Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1866-09-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER.—Before the County Magistrates, at West Hartlepool, on Monday, Isaac Atkinson, au under-gamekeeper in the employ of Mr Milbanke, on the Hart estate, was charged with attempting to shoot, with intent to murder, Edward Styzaker, fireman aboard a Stockton screw steamer, on the 30th ult. The prisoner and the prosecutor had been drinking together last Thursday, and during their cups had quarrelled, and in order to settle the dispute they would fight it out. Accordingly, they went into the street, and the prisoner was so exasperated that he said he would shoot the prosecutor, and lifted up the trigger of the gun and pulled, but it snapped and did not go off. He wan very much excited, and lifted up the trigger twice ag iin with the same result. Some people observed the occurrence and shouted out, and the prhomer pulled if the spent cap and dew another fi om his pocket and placed it en the nipple of the gun, and when in the act of raising the gun to his &boulder to take aim, Mr Wright, of the Victoria Hotel, rushed forward and caught hold of the muzzle of the gun, aud wrenched it out of the hands of the prisoner. The gun contained a full charge of powder and shot. On the case Wang on, Styzaker refused to prosecute, and the Bench o,taracterised the r,ffenee as a most serious one, and said the I I isoner. but for the Gap missing fire, might have been placed at the bar on a charge of murder. They trusted that thia would be a caution to him, and they allowed hint his liberty.  RICHARDSON, DENTON, DUCK, AND Co. (LisriTem.)—An arrangement for the taking hack again by the original vendors of the respective businesses forming the concern of Richardson, Denton, Duck, and Go. (limited), has, we believe. been for some little time under consideration. At a meeting of the directors and the holders of forty shares and upwards in the company, held on Tuesday, at the comp my's office, Hartlepool, it was unanimously agreel to r,commelid such an arrangement to a general meermg, ti be held on the 18th inst. Whilst the operations of the company during the past ten months exhibit satisfactory results, there appeared to be a general feeling, arising from recent events, that the same success might not attend corporate undertakings of this class as might result from private enterprise. A unanimous feeling of satisfaction was expressed by the shareholders present at the manner in which .he vendors had responded to the overtures made to them, and the arrangement will, there is little doubt, be approved by the general body at the ensuing meeting. It will involve no interruption to the conduct of the respective woiks. .  RAILWAY COLIISIoN. —During the dense mist caused by the heavy downfall of rain on Wednesday aftei noon week, a collision took place near Seaton Carew Station, on the West II artlepool branch of the NorthEastern Railway. It appears a laden coal train had put into a siding near Seaton Carew Staton to allow a passenger train to proceed to West Hartlepool. After tie train hail pissed, the coal train came out of the siding in order to follow down the line, when, before all the waggons had got oil the main line, a goods train cams up at a brisk speed and dashed into the back part of the train which wis crossing from the siding. The force of the collision was very great, and several of the waggons were smashed to pieces and their cont .-Dui scattered all over the line. The engine flew off the rails and tore op the line for a short distance, and a stoppage to all traffic took place for an hour or two. Those in charge of the goods train, through the fearful gale that was raging at the time, had not observed the signal or train until within a very short distance from it, and where it was impossible to bring their train to a standstill. As it was, the steam was turned off and the break applied, and just before the collision, both the engine nan and stoker jumped off the engine and escaped what might have proved a serious casualty, as the engine was struck on all parts by the broken fragments of the waggons as it dashed info them.