Edward Auty, clerk to the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax Railway,
has been committed by the Leeds Magistrates for forging a Mr. Lister's name to three dividend-warrants and getting them cashed. The total amount was about 40/. Auty took advantage of his position to keep back the warrants, which he should have forwarded to Mr. Lister.
A fatal accident has occurred on the South-Western Railway, in a cutting between Malden and Kingston. Late on the night of the 2d, a down-train passed over something on the line—the corpse of George Watson was found lying on the rails beneath a wooden bridge. The verdict of the Jury explains the probable nature of the case "That the deceased was accidentally killed by a railway train passing over him, from falling through the bridge ; and there is every reason to believe he was disabled from a fall from the said bridge, which is so constructed and insecure that any person slipping or tripping upon it would probably fall into the cutting ; and the Jurors recommend the widow and children of the deceased to the kindest consideration of the Railway Company.; and the Jury also express their opinion that no blame whatever is attached to the engine-driver."
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