The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1868.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

BO W-STREET.

THE LIVERPOOL SUMMER CUP.—Joseph Smith
again surrendered to a charge of stealing various
letters containing orders for the payment of certain
sums of money, prizes won by the " Lucky Bag"
in the " Liverpool Cup Spec."i
It will be recollected that the prisoner resided
with his father, a newsvendor, in Graystoke-place,
Shoe-lane, and the prosecutor was Mr. F. Farrah,
newspaper publisher, 282, Strand. The prosecutor was
the proprietor of the "Lucky Bag," and on the occa-
sion of the race for the Liverpool Cup a " spec"
was arranged, and books containing some thousands
of tickets were sent round to different parts of the
kingdom to the agents appointed for the disposal
of them. After the races Mr. Farrah usually re-
ccived a great many tickets from persona who had
won certain sums of money, which was remitted or
paid personally to those entitled to receive it. On
the 22d of July the prisoner presented a ticket or
order (4,946) fur the payment of 545. to the priso-
ner, but for certain reasons the prosecutor refused to
pay it. It was afterwards discovered that the ticket
had been posted from Sheffield, but that by some
means at present unknown it came into the posses-
sion of the prisoner. The evidence on the last occa-
sion was completed as to the ticket 4,946, and to-
day evidence was offered with respect to ticket No.
2,232.

Mr. Thomas Onion said he resided at 36, Hors-
ley-fields, Wolverhampton, and recollected posting
a letter himself, directed to Mr. Farrah, which con-
tained the ticket N0..2,232, with a request that he
would return him tickets to the amount of 10s., the
value he was entitled to receive according to the
conditions of the " Liverpool Summer Cup Spec."
By Mr. Abrams, who appeared for the prisoner
—He sent the letter from Wolverhampton in the
usual way. He directed it and posted it himself.
Mr. Willis Clare, from the General Post-office,
St. Martin's-le-Grand, said he produced four post-
office orders purporting to be signed by Mr. Farrar,
one was from Dudley for £1 195., another from
Seaham, dated April 27, for £1 10s., another was
from Burslem, April 27, fur £2, and one from
Ipswich, June 15, for £2. Three of them appear
to have been paid regularly in the Strand, and one
through the Union Bank.

Mr. Farrah was recalled, and said the whole of
the four signatures to the orders were forgeries.
'Three of the letters ought to have come to him on
the 28th of April, and the other June 16. He had
compared the writing with that of the prisoner on
one of the tickets presented by him, and it cor-
responded exactly. His mode of getting cash for
post-office orders he received was to make a list of
the whole he received on a certain day, and send
that into the post-office in the Strand, where he
used to get a cheque for the gross amount. He
never sent a post-office order singly for cash.
-Mr. Flower wished to know how that circum-
stance was to be made evidence in the present
case?

(Thirty-one in all.)

Mr. Hyett said it showed that the prisoner had
reeeived the letters in an irregular way, as they
ought to have come to Mr. Farrah is the usual
manner.

The prosecutor said the circumstance that enabled
him to identify the handwriting of the prisoner on
the post-office orders was in comparing it with that
on the yellow ticket which the prisoner admitted to
be his.

Mr. Farrah was again recalled, and said he did not
offer an opposition to the discharge of Henry
Broad on the former occasion, because he hoped
that from him he should be able to learn how
the letters were got possession of. He received
an enormous number of letters, and Broad was the
only person who had access to them. Be wished
to discover whether the letters containing them
were stolen from his place, or from the Post-
office.

Edward Pocock, a clerk in the money order office,
163, Strand, said he recollected paying three of the
orders, but he would not say the money was given
to the prisoner.

William Bullock, clerk in the Christian World
office, 13, Fleet-street, said the Post-office order
paid into the Union Bank had been paid in by their
firm. Ile could not say from whom it was received.
Mr. Farrah's paper was the Sporting Times.
however, as a news-agent, took copies of the Chris-
tian World.

Mr. Farrah sail he had lost over 200 letters, bu
since the prisoner had been charged he had not lost
a single one.
The case was again remanded.

every possible attention. She produced two red
handkerchiefs.

Mr. Bension—Why do you produce those ?
The Complainant—They were white before I
wiped the:blood off my face. I bled profnsely from
the nose and mouth and my side was injured.
The prisoner, in defence, said that the complain-
ant was exactly in the same condition and bleeding
from the nose and mouth when he met her, and that
she robbed another man of ss.

Benjamin Bryant, No. 121 K, said that he found
the young woman bleeding very much, and the
prisoner near her. The people about the parties
said the prisoner had kicked and beaten the female.
Mr. Benson did not believe what the prisoner
said. He remanded him.

THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON 7HE
LONDON .A IVOR 7 //- IVES/Tin'.

Up to the present time the names of 28 of the
persons who perished have been ascertajned, though
the railway officials at Chester think that only from
23 to 25 passengers joined the train there. O
Friday evening it was reported to Mr. Binger, the
general manager of the Chester and Holyhead line,
that Miss Roe, of Dublin, was amongst the killed ;
but yesterday news was received here that, happily,
that lady reached her home in safety. The follow-
ing list of the killed is taken from the last return
made to Mr. Binger :

Lord Farnham, Lady Farnham ; Eliza Strafford,
their housekeeper ; Edward Outen, his Lordship's
valet ; Mary Ann Kellet, her Ladyship's maid ; and
Charles Cripps, his Lordship's footman.
William Townend Lund, William B. Parkinson,
and Christopher S. Parkinson, all of Blackburn.
William Smith, the guard.
William Henry Owen, Dublin.
Miss Caroline Lea an ,1 Miss Augusta Lea, of
Astley-hall, Stourport.

Judge Berwick, of Dublin, and Miss Eliza Ber-
wick, sister of the Judge.

Miss Louisa Symes, Ballybey, Wicklow, and Jane
Ingram, her maid.

Captain J. Priestley Edwards, Fixby-park, near
Huddersfield, and Mr. P. Augustus Edwards, his
son.

Mr. John Aylmer, of Walworth Castle, Dundrum ;
Mrs. Rosina Aylmer, his wife, and Mr. Arthur
Aylmer, his son.

Miss Rose Franks, Dundrum, Dublin.
Mr. Whitmore Scovell, of Windsor Cottages,
Croydon, and Miss Catherin'e Scovell, of Wycroft,
near Bray.
Joseph Holmes, stoker.

Sir Nicholas Chinnery, Lady Chinnery, and Mr.
Chinnery.

Mrs. Adkins and Miss Adkins, of Kidderminster.

The bodies are to be buried here on Tuesday.

There can be little doubt that additional names
will be discovered to-day or to-morrow, and, as
already stated, there is reason to fear that the
mortality is not confined to even so large a num-
ber as 33. Some small degree of melancholy com-
fort may arise to the bereaved from the belief that
the death of their relatives was instantaneous. This
is the opinion of the medical men who were on the
spot soon after the occurrence; and the fact that
not a single shout or scream was heard from any
of the blazing carriages would seem to be strongly
in support of that opinion.

DUBLIN, Aug. 22.

The number of Irish passengers who joined the
train at Chester was comparatively few, but among
them were some whose position and personal cha-
racter rendered the interest in their fate general and
earnest. In addition to Lord and Lady Farnham,
whose loss will be bitterly felt in their own county,
the Hon. Walter Berwick, Judge of the Court of
Bankruptcy, is now known to have been among the
victims. He had been travelling in Switzerland for
the benefit of his health and was on his way home.
His sister and a Miss Finch travelled with him. He
was seen speaking to Lord Farnham at the station
in Chester, and the first alarm respecting him was
excited by the arrival of his luggage in Dublin. He
was highly respected by all classes, and much sym-
pathy is felt for his brothers—Mr. Edwd. Berwick,
president of the Queen's College, Galway, and Dr.
Berwick, a physician of this city. Judge Berwick
in early life, though not of late years, was an active
politician, and rendered important service to the
Liberal party. He was one of the Commissioners
who conducted the inquiry into the inemor tble
affray at Dolly's Brae, which led to the removal of
the names of Lord Roden and Mr. B&rs from the
roll of magistrates. Since his elevation to the bench
the soundness and impartiality of his judgments
commanded the confidence of the public. Fears were
entertained that Judge Deasy, who had been ob-
served in conversation with him in Chester, shared
his fate, but they have been set at rest by intelli-
gence of his safe return this morning. Mr. 11.
Owen, another of those who it is believed have
perished, was an organist connected with the New
Church of St. Bartholomew's, and was returning
home after spending a holyday with his friends at
Chester, to be present at special services
next week. The name of Miss Franks, daughter
of a gentleman connected with the office of the
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, is also to be added
to the dismal catalogue of the missing. She was
returning with some friends who were about to
visit a clergyman in Kingstown. It is rumoured
that the Rev. Mr. Windle, of London, and Mrs.
Windle, were in the train, and they have not since
been heard of. Miss Vernon, a lady who resided
in Kingstown, is also believed to have perished.
The papers are filled with voluminous accounts of
the calamity, and every form of language seems to
be exhausted in attempting to describe its inde-
scribable horrors. It is probable that full parti-
culars have been already published in London ; but
as some of the passengers returned to Dublin
and have given narratives of what they witnessed,
it may be interesting to have their pictures of the
scene.

Some of the passengers lament that the thought
of personal danger to those in the fore part of the
train did not occur to them when they felt the con-
cussion and looked out. They saw, as they sup-
posed, only two vans on fire, and they hastened to
remove the contents. The rest of the train in
front was enveloped at the time in dark, pitchy
smoke, as if coming from a funnel, and cast
a veil over even the vivid flame which they after-
wards saw bursting forth like a stream of lava
and dashing in fiery spray about the carriages.
They saw, as they supposed, all the passengers out
on the embankment, and never suspected the ter-
rible reality. It was only when the sides of the
carriage had been burnt, so that the interior be-
came visible, and they could see the imperfect out-
lines of human:figures in various positions within
the burning mass that the awful truth was re-
vealed. It is believed that the death of the victims
was instantaneJus—that they were stifled by the
poisonous vapour; but still the survivors deplore
the fact that so long a time elapsed before their fate
was discovered, 'The carriages kept burning for
four hours.

EVENING.

The names of Captain and Mrs. Townsend,
among the missing, were probably given in mis-
take for Mr. C. Uniacke Townsend and his
sister-in-law, whose luggage was in the van, but
who entered the London part of the train, and
are safe.

The salvage, it is said, is of great value. It
includes diamonds of extraordinary size and singu-
lar brilliancy. There are a magnificent diamond
necklace, a costly diamond ring, a centre ornament
of a tiara having one large diamond, and 11 others
not much smaller. There are rubies, opals, emeralds,
gold tops of smelling-bottles, opera-glasses, 24
watches (all, with two or three exceptions, gold),
chains, clasps of bags, and very many bunches of
keys. The diamonds stood the fire better than
anything else ; the settings are nearly destroyed,
but the stones remain unimpaired. The present
Lord Farnham, his brother, the Hon. Richard Max-
well, and some of the servants of the late lord made
a lengthened inspection of these articles to- day, and
they were able to give all but legal proof that some
of the most valuable jewels, the diamonds especi-
ally, had been the property of the late Lord and
14.kcly Farnham, One jewel Lord Farnham recog-