The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-22 00:00:00

CHARGE OF CHILD MURDER.

A great deal of excitement has been created in
the neighbourhood ..f Handcross, in con, equence of
the arrest of Mr. William Barncroft Young, a far-
mer, who has lately taken Newstead Farm, on
Shelly-plain, adjoining Carter's Lodge, and his
wife's sister, Elizabeth Salvage, who acted as ser-
vant, on euspicion of destroying the illegitimate
child of the latter, and concealing its birth at Barrow,
in Lincolnshire. It appears `that Young, who is
said to be in possession of considerable property,
occupied up to about a month since, a farm at Bar-
row, which he left in a mysterious manner, having
disposed of his property ' • and suspicion arising
among the neighbours, who had noticed the altered
appearance of the female prisoner a short time
.previoliA, Mr. Superintendent Holman, of the
Liucolnshire cousi abulaiy, visited the premises,
and finding that the soil of an old garden or or-
coard had been disturbed, he examined the spot,
and found at the depth of seven feet the body of
a child recently dead. A warrant for the appre-
hension of the prisoners being issued, Mr. W. Hol-
man succeeded in tracing them into Sussex, .and
after a vast deal of trouble, discovered their where-
teouts on Sunday week. He called on P. C.. Ho-
lden, E.S.C.; stationed at Crawley, and directed
him to be ready at four o'clock the .next morning,
when they started with two others in a horse and
cart for Newsy sad, and appreheuded the prisoners.
It se 'ins that Young was well provicl-d for defence,
as a six barrel revolver was found lying on a table
in his room, but before he had time to use it the
police secured the weapon, which was loaded and
capped. Th,3 male prisoner's wife expressed a wish
to go With them' which the superintendent allowed
h.q. to do on condition that she paid her expenses.
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l'Oungaamittei that he had dug a hole in the gsr-
'ion for the purpose of finding gravel ; but denied
my knowledge of the child being buried there. It
:oems that snortly b.3fore he left it was observed
'hit the hole had Been filled up, and both the pri-
ouors wero sc. ea as early as four o'clock in the

morning of the same day in the. orchard. They
were taken awi►y by train for Burton-on-Humber,
Lis:coin-hire, on Monday morning, to undergo an
examination before the LineDlnsbire magistrates.
Brighton Guardian.

ACCIDEAT ON THE STOUR VALLEY

RAILWAY.

On Toeßdily evening a collision occurred on the
Stour Val;ey Railway, between Dudley Port and
A!bion stations, which, though not producing fatal
ionecquciaews, was the cause 'of severe bruises to
veral persons. It appears that when the five
p.m. train from Birmingham, propelled by two
engines, was approaching Dudley Port, some men
ore engaged at a crossing near the latter station
in shunting a ballast train on to a siding. The
evening b ing very foggy, the engineer ot the pilot
engine was Triable to i-oe the signals hoisted to pre-
vent a collision, and the consequence was that the
passenger and ballast trains came into contact. The
check thus produced was severe, and several of the
pa•sengers were cut and bruised, whilst others were
shaken. The stoker of one ot the engines to the pas-
senger trein sustained a dislocation of one of his
elbows, and a wedd,ng party, who were travelling in
a c -impartment of a fir st-class carriage, partly com-
posed of gla,s, suffered lacerations on the face by
tte breaking of the glass of a coupe on their being
forced against it. The pilot engine was damaged
to tome extent, but little injury in addition to
this was caused to railway property. The passen-
ger trlin which was due in Wolverhampton at
about half-past five, was delayed for the space of
about two hours ; it did not reach this town until
forty minutes past seven. Information of the
accident was promptly conveyed by telegraph to
the High Level station, from whence an engine-
was speedily despatched, conveying Mr. Dunn,
Dr. Fraser, and Mr. Dehane, jun., to afford what
rid was necessary for the injured persons. Mr.
Haines, surgeon, of Dudley Port, was also in at-
tendance. Fortunately all the,sufferers, with the
exception of a few per Sons, were able to proceed on
their journey. Those who were delayed were taken
to Mr. Hanc-ck's inn, at Dudley Port. The
following is a list of the casualties :—Captain
Benjamin Mesher, an American captain, lacerated
wound over right eye and nose; Mr. Downes, corn
fac-or, Newcastle, contusions, and bruise on fore-
head ; Thom :s Coner, servant man to Mr. Murray,
near M,ncliester, bruised hack ; Mrs. Cooksey,
sister to Dr. Cooksey, Isle of Man, contusions ;
Mr. !Cc-ling, contused bead ; Joyce, the stoker,
fractured and dislocated elbow ; Mathews, engine-
driver, contused spine and other injuries ; a man
of colour bad his lip cut through, and severalother
parries received slight contusions. Wolverhampton
Chronicle.

CHARGE OE ADULTERY.

A young and rather handsome woman named
Raux, was ou Wednesday placed at the bar of the
Ttibuttal of the Correctional of Police to answer
the charge of adultery, and a man named Berger
was tried as her accomplice. The woman's hus-
baud having stepped forward to give evidence, she
folded her arms and turned towards him with a
look of mingled insolence and contempt. Raux
stated that his wife, after having for a long time
led him a wretched life, some time ago went off
with the male prisoner. " That's a lie ! You
drove me from your house !" said the woman.
"Shortly after," continued the husband, "thee
commissary of police accompanied me
, lodgings of the woman .a accomplice,
her ocomtop lice
and we obtained positive proof of their
guilt. I reproached her
for her shameful
conduct,
and she .threw several things at my
head !" The woman shrugged her shoulders with
contempt. " The manner in which you act," said.
the President to her, "is not becoming !" "I
don't think so I" " But I do ! And I tell you
diet when a woman is accused of so grave an offence
as you are, she ought to behave with modesty !"
"It is my husb.tud, sir, who is altogether wrong
in the affair ; he had mistresses, and used to leave
me alone in the house 1" Berger made no attempt
to deny his convection with the woman, but said
that he had believed her to be unmarried. The
tribunal sentenced the woman to six months' im-
prisonment ; the man to a fortnight's imprisonment
BURSTING OF THE RiviNGToN WATER PIPES.--Con- and 50fr. fine. The woman, on hearing the con-
siderable alarm was created among the people residit g 1 detnnat;on, turned to her husband, and eyed him
in the neighbourhood of the valley lying between Coe . scornfully from head to foot ; after which she left
ley-hill and Denton's-green on Friday night last, by tt • the bar laughing.
sudden bursting of one of the huge Rivington water
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pipes, by which Liverpool is supplied. All the small 'if SHEFFULD.—
brooks, ponds, and ditches in the neighbourhood were FALL OF A Row or BUILDINGS
Ws 'alarm was ex.
soon overflowing, and in two hours there was an eaten- About ten o'clock last night on
fcGibeirdalerar-street, a central
sive river of about 200 yards wide, covering potato, ins- I cited in the neighbourhood of
of
a row of new shops,
ture, and stubble land, and reaching past Denton's-I part of Shtfaeld, by the fall The accident is
green-lane to the brook, upwards of half a mile. Mr. nearly approachinageou
re character of the erection. The
Clarke, of St. Helen's, at once proceeded to the hydrant attributed to theinao
thick beams of wood supported by
at Moss-bank, and there stopped the progress of the front walls rested
a.foun
foundation work on which rested the
water ; but for some time after it continued to rush out, ; iron pillars;
w'rayb,
and
the beams of wood without their
as the breach was made near the centre of the valley 1 pillars g
avi,re unequal to the sustenance of the surer-
some two or three miles long, and it (Lid not subside no- 1 euppotortr:
The beams broke in several places, and the
til Saturday evening. Some idea of the force may be I strtto
came down with a loud crash. Fortunately
imagined when it is known that the pipe burst under-
I brickworko
person was near at the moment. Nearly all the
neath, and the water threw up the earth, sand and soil,
nkwor, even of the partition walls and back part of
and carried it away, leaving a hole of 11 feet 6 inclei;res
;the premises, will have to be taken down, the damage
deep, and 48 feet by 9 inches wide.—Weiverletamp !
being estimated at 5001. or 6001,—Manclosto Guardiam4l
Chronicle.-