By the negligence of one of the men employed on
the London and Birmingham Railway, a serious accident occurred on Thursday week, The man had omitted to put the rails in the right position at a crossing. place, and one of the morning trains of four carriages front London was thrown off the line, near the Beech wood tunnel. Three of the carriages were broken to pieces, and five passengers severely injured; wed them, a Mr. Kinnerley of Islington, dangerously.
One of the time-keepers on the Eastern Counties Railway lost his life on Tuesday last. When the train left Romford station at night, he got upon the tender, intending to jump off after he had gone a short distance : this he attempted to do about half a mile up the line, but his foot slipped and he fell against one of the carriage-steps, when the trait' passed over hint, and he was instantly killed.
A man who worked as a sawyer at Maidenhead, went on Monday last with his brother to see the Great Western train pass by. They fell asleep on the embankment, till roused by the approach of the train; when the sawyer, instead of moving off the line, went further on it; so that his head was caught by one of the carriage-steps, and being thrown under the train, he was almost instantly killed.
An inquest was held on Tuesday at Harefield, near Uxbridge, on the corpse of Moses Yates, a seller of fish' who was stabbed with a knife in the abdomen, by George Coker, :IM of fifteen. The parties quarrelled about the sale of some salmon. A verdict of" Wilful Murder" was returned ; and Mr. Wakley, the Coroner, bound Atkins, the con- stable of Harefield, to take the prisoner early on Wednesday morning to Newgate. Coker had been previously taken before the Magistrates, in Petty Sessions, at Uxbridge, but was remanded till the result of the inquest was known. Mr. Wakley said he was resolved that the Magis- trates should not have an opportunity of' superseding the Coroner's committal, as they had done in the case of Medhurst, whom they com- mitted for manslaughter after the Cormwr's Jury had found a verdict of wilful murder. On Thursday, the Uxbridge Magistrates called upon the constable to produce Coker, and were very indignant on learning that he was in the custody of the Governor of' Newgate not that of their constable, whom they threaten with the penalty of disobedience. Between the two authorities, the constable was puzzled how to act.
Mr. Chadborn, solicitor, and one of the executors of James Wood the rich Gloucester banker, has committed suicide, by hangiug himself to a beam in his coach-house. His clerks said he had been in very low spirits for sonic time, and a Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of "Tem- porary Insanity,"
Previous page
