The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1876-12-01 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

DERBY. s A. tragical affair occurred at Derby on Saturday last. 'lwo men, one named Benjamin Mellor, aged 46, whose residence is in hensington .etriset, and irames Stevens, aged 241, who lives at 4n. 19, Canal street, Derby, and who work in the Midland Compaq, snghie shed, at Derby, had a fatal quareet on day morning last. It appears that they owe engaged in loadiug'fire bricks, and on Saturdar morning ciim-1 minced what is called " larking " by throwing 'eaten each other. The larking resulted in quarreling, and Mellor pushed Stevens on one side of the shop, Stevens retaliated, and Mellor then pushed him a eee..nd time against a day tub. Stevens then got enreoperate& and, picking up a crowbar, he infltoted a murderous blow on the head of Mellor, fracturing his *sill. Mellor was ay. once conveyed to the Derbyire Infirmary, but be died at half-past two o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, Before Melloeddeath &elme was apprehended by Police-constable Harley of the Derbyshire constabulary. The murdered man leaves a widow and four children. Stevens is unmarried.  MURDEROUS ASSAULT IN A RAILWAY T 1 c4tau,ko-p. • •, ttmtießrE TtIDE WITH A Lt.:CAT:Ib, passengers by the 11.43 express train from Line street, Liverpool, to Chester, Nov. 24th, to catch the Irish mail, were alarmed as they •ereslowly rounding I the ,harp curve just oui side Frodshani station bylaw. I ing the dr., blow the three sharp shrill whistles Intimativg daoger, and the hasty stoppage of the train In ohthrt tunnel on the Liverpool side of Frodsham. Among the pa.emigers was Mr. Unwin, a commercial traveller, aid ic looking out of the c.d.riage to ascertain what was the wetter, he saw. man ve ninon hat hurriedly bolt through a ci.rriage window, scattering the glen in all directions, followed by another fellow, who ran down the ntiotboarti, and endeayoured to get into another carriage just as the guard came up and pulled , him back. He eluded the grasp of the guard, and dodged round to the other side of the carriage and I threw himself on the metals but the train came to a I seanost at that moment. The guard endeavoured to s raise him, but the fellow graepei the rails so Mood' may that it was found absolutely impossible to pull him away without the aid of three other teen. He screamed and shouted like a madman, and then tile , passengers were horror-stricken to observe an elderly well•dressed gootlematt, with his tam, hands, and bream cowered with blood, gesticulating violently at the same window. When they went up to Min and he was libjrated, he swooned, and he was carried off to Dr. Robinson's surgery, at Frodshars, where his left thumb was amputated. In the meantime, the man who had endeavoured to commit suicide was detained in custody of the streionmaster at Frudettatia, and it then transpired that the two men in the compartment were Thomas Holm; • of No. 3, Schofield street, Wigan, and his son Thomas Holm', of No. 3, Vulcan street, Gersten. When the gentleman got better he said his tame was Mr. A. J. Ellis, lithographer, 27. Ratcliffe streey 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 cost' beg Frodebam station, when the younger man jumped on his feet with an open knife in hie hand, a called out to me," You --, I will put this into He seized tie by the coat, and made a Mortal plunge at toy throat with the knife. I thought , that his object was robbery, so I handed him my purse containiog £5. Ioe. in gold, which be pitched through the carriage window. I then knee that I tens struggling with a madman. He continued to attnapt to cot toy throat with the knife. I was underneath him at full length on the seat. He kneh on my breset, and an be was thrusting at my throat I laid hold of the hand that contained the knife and kept him at bey for a minute, and then his father got behind him and held his hand, and it was at that titoe within an inch of my throat as he stood over me. Ile then got up and struck the knife out of his hand, mid he turned and struggled with his tether, whoui he forced into a corner f the carriage. He hen went to a window, smashed it all to pieces, caught me by the middle, and attempted to phch me through. He carried me to the window, but he failed, and then he got toy left-hand thumb into his mush, bit right through the glove, and nearly severed lot thumb from the hand. He then leaped through the earringe window, but I caught him by the heels and held bins hanging out of the do IC for about a wile, till I fainted from lose of blood, just as the train came to a standstill outside Frodshent. I do not recollect any more after that. The prisoner, who le evident lye lunatic, was detained at Frodshatn, company with his tehee. who was in liquor at the time. MR. BRIGHT ON THE EAt•