The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1876-12-01 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

MURDEROUS ASSAULT IN A RAILWAY  CARRIAGE. TERRIBLE RIDE WITH A LI:ATIC.  The passenget s by the 11.45 expreFs train from Lime atreet, Liverpool, to Chester, Nov. 24tla to oath the rich mail, were alarmed as they arm slowly ',eluding the ,harp curve just ow side Frodshani station by hearine the driver blow the three sharp @Lilll whistles iniiittatii,g danger, and the hasty stoppage of the train in a short, tunnel on the Liverpool side of Frodsham. Among the pa-sengers was Mr. Unwin, a commercial traveller, and et looking out of the carriage to ascertain what was the -neater, lie saw a matiwitheuthat hurriedly holt through we triage window, scattering the glass in all direc,..heis, followed by another fellow, who ran down the tooteoard, and endeavoured to get into emit her carriaee just as tee guard came up and pulled him but. .He eluded the grasp of the guard, and dodged round to he other side of the carriage and threw himself on the metals, but the train Caine to a static, 'll at that. moment. The guard endeavoured to raise him, but the fellow graspet the rails so tenacieosly that it. was found absolu e:y impossible to pull , him away without the aid of three other men. Lie screamed and shouted like a madman; and then the passengers were horror-stricken to observe an elckriy welldressed et—tilt-mien, with his fees, hands, and breast covered 'with blood, gesticulating violeutly at the same window. When they went up to him and he was librateci. he swooned, and he was carried off to Dr. Robinson's surgery, at Frodsham. where his left thumb was atupetated. In the meantime, the man e Ito had endeavoured to commit suicide was detained in custody of the stationmaster .at Frodsham, amid it then transpired that the two men in the compartment were Thomas Holm., of No. 3, Schofield street, Wigan, and his son, Thomas Holies, of No. 3, Vulcan street, Garston. W hen the gentleman got better he said his oante was !If r. A. .1. Ellis. lithographer, 27, Rateliffe s reer, Liverpool, and gave the following particulars of what had happened : I got in at Lime street with two men, and we proceeded all right till we were just entering lert,dshatu station, a hen the younger titan jumeed on his feet with an open knife in his hand, and called out to me," You --, I will put h, is into aom" He seized toe bv the coat, and made a desp,ate pluege tnt niy throat with the knite. 1 thought that his object was robbery, so I handed him my puree coulsilhig £5. it, in g.bd, which he titt,e,ed through the carriage window. I then knew tuat lix MB strit,gling with a madman. He continued to attempt to cat my throat with the knife. I was underneath hint at full length on the seat. He kiwi on toy breast, and as he was thrusting at my throat, I laid hold of the hand that contained the knife and kept him at by for is minus and then his father got behind him and held his band, and it was at that lime within an inch of my ti mat as be stood over me. lie then got up and struck the knife out of his hand, itoil he t mated and struggled with his father, whom he forced into a corner of the carriage. He hen went to a window, munched it all to pieees, might me by the middle, and attempfed to ptch me threugh. He earried me to the window, but he failed, and then he got. my left-hand thumb into his mouth, hit rigid through the glove, and nearly severed itly thumb [runt the hnnd, lie then leaped through the carrier window, but I caught. him by the hems and held him hanging out of the door for about a mile, till I fainted from loss of blood, just as the train came to a stands, ill outside Frodsham. I di. not reeollect any tuore after that. The prisoner, who is evidently& lit it woe detained at Frodsham. io dompary with his t hr. who was in litauor at the time.  MR. 13 I ICi ti T O THE EAThIN Q