The Express. — 1849-12-26 (London, England)

AID SCARBOROUGH RAIL- 6, WAY.—On Claistmes-eve a frightful event occurred at the It foot of Matton-bridge, within a short distance of the station eta at that town. The line crosses the Scarborough turnpike- et. road at this point on a level, where the latter passes etat of 9 Matton to the adjoining parish of Norton, with, of course, , the usual gates, and a gatekeeper in attendance to close and "" open them as the teethe on the line or road requires. The so mail train from Scarborough is due at Matton at 6 o'clock, to shortly before which period a man wee observed lingering to. about this thoroughfare, which is one of the leading ones of 25 the neighbourhood. He entered into conversation with the 210,„ gatekeeper, asking when the train was due, which line it ," came upon, and questions of that nature, when at length the se gatekeeper signalled its al preach, and warned the deceased 40 Ito remove himself out of danger. Instead of doing so he end- to duly cried out that his object was to meet the train, that he r. as w tired of life, and darting forward threw himself across ," the rails in front of the approaching engine, which passed over; him, severing his limbs. and scattering them about es the line in venous directions. The act was witoessed by 12‘ several persons, one of whom endangered his own life by an 10 ineffectual attempt to rescue the deceased. The progrese of t?, the train is slackened at this crossing, in consequence of Its 111. Proximity to, the station, but it had sufficient impetus 97 rto effect the object contemplated by the deceased, in os consequence of t destruction. nd determined manner in which OS las courted his The deceased was named Si. Skelton, aged about 21, the son of a labourer living at Old w„. Melton, and bad for some time been employed in repairing 7§,. the roads in the vicinity. The only presumed reason for his Ay committal of this act I. that he laboured under an inter- 50 nal disease of a peculiar character, and which he cortidered, St. as perhaps it was, incurable. The mother of the deceased is 20f senant and charwoman in several familes in the neighbour- Is' hood, and happened to be engaged at the house of a gentle- 21 man not far from the scene of the catastrophe, when a ; 12 messenger came in on other business, detailing in the we- t. sence of the mother, but without knowing who she was, the particulars of the incident which had happened to a persoo of the name of Skelton. Thelpoor woman at once felt snared ro , that the deceased was her can, a fact which was shortly is afterwards confirmed by the arrival of her husband. MURDER OF A PUPIL, AND SUICIDE OF MS St. Turoz.—The Lyons Gazelle of the 19th of Dicember re- r ports an extraordinary and very mysterious cue of aimons. tion and suicide. The crime was perpetrated at the Chateau d'Arcy, near Marcigny, in the department of the Saone-et- 00 Loire, and the details are sufficiently dramatic to obtain for it a place in the annals of "celebrated crimes." M. de St. 1.,.° C— the owner of the manor in question, which he in. 1e id throughout the year, had en only son, an interest- 10 lag child 9 years of age. He was not only handsome, but 20 very precocious ;he was the pride of his parents, and their 10 opulence rendered this heir of their fortunes doubly dear. 10 In order to avoid the pain of separation, and to prevent 11 their child from being contaminated by the pestilent moral 34 atmosphere peculiar to schools, in which a hireling is allowed 30 to usurp the plane of the parent, M. de St. C— had Iris 10 son educated at home. The chi d loved his master, and pro- 10 fited by his instructions. Oa Wednesday, the 12th of Ds- 30 cember, the child left his mother for the purpose (u he tl alleged) of copying a theme. At 3 o'clock the dinaer-bell rang, and Madame de St. C— ordered the master and lo pupil to be summoned to the board. But, ales! what a 50 spectacle did the school-room present! The unfortunate 115 child lay stretched on the floor, and the tutor also, the latter in a pool of blood. The wretch had cut his own et throat after having murdered his pupil with a bludgeon. as The deepen of the mother and the grief of the aged father on his return in the evening laden with Christmas presents St. for his child we will not attempt to depict—the task is too 23 painful. The detestable deed was, it appears, the result of a long and premeditated design. The monster of an assassin had been treated with the utmost kindness by his patrons, el and enjoyed every comfort. An infernal envy et the prosperity which he witnessed around him prompted him to to plot an act of fiendish vengeance. He could not brook the 20 superior fortune of his employers •he was disgusted with ?,51, his own subaltern part, and Satan accordingly prompted LI him to perpetrate a deed the object of which was to resins to hopeless misery the objects of his rage and jealousy. The guilty ruffian was too cowardly to await the consuming' SO of his crime, and" breathed his sullen soul away," a re- 60 20 pauseless and h -abandoned suicide. 20