The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1872-04-05 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE CENTRAL GLAMORGAN GAZETTE-FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1872.  MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT LURGAN NEAR KEW. STEEPLECHASES. ANistressing accident occurred on the TI antes, , On Sunday morning, early, the mutilated body between Mortlair, and Kew, on Sunday aft . n cei, :of a coleier was found on the North Kent line at On Monday, the annual Lurgan steeplechases II which two respectably connected young m n loic , Woolwich, between the Dockyard and Arsenal sta. look place near Belfast. Considerable gloom was taeir lives. It appears that soon after noon t area 'titans, the limbs being literally torn from the trunk 'east over the day's proceedings by an accident of friends, named George Lillywhite, Walter Bissell, and the fragments scattered about the line for 9, ,'N very serious character. Suddenly those upwn the and Frederick Smith, engaged a pair-oared outrig leonsiderable distan ;e. The body was identified RS 'grand stand heard the creaking and crasuing of , gig from the boat house of Mr. Williams, at He.. 'that of Thomas Hinman, a private in the 23id 'b eaking timber, and the general impresion was and procseded down the rtver for a row. On near- 'Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who was seen alive and in ;that the structure was going down. Some persons ing the Queen's Head at Mortlake, they were passed 'possession of about 30s (a large sum for a soldier) jumped off, and others pushed towards what was by two steamboats, one on each side of them, and on Saturday night. On Monday, his father and eonsidered by them to be the safest corner, when going in different directions. The swell occasioned ;heir presence of mind, ordered all to stand still. mother, persons of apparent respectability, pre- two or three gentlemen in front, who had kept by the steamers completely swamped the boat, and sented themselves before Mr. Maude, the magissbe sank in tell view of those on board the ;trate Fitting at Woolwich Police Court, to declare By this means the panic WRS allayed. At the same steamers and no less than three pleasure parties in their conviction that their son had been robbed and moment, however, the minor stand came down with small boats, none of whom attempted to render any murdered, stating that there were foot marks and one shock, and 150 or 200 per pie were shrieking and assistance to the three young men who were 5,01 !other indications by the side of the cutting where struggling on the ground among the timbeis of struggling in the water. Three lads in a beat, how- I the body was found, showing that there must have which the stand had been cemposed. Medical seatsever, although some distance off, caught sight t f been a severe struggle, and that he had been vio- tance was at once sent for and soon it was diswhat had happened, and, by a brave spurt, sue. lently thrown over. The telegraphic wires, five in covered that between twenty-five and thirty people ceeded in reaching the scene of the catastrnphe ia number, had all been broken by his falling upon had received contusions, including eight or nine time to rescue one of the three drowntng men them, and they had reason to think that if the fractures of the legs or arms. The wounded, hay(Bissell), who, a moment later, would have sunk, n agistrate would institute an inquiry he would tug been extricated from the debris, were placed like his companions, for the last time. The un- fled ample evidence that a foul deed had been Cu stretchers and cars and spring-carts for removal fortunate youth was conveyed to the Queen's Head, done. The deceased ens 25 years of age, and there to town. The moment the races were over, Lord Mortlake, and placed in warm blankets, and the are grounds for believing that he had been drink- Lurgan, accompanied by his agent, Mr. John usual restorative means at length had effect upon ' 11g, on Sunday. When he was last seen alive he EL ncock, J.P., visited nearly every one of the inhim, and he is likely to recover. The nami at f the, was supposed to be avoiding a picket on the look inred persons, and kindly inquired if he could predeceased are George Lillywhite, 20, son of Mr. • out for absent soldiers, cure them any further assistance. Mr. Wilkinson, Lily white, baker, of Richmond-road, Kew ; and I station-master of Lnrgan, is seriously injured about Fred. Smith, aged 23, a painter, whose friends re- I ALLEGED MURDER IN THE ISLE OF the head and internally, and but little hope of his side at Chelsea, The melancholy occurrence has I