The Sun. — 1847-02-23 (London, England)

ANOTHER MANIAC RAILWAY  TRAVELLER.  The rapidity of locomotion peculiar to railway travelling would really appear to have a most extraordinary effect on the minds of some men, if one may judge from the strange occurrences every now and then taking place on the principal lines of railway. It is only a few weeks since that the public were startled by au account of a gentleman who, after threatening to murder his companion in a first-class carriage on the North-Western Railway, leaped from the train, and by a miracle escaped with only a few slight bruises. The day before yesterday an incident of a somewhat similar character occurred on the South-Eastern Railway. A person of respectable appearance, whose name has since been ascertained to be Scott, booked himself at the Folkestone station of this line by a third class train for London. During the progress of the train his manner attracted the observation of some of his fellow passengers, but it was not until their arrival at the Godstone road station that anything of a serious character occurred. On reaching this place, however, Scott exhibited an extraordinary degree of excitement, and calling aloud for assistance, declared that his fellow-passengers were attempting to stab him with their knives. The guard endeavoured to appease him, but he insisted on getting out of the carriage. Under the impression that if the train were once in motion the unfortunate man would remain quiescent, the guard gave the signal to the driver to proceed. He had scarcely done so when Mr. Scott burst open the carriage door, and jumping en to the platform, bounded over the hedge into an adjoining field, across which he ran at full speed.. The guard observing all that had occurred, immediately stopped the train, and giving chace, came up with the poor fellow in a few moments. Partly by persuasion and partly by force, he induced him to return, and having placed him in a second-class carriage, under the care of a porter and two of the passengers, who kindly offered to undertake the disagreeable duty, the train again proceeded. After the train was in motion Mr. Scott's excitement increased, and notwithstanding the utmost precautions he contrived to force his head and shoulders through the window of the carriage, smashing the glass and frame to pieces, and being with great difficulty prevented from precipitating himself out of the carriage. On arriving at London Bridge he. was consigned to the care of the police, who conveyed him to Southwark Police-court. Mr. Pulsford attended on the part of the company, and by desire of Mr. Macgregor, the chairman of the board on the magistrate undertaking to see that the unfortunate man was restored to the care of his friends, expressed the desire of the directors to take no further proceeding in the matter. It has been ascertained that Mr. Scott is a stndent for the Catholic priesthood, and that he was on his way from a collegiate institution at Calais to Liverpool, where his friends resided, when the above facts occurred.  The late Rev. W. R. H. Churchill, of Colliton House, Dorchester, has left in funded and personal property 100,000/. To ofh el leaves ly an immediatedivided among them on the demise of their mother, to whom he leaves his residue; the household furniture and effects, and afnodu r theresiue to b e eqcarriages, to his wife absolutely; the plate between his wife and sons. There are several specific and pecuniary legacies. bequest ealcoll,ollol., his His farms and land in the parish of Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, to his wife, and at her decease to his son George, and then to his grandson George. His valuable estates and freeholds in Nuston, Bonnie, and Lowford, all in Dorset, com• prised in marriage settlement, he leaves to his eldest son, the Rev. W. Churchill, as also his freeholds in the parishes of Buckland Ripers and Potersham, who will also become entitled to his mother's separate property, and in all probability succeed to the real estates of his uncle, John Churchill, Esq. The deceased held the rectory of Winterborne Anderstone from the year 1815, and the sinecure rectory of Witherstone from 1799 until his death.  Mx. -BrNo's