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

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It appfmrs that the tine which the police berev•-.d
• they had fodnd yesterday to the discovery of the
scto.s in the Waterloo-bridge trngedy has not
,- stood the light of examination, and that; no infor-
, mation of a satisfactory. nature has yet been re-
, ceived to lead to the detection of _the criminal.
Shortly after 11 o'clock last night Superintendent
Durkin, accompanied by Inspector Mackenzie and
a number of the Thames police, repaired to Wat:en_
100-bridge for the purpose of making experimen
with a'bag similar to that in which the remains t.f
the murdered man • were found. The tide was r.t
. the same height as on the night of the murder. The
carpet-bag used, which weighed exactly 301 b. (the
precise weight of the bag containing the remains)
was lifted on the parapet and from thence swung
over the second parapet, The first parapet is nearly
two feet wide, and the second about two feet
It will be seen, therefore, that any person standing
on the atone seat of the recess, and holding the
bag at arm's length, so as to clear both parap#4,
must have been possessed not only of considerable
physical power, but of a- steady hand, and more
than ordinary nerve. The place from which tie
bag, was lowered was as nearly as possible the centre
of the recess. As soon as the bag cleared the second
parapet, 20 yards of rope were payed out as fast af
possible, and after the lapse of a few seconds the
bag was found to rest firmly upon the buttress.
The experiment was tried a second time wit't
similar results.
The police are satisfied, from this experiment,
that the bag could not have been deposited on t!,e
buttress by any perscn in a boat on the river be-
neath, as the tide runs so strong past the buttress
that no boat could have loeen brought up so as t
lodge a burden on it.

[Perhaps the police will be able to tell us how it
was taken from it ?]
The strength required for lowering the bag, so
as to clear the parapet of the bridge, would war-
rant the assumption that the woman was assisted
by some person who met her in the recess, and de-
camped the moment the bag was lowered. The
Weather last night was wet and stormy, and the re-
hearsal of the final act of the tragedy caused no little
interest among a number of pers.ons who collected.
on the bridge, and peered down at the police galley
as it floated on the dark tide beneath the fatal spot.
• _
CHARGE OF CBILD MURDER.

A great deal of-excitement has been created in
the neighbourhood of Handeross, in consequence 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 bia
wife's sister, Elizabeth Salvage, who acted as ser-
vant, on suspicion of destroying the illegitimate
child of the latter, and co ncealin g its bit that 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 athiug
among the neighbours, who had noticed the altered
appearance of the female prisoner a short time
previous, Mr. Saperintendpt Holman, of the
Lincolnshire constabulary, visited the premises,
and finding that the soil of an old garden or or-
chard 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-
lbouts on Sunday week. He called on P. C. Hol-
den, 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 Newstead, and apprehended the prisoners.
It seems that Young was well provided 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. The male prisoner's wife expreesed a wish
to go with them, which the superintendent allowed
her to do on condition that she paid her expenses.
Young admitted that be had dug a hole is the gar-
den for the purpose of finding gravel ; but denied
any knowledge of the child being buried there. It
seems that shortly before he left it 'was observed
thAt the hole had been filled up, and both the pri-
soners were seen as early as four o'clock in the
morning of the same day in the orchard. They
were taken away by train for Burton-on-Humber,
Lincolnhire, on Monday morning, to ustderga an
examination before the Lincolnshire magistrates.
Brighton Guardian. .

ACCIDENT ON THE STOUR PALMY
RAILWAY.

On Tuesday evening a collision occurred on the
Stour Valley Railway, between Dudley Port and
Albion stations, which, though not producing fatal
consequences, was the cause of severe bruises to
several persons. It appears that when the five
pan. train from Birmingham, propelled by two
engines, was approaching Dudley Port, some men
were engaged at a crossing near the latter station
in shunting a ballast train on to a siding. The
evening being, very foggy, the engineer of the pilot
engine was unable to E•ee the signals hoisted to pre-
vent a collision, and the consequence was that the
passenger and ballast trains came into contact. The
shock thus produced was severe, and several of the
passengers were cut and bruised, whilst others were
shaken. The stoker of one of the engines to the pas:-
senger train sustained a dislocation of one of his
elbows, and a wedding party, who were travelling in
a compartment of afirst-class carriage, partly corn-
posed of glass, suffered lacerations on the face by
the breaking of the glass of a coupe on their being
forced against it. The pilot engine was damaged
to some extent, but little injury in addition to
this was caused to railway property. The passen-
ger train 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
aid was nceessarypfor the injured persons. Mr.
Haines, surgeon, of Dudley Port, was also in at-
tendance. Fortunately all the sufferers, with the
'exception of a few persons, 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 Mosher, an American captain, lacerated
wound over right eye and nose ; Mr. Downes, corn.
factor, Newcastle, contusions, and bruise on fore-
head • Thomas Coner, servant
' man to Mr. Murray,
near Manchester, bruised Lack • MIS. Cooksey,
sister to Dr. Cooksey, Isle of Man, contusions ;
Mr. Keeling, contused head ; Joyce, the stoker,
fractured and dislocated elbow ; Mathews, engine-
driver, contused spine and other injuries ; a man
of colour had his lip cut through, and several other
parties receivedslight contusions.--4Volverhamptom
Chronicle.