The Coroner's jury of the city of Norwich on the
persons *filled in the Thorpe accident brought in, as we related last week, a verdict of manslaughter against both Alfred Cooper, the night inspector, and John Robson, the telegraph-clerk ; but they also said, what we could not then report, that it waa their unani- mous view that they did not impute as much culpability to John Robson as they did to Alfred Cooper. The County Coroner's jury came to a different conclusion, which was declared on Tuesday,—namely, "that the accident was caused by care- .lessness and neglect on the part of John Robson and Alfred -Cooper, and that John Robson is guilty of manslaughter ; and that Alfred Cooper, although guilty of great carelessness and neglect, is not, in our unanimous opinion, and with the oonflicting evidence before us, guilty of the carelessness and neglect sufficient to con- stitute criminality." The relative weight of blame is therefore distributed in opposite manners by the two juries.
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