The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1877-01-12 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

THE ARLESEY RAILWA Y DISASTER. The inquest on the victims of the Arliney collision was concluded on Jan. 4th.—Mr. Stirling, locomotive engineer, spoke to the excellent character of Pepper. the deceased driver. The trains might have been pollee up within 1200 yards and, had there been a continuous brake, in less tiue.-- lir. Oakley, manager of the Gnat northern Railway, stated that the company had been 'reconsidering the regulations of the block system, and had resolved not to allow any passeLger train to follow I another train into a station until the first train has left the station at least a quarter of a mile, or has fully , shunted.--Captain Tyler read his report, to the effect that the accident was caused by want of caution on the part of the deceased driver in running at incautiom speed, but in much greater degree to absence of ado. quote rules for carryiag out the true principles of block working, and to the want of more efficient brake power throughout tie express train.—The jury, after forty minutes' deliberation, returned a verdict to accordance with Captain Tyler's opinion, adding that the officials at Arlesey did all they could under the regulations they were working under.  TILE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A PRIPST AND A SOLICITOR, Some further proceedings were taken In the City Police-court, Blanchester, on the 4th lost, in the extinct, dinary ease of a charge of attempted murder of a Welsh girl by administeling a drug to her. On Jan. let, the Rev. Father Jackson, of the Church of the Holy Name, Manchester, was charged with the olieuce, and the case was dismissed, and on the 4th, Mr. George Shippey.solicitor, who W. unable to appear on that day, and was louder arrest in hi, bedroom, surrendered at the court. The police had previously being withdrawn from his house, and on the case been called, the solicitor for the police offered no evidence. Mr. Shippey'. counsel demanded that the case should begone into, but the magistrates permitted the police to withdraw from ft—lt,. Taylor, barrtter, then applied for suns. rant for perjury against the girl Morris, who alleged that she bad had a poisonous drug administered to her by Shippey at his office, and Father Jackson had afterwards dragged her through the street to a neje-Floming house whilst she was unconscious. It was sts j that in Jemmy, 1873. s bill in Chthoery ear filed by Messrs. Attwood, eolfcitors, Aberystwith, on behalf of the children of a woman named Morris. One of she children living in the Home of the Good Shepherd, in Manchester. the authorities of that pleat applied to Mr. Shippey, on her behalf, and the further conduct of the case was entrusted to blob The girl Josephiue Morris, against whom the implicit. Mon fore summons for perjury was now made, wee Aisaen to Mr. Shippey by the. matramot7tho home tewhich she had been sent by the magmtretee when brought before them on a charge of admiring prootitus ti.m in the public streets. On one occasion whew she was at Ms oftice Father Jack.no celled. and Mr. Shippey, knowing that the was living a loose life. requested the reverend gentleman to speak to her rboot her conduct, and belie] no. This wee. the only oceaelon on which Father Jackson raw her until he was arrmted and taken to her bedside. On the by on which she alleged that the attempted murder took place she did cell at Mr. Shippey's ollice to consult him about meteors is which he was acting for her, and at her request the clerk was vent out of the room, and the Interview was private. It was given In evidence that she WM only in the office three minutes, That when she left nothing was the matter with her; and it was proved that she did not return to the oll'oe, which Mr. Shippey left shortly after her visit. He drove to his father ha-law'e inn cab, and never again left the house until after hews,, arrested. Mt. Shippey was put into the how, and he denied on his oath that he administered anything to the girl; and other evidence was given to show that the story told by her In her depositions taken when she was supposed to be dying, and her testimony lathe police court, were false, The magistrates granted the vrarrant, the Stipendiary remarking that the great difficulty of the prosecution would be in rvgard to the plea of hysteria, from which she was said to be suffering when she told her story. and ender the influence of which the counsel for Father Jackson on the previous healing, raid that she had invented the whole story.