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London, England, 1861-01-09 00:00:00

E SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1861.

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TILE FATAL ACCIDENT ON TILE LON-
DON, CILATILAX, AND DOVER RAILWAY.

TEYNHAM, JAN. 8.
The inquiry into the frightful accident which
took 'place on the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway, at a short distance from this station on
Saturday night last, whereby James Plested and
Edward Ogden, two firemen employed by the com-
pany, were killed; and Maddison, the engine-
driven, so severely injured that he died the follow-
ing day, was held at the Railway Tavern this morn-
ing by Mr. Thomas Hills, one of the coroners for
West Kent, and a very intelligent jury.
The coroner and jury, prior to the commence-
ment of the inquiry, proceeded some distance up

the line to inspect the scene of the calamity. The
large and powerful engine which had been turned
over into the adjoining field, had been raised, and
was standing by the side of the line. It was, how-
ever, a complete wreck, the front wheels having
been rent off, and the engine itself twisted and torn

in an astonishing manner. Of the carriages com
posing the train all were destroyed with the excep-
tion of a first-class one, but the only portion of this
distinguishable was one of the seats, every other
part having been smashed to atoms. When it is
known that there were only three passengers in
the train it can be understood why the number of

deaths was not greater.
The names of the three men killed are—Edward
Ogden, fireman ; John Maddison, engine-driver;
and James Plested, fireman. Their bodies lay at
the Railway Tavern, and after the jury had per-
formed the unpleasant duty of viewing them, the
following witnesses were examined.
John Goodyear, the guard of the train, said
that he had been guard on the line ever since
the opening of the Western Extension. The de-
ceased, Edward Ogden, was fireman. The other
bodies lying dead are John Maddison, engine-driver,
and the fireman. The train to which the accident
occurred was the 7.45 train from London. It con-
sisted of two third, two second, and one first class
carriages, and a break van, in which witness was.
The train proceeded safely until approaching
the distance signal, Teynham station. The time was
about 10 o'clock. The break van in which witness
was was the last in the train. The first thing ho
felt was the carriages jumping. He then put his
break on, as he thought there was something
wrong. After that he could remember nothing
until he found himself lying in the six-foot, be-
tween the up and down line. About a minute be-
fore the accident he had looked out, and found all

safe. Witness could really tell nothing about the
accident. Ogden, the deceased, was a fireman in
the employ of the company, and was proceeding to
Faversham, but witness did not see him after
leaving Chatham. The deceased Maddison was
the engine-driver, and the third deceased, James
Plasted, the fireman. Witness saw them both on
the engine at Sittingbourne.
Mr. Stephen Williams, stationmaster at Teyn-
ham, said, at 10 3 on Saturday night he was look-
ing out for the down train, and saw it coming.
Suddenly he missed the head-light and heard a
great noise of steam blowing off from the engine.
He then ran towards the train, and met the guard
coming. On reaching the spot witness found that
the tender had left the rails, and the engine was
lying in the adjoining field on its off side. One of
the third-class carriages had crossed over on the up-
line, and was on its wheels. Of two of the first-class
carriages which occupied the train one was in the
ditch, and the other across the line, both being de-
stroyed. The other carriages were not so much
destroyed, and were reclining against the ditch.
On searching about for the bodies of the passengers
witness found the engine-driver. In answer to
witness he said he was not seriously hurt, and with
a little assistance he thought he could get up.
Witness assisted to remove him to the rails, and
then looked round and saw a first-class passenger,
who said he was not at all hurt. After telegraphing
to Faversham for assistance, witness returned to
the spot and found the two deceased, Ogden
and Plasted, and had them removed, both
being dead. Witness walked up the line,
and where the ballast appeared to be first
disturbed. The piece of iron produced was
given to him by Grant, one of the plate-
layers,who was summoned to render assistance. The
piece of iron now shown to the jury formed one of
the horn-plates off the front off-side of the engine.
The Coroner said the other horn-plate was off,
and he wished to know where it was.
Mr. Martley, locomotive manager, said it was in-
jured by the accident, and had beenknocked off since.
Witness continued—The front wheels of the en-
gine were some distance off, imbedded in the bale
last. The effect of the horn-plates coming off would
be to deprive the engine of all support. The road
had stood very well, and with the exception of
some of the rails being bent, none were displaced.
Before his death the engine-driver told witness he
could not make it out at all, as the train was com-
ing along very nicely; he had felt a sudden jerk,
and could remember nothing more.
By the jury—The piece of iron produced was
picked up about 40 or 50 yards from the engine.
Wm. Grant, a platelayer, said he was called to
the scene of the accident about 11 o'clock on the
Saturday night, and was close by when the piece
of iron shown to the jury was found. It was lying
about four feet from the line near the level crossing.
The foreman of the jury remarked that the cross-
ing in question was not a public one, but merely
from one farm to the other.
The witness Grant, in answer to further questions
put by the coroner, said the ballast was very much
torn up near the spot where the horn-plate was
found.
The Coroner said they had now discovered how
the accident had occurred, and it was useless to
multiply witnesses.
The jury then deliberated for a few minutes, and
handed in a verdict of " Accidental death, from the
breaking of the horn-plate of the engine; but how
it was caused there was no evidence to show."
The proceedings then terminated.
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TEE ACCIDENT OV THE SHREWS.
BURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.

HEREFORD, JAN. 8

This morning, at 11 o'clock, Mr. P. Warburton,
coroner for the city of Hereford, resumed the in-
quest ou the bodies of the two unfortunate women
who were drowned by the accident on the Shrews-
bury and Hereford Railway, near the Moreton. sta-
tion, about five miles from this city, on the after-
noon of Friday last.
The unfortunate deceased were, Miss Sophia
Lowe, of Curzon-park, Chester, aged 32, and Mary
Jones, of Breinton, near Hereford, aged 15, the
daughter of a labourer.
The railway company were represented by their
solicitor, Mr. J. J. Peele, of Shrewsbury, who stated
that every information which the company could
give with reference to the lamentable accident
would be forthcoming.
The jury first proceeded to inquire into the cause
of the death of Sophia Lowe.
One of the jury said an impression seemed to
exist in the mind of the jury that they should view
the line where the accident occurred.
Mr. Peele said he thought it would be unneces-
sary, but if the jury wished it they could do so.
The Coroner said the jury would be better "able
to form an opinion of that after the witnesses had
been examined.

Richard Johnson, town-clerk of Hereford, said he
was acquainted with Mr. G. Lowe, the father of
the young lady whose death they were met to in-
quire into. He resided at Curzon-park, Chester.
He had seen the body of Sophia Lowe. Her age
was 32 years.
Thomas Jones said he lived at Breinton, and
worked under Mr. E. Thomas. He hed a daughter
named Mary Jones, who was in her 15th year. She
had been staying at Letton, near Leintwardine.
She came by the train on the Hereford and Shrews-
bury line on Friday. She got into the train at the
Eye and Berrington station. He had seen the bodies
in the station, one of which he identified as that of
his daughter.
Edwin Brown, the guard on the Hereford and
Shrewsbury line, said he acted as assistant guard
until the time of the accident. The accident hap-
pened between Dinmore and Moreton. To the best
of his knowledge the accident was caused through
the breaking of a tire. The carriage of which the
tire broke was the ono next the engine. It was
a second-class carriage, and the one in which the
deceased persons were. About 300 yards before the
accident happened he discovered that something
was the matter, but he could not tell what. He saw
the ballast flying, and applied the break immedi-
ately. The train became disconnected from the
engine, and the carriage in which the deceased
were and the break van were thrown into a dike by
the side of the line. There was a considerable
quantity of water in the dike at the time—from four
to five feet deep. He believed that the place where
the accident happened is called the Haywood-cross-
ing. He was immersed in the water, head down-
wards, and after he got out he rendered all the
assistance he could to the passengers. He was pre-
sent when the two bodies were taken out of the
water. The eldest (Lowe) was then quite dead. The
other one died in about ten minutes after she was
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examined the line stce. - He used every means in
his power to resuscitate Jones. 'He had a large fire
made in the cottage and the girl stripped and her
body rubbed; it would be about five or six minutes
after Jones was got out that the body of Miss Lowe
was got out of the water. The girl never spoke.
He did not know tte body of Miss Lowe was under
water until after they had examined the carriages.
The driver and stcker rendered all the assistance
they could, and he then despatched them to Here-
ford for medical assistance. At the time of the
accident the train would be going at the rate of 25
miles an hour. nere was no means of communi-
cation between the guard's van and the engine. He
had seen the apparatus used for that purpose on the
Newport and Abergavenny line, but he did not
approve it. The guard's van was turned upside

dbwn.
Edward Jeffreys, superintendent of the locomo.
tive department at Shrewsbury, said he had been a
locomotive superintendent for 18 years, and before
that time for seven years employed in the manu-
facture of railway stock. He was at Shrewsbury
when he heard of the' accident, and he went to the
spot the same evening. It was so dark when he got
there that he could not see anything, and he left
instructions with his inspector that everything
should remain as it was until the following morn-
ing. The next morning he went down, and found
the carriages in the ditch as described by the wit-
ness Brown. He immediately proceeded to inves-
tigate the cause of the accident. He found an axle
broken and also a tire, as well as several other axles
bent ; on walking along the line from where the
accident occurred towards Dinmore, about 400
yards, on the Dinmore side, of where the accident
happened, he found the piece of tire marked No. 2,
and which he showed to the jury as the first frac-
ture ; it was lying on the right hand side of the
line, walking from Dinmore to where the accident
happened, he found the small piece of tire marked
No. 2 44 yards nearer to Hereford ; and 21 yards
from that again he found the piece marked No. 3;
and 87 yards farther he found the large piece
marked No. 4, which had evidently been dragged
along the ballast, anti which accounted for the ends
being ".burred" and for the ballast being scattered
hott by trio ThA rligtanna
between the spots where the first piece of tire was
found and where the accident occurred was 247
yards ; the accident took place near a level crossing,
and there were some side cuttings or deep ditches
on each side of the line. His attention was then
called to the position of the carriages, and he found
they had become completely reversed from the
order in which they were placed in the train. He
at once discovered the cause—the second-class
leading carriage, of which the tire was broken,
had evidently left the line between 2,50 and 260
yards from where the accident occurred, and
bore away slightly to the right, striking, unfor-
tunately the gate post of the level crossing, and
the other carriages followed in succession,
all being turned quite round. The large post of
the level crossing was broken. The speed of the
train must have been very much reduced, otherwise
the carriages would all have been smashed to pieces.
As it was very little damage was done. He had
since removed the carriages, and was satisfied that
the accident arose from the breaking of the tire.
The tire was broken into four pieces, and there was
no flaw or fault at any of the fractures, neither had
any of the fractures taken place at the welds. He
had had the dyke dammed up and pumped perfectly
dry, and was satisfied that nothing remained at the
bottom. He considered that the frost made the
iron more liable to fracture, as they had had frequent
instances both before and since the accident.
A juror—l have examined the tire, and as a prac-
tical man I consider it very bad iron for the purpose
Witness—Considered it very good serviceabl
iron, and would have worn well for a year or two
longer. He was quite satisfied that the tire of the
wheel was broken before the accident. Every pre-
caution was used to prevent accidents on the line.
They never had a tire break before, and they had
only had one axle break since the line was opened,
That only caused a delay in the train—no one was
injured.
A juror—l have observed that when a train is
in motion the rails bend to the weight of the car-
riage. Do you think that elasticity would in any
way be lessened by the action of the frost?
Witness—Undoubtedly it would. The line be-
came rigid, and that was the cause of the accident.
This concluded the evidence, and the inquiry was
adjourned for a fortnight, in order that the other
guard might be able to attend and give evidence.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING

THE MONAGHAN MURDER.

A correspondent of the Belfast Newsletter gives
some particulars in reference to this tragio event
not contained in either of the accounts already
transmitted :

" MOI4AMIAN, Jan. s.—The murdered men, Jas.
and Robert Shaw, resided in the townland, and
are said to have gathered a considerable sum of
money. In fact, I have been informed that the two
unfortunate men were worth considerably more
than £7OO. Although their circumstances, there-
fore, were considerably above the average, yet they
seem to have lived miserably. They had neither
servant, bed, nor blanket. I was pointed out the
place in which they slept, a stable (a portion of
their dwelling-house), which was also occupied by
two horses, for one of which the murdered men
recently refused £5O. It was also stated—and I
have reason to believe it—that for the past five
years they never undressed in retiring to rest, and
yet they seemed stout and healthy men. I give
you this preliminary sketch in order that you may
better understand the narrative of the murder. It
seems that the unsuspecting men repaired to the
door to speak with the persons outside. Robert
would seem to be the first to open the door, for
when found he was lying inside on the floor, his
head being towards the interior of the kitchen, as
if he had been shot from outside. The doctor de-
scribed the wound that caused death as being a
gunshot wound, entering behind the ear and going
out at the left side of the crown. While Robert
was being murdered James seems to have lost self-
possession, and must have passed over the body of
his murdered brother to reach the door, not avail-
ing himself of a loaded fowling.piece that was
found in the house undischarged, and on reaching
the door he was fired at, the ball taking a portion
of the skull and a large quantity of the brains,
which were found adhering to the top of the door-
post, the ball grazing the other part of the side
wall, where its mark is very visible. Thus you will
perceive Robert was shot near the door, James
was shot next at the door, and, like Robert, fell in-
side. When the bodies were discovered yesterday,
at 1 o'clock, James's body was lying across Robert's
legs, and from this fact it appears evident that
James was shot after his brother. A second party
is, I understand, also arrested, but the evidence for
so far is not clear against either of them. Though
this is perhaps, as diabolical a murder as you have
ever recorded in your columns, yet there is one
thing about it different to many other murders. The
deceased were quiet, harmless, inoffensive men.
Though Protestants, I believe they have been at
no place of worship for many years, never were, so
far as I know, connected with any party, and always
lived on good terms with all their neighbours. At
the same time I must observe they could not have
been murdered for their money, as it was pretty
generally known that they seldom kept any in
their house, and what motive could have led to
such an awful crime is for the present a mystery."

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Jan. 8.

GUILDHALL.—AIderman Allen having dis-
posed of the ordinary business of the day, devoted
the whole of the afternoon to the investigation of

the numerous applications for temporary assistance
from the funds of the poor-box. Upwards of 100
letters of recommendatio I were opened and exa-
mined, and although some were evidently attempted
impositions and others from interested persons—
such as landlords, bakers, and other tradesmen,
with whom the poor people dealt, the number re-
lieved with amounts varying, according to circum-
stances, from 21. 6d. to £l, or £1 108 each, was
between 80 and 90. The majority of these were old
women, almost on the verge of the grave, either
from sickness, or old age, and some apparently
from starvation. One poor creature said she was
79 years of age, and had upon her hands a son 58
years of age, who was paralysed, and unable to do
anything for a living. The magistrate kindly,
advised her to go into.the union, but like all re-
spectable poor, she entertained an aversion to enter-
ing an institution which would have separated her
from her helpless son that not even the fear of death
could have conquered. She said she had 3s. per
week from the parish, and if she could obtain a
trifle to help her over the hard weather, she would
attend her son" very carefully," and work for both.
Another ease was that of a very decent-looking
woman, 87 years of age, who said she got her living
by hard work as a charwoman •, but the most extra-
ordinary case which came under the magistrate's
observation was that of a decrepid old man, 93
years of age, who stated he had worked for Mr.
Crawsbay, the iron merchant of Upper Thames-
street, for 40 years, and during the last 14 years he
had not been able to do anything to obtain a living.
The magistrate asked if Mr. Crawshay, who is
known to be a most wealthy man, had done any-
thing to assist the applicant. The poor old man said
he had done nothing for him. The system there was
"no more work—no more pay," and he had not
been able to do any work for the last 14 years, but
the parish had been very good to him. They had
allowed him 4s. per week, out of which he paid
2s. 6d. for his lodging, so that it left him ls. 6d.
per week to live on, "and that was not much."
Thr•turuNi•thv alderman in relieving this aged claimant
with a trifle, expresses tilts surprise that Mr. Craw-
shay should have suffered an old servant, after hav-
ing had 40 years of his services, to become a burden
upon the union, without holding out the slightest
assistance to keep him from starving. He rejoiced,
however, that through the charitable contributions
to the poor box by benevolent persons as well as
public companies, the means—though he regretted
to a very limited extent—were placed at his com-
mand to alleviate a portion of the great distress
which at present prevailed among the poorer classes
in every distlict throughout the metropolis, in
consequence of the inclemency of the season.
It required the utmo3t discrimination in the dis-
posal of the poor-box funds; but he felt that where
the claims were Lc) numerous and the distress in
each case equally apparent, it was difficult to decide
what to do. If he followed his own inc!inations
the funds at his command would be totally inade-
quate to meet the wants of all the deserving cases.
He must therefore relieve, not so much according
to the circumstances of each case as to the amount
in the poor-box, which ought not on any account
to be left without the means to assist tho-n peculiar
cases for which it was first instituted. If he had
not lavished the money upon all who applied, he
trusted it had been given judiciously, and if he had
erred at all in its d;stribution, he hoped it had been
on the side of charity, as he would rather sabmit
to a little imposition than that one truly deserving
• person in distress and destitution should be
neglected.
_ _

BOW-S TREET.—Edward Bruce, who had the
appearance of a working man, was charged with
stealing a greatcoat from the War-office.
Mr, John W. Smith deposed—l am Commissary-
General-in-Chief at the War-office. About half-past
i 2 o'clock this day I left my office for a few minutes,
and on my return I met the prisoner coming out of
my room with my greatcoat on. Though I thought
there was something suspicious in the appearance
of the prisoner with such a coat on, it did not at
the moment strike me that it was my own, but on
entering the room I missed my coat, and then it
occurred to me that he had stolen it. I followed
and stopped him, saying, " You are wearing my
coat." He denied it, but I said, " Oh, that won't
dt," and made him take off my coat and restore it
to me. I then sent for a policeman and gave him
in charge.
The prisoner declined to say anything in defence.
He described himself as a gasfitter, and said he
lived in Gardner's-lane, Westminster.
Mr. Smith observed that as several similar rob-
beries had been recently committed, and as some a
the servants of the War-office had been suspected,
it would be perhaps only just to them that the
prisoner's lodgings should be searched.
Mr. Corrie concurred with this suggestion, and
remanded the prisoner in order that it might be
acted upon,
William Aukland, a repulsive-looking young
fellow, was charged with robbing Mr. Richard
Young, the Mayor of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, of
a gold watch worth 20 guineas, as Mr. Young was
leaving Drury-lane Theatre at the close of the per-
formance on New Year's.-eve.
Early on the evening in question a man named
Carney, who is employed to call carriages at the
box entrance, had noticed the prisoner loitering
about with some suspicious•looking companions. At
the close of the performance he was there again,
still with companions, though Carney could not
swear that they were the same. As Mr. Young,
with some ladies under his charge, was waiting for
his carriage, a rush was made, and his watch was
stolen. Carney saw the prisoner with the watch in
his hand, while it was yet attached to Mr. Young's
waistcoat by the chain, and then perceived the chain
hanging loose. Carney seized the prisoner as soon
as he could, bat not till he had passed round one
of the columns of the portico, when' he might
easily have passed the watch to a companion.
He pleaded " Guilty."
Mr. Young suggested that the prisoner might
assist in recovering the, watch.
The prisoner said he could not find his accom-

plice. -
He was committed for trial.

LAMBETIL—A medical practitioner residing
in the vicinity of Astley's Theatre, and one of
those called in on the discovery of the frightful
catastrophe there on the morning before, made an
application to Mr. Elliott to know if he had not the
power as a magistrate to prevent a highly danger-
ous -practice now going on at Astley's Theatre of
bringing lions on the stage, and keeping such ani-
mals in the precincts of the house, by which one poor
man had lost his life, and another had narrowly
escaped. The applicant gave a description of the
fatal scene in which the unfortunate man Smith had
lost his life, and said that the account which he had
read in the newspapers that morning, instead of
describing the catastrophe as one of a truly alarm-
ing character, and denouncing the practice of such
performances, would serve as advertisements for the
exhibition, and make the lions positively popular.
In the statements that had gone forth to the public
it was said that the lions were soon brought under
control by their keeper; but it was not so ; for he
(the applicant) could affirm that it was more than
half an hour before they could be secured. The
poor man Smith had his jaws smashed by the teeth,
and his thigh frightfully lacerated by the claws of
the lion, and while the animal was standing over
the poor fellow licking his blood a second man
came up,'and, thinking it was the stag, was about
to give it a kick to drive it away. At this instant
he saw a second lion close to and about to attack
him, and he had therefore to run for his life, and
had a very narrow escape indeed of losing it. In
the applicant's opinion, the consequence of permit-
ting such performances would be, some time or
other, a more serious calamity than even that which
had occurred ; for if one of these lions should jump
into the pit or the ring, without even the intention
of injuring any one, the terror of the audience to
get out of its way would be so great that several
lives must be sacrificed. Under these considera-
tions, and really feeling that some such calamity as
that which he had pointed out would occur, the
applicant felt it to be his duty to wait upon his
worship to know if he possessed the power of sup-
pressing such performances, and if he had, respect-
fully to solicit the favour of putting it into effect.
Mr. Elliott replied that he was not aware of any
power which the law gave him to suppress the dan-
gerous performances complained of, and the only
remedy which he recollected was by indictment
for a dangerous nuisance. A coroner's inquest
would, no doubt, be held on the deceased, and a
proper inquiry take place, and if the jury should
be of opinion that there was any negligence in
the matter respecting the keeping of the animals,
or danger in their performances, their verdict might
lead to the accomplishment of the object desired by
the applicant namely, a discontinuance of the
exhibition.
When informed by the applicant that, notwith-
star ding the fatal affair in the morning, the lion
performances went on at night with increased zest,
Mr. Elliott remarked that, to say the least, the
exhibition on the part of the management was in
extremely bad taste, and there could be no doubt
whatever that the presence of lions on the stage
without all necessary control was most dangerous,
and should not be allowed.
The applicant inquired if the Lord Chamberlain
had any power in such a case, and
Mr. Elliott said he was not aware, but no doubt
the permission on the part of the proprietors of the

theatre of dangerous or improper performances
N;ould seriously affect their license from the Lord
Chamberlain.

GREE,'NWlCH.—Yesterday morning, imme-
diately upon Mr. Maude taking his seat upon the
bench, betweel;
300 and 400 ablebodied men, prin-
cipally engaged in the southern main drainage
works, but who are at present thrown out of em-
ploy by the severity of the weather, headed by the
Rev. J. P. Courtenay, connected with the London
Diocesan Home Mission, waited upon his worship
with the view of seeking soxe relief for themselves
and their distressed families. From an explanation
entered into by the rev. gentleman it appeored that
the whole of the men then surrounding the court
had been idle since the setting-in of the p resent
frost, and consequently they and their wives; and
families were suffering the greatest hardships. It
was therefore hoped that out of the poor-box some
relief might be afforded. The Poor Law relieving
officer had been communicated with, and the usual
orders had been offered the applicants, as ablebodied
persons, of work in the union-house, but, as tb e
amount to be earned would not exceed Bd. per day,
this would be wholly inadequate to provide for
their wants. A conversation then took place between
Mr. Maude and the rev. gentleman, in which his
worship sympathised with the men in their present
position ; but observed oat the duty of relieving
the general distress existir:S in the district could
not be undertaken by the court. A few bene-
volent gentlemen had, however, interested them-
, selves in the matter, and the list of contributors
to the fund being raised had been headed by a
donation of £lO 10s. out of the limited funela placed
at the disposal of the magistrates of that court.
The Rev. Mr. Courtenay having remarked th3t he
would place himself in communication with some of
the committee of the fund, thanked his worship and
retired. The above body of men since the com-
mencement and during the progress of the southern
main drainage works have conducted themselves in
a remarkably sober and quiet manner, gaining the
respect of the residents of the locality, and regu-
larly attending various religious And social gather-
ings which have been originated in their behalf.