The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1874-09-19 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

MANY INATRED. residence, in that town. For a use little time past A terrible collision occurred late on the 11th Mr. hunt's manner and appearance attracted some r on the Great Eastern Railway at Thorpe, attention, but there was not the slightest suspicion i- st.t two miles from Norwich, by wl.ich seven- that the unfortunate gentleman had a suicidal tenteen' persons were killed and about forty injured. dency, neither can any reason be assigned for the The 8..10 p.M. mail train from Great Yarmouth was painful act. He was in affluent circumstances, Tun into by the down express train from Norwich to held an important and lucrative office, and was Great Yarmouth. The shock was awful. The in pr.ctice as a sclicitor. cu Saturday morneg , when they met, must have reared ing he came down to breakfast at his usual into an almost perpendicular position, and the hour, and the servants heard him enter the carriages mounted one on the top of another, gra.du- breakfast room. His letters were lying ready all sinking down into an inconceivable onos of for him, and it seems he opened and read them, as rarbish and ruins. rie inhabitants of Thorpe, they were found placed in his methodical umnnet hearing the frightful crash rushed into the open on the table. Shortly afterwards be wmit he ,rd to air, netwithstandarg the fact that .toe rain go upstairs, and after a while the servants heard a was coming down in torrents, and the sight noise, which sounded to them like a glass falling. which met their view on arriving at the s etre of Presently the noise was ',parted, and the servants the catastrophe was appalling ; the groans of tire went into the garden to see if the looking-glass i iajured passengers, and the frautio shrieks ant peals for help which proceeded from those who had really been blown from the bed room window I by the wind, but observing it in its place they reap. wero living and still within the carr.ag,lB, were I turned to the house, and went to the deceased's Ih bed room. Finding the door fastened, they sent eartrending in the extreme. Dr. bade was in the Lowestoft train at the time of the for his nephew, Mr. 'nomad Hunt, who speedily wcident, and although cut about the face arrived, and, ascertaining that the bed roots door andgreatly ehaten, he .at once did all he was still secured, he went personally for Mr. 2ou•d to alleviate the agonies of his fellow suf.. Na.son, surgeon. They returned together, end feiers. Dr. Frandes, who was also in the train, forced open the door, when a most painful was, we learn, dangerously wound. 11, Erna a course spectacle presented itself. Mr Hunt lay in a co'uld rendet no aesistanee. Special t.ainis brought pool of blood, faintly breathing. On examination he the dead and wounded, as they were recovered, to was found to be quite beyond human aid, and he the city, and they were removed in the pre- lingered for about three hours, when he expired. *DC, of a large number of horror strieicen lie had shot himself with a revolver twice under people to the hospital or to their homes, as the the jaw. The first shot had not taken effect, and case might be. The sickening spectacle was far he fired a second, which inflicted a mortal wound. worse at Th rpe Hamlet. In One of the roorn-f cf . The deceased gentleman was a widower, without the Thorpe Gardens Inn, on hastily.constrileted l any family. He was appointed town clerk in suebd.. were laid some half-a elven horribly maimed cession to his late brother, in 15131, and was elected and disfigured sufferers, wh..se cries went to the , clerk of the peice on the death of his brother, Mr. hearts of ererP:rne within hearing. It should W. 0. Bunt, in December, 1873, and practised is be mentioned that the line from Norwich to Stratford as an attorney. His manners were Yarmouth and Lowestoft is a single one, and hence always refined, and he was extrenn ly courteous Ike accident. and singularly methodical in his business habits. He belonged to a family whose name has for many years been associated with the borough, and his melancholy end is deeply deplored.—Birtainghans Ng. , Tire Lavine,. ! Mr. PO,l. coroner for Central Warwickehire, held an inquest on Monday at Stratford.on-Avon, on the body of Mr. Hunt. It appeared that for some time past he has been suffering from melancholy, aggravated by an excess of professional duties. The Licensing Act has aso greatly worried him, his great fear being lest the eounty arrangements should not be satisfactorily carried out. Hie state of mind with regard to this sabject attracted the attention of Mr. W. Dickens, Chairman of Quarter Sessions, who wrote to him on the 7th instant, stating how shocked he was to Pee the state of nervous depression to which he had been reduced, and assuring Lim all would be right in the end. Mr. Adams, Record- r for Birmingham, also attemp,ed to dispel his delusion. On ,oiturday evening he received news of a relative's death, and immediately shot himself. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity."  ..1,(4A1/4 4401diy r