The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-12-01 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

MURDEROUS ASSAULT IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGH. TERRIBLE RIDE WITH A LUNATI6.  The passengers by the 11.45 esp.w train from Lime street Liverpool, to Chester, Nov. 2401, to catch the t rich mitiL were alarmed as they wereslowly rowndlog the 'harp curve just out.ide Frodehmn station by hear. log the tinter blow the three them, shrill whirlee in. timming rlhoger, and the Iseety stoppage of the train in a thort tunnel on the Liverpool side of Frodebern. ~,,, the pa...roger. ma Mr. l'nwin, • meaner.sl trencher. and tat looking out of the carriage to ...tate ' what was the matter. he saw • men withouthat h iirriedly bon through • carriage window, muttering the claw j,, alb ducetions, followed by mother fellow, who rim down the footboard, and endeavoured to get into new her earrings just as the guard eau. tip and pulled him bark. He eluded the grasp of the guard, end dodged round to the other side of the carriage and threw himeelf on the metal. but the teen came to a stethist.ll at that moment. The guard endeavoured to raise lout, but the fellow steepen the rail, so tenaeiously that it wes found absolutely impossible to poi Mut minty without the aid of three other 'nen. He mreented and shouted like • madman, and then he passenger. were horror-stricken to observe an elderly well,dreoed geitienmn, with hi. face, hands, and breast covered with blood, variant/ding violeitly at the endue window. When they went up to him and he was libereted. he .wooned, and be was carried off to Dr. Robinson'. surgery, at Frodeharn. wheat his left thumb was amputated. In the meantime the mart who bed endeavoured to commit suicide tea. detained in custody of the stationmaster at Frodehrtm, end it then transpired that del MO men in the compartment were Thome. Rohm, of No. it. Schofield Street, Wigan, and his son, Thomas Hints, of No. 3, Vulcan street, (*aims.. When the gentlemen got better he mid his italla MIS Mr. A. J. Ellis, lithographer, 27, Ratcliffe sem, Liverpool. and Rave the following particulars of what had happened 1 got In at Lime street tritit two me. and we promeded all right till 1•3 were jaw move log Frodshem station, when the younger tune jumped on his feet with an open knife in hi. hand, end called eill to Fn..," You --, I will put this into yn,..` lie seised lIIP by the eoet, land made s deeper.. plunge et my throat with the knife. I thitught that his object was robbery, so I handed lino la puree containiog £.5. 10. In gold, whieb he pitched through the centime window. I then knew that lees strangling with a madman. He mntinued to attempt to eon toy thrust with the knife. I was nederoreth hint at full length on the ..at. He knelt on my Wrest, and RP he am thrusting at my throat I laid hold of the hand that onntained the knife and kept him ably fore minute and then his father got behind him pad held his hand, and it was et that time within an Inch of my ti rust as he stood over Ine. Hs then gilt up and struck the knife out of his hand, me he turned and struggled with his father, whom he forced into a corner .if the carriage. He hen went run window, smutted it all to piece etaneht me by the middle, and attempted to pitch se th eh. He carried me to the •indow, but he failed, and then he got my left-hand thumb into his 111011'h, hit right through the glove, cod nearly severed my thumb from the hand. He then !raped through de carriage window, but I caught hits by the heels and held boo hanging out of the do ,r for about a mils, till I hunted Iron. lam of blood, just to the train arm ton mandrill outeide Frodshret. I do not meshed any more atter that. The prisoner, who. evidently. Worm. tem detained at Frodshauh. in company Mb hie ocher. ,shu, was In liquor at the hme. ,  [EST  A number of workine men of Bristol recently wrote to Mr. John Bright, asking his opinion.. to whether it would he unpatriotic on their part to engage in so demonstration on behalf of the Chnsdan populstion of Turkey. The right bnnottnble gentlemen hue now replied. Ile mil, von working men, in any interference on the part of Begiend, to urge that we support the proposidous offered be Rusha. Be says: You should condemn tins foolish sod wicked jealousy of Russia, which 'prier from ignoranos among our people, end bar bred by writer, in the press. It suite those who live out of the twenty-flee millions spent am sunny, and for the most part wasted, on our moostrom armaments, to keep up this feeling, and the intluentW among them sore constantly actiog upon the prn prietore, editors. and writers on the London non. Working men everywhere should resent this feeling and influence. If Is their blood which is shed In war. and the destruction of capital and the injury to inditstry end trade fall upon them.' Mr. Bright myh in oonelusion, that in every elty sad town the working men should den,iunce the ,dm of this threatened war, and thew should condemn the Minister whose loose, residess tongue makes iteMS more difficult to secure.  I.E'