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1108 IHE _ IEAPEB, [Mo; 8AB, 8*nnn»»
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. Skip on Fire—The bar...
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A MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY. Mb. George LaTTt-E...
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS An inquest l...
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The Great Bullion Uobbery. A Furtiiek Ex...
time . We then removed them to Pierce ' s house in Crown-terrace , Hampstead-road . They were taken in a cart which Pierce hired , and which he afterwards took home . " Some time afterwards , . Agar quarrelled with Fanny Kay , and went to live with Pierce at J £ ilburn , and a portion of the gold was buried in a hole in the pantry . In about three veeks subsequently to this , Agar was arrested on the charge of forgery of which he has been found guilty . Some of the bars of gold had been previously sold at the rate of 3 ? . 2 s . 6 d . an ounce , to a man named Saward , professing to be a barrister , but in reality a pigeon-fancier , and , as Mr . Bodkin observed , and Agar assented to , amidst much laughter , a goldfancier . About 2300 £ worth was sold in this way by Agar . After his arrest , the money he had in the Bank
was taken out , and Mr . Woatner ( his counsel , and now appearing for Pierce ) received it . This snm ( jvhich amounted to 30 QOZ . ) was brought to him when , he was in Newgate . " The money , " continued Agar , " was given , to Pierce , with the understanding that he . -was to reinvest it for my child , which he has never done . It was to be disposed of for the benefit of my child and Fanny Kay . 2500 J . was the amount that was given back to Tierce , as Mr . TToniner informed me . I never saw Pierce after my arrest till I saw him at the bar of this . court . I received some letters from him , the two last of which I gave to Mr . Kees . He wrote to me when I was at Pentonville , and sent me two books and the portrait of my child when I -was at Portland . " Mr . " Wontner subsequently stated that Pierce invested the 2500 ? . in Turkish bonds , and that those bonds are now in safe custody .
In cross-examinatioa by Mr . Lewis ( counsel for Burgess ) , Agar fully admitted his character , and that he had received the proceeds of forgery probably four or five times . He said , in answer to a question , that he knew a man named Nash ; and , on being asked if that person had anything to . do with forged cheques , he answered , " That has nothing to do with this case . I have acknowledged my character . I have told you that I have been connected with several forgeries , but I do not think this person named Nash has anything to do with the case . " He refused to answer several other questions of a similar nature which were put to him .
Fanny Bolan Kay was then examined ; She is a young woman , about twenty-five years old , with an intelligent countenance ; and the moment -site entered she shook hands with great apparent cordiality with Agar . She said that she was formerly an attendant at the Tunbridge station of the ; South-Eastern Railway , but was dismissed , partly because she was " acquainted with the young men there . " She then went to live with Agar . The hulk of her testimony was descriptive of the evidences of melting , & c ., which she had observed at Agar ' s house , while being sedulously kept ignorant as to the cause . On one occasion she peeped in at the door of the room where they were at work , and saw an unusually
bright fire ; but they instantly shut the door against her . On asking them what they were doing , they replied , "Leathern apron-weaving , " which she believed to be a cant expression . After the arrest of Agar , she went for a time to live with Pierce ; but lie deserted her . She then called on him one day , to get her child ' s clothes , and he ill-used her . Mr- Lewis wished her to give her address ; but Mr . Bodkin and the Lord Mayor objected , saying it would defeat the ends of justice . A sharp discussion then ensued between Mr . Bodkin and Mr . Lewis , the latter observing that he should watch the young woman to her home , and complaining that he was treated unfairly . Ultimately , the case was adjourned to next Monday , the proceedings having occupied five hours .
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Naval And Military. Skip On Fire—The Bar...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Skip on Fire—The bark Lee , of 376 tons , lying in St . George ' s Dock , Liverpool , has been somewhat damaged by ^ a fire which broke out last Saturday night . She was quite empty at the time , and the flames were soon subdued by the water which was brought to bear on her , so that the result has not been very disastrous . Increase of Pat to Hospital Sergeants . —Lord Panmur e has issued a Hoyal warrant , augmenting the daily pay of regimental hospital-sergoants to two shillings , and in the case of those -who have served seven years , to two shillings and sixpence .
An Abandoned Ship on the Gudler Sands . —A small Danish vessel , brigantine rigged , of 130 tons burthen , laden with a cargo of grain , in bulk , from St . Petersburgfor London , haabeon brought into Whitstablo by the crew of the smack Prosperous , of this port , Captain Bell . She was found a derelict on the Gudler Sands , having been abandoned by her crew . Her rudder web gone , and it -was believed that the crow had taken to tho galley-boat , and then forsaken the vessel . Some ttma after the salvors had boarded her , they found tho aeadlbody of the captain ( as they supposed ) in a bunk in tho after cabin . It wa 8 carefully packed , aa if to pre-«?« . « 5 > £° 8 > an < l blood was oozing from tho mouth , ™ S m , wS T * aion <* " medical gentleman £ S fJlf : Williams ) that tho individual must have covert in ™ ° ^ ; -. ° mafkB of vi 0 l 0 Ilce wero dis-Verdict q lft 8 b ° - hold > endin 6 in ftn ° P ° n Steamboat Exru > sION ON tiiK Mkusey .-TIio boiler
of the steam tug Iron King has burst while the vesse was in the Mersey . One man was killed , and two others ( all employed about the engine ) -were severely scalded . The coroners jury has returned a verdict of " Accidental Death , " coupled -with an opinion that the boiler was one of improper construction . TheXoss of the Steamer Tay . —The report of Mr . - Traill , the magistrate appointed to inquire into the loss of the steamer Tay , was presented to the Board of Trade
last Saturday morning . He attributes the loss of the ship to the extraordinary current which retarded her progress after leaving Vera Cruz , and not to any wrongful act or default of Captain Strutt . The conduct of the captain during the disaster was marked by judgment , skill , and self-possession . The report , however , speaks in terms of strong disapproval of the practice on board the Tay of not using the log . Captain Robertson , R . N ., the nautical assessor , concurs in the opinion expressed bv Mr . Traill .
Arrival , of the James Baines . — -This ship , which has been so long on her voyage home from Australia that fears were entertained respecting her safety , has arrived off the coast .
A Mysterious Tragedy. Mb. George Lattt-E...
A MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY . Mb . George LaTTt-E , the cashier at the Dublin terminus of the Blidland "Great Western Railway , had nqt arrived at his office on the morning of Friday week by his usual hour , ten o ' clock , and it was remembered that he had not been seen since half-past five on . the previous evening . His office was locked , and he always kept the key in his own possession . The clerks , therefore , waited for some time , hoping that he might appear ; but at twelve o ' clock , suspicions being then entertained that he might have committed some dishonesty and fled , the door of the office was broken open , and a horrible sight was revealed . The body of Mr . Little was found lying face downwards , in a pool of blood , and it was discovered that the throat
was cut as by a single gash , which , however , was of so fearful a nature that the head was nearly off . As soon as the clerks were sufficiently composed-to make an investigation , it -was found that the accounts were completely correct ; and a considerable amount of cash , in notes and silver—some of the latter made up in cartridges —was scattered about the room . The left hand of the corpse was thickly clotted with- blood ; the right hand was but slightly stained . Further examination showed severe fractures of the skull and a great number of other wounds . But the instrument by which death was inflicted "was nowhere discoverable . The only weapon in the room was a small office-knife , which lay on the table , and this was quite clean . Near it , however , lay a towel , on which some sharp and bloody instrument had
manifestly been wiped , as it was marked with blood and cut in several places . The window ( which opens upon the interior of the station ) was closed , and the key of the door could not be found . The medical gentleman who was called in conjectured that life had been extinct about twenty hours ; he was also of opinion that death must have ensued almost instantaneously , and that the wound could not have been inflicted by the office-knife . About 300 ? . are said to be missing . Mr . Little , who was forty years of age , and who had been connected with the company for the last four years , was highly respected . H « is described as a man of a melancholy mind , belonging to the sect of Derbyites , and having rather gloomy religious ideas . The inquest has terminated in a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown . "
Some further details are contained in a communication from Dublin published in the London daily papers . It is there stated that it would appear from , a careful examination of tho cashier ' s room that the concealment of a person from , the occupant of the room was totally impossible , and that , further , Mr . Little was at his table , or in the neighbourhood of it , when the assassination took place ; for the marks remaining go to show that every act , so far as can be conjectured , was committed within a circle of from four to five feet in diameter . If this be so , the only way of accounting for the appearance of tho murderer in the room is by supposing that , having entered the terminus by a passage leading from , the platform at its west sido , he ascended the stairs , and , lurking elose by , awaited an opportunity of finding the coast clear , and seeing that tho door was not then locked , opened it quietly , and so as not to attract attention . The
hair of Mr . Little seems to have been torn by handfuls from the head and strewed about the floor . On leaving the room , and locking the door behind him , the murderer probably descended by the principal staircase to the basement story , where he would appear to have made an endeavour to retreat by the same door , opening on the passage to tho platform by which he had entered , for on tho door-post a fresh deposit of blood has been discovered , as if a person , pushing against tho door with tho sleeve of his coat or his hand , either having blood upon thorn , had pressed against it . Tho piece of tho poat on which this ia observablo haa beon cut off and removed by tho police officers . Foiled in his attempt to obtain ogrcas in this way , ho' secma to hnvo proceeded to a ¦ window opening' from tho entrance half upon the platform , and having raised this , to havo descended tho five or six foot which intervened between tho Bill and the ground , for en tho lower stonowork of tho window there arc to be
seen , marked in the dusty deposits , a hand , the aor » "" of a shoe , and the evident appearance of a coa ?^ having brushed across it . As to any further acts 31 ? murderer , nothing is known . of tte A hammer has been accidentally disco vered in f » , canal in front of the terminus by two gentW ? ^ were standing by . Several human hairs were sSi . ° tached to it ; and there is no doubt that itfc tL 5 ? , *** ment with which Mr . Little's skull waa fractu « d > T services of Inspector Tield , of London , have bean « ¦ gaged , and the Crown has offered a reward n *
Sectarianism never sleeps , bat is always read v to t ,, ™ the most revolting and fearful subjects into food r ¦? morbid appetite . The Dublin TrotestaTilS ^ on Monday night , entered into a discussion on th * J ' der of Mr . Little , and then converted the event w " religious ' capital' after this fashion : —TheyW , ? resolution , imploring God " not to lay the sheading that innocent blood to the charge of thecountrv "Ja that He will withhold from removing Hb SSLS ? grace , " because that our rulers , in their blindobat n » 5
have carried out a policy for the last quarter of a cp * tury calculated to impede th « course of God ' s truth ' the land , to darken the hearts of men , and proDacate spirit of contempt for all laws , divine and social throutw , out society in general . " ' fa
Accidents And Sudden Deaths An Inquest L...
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS An inquest lias been held on the bodies of the persona killed in the collision on the Newport ana Her 2 Railway The evidence of Nathaniel Sargent , a fire ^ employed by the company , created considerable surpris ? He stated that "he had been put to drive the eE tram on the day of the collision , because there was no one else . He had only driven a train three times before At Abergavenny , on Wednesday , he discovered that the leading spring of the engine , on the left hand side was lost . He did not tell the station master . He told fte guard , who laughed , and blew his whistle for witness to eo on . The engine ran off the line at Nantyderry "Witness did not think it daugerous to run an express with a broken spring . They had done it several times Two engines were supplied with springs the previous day because they were afraid to send them out , on account of the accident . The weight of the engine would fall on the axle-box when the spring was gone . He could not say the engine ran off in consequence of the broken spring . It might be the road and that together The outside rail of the curve did not cant enough . Henry Wainscot , guard , told him the rail had been raised since the accident . Witness was certain the rail had boon raised . N " o one ever examined witness as to his capacity for driving . "Witness only received 21 s , a week . Drivers got 7 s . and 7 s . Gd . a day . " The inquest is adjourned . :
Mr . Horsman , M . P ., chief secretary of Ireland , met with an accident last Saturday while hunting . Though a ^ first-rate rider , he was thrown , and the horse being tired , rolled over him heavily . He was severely injured , but is doing welL A fearful collision has taken place in Ireland . The Dublin day mail , via Kilkenny , ran into a ballast train . Six people are supposed to have been killed , and several severely injured . A young man has been killed at Spence ' s Mill ,
Bradford , owing to great recklessness on his part . Part of the machinery is covered by a sort of box , which turns on hinges , and is not fastened down . The youth opened this box , -while the machine was revolving , and endeavoured to thrust in some of the wool . But his hand was caught ; his arm was gradually drawn in , and pierced by the jagged teeth of a part of the machinery called the ' devil ; ' his body followed , and , before the engine could bo stopped , the arm , and one side of the head and face , were horribly mangled . Ho was taken out insensible , and died the next day in the infirmary .
A youth employed at some colour works at Deptford Creek fell into a tank of boiling water last Saturday afternoon , and was drawn out by his father and other workmen . He was removed to the Dreadnought Hospital Ship , but expired in tho course of four hours . An inquest having been held , tho jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death , " tho coroner at the samo time recommending that proper protection should be afforded in future , by having tho tank covered . Three lives were lost , during a fog on Monday night , in the canal at Hackney / Wick , near the North London Railway arch .
Lady Stafford ,-wife of tlie present Lord Stafford , nnd cousin to the Duke of Norfolk , waa found dead in ' 1 (* bed on Thursday morning at Costessey I ' ark , near Norwich . Her ladyship had suffered recently from the rupture of a blood-vessel , but was believed to bo returning to convalescence . A train ou the Barnnloy brunch of the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway dashed into a fiuhnfj nenr Penistono , and enmo into collision with several loaded coal ¦ wnffgons . Sovcrul of tho passengers , fl ! well ns tho guard and fireman , woro severely injuw * Amongst the former was Mr . Henry Kusscll , the 8 ii > ger i who received a contusion on tho forehead . Tho dainflgj done to tho engine , carriages , and waggons is ostimnteo « t nearly 1 , 000 / . The accident whs caused by thopoK" * being loft open . . » A fivtul catastrophe has occurred on tho Western ViiHty '
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 22, 1856, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22111856/page/4/
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