Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1889-11-30 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER BY A  PRISON WARDER.  ILL-TREATMENT OF A PRISONER.  An inquest was held on Tuesday on the body of William IL Gatliffe, • prisoner in Strangeways Gaol, Manchester. Deceased had been committed to gaol for being drunk and disorderly. He was found to be suffering from delirium tremens, and was sent to the prison hospital there. During Friday night he was strapped down, and the warder in charge, a man named Anthony Mitchell, is alleged to have beaten him, knelt on him, and otherwise ill-treated him. Ile was found next morning with his breastbone broken, most of his ribs fractured, and his body covered with bruises. Among those who witnessed the aaaault were Dukes, the man who is to be tried to-morrow for the Bury murder, and the man in custody on en.picion of being concerned in the Atherton murder, and another man awaiting his trial for manel iughter, and they were called as witnesses. l'hey all declared they would have interfered and thrashed the warder but for fear of prejudicing their own easea.—The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Mitchell,  "WOMAN, LOVELY WOMAN I"  Ladiesare proverbially half an hour behind time; but if every luckless swain who sten& socking the top of lila stick, while awaiting the advent of the adored one, were to preeent the lady with a new short-wind Waterbury Watch (as perfect a timekeeper 64 the most nosily chronometer), fewer engagements would be broken off, and the world would be all the happier.— Verb. *ay.  A telegram from Now York says the Wiison Line screw-steamer Santiago, of Hull, has been burned at sea while on a voyage from New York to Hull, with a cargo of cotton. The flames broke out in the hold on the afternoon of the 18th inst., when the ship was off Sable Bank, and owing to the greasy nature of the cargo, spread with furious quickness. In vain the ' officers and crew combated the flames, trying ' among other expedients injecting steam into the hold. It soon became evident thaX it was impossible to save the vessel, and the crew of fifty-five and three passengers had to seek safety in , the boats. These were launched none too soon, and although all got safely into them, the °serape was a narrow one. The passengers were Mrs Knight (who was nursing her young infant,) C. Toy, and Mr W. Wadsworth. Throughout the night the castaways drifted in their boats, suffering from cold and want of comforts, but happily not imperilled by the rough sea. Mrs Knight, who amid the excitement and alarm of the fire had behaved with admirable bravery and coolness, fainted during the bight owing to the cold. In the morning the boats were sighted by the ship Fuller, who rescued the wanderers and brought them to New York. Some of the officers sustained injuries to their eyes in battling with the flames. Messrs Wilson, agents, estimate the loss of the vessel at 350,000 dollars, and the cargo at 375,000.  Fifty-five of the crew and four passengers of the steamer Santiago were landed at New York on Wednesday. The captain states that at half-past four on the afternoon of the 19th inst. smoke was seen to be issuing from beneath the poop deck and between the joining of the butts, where a quantity of cotton was stowed. The hose was quickly got out and directed upon the fire, but by this time the mass of cotton was ablaze from one side of the vessel to the other, the flames having spread with great rapidity. Despite the strenuous efforts made to subdue the fire, it continued to spread rapidly, and the steamer was put before the wind, but stopped at half-past five, the steering gear having been burned away. The Santiago was abandoned at nine o'clock the same evening, she being then a mass of flames. A gale springing up at the time, the boats were separated. The A. J. Fuller was sighted at daybreak on the following day, having been attracted by the burning vessel, and all the boats were soon found, and their occupants rescued from their perilous position. The ill-fated vessel had a number of cattle on board, and while some were roasted, many escaped into the sea and swam among the small boats, lowing piteomily. The captain cannot account for the outbreak of the fire. He only knows that it caught the cotton. Every precaution was taken. He believes that the boats could not have lived much longor in the heavy sea running when they were picked up. The Santiago was a steel-plated vessel, only four years old, and was bni.4 by Mears `Otir, htiddlettbroate