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ANOTHER RAILWAY MASSACRE.
ANOTHER RAILWAY MASSACRE. A terrible catastrophe occurred on Mrnday oa the Ramostead Junet'oa line. owing to.acoll.inion between an excursion tBinand a train composed of art engine and tender, 19 billaat trucks,,aad a hreak Yom. The Hamp- stead Junction is a tone, which has be -u opened within the last twoyai~s. Ir joiiM tie Horth. L mdon- at G:vaden- road stitio.n, and .passes ,tt13!1é;C"tllr.m;ll. Q,1:nlen-G<)wn an Kentish-town, by Hampstead,and sa ,oa to Kew, where it rem) ctonto ¡¡[IB South- Western; line, iOyer.iwhich. passengers wishing to.proceed t'> Richnaaad ana .oaveyed without a change of carriages. Tne ff-implead Junction ni3 is rauch.:us->d by-parsoas going from uhe'city to Kew, Richmond, and Twickenham ..and on ,siJlllllays ,an: Mondays throughout the summer season-not only do the ordinary- trams till well, but there are..excursions .con- stantly 0 n the present .occasion there, were two or more special "trains to Kew ..and it .,w,av to one. oi. »ui»se. the dreadful accident occurred, the details of. wh ci, a? ta\.as th^y have as.yet t.rair.pifed,;«ye now subjoin, I i i.i c > irae from the Camden-roa stafciosuo £ the 2lorth L mdon- Iliii- way the Hampstead Junction line, is, curved *n bevoral placss, and passes close to the rear of the houses till it crosses the C.V*rlton-road, in Kentish-town. life .then enters the fieldsman! for-.abouta .quarter .of-. a .mile, runs at thabiokof the houses on the eait side.of Gkarltoii- road, ;»nd between them and the .main -road through Kentish town, which leads to Highgate ris).A few hundred yards farther on in the Ham jstead direc- tion is ■ the Kentish town station, the first on the line after it leaves C).mdei*road. The Hampstead station is .about half .,a mile beyond.the Kentish-town. From Hampstead to the point at-which the line crosses Garltonrroad ittfornn a.ti arc of consideKaiWabend. The collision took place ,at some dozen yards -nearer i to the Kentish-to.wn station than .a bridge over-.what -is ,at ,present-a path from Carlton-road to the Kent-ishr-.town- »oad..Down to this bridge from the town .-end the rails .are laid on.a road supported by brickwork arches, which are about 35 feetbiga. From the bridge to the Kentish-town station there- is -an embankment of .about the same height,and from the Kentish-town station to Hampstead a. deep catting. The coppany is .at present erecting an extensive coal depSt adjoining the -Kentish- tow,a station, and a train of trucks is engaged daily in bringing .up ballast; from Bushey .for making the siding which is to, lead from, the:main, line into the coal shed. When the trucks deliver their ballast they;proceed,up the line to the bridge .over the padiway before, refarred to. At this point there is the usual apparatus .for •shunting them in on the down line, and they rat-urn to the Kentish-town station, .u;ad so on to- Bushey. About 20 minutes past 7 o'clock, in the evening the ttlell in charge of the ballast train had delivered their loads, and proceeded to the bridge, on -which: they were being shunted, when a passenger.tcatn.wa.s seen, to be coming up at a rapid pace along the:line tram the ballasf train was .moving .-slowly. The driver of. the latter had lighted his lamps, and when he.saw the other train approaching he waved .a. red ligat, aii-d tfhe driver of the former,:in his turn,, blew his whistle; bmt the. precaution was too late. It was;.n»t yet dark. ;Tilerp were many people, in the winiiows. of the, houses ill Garltonrroad, and a great number walking in the fields; and ;from several of them shrieks were heard bafore the trains met; for. it was, but too evident to i^Qy one who saw their respectiys .poxitians that; in a few seconds after the red light .was waved, and the up- • «Ogine blew a. succession of awfully shrill..scree&hes, a iviolent concussion .was .inevitable. It has ;bean.before observed that attached' to. the engine of train Were 19,trucks. Ab.ou.t. half these had crossed to the down li.te, and about midway it was struck by the pas- senger train. The scene, as witnessed from the fields below, was terrific. Immediately the engine had struck the trucks, and shivered them into atoms, it leaped from the rails with a sort of haif-p-ulf, ■ half-bellow, wilicl] was heard to a,distanoe of fully half a mile, and rolled down the earibankatens o.'i its own aide of the line with a hideous dull sound and one or two frightful screeches. The carriages which followed ran on "a few feet; but just at the spring of the arch of the bridge the break bounded right over, and was followed by four carriages, in which were a number, of passengers. The first two carriages jumped clean into the field, where they lay or, their sides, one over the other. The next came with its end upon the second of the two carriages which had broken off from the train in their bound; and when the train c,ameto ,a standstill this third carriage remained poised in the position in which it had fallen upon the others. -Its coupling trons not having broken, it dragged-the. fourth carriage half over the side wall of the bridge, in which position it remained half suspended, but with its hind wheels stuck in the embankment. The inhabitants of the Neighbourhood instantly ran to the spot. The moans Of the dving, the cries of the wounded, and the lamen- tations of those who missed their relatives, were to be heard on every side. The ends of the. first two car- nages had been broken by the fall, and several of the pas- angers were at once pulled out. They were lacerated and bleeding to a frightful extent. In some instances it was 'impossible to recognise a single feature, and the unfortu- nate victims were unable to utter a word. There were a great many young children and babies in the train, and the screams'of several of them were heartrending w the extreme. "Father!" "Mother!" My God, mv infant! were the <—— ClIitt mailed the ears from every direction, ^any women, on bemg re- leased from the parH-sdS! dropped down in an apparently UfelSs AU this time the passengers who had esc.ir»J altogether, or escaped with slight injuries, were rushing frantically down the embankment; and terrified Women and men were throwing themselves over the fencing and into the fields, regardless of what might Qccur to them so that they got out of reach of the ill- fated train. The engine lay on its side, still puffing, and with steam rushing forth at all points. Near it was stretched the poor fireman, who had fallen with it. He Seemed much injured, and was carried otf to an hospital. nythis time it was getting quite dark,and necessarily there Was the additional element of confusion added to those others that contributed to makeup a scene such as has been rarelv witnessed even after railway collisions. The fatnilies residing in the neighbourhood sent for doctors conveyances for the wounded. Many of the latter ^ere at once carried off to the residences of medical men, but others requested to be allowed to lie in the fields, if a drop of water could be procured for them, ^ltliin about 20 minutes after the accident a strong body of men from the Kentish-town and Camden-town Police stations arrived, and a number of cabs and wagons \lrere on the ground; but at 8 o'clock it was dark and 110 gas near. Light was all important, and the remains of the break which had fallen over were set fire to. There was no need to chop it up small; for it had been shivered into a thousand fragments. When the pieces ^ere in a blaze the spectacle was still more awful than it bad hitherto been. The glare discovered the wounded men, "^otnen, and children that lay about, surrounded by little j?roups; who rendered them such assistance as could he procured on the instant. There was the engine On its side, puffing out its hot steam; oarriages hanging in a position that made them appear as if they were just about to fall to the earth; and ftlost melancholy of all, from under the first carriage that had come over the bridge there were visible the head of one man and the legs and arms of another. The Police and others at once set about attempting to extri- Cate those who remained inside; but it is almost ^necessary to add that only lifeless bodies were taken Out. They had already been half an hour in a carriage that had fallen some 35 or 40 feet, and over which lay pother that had come down with its full weight from Jbe same height, Much anxiety was expressed about 'be fate of the driver of the passenger train, of whom IIp to this there had been nothing heard. A search was made for him up and down the embank- 111ent, and in a few minutes after it was commenced a man in the employment of the company stated that his dead body had been found Illar the engine. The stoker was scalded and other- "'IS: injured. The engine of the ballast trucks re- tnalned on the line uninjured after the collision, and ?°&e of the men in charge of it appear to have been ^jured. Trains coming up from Kew u3ualljr stop at the ^eltish-town station, it being the next to Camden-road, at the latter passengers have to change carriages for JbeN0rt^ London line. In this instance the excursion train did not (j0 90. That the men on the ballast train ?lstinctly state; and it seems impossible that it could stopped there, for, had it done so, the driver must fV*ve seen the ballast trucks. Indeed, at the scene of ^be accident the matter was not disputed; for, on some remarking that it was a wonder why the passenger i*ain had not pulled up at Kentish-town, one of the officials remarked, It was an excursion, and had no !]Sht to stop there." In reply to an inquiry as to whe- ther he was right in shunting at that particular moment, of the men in charge said there was nothing to ifrf them that the up-train was coming, and added, There are no papers for those excursions." If it be a aet that there are no time-tables for excursion trains at point where shunting has been going on several times n. the day for some weeks past, there must have been gross negligence on some one's part, more especially if the passenger train -was to pass the Kentish- town station without pulling up. Under such circum- stances, and considering that the line, is so much-curved from Hampstead to Camden-town, the only wonder is that such an unpardonably faulty arrangement had not sooner resulted in a catastrophe like the present. -The train, the return journey of which has brought desolation anl sorrow to so-many homes, consisted of 13 or 14. car- riages besides the break van which followed the engine. It i'i stated that the excursionists were officers and friends of officials in the employment of the North London Company; but such was the consternation to which the fearful occurrence gave rise that it was with considerable difficulty any particulars were gathered more than thiBe which the ground itself, presented to the spectators' view. At about a quarter past 8 a down train arrived from London. The engine c-ime to a stand, of course, and the look of territied amazement with w.hich its occupants viewed the scene was indescribable. "At.that hour there were some thousands of people collected in the fields and up the embankment at eich side of the bridge. Two or three of the smashed carriages formed one monster fire that shot up its ila.mes.to an immense height. The wounded lay 'here and there, writhing in agony. Men were engaged in draggingcorpsas from under wheels,and axletrees, and out of carriages that had been crushed like pasteboard. Gentlemen and ladies carried water-cans, bottles, and other vessels, and were .constantly giving those drinks which the mangled so greedily asked for.. Many ladies ran, about with hnen: for the doctors to bartdage the wounded; and themselves assisted in the kind office. The pol-icemen with their lanterns kapt a pith for those-who were carrving the injured to the ca is, vans, and carts, which were now drawn up in a. line to the byroad leading out to 'Kentish-town; and from all sides, men, women, and children were running with lamps and lighted caudles to what, without the slightest exaggeration, may be termed a field of slaughter. The driver of the ballast train said that, the.excursion train aopeared:.to him to, have been coming at a rate of about 60 miles an hour; but the probability is that he was deceived in this. To those who.sa,w it from the windo ws of the houses and from the field it did not aDJ)°ar to be coming at such speed, though, its pace. was rapid. On inquiry ,at the hospitals the following list was obtained of the persons who had been admitted:—To the Royal Free Hospital, G-ray.'s-inn-lane, Mrs..Emma Eng- lish, aged 40, wife .of .Tarries English, residing at 21, John-street, Clerkenwell, dead. The injuries which this lady had received were fracture of the spine, laceration of the left foot, and several, severa scalp wounds. She died in three quarters of an hour after .her admis- sion to the hospital. James English, aged 41, her husband, has received scalp wounds and several con- tusions, which are not likely to prove fatal. Sarah Cox, aged :1:3, No. 1, Iceland-road, Old'Ford, has received fracture of the ribs, scalp wonnds, and general contu- sions. A child, six months old, with bruises on .the head, name not known. The patients taken to the hospital were promptly attended to by Mr. Alexander Marsden, the house surgeon. In the Middlesex,Hospital.—'Two boys named Green- wood, one 1'2, the other 8 years, and alad aged about 18, name unknown, brought in 'dead, A man named Terry, living in the Liverpo.ol-road, collar-bone fractured. A woman named Philpott, nasal bone fractured, and other injuriR> In University College Hospital, Gowerrstreet, Miss Sfcacey, Wast'India-yard, Bow; and Mary Sellls (ad- dress not known), dead. Three others !dead, not yet identified. Elizabeth Ward, 91, Upper-street, Islington George Hewitt, Cornhill-road, Bow; Olive Hewitt; Sarah Essex, the Point, Stratford Miry Ann Mathews, 3, Colt-street, Old .Ford; John Darley, Catholic Chapel, MoorfieTds Joseph Cocks, 7, John-street-norbh, Shackle well; Mrs. Drake, Mrs. Heminings, Annie Ward, Mr'. Jane Greenwood, wife of a station- master Mrs. Holt, 'Henry Stacey, John Stacey, George Henry Bolton, the stoker, Old Ford, Bow; W. Woodley, Icehnil-roarl; George Woodley, father of the above; Edward Essex, Stratford New Town; Isaac Coxall, Old Ford, Essex Mr. Cox, Bow William Stewart, Leighton Buzzard; Joseph Bridges, 2, Rich- mond-terrace, Campbell-road, Bow; Mr. Rushbrook, Hawkscourt; two men and a boy unknown, one woman unknown, and an infant unknown, all more or less injured. In St. Pancras workhouse, an old woman, name unknown, dead. It was generally stated that several of the wounded had been conveyed to the Great Northern Hospital, but on inquiry at that institution we ascertained tnat such was not the fact. The above list gives a total of 10 dead and 33 wounded in the hospitals; but it was stated that there were at least three dead who had not been taken to any public institution. These, with the 10 in hospital, would give 13 deid. It is impossible to say yet how many were wounded. The driver of the excursion was named Scott, and, judging from the anxiety expressed about him, he must have been a favourite with the servants of the company. Miss Stacey, who is among the dead, died after ampu- tation of the left leg. Her right leg was fractured, in addition to the other injuries which she had received. Long after m'daight thousands of people were still on the gro" and the various hospitals and the stations on the line were surrounded by anxipus crowds, inquir- ing after relatives and friends. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. A catastrophe quite as appalling, even if it be not at- tended with an equal amount of loss of human life, as the late fearful collision on the Brighton line, took place on Monday night on the Hampstead Junction of the North London Railway, on an embankment about 1,000 yards on the London side of the Gordon-lane or Kentish-town Station. This sad calamity took place at half-past seven o'clock in the evening, and the consternation and excitement continues almost unabated. About the time mentioned dusk had set in, with the clouds overcast and the evening unusually dark, and at this time the driver of a train of ballast trucks was engaged in shunting them off from the up on to the down line at points just beyond the embankment bridge, opposite Corker-lane, near the watercress beds at Kent- ish-town. Just at this spot the embankment is between 10 and 50 feet high, and the bridge in question, which is the commencement of a viaduct, is flanked by walls sloping down each side of the embankment. At this moment the Kew excursion train, consisting of some 14 or 15 carriages came in sight, and it is supposed that, seeing the lights of the engine of the ballast train on the down line, tho driver of the excursion supposed it was all clear, whereas only about half the ballast train had crossed from the up to the down line. The engine of the excursion train dashed into the centre of the ballast tr in, and rushing through the trucks, took an oblique direction over the corner of the wall of the bridge referred to, dragging with it four or five carriages filled with human beings, which came toppling over, crushing one upon the other, and its human freight into one indistinguishable mass. The screams of the wounded and the dying, the roaring of the steam from the overturned engine, presented a scene too fearful to contemplate. The wounded were being pulled out in every direction, but it was not until Mr. Henry Chubb and some of the authorities arrived that anything practical could be done, and the first step was to make a large fire of all the debris that could be col- lected of the broken carriages. Of the first rescued were the driver and stoker, who had stuck to the engine in its headlong career. The driver had his arm broken, and was much scalded, and the stoker taken out was reported to be killed. Ten bodies were taken out for dead, and the wounded were being conveyed away to the hospitals and even the adjacent surgeries in every direction. Medical men were prompt in attendance, amongst the earliest being Mr. Harley, of Haverstock-hill; Dr. Hillier, medical officer of health Mr. M'Donagh, of Hampstead-road Mr. C. C., Claremont, of Thorney- place, Oakley-square; and Mr. Sutherin, of Aldenham- terrace, St. Pancras-road and these gentlemen, as well as others, were unremitting in their attention. The news of the catastrophe spread instaitly, and the excitement was tremendous. Thousands from every di- rection reached the scene of the disaster, and the railway stations, the hospitals and infirmaries were besieged by anxious inquirers. It being supposed that the whole of the bodies taken out of the ruins of the carriages were carried to St. Pancras deadhouse, the workhouse was surrounded, but the only body received up to 10 o'clock was that of an elderly female with grey, or rather white hair, having on a very handsome purple and Mack striped silk dress. She had on her person a pocket-handkerchief, marked with the letter "A," and a porte-monnaie containing 7s. 9Jd. She had not been identified. A man and two boys were received dead at Middlesex Hospital, in the midst of a van load of dead and dying, and three were found to be dead on reaching University College Hos- pital. The scene at the spot where the accident took place at 10 p.m. was truly awful. The fire at the foot of the embankment and a row of fires on its summit threw a lurid glare on the faces of thousands of horror- stricken spectators, whom a strong body of the S division of police, under Mr. Superintendent Loxton. and In- spector Fidge, of the Kentish-town division, had the greatest difficulty in keeping back and out of danger. Three carriages lay crushed in one upon the other over the side wall of the bridge, a fourth hung suspended by its coupling irons over the aarapat, and a fifth was standing on its beam ends. It is needless to that the up line was completely blocked. It is impossible accurately to say at present how many are killed, and .injured,but it is that, at least from 50 to 60 ware-sent off in vans, cab?, and every possible vehicle that could be obtained, to different ins.ti- tutions -24 to to the Middlesex, .about the same na>*tb?r to the University College, and others to the Royal Free, Great Northern, and, we believe, even to St. Mary's Hos- pitals. At University College Hospital there were two young women (names not known), about 25 years of age, and a youth, lying dead, and at Middlesex Hospital, a man and two hoys, also dead. Amongst the. other sufferers at University College Hospital were;- Ttc stoker, supposed to be-dead, bat lyinj ia a 11):)è1c", sta te with frightful scald and scalp wounds. George Woodley, pointsman at 130W sbtion-:lre,vlf,ll external and internal injuries. A,youth, -about ten years of age-Bnn scalp wounds and wounds .about theface. An old man, with frightful scalp woands and fractured skull, and wound under the jaw—dyin^ at eleven o'clock. A man,, with dislocated shoulder and fractured arm. Another man, with scalp wounds and internal injuries—vomit- ing blood. Isaac Coxhill, of Old1 Ford, Bow, bricklayer—serious injury to the spine. J Charles Cox, a signa,lman-serions fractures and scalp wounds. Mary Woodley, wife of the pointsman at Bow station-injuries to the back. Avwoman named Henians, fractured ribs—a'bad case. A woman frightfully injured about the face. Fanny Ward, wounds abolltthe face to b3 sister to one of the deceased women. A little girl, about 9 or 10 years of age, fracture of both legs, one amputated about 10 o'clock by Mr. Marshall, one of the surgeons to the hospital, who-was assisted, by Mr. Treevan, Mr. Farmer,. and' Mr. Mahoney. It was reported, that up to 11 o'cloek some of the foregoing had died, and that up to that hour they had received into that institution 73 people, and had; refused; to take in.any more. Another account states:—A more distressing scene; than was witnessed at the University College Hospital; soon after the .accident no -language can describe, .Persons -who-had sustained-the most frightful injuries j were .brought in vans, in carts, in cabs,;indeed by every ■sort of conveyance which was iat>all available for the purpose. Their shrieking-and -groaning were fearful.1 'Many, prayed that they might not be removed from the; vehicles in,-which they were brought to the hospital, but; might be left to die. Ta.is.was the case with -the; stoker ;of: the .engine, who, .a.ith.ou.gh most frightfully ■ •scalded, wasi-perfectly sensible, and seemed, to be-aware that ttie of death had been too surely passed upon him. One little boy, about two .years old, was brought to the-hospital with his -entrails gashing out through a fearful wound he had received. T-he-sur- geom who were in attendance at the hospital did all they could; for the sufferers, and the>assistaace- medical ige'ntlemen in the neighbourhood was at once-willingly rendered. The streets round the hosnital were covered with ;hav and strnv,satar.ated with blood. It had been thrown from-the vans in which the injured parsons-'had been brought there. At the Great Northern'Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital in Gray's-inn-lane, and Middle- sex Hospital, to all of which numbers of the sufferers were taken, the same distressing and harrowing scene occurred. The train, which consisted of aucmtthirby carriages, .was filled with,servants of the company and their friends, who,had been toKew Gardens for day's recreation. It appears :that the company occasionally this privilege to its servants and their friends on the pay- ment of 6d. or Sd. each for the return journey. On this occasion a large proportion of the excursionists were poor helpless children, and they are amongsi the prin- cipal sufferers. FURTHER PARTICULARS.! It is impossible to exaggerate the excitement which prevailed on Tuesday m>rning at Camden-town and Iventish-town, in connection with this sad calamity. Thousands and tens of thousands of people had been thronging the streets which lead to the spot where it occurred, and during the whole night the neighbourhood wore an aspect of unwonted activity. It was four o'clock before the debris was cleared from, off the line itself, and ever since that hour the labourers have been employed in cotiipletely, breaking up the carriages which were preci- pitated over the side parapet of the viaduct or bridge, and which it was found could be removed in no other way. Workmen were engaged in laying new rails in the place of those which were torn up, and one of which is completely cut through, as if by a pair of shears, one of the. ends being pressed down and buried in the earth. The cause of the accident, as is always the case, until the inquest elicits the truth, is involved in some ob- scurity. The collision occurred exactly at a. poSnt where there is a semaphore signal post, which ought to havo been a safeguard to the spot. It is asserted oysome of the officials connected with the railway than the signal was in its proper position to protoc-t the ballast train, and that the signalman, either from. some misconception with re- ga"i to the speed at which the excursion train was travel- ling, or from a total misunderstanding as to the position of the ballast train, as soon as. he saw the excursion train approaching, reversed the signal, so as to intimate that it might come on, when he ought to have kept it longer, as only by doing so could he hope to avert a collision between the two trains. This seems almost incredible, but such is the only explanation at present given as to the cause of the catastrophe. STATEMENT OF THE DRIVER OF THE BALLAST TRAIN. The engine driver of the ballast train has described the facts in reference to the collision to the following effect: 'He said that he was driving an engine with 19 trucks and the break vans laden with ballast, and he was pro- ceeding along safely for the purpose of crossing the up to the down line, when he saw the excursion close to the Kentish-town station, coming along at full speed. As soon as he saw this he whistled; indeed, said he, "I kept on one continued whistle, on purpose for him to check." Seeing the train coming on as if no notice was taken of his whistling, he put on the steam for the purpose of getting on the Hampstead Junction before the excursion came up, but this he was unable to do, and the engine, tender, and one of the ballast wagons had just got on to the up line when the excursion came up, and in a moment the engine and several of the car- riages were hurled down the embankment. The train, laden with ballast, had just come from Bushey, but notwithstanding that so many excursion trains are running at the present time, it is said that no stated time is given for the running the ballast trains, and it also was stated that the signal at the Kentish- town station was at All right! b It is only fair to the signalman, whose name is not given, to say that the only conclusion that could be come to by any person examining the line is, that it must be exceedingly difficult for a man placed in that position to do his duty satisfactorily. The line at the point where the accident happened is not merely a curve, but a zigzag, and a train coming round rapidly upon the spot at which the ballast wagons and engine were stationed could hardly fail to run into it, especially if the evening happened to be rather dark. The driver is not dead, as represented. He is very much scalded and maimed, but he will, it is hoped, bs sufficiently recovered to give evidence at the inquest.
VICE AND MURDER.
VICE AND MURDER. Birmingham has just been the scene of a shocking murder. John Gregson Farquhar, a gentleman of inde- pendent means, living in Grange-road, Srnallheath, Birmingham, has murdered his mistress, Elizabeth Brooks, by shooting her through the left lung with a pistol. It appears that Farquhar, who is about 38 years of age, was in comparatively comfortable circumstances, having an income of about X400 a-year, chiefly derived from house property. It is also stated that he was closely allied by relationship to a family occupying a high position in the commercial community at Liverpool. He was formerly married; but some few years ago his wife died, leaving him with one daughter, who is now about 12 years of age. After he became a widower it is stated that he uniformly led a life by no means reputable in a social point of view. In January, I860, he first became acquainted with his unfortunate victim, who at that time entered his service in the capacity of house- keeper. She was the daughter of a Mr. Brooks, who formerly kept the Sportsman's Arms Inn, of which he was proprietor, in Garrison-lane, but who some years ago left England, and is now supposed to be in Australia. Miss Brooks, it would seem, was then 19 years of age, Shortly after she entered his service it would appear that her capacity as housekeeper was changed for the more familiar, b.ut less reputable one, of mistress. The result of their intercourse was a child, born in the beginning of the present year. It died an infant, but during its brief existence Farquhar allowed his victim five shillings a week for its maintenance. Latterly it is rumoured that he became jealous of his mistress, and that the result had been occasional ruptures between them. On the day of the murder, however, it would appear that they were on the best of terms. In the morning he took her into town and purchased for her a new dress, and in the early part of the evening they were observed chitting together, apparently in the most amicable manner. Imm dia.tely after te* Farquhar, while his daughter was amusing her- self in the lane in front of the house, sent the servant for a cab. In about five minutes later the report of a pistol was heard, and he rushed -out of the house, went to a man named Penny, who lives near, aid said. I have done it at last; I have shot my housekeeper." Penny went with him back into the house, where, in the front room, he found the poor girl dead, the shot having entered the left breast near the nipple. 0 a the floor was a large horse pistol that had been recently discharged. Information was at once sent to the police, and Air. West-wood, surgeon, was called in, and aconce pronouueed the wonnd to have been immediately fatal. Farquhar was taken into custody and removed to the police-station. INQUEST The. inquest was held at the house of Mr. Degge, the Old White Lion Inn, S,nallheath, before Dr. Birt Davies. the coroner, and a respectable j lry. T ie jury having been 'sworn, they proceeded to view the body of the deceased, which remained in the same room in which she was killed. This room is the parlour, a small room lighted with a window at each end. 0:1 a board iu th", centre of the room was stretched the dead body of the unfortunate young woman, the dress being covered with blood that had flowed freely fron a large circular wound. Having viewed the body the jury returned to their room, where Air. Farquhar was present, in the custody ot police- sergeant Teggius. He was much affected, and was con- tinually moaning and sobbing convulsively. Mr. John Powell was present to watch the ease on his behalf, and there were also present Alderman Cox aid the Rev. W. Hill, Incumbent of St. Andrew's. The first witness examined at the inquest was a domestic servant, who said: Deceased used to sleep with me. She was a single woman, and was 20 years old. She left the house with 'Mr. Farquhar on the day of the murder on foot. They returned together in a cab at about 5 o'clock, and when they came in-sat down in the parloar. They then.appeared to be very g >od friends. I got the tea, ready, and took it into the room to them. At about 10 minutes before 6 o'clock the master ordered me to fetch a cab, and I went to S nallheath-gate, where I got a cab, and it got to the door about 6. Wnen I came back I went'into the house and walked straight, into the partour, where I saw the deceased lying dead. She-was laid down on two chairs close under the window. At that time there was no one else in the house. I did not notice anything about. I thought she was dead, and instantly ran out of the hotise. I had just got to the back door when I saw the master and Mr. Penny, a grocer, who lives near, coming in-together Oy the back door. I told the master that "the cab was there, and he ordered me to go and say he did not want one. I did that, and then went across to 'Mr. Penny's, and did not go back to the house again. 1 do not know anything more about 'the affair. Mr. Farquhar always kept oistols in the house, but I cannot say whether they were generally kept loaded or not. I did not hear a pistol fired off during the whole'fortnight Lwas there, until as I was .coming back-again from, fetching the cab last night. I cannot say how far oiLI was when I heard the pistol. I was above half-way in the Grange-road. I should think I was about 50 yards from the house. The pistol kept in the house was "a large horse-pistol. When [ got into the room it was filled with gunpowder smoke. When I was coming past Miss Holloway's, abou: two minutes after I heard the report, 1 saw the master g eng across the road to Mr. Penny's. Mr. Penny was standing at the corner, and the master brought him back with him into the house immediately after I went in. When I looked into the room I did not see the pistol about. The dagger produced (a pretty-looking weapon, about a foot long) was usually kept on the small table in the corner of the parlour. The cork now on the point was not usually there; it laid open. Mr. Farquhar was not sober when he came home; he could not walk quite straight. He gave me the orders to go for the cab intelligibly. By a juror: I know of no quarrel between Mr. Farqu- har and deceased from the time they came home to when he ordered me to fetch the cab. I do not know that Mr. .Farquhar and deceased practised pistol shooting at a target in the gardens. By the Coroner: I never heard tha master and de- ceased quarrel during the fortnight I was there. In reply to further questions, this witness said—All the doors, from the parlour where the master and de- ceased sat, to the kitchen, were open from five to six o'clock, and had there been any quarrel I must have heard it. When I went for the cab Ima.de all ha3te. I should not be more than twenty minutes away. When I saw the pistol for the first time that day it would be about ten o'clock in the morning, and it was then up- stairs, and directly they came home the little girl, Emily Sophia Farquhar, diughter to the master, and ten years old, brought the pistol down-stairs. I now remember that when the master and Miss Brooks came home, and while the cabman who had brought them was having some ale in the room—as I was in the sitting room, which adjoins the parlour, I heard the pistol go off. Directly after I heard Mr. Farquhar ask the cabman whether the pistol went off very loud, aud the cabman said, Not very loud." John Frederick W. Penny was sworn and said—I live at the corner of Muntz-street and Grange-road, and am now a grocer. When, standing at the door talking to the daughter of Mr. Farquhar, I saw Mr. Farquhar come out of his house. He came and kissed his child and said to her. "I have shot Bessy." He then said to me, "Penny, I want you." I answered, "My dear fellow, what is the matter ?" He said, Murder, by God!" He then said, Come with me, I have something to tell you." I went with him to his house, and saw the deceased sit- ting in one chair and leaning her head on another chair at her left side, still alive. Her head was supported bv the cushion of the second chair. He said, It was I who shot her, it was I who did the deed." Deceased was then alive. I saw some blood pouring down her breast. I could see a wound on her left breast, and her dress was on fire, not in a blaze, but smoulderin. The girl (Mary Phillips) came into the room just then and said, Master, here is the cab." He replied to her, "Tell him I do not want him." I told the girl to go and fetch the medical gentleman who lived nearest, upon which Mr. Farquhar said, "N0, send for Mr. Horsfall." I then went out and sent one message for the police, and another for Mr. Horsfall, whom I be- lieve to be a friend of the deceased. He then said to me, Penny, there is a document in that desk which I should like Mr. Horsfall to have, respecting, my child and pro- perty." I then saw on the floor, by the chair on which the head of the deceased rested, a horse pistol. I took it up and placed it on the table. Finding that no medical gentleman had arrived, I went out and saw the girl had not gone for one, so.I sent her for Mr. Westwood. I saw in the room a loaded gun, hanging against the wall over the couch. It was hanging on a nilil. I think it was loaded, as I saw that there was a cap upon it. On the mantelpiece I saw a powder flask, and on the table there were two knives. When I went to look afrer the servant girl I saw Mr. Degge go into the house. When I went back deceased was no longer alive. She died in about three minutes after I first entered the room. Mr. Farquhar ap- peared to me to be very much excited, but I do not think he was drunk. He appeared to me to have been drinking, but not to be drunk. When in the room, Mr. Farquhar knelt down beside deceased, kissed her many times, and said, "Oh, Bessy! why did you tell me what you did ? You knew I loved you." He then told me they had been to town, and that he bad bought her a new dress. He was still in a kneeling position, and kissed deceased frequently, making use of incoherent remarks. The pistol produced now'by the officer Keefe (an old horse pistol with a flint-lock) is the one I picked up in the room yesterday. When I took it up, I looked at it, and noticed that it had been recently discharged. I live just across the road, and did not hear any pistol go off that evening at all. My house is not more than 30 vards away from his. The servant in the house of Mr. Farquhar said that when they returned together they appeared to be very good friends. She thought he was not sober. Simon Thomas Degge was sworn, and said: I live at No. 94, Muntz-street, and am a pump-maker. The other evening, about ten minutes after six o'clock, a neighbour woman came to my house, and in consequence of what she said to me, I went straight to the house of Mr. Farquhar. When I went into the house I saw a female lying on two chairs, dead. I said, Oh, Mr. Farquhar, what have you done this for?" He "clipped" me round^ the neck, and I said, "Tbe Lord have mercy on you Afterwards he said, I went to town to buy my housekeeper a dress, and it's all through the stopping and talking to a person." From what he said I thought he had been jealous; he was very much excited and looked vary wild. He then knelt down and leant his face upon that of deceased, and said, "Oh, myTettv! do speak to me;" and then, lt Is she dead. Mr. Degge ? to which I replied, "She is." He then pointed to toenail, where a g-ia w« on.ri:-g, avid siid, "Toit gins loaded." As soon as hj turned his head I went and unhooked the gun and took it away, and gave it to ■Mr. Penny, wh') was standing outside." I saw a claso knife in his hand, with tin blade open, on which I said, "Oh, Mr. Farquhar, give than "knife." I took the knife also out to Mi-. Penny, 3."11 afterwards made haste back into the ro nll. WD."l I found him with the horse pistol in his hand, looking about the cupboard as though he was seeking for something; lo lo id it with. I mi^ht have been out of the room two r three minutes. I went up to him and said, ■' Oh, .g >o i G 1, Mr. Farquhar, what are you going to do ? He turned round and made as if he was aoouo to strike mj. I sail, For God's sake, do not strike me; give me the pistoL" After a short pause he did so, and I took the pisto). oat to Mr. Penny. Mr. Farquhar lookel very rash and wild at the time, and seemed to me to be like a miliam. I was afraid of him. He told me that he was d foii I of his house- keeper that he had been wnh he'- into the town to buy h°r a dress; an I— Mr. Degge, it was through jealousy." He repeated this agtin and agtin. Michael Keeife (deposed I an a police-constable, No. 245, in the 4th division of the borough force. In con- sequence of what was said to me bv the servant girl of Mr. Degge, I went to the house of Mr. Farquhar, who turned round and said, "Oh policeman; I have shot her. I am sorry. I give mvsdf up now to you. I will go with you." I took him into the next room in custody, and tried to pacify him. After a time he said, "Police- man, I went into to wn, to-day, to bay her a silk dress. In my absence I found dnr talking to a young man. Before, I was dstjrmiasd to ini-ry her." I was taking him to the station in a cao. He wanted me to let him out to get some refreshments for the last time." I would not let him get out, ana he then give me a £ 5 note, and asked m., to drink ais health when he was dead and gone. I handed the money to the officer on duty at the station. In company with the sergeant I searched the premises of Mr. Farquhar. a id in the back kitchen I found a smill flask containing gaupowder. In the parlour, where the bodvlay, I found the shot flask pro- duced, lying on the table in the corner. The stones pro- duced, five in number, L fourtl lying upon the table: each of them will go freely into the pistol. Oa the sametable in the corner I fonni the dagger. Thomas Hodgkim deposed: I am an inspector in the borough police force. The pri-nner FarqubarVas brought to the 4th division station-bouse at eight o'clock in the evening. When he came in he said to me, I have com- mitted murder." I said, Be careful what you are speaking," and asked the constable what he was charged with. The constable said, in the presence of Farquhar, that he was charged with shooting a woman in Grange- road, and causing her death. I then cautioned the prisoner that anvthing he said might be used in evidence against him. He said, I have shot her with a horse- pistol. I am guiltv of murder. I took her into the town this day, and it was thr >ugh jealousy I done it. Please to-bring the case on as soon as you can, for I wish to be hung and follow her." That was all he said. He seemed in a very excited state. I cannot say that he was in liquor. Mr. Westwood, surgeon, deposed: I was called to the house of Mr. Farquhar to see deceased, and found her dead. I have since made a careful post mortem exami- nation of the body under the coroner's .precept, in ttte presence of Mr. Oliver Pembercon, surgeon to the General Hospital, and Mr. Partridge, surgeon. I found an -external wound, circular in form-a gunshot wound- five inches below the nipple on the left-hand side. Thf skin all round the wound for about, an inch and a hal. was blackened by gunpowder. The dress near the wound was burnt and discoloured. There was no other external wound, but there was a discoloration on the left-fore- arm, as though it had been singed, and a blister. There was no other external appearance of note. Internally I found the wonad press obliquely under the skin for about two inches, and then entered the cavity of the abdomen, penetrating through the internal wall. It then ripped open the stomach, along the anterior face of the upper border, pissed completely through the liver, the vena cava, and pardally through the aorta; then through the right kidney, And the greater portion of the charge was found lodged near tne spine. The charge consisted of shot, which was much, flattened and knocked about, of part of a bullet, and some paper that had been used as waddina. The portion of a bullet was found near the eighth rib on the right side, and was very nearly coming out at the right side: it could be felt through the skin. In my opinion, this wound was the cause of her death. I think death must have been instantaneous. Mr. Westwood produced the shot, bullet; and paper found in the body. The shot is small shot, such as is used in shooting sparrows. The coroner then briefly summed up, remarking on the clearness of the evidence as to how death had been caused, and who fired.the pistol, and on the fact that the evidence was in no part contradictory. There did not appear to be any of those extenuating circumstances which would justify the jury in returning a verdict of manslaughter, and with regard to what had been said by the witnesses regarding the state of mind of the man Farquhar, that part of the matter would be better dealt with by a jury acting under the direction of cne of Her Majesty's judges. After half an hour's deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder." The prisoner Earquhar was committed for trial on the charge under the coroner's warrant. CHARGE BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. On Monday the prisoner was brought before the magis- trates, Messrs. T. C. S. Kvnnerdev (stipendiary) and W. S. Cox, at the Public-office. The inquiry occupied several hours, but, as the same witnesses were examined as at the coroner's inquest (an abstract of which is given above) it is needless to repeat it, the testimony of the witnesses being in no material respect shaken. The crime appears to have been committed in a fit of, it may be, uncontrollable excitement, produced by what is now said to bave been jealousy. The servant girl, a young woman named Phillips, deposed that she was in the house and in the adjoining room immediately prior to the fatal occurrence, and that she heard nothing but words of kindness between the prisoner aad the deceased. Upon the questioning of the prisoner's counsel there was elicited from her a statement to the effect that the prisoner was not sober, that he could not walk straight, and from what she.saw she thought be was not in a fit state to handle fire-arms." Tae result was that Farquhar was fully committed to take his trial for" wilful murder" at the ensuing assizes for the county of Warwick.
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A hawk's bill turcis was recently captured off the coast near Banlf; it is an exceedingly rare species for this climate. The Swiss papers record another accident to Alpine tourists. The victim on this occasion was Mdme. Fanny Gamier, of Paris, who was travelling with her husband in the Bernese Oberland, and fell into a torrent called the Lutschine, at Grundewald, where she was drowned, in spite of all efforts to s?ve her. Loss of Six Lives in Dublin Say.—Daring the past couple of weeks the water has bPP'1. with a few ex- ceptions, remarkably smooth in Dublin Bay, and the shoals of herrings off the eastern coast have been so large that great numbers of fi-hing smacks have been con- stantly out with their net<. Amorgst these vessels was a fine lugger, named the Golüseeke., the property of Mr. Kelly, of Kingstown. This iii-fated craft was, a few mornings since, making for Howth, with a heavy freight of herrings, and with a crew of eight men on board. The vessel was sailing on fairlv when she was caught by a sudden squail from S. W. The men made great exer- tions to lutf up into the wind, but in vain. She broached in the sea-way, and almost immediately went down. seven fathoms. Owing to the delay attendant on getting ready the fishing gear, none of the other trawlers could give timely assistance to the eight unfortunate men who were now struggling for their lives. Before any aid could reach them six were drowned, four being members of the same family. One of the men who was saved held up the other for more thm an hour in the water, and when they were both taken on board a lugger which came up, they were nearly insensible, and almost expiring from exhaustion. They were taken to Howth, provided with everything neeessary for their restora- tion. ONE of the best American stories is that of the boy who was always being scolded by his father, and who, being roughly ordered to go out and fetch a log for the fire, went away altogether. Returning a full-grown and powerful man to visit his parents, he recollected the circumstances under which he had left liis home. He heaved up a huge piece of .timber that was lying near, opened the farmhouse door, and beheld his father and mother in their old corners. "I've brought the wood, father," he said. The calm parent looked at him for a moi»ent, atrd re- plied, Well, you've been ti ii rned long time ai>out it: -and now put it down and eat your supper." Now although.-the old man so utterly ignored the Sight of time in his reply to his son, we who live in this work-a-day worlclare obliged to be-somewhat more particular, and for this purpose each one provides himself with one of those excellent watches manufactured by Benson of Ludgate-hill and Cornhill, and wlvch are fully described in his frustrated Pamphlet, sent free for two stamps. — Punch. 24tll st, 19G1.