information Police-constable
Ward received from Mr. Mallam's messenger, he
proceeded to Byard Greenland's house, and found
him there changing his clothes, evidently with the
intention of escaping. He was taken into custody,
but the examination of his clothes showed little or
no trace of the bloody deed he had perpetrated.
The Greenlands are distinctly related, and the
motive for this most deliberate crime appears to bo
that Uriah had procured a warrant against Byard,
and that the latter became aware of the circum-
stance. There is evidence to prove that he has fre-
quently threatened to stab the deceased.
The prisoner is a very giant in height and
strength. He has a wife and eight children. The
deceased leaves a widow who is enceinte, and one
child.
The knife, a dagger-shaped instrument with a
spring, which the prisoner purchased only a fort-
night ago, has not yet been found.
The prisoner is to be brought up for examination
to-day.

THIRD.CLASS PASSENGERS.

(From the Spectator.)
There is one master principle of finance which railway
directors have yet to learn, and that is that five farthings
are worth more than a penny. Once thoroughly aware of
this fact, they might possibly be induced to desist from the
warfare they have been accustomed to wage against their
unlucky third-class passengers. There are signs indeed
abroad of an inclination to strike a truce, but the terms
as yet offered still fall short of the concessions essential
to an enduring amity. They have given up stifling all
their third-class passengers. A large proportion are still
condemned to travel in huge black boxes, with port-holes
for windows, closed by a bit of board, without light, ven-
tilation, air, or the chance of enjoying the prospect.
Most of the wretched travellers are still huddled into
these dens, men and women, drunk and sober, tipsy roughs
and decent servant girls, all together, with an overflowing
surplus of sickly-faced babies between, are all told to sit on
benches ranged round the wooden cell, all sloping towards
the centre, down which runs a fifth bench, so close to
the others, that the weary victims sit knee to knee, and
as close as sprats in a barrel. These carriages are still
the majority, but they are never replaced, and a third-
class passenger who is very lucky, or very impertinent,
may succeed in getting a carriage not built on purpose to
torture. A separate carriage for nursing mothers, or for
women generally, must of course be given up, as .
tend-
ing to foster those notions of comfort and decency it is
the object of third-class arrangements to destroy. But
the new third-class vans have glass windows, and some-
times a ventilator above; the seats are fairly arranged,
and they do not all slope downwards ; and if there were
any attempt to afford a light, and risen, when drunk to the
blasphemous stage, were refused admittance, and the
guard were forbidden to' shove women in by the shoulders,
and were dismissed when he used his boots as a means of
propulsion, and some rule was enforced with regard to
luggage, and a small section of the staff were directed to
attend to the third-class carriages, those conveyances
might, to people of hardy habits and large physique,
be rendered almost endurable. Nobody would travel
in them who could help it, but then nobody would
dread such a journey as much as a tolerable severe wound,
or a short attack of fever. This concession once made
the way might be open to consider the essential prelimi-
naries to a lasting treaty of peace. The Parliamentary
passenger pays a penny a mile, or about nine times the
price charged for his own weight in goods. He cannot, it
is true, be packed quite so close, nor can he be attacked in
uncovered vans ; but then, on the other side, he does his
own porterage, and costs nothing for delivery beyond
the station. On the London and Brighton Railway there
runs every Sunday during the summer a train which covers
a hundred miles for a half-crown fare. This is at the rato
of a third of a penny a mile, a just rate when compared
with goods, and this train is exceedingly profitable. Whyte
should not the fare be permanently fixed at that ra
The directors will say the trains can be only filled
honce a
week, but that is, we believe, a delusion. Throfug pas-
like
sengers can only afford one day, but
.the mass ofewp
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tahe woasmrkisilneag".
not four times for once, but forty times.
man would travel,
has anything
Reduce the tthheoscahawrhgoe tdoesair
fearttohinbeg
acarnirillect oat
well-to-do classes would spread throng e. lower also,
as their more. The habit of locorcotion which has sphreatdh through the
and they are six times as numerous
principle that
for-
tunate rivals. In one country. only
a fair experiment
.been made in cheap fares. The Go-
GI cost of tee
foefreelntedniast started from
lower
rfrtohman theth
walk-
ing, which, as a native wears no shoe leather, appeared
an absurdly low standard. It has, however, been' reached.
In Bengal the regular charge Is three miles for a pennYs
at which rate the carriages are filled to suffocation, and
Ithierardnl:
the expenses less than 50 per cent. on the receipts,
which again yield a dividend of upwards of 13
per cent. This rate, however is still too high, and the
directors of the Bombay line 'have added a fourth class,
travelling, we believe, six miles fora penny. This is
cheaper than walking,
the cost of food during the time
lost being more than the railway fare. The rate instantly
doubled the total traffic, and though we have not yet seen
the return of receipts, it must show an increase over in-
creased expense of at least
30 per cent. It is in a similar
reduction we firmly believe, that the hope of the railway
future is to be found. The companies have satisfied the
middle class without redeeming their finances, and it re-
mains only to content the people. Low fares, pleasant
accommodation, and reasonable hours, will attract a class
before whom the present rate of passengers will seem but
an insignificant item.

His Majesty the King of Sweden arrived at Os-
borne last evening on a visit to her Majesty. Her
Majesty the
Prince Consort, on board the Victoria and. Albert,
Queen and his Royal Highness the
with the Emerald, 51, screw, Capt. A. Cumuli:4,
in attendance,
steamed out to meet and welcome
the King.