Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-05-02 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

SCENE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.  At Abingdon County Sessions, on Saturday, Robert Dooley, 25, sailor, was charged with striking at Jane Starkey, of Wolverhampton, with a knife, and attempting to murder her in a railway carriage at Hadley. The plaintiff deposed that on the 7th she was a passenger from Paddington to Wolverhampton by the 3.30 train. She had her baby with her. Miss Stutter and another lady travelled with her. Prisoner, who was intoxicated, got into the carriage at Reading. The guard asked him to get into a smoking carriage, but he refused. There was no gentleman in the carriage. Soon after the train started from Reading the prisoner said, "That is my child. You have stolen it." Plaintiff did not answer him. He repeated that she had stolen it. The prisoner was sitting opposite to her. He drew out a buckhorn-handle knife and with this threatened her, trying also to take the child out of her arms. When Miss Stutterd remonstrated with the prisoner he threatened to take her life also. Finally he fell down upon a seat, and she suggested that they should all sit upon him. This, however, the other ladies were too frightened to do. Prisoner made some other attempts to seize the child from the plaintiff's arms. All the efforts of the passengers to attract attention were in vain until they arrived at Radley. Here the prisoner was arrested.--Miss Stutterd was examined, and stated that when the prisoner got into the carriage at Beading she did not think he appeared to be very tipsy. Some time after they left Reading she saw a knife hanging between the prisoner's legs. She was frightened that he should have a knife in his possession, because she thought he was a lunatic. She heard him threaten to cut complainant's throat if she did not give up the child. She was pulling the chord for about 20 minutes, but it had no effect. —Edward Gregory, guard in charge of the train from Paddington, said it was his duty to test the communication cords, but he did not on this occasion as the train was so short. As the train passed Culham he noticed a person's arm out of the window, but he did not stop the train as he thought it was some one playing with the cord. The company and also Mrs. Starkey intimated that they would be satisfied if the case were dealt with as one of assault, and the Bench fined the prisoner £5, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment.—The Bench thought the guard was very remiss in placing such a man in a carriage with ladies. They also thought that the communication between passengers and the guard was net good enough, and hoped this opinion would be duly laid before the company.  An Americim medical journal gives the folliming as the text of a letter recently received by a consulting physician in the States from a learned brother in some difficulty about the management of a case :—"Dear Dock, I have a pa shunt whose physical sines showes •that the windpipe has ulcarated off, and his lungs have drop into his stumick I have given hym everrything without effeckt his father is welthy honable and influenshal as he is a member of assembly and god nose I dont want to lose hym what shall X do ans by return male. Yours fiat.—." since 1889 speculation .on the Stouk Exchan2p has been largely confined to the Mining Market, which—as most of those who dabble know to their cost—is more or less hazardous. This mining mania has created a system of circularising the general public monthly by certain outside brokers, who of all others should be best informed as to the value or worthlessness of mining securities. It would certainly seem safer to trust to the opinions and foresight of those who have served a long apprenticeship to the business, than rush into the open market upon one's own misguided fancy. For instance, Mr. Samuel James, of 14, Angel-court, whose integrity in dealing with the public has never been questioned, favourably mentioned 18 Companies in his April report, 14 of which advanced in price during the month. Thinking men will'argue on this that Mr.James's monthly circular is worth procuring and following, especially as it is just announced that, with one other exception, he is the only broker who has had practical mining ixoerienes