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RAILS BUCKLED BY HEAT. +
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RAILS BUCKLED BY HEAT. + EXPRESS LEAVES METALS; TWO MEN KILLED. An alarming accident, involving the death of two railway servants and injuries TO several passengers, occurred on Tuesday morning on the j.ondon and North Western Railway at a spot a anarter of a oa the Mossley side oI Finland Station, close to the Yorkshire border. Tln^ train involved was the express which left Huddersfield at 3 20 for Stockport, and when the point men- tioned was reached the carriages began to rock in an alarming manner. The theory is that the train on a curve just beyond a viaduct ran on to a length of permanent way where the intense heat had buckled the metals. The passengers immediately became aware that something was amiss. After running for a short distance in this fashion the engine left the rails, and, swing- ing- round, fell on its side, dragging the three passenger carriages, which had some twenty er thirty occupants, with it. The engine, which was almost smashed to pieces, 'was embedded in the permanent way. The first coach dashed into the engine, but somehow managed to maintain its position on its wheels. The passengers in this coach included a funeral party from Cleckheaton, all of whom complained of shock. The other coaches kept their position on the line. The driver and stoker, who pluckily stack to their posts, were found dead, and par- tially buried beneath the debris. Both bodies were shockingly mangled. The guard was injured about the head, but did his iiest to assist the passengers, about a dozen of whom were more or less injured, mostly by the shock. The engine was practically reduced to scrap, and considerable damage was done 10 the permanent way, the rails being twisted and torn up for a distance of about 200 yards. The following is a list of killed and injured KILLED. William Tarton, Dewhurst-road, Huddera- fleld, driver of the train. James Albert Gates, ITuddorsfiftld, stoker. INJURED. lfrs. Sarah Bla.mires, Cleckheaton, shock. Miss Emma Biamires, Cleckneaton, shock. Mrs. Elizabeth Downing, Cleckheaton, phock. John Wade, Cleckheaton, shock. William Davies, Swansea. L. C. Gronow, Bridgend, Glamorgan, com- mercial traveller, injured hoad. Mrs. Townsend, John Wi-liiam-street, Clecn- 1 ear on. the injured were able to proceed on their journey by a later train. The train is chiefly wsed by people travelling from West York- shire cant res to South Wales, and it is seldom that there are many passengers. Another message say?:—The accident is i attributed to ibe of the rails, i duo to the exee-ssive heat. The train waa crossing a bridge over the Tue Brook at 1 Mill wheji it Jpft the rails. It rras raising over the bridge at 50 miles an hour, and it is surmised that when the engine left the metals the driver, realising the danger, did not shut off sieajN, but kept the throttle open in the hope of reaching the other side oi the bridge. The train maintained its equilibrium for 300 yards, when it jumped on the siding, with disastrous consequences. Most of the passengers wore returning from their holidays. They were ,startled hy the jolting and jarring noise, and light articles were thrown from the racks. The train began to rook dangerously for several hundred yards before the disaster occurred, and a, passenger who got on the footboard preparing to jump into the permanent way states that he noticed the engine oscillating furiously. When the engine did leave the metals, a few yards from a viaduct, from which there was a 40ft. drop, it swung com- pletely round, the boiler burst, and the first co-ach crashed into the debris.
MOUNTAIN MYSTERY. •
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MOUNTAIN MYSTERY. • MOTOR-CYCLIST LOST ON PLYNLIMMON. An unknown motor-cyclist who disap- peared on Tuesday on Piynlimmon Moun- tain, one of the loftiest in Wales, is described as about SO yeai3 old, five and a half feet high, dressed in brown motor-coat ¡::rl{I leggings. The machine is a Kenna-rd. registered B.O. [Cardiff] 136. On linen lound in a bag was G. L. M'Kaig." Beyond these few particulars the police have nothing ■which can assist in identification. He was seen by James Thomas, a shep- herd, to leave the huts at Eisteddfa Gurig st, eight on Tuesday morning. He shouted: 'lye left my machine in the hut. and am poing to the top of the mountain." Since that hour he has never been seen. Alarmed at tho non-appearance of tho fyclist. the shepherd sent word to Aber- ystwyth on Thursday, and early on Friday Chief-constable Williams organised a search p~rty. Old mines, gullies, rocks, rivers, and the lake Llyn Llynid, from which Aber- ystwyth gets its daily supply of water, were all searched, and every person in the neigh- bourhood was questioned. The party continued their search round the tln of Nantyliyn, and covered many Inileg In thclr P&ra'm-bulation of river a-nd r thv-mc Moorland. The chief-constable, decided to lay the particulars ° amcd before the Cardiff police, and endea- vour by this means to tra,ce the relatives and friends of the missing man. Eisteddfa Gurig stands at a, height of neariy l,i0Cft. Inquiries m~de on Monday show that the cjcio which was sold by Messrs. Konnard u Son, City-road, Cardiff, is registered in u-o of Mr. James Leonard M'Kaig, 27, "Street, King-ton, Herefordshire. The f ;)re'Vr"iS'ly he!or;sed to Mr. Christo- pher Trevor; Mildon, Paget-street, Grangetown, s-n oi .he late Alderman g. Mildon, Cardiff, a,no. before that it was the property of M r, Charles Boyt, also of Paget-street. A KINGTON BANK CLERK Our King-ton correspondent telegraphs that the missing Piynlimmon motor-cyclist is Mr. J. L. M'Kaig, a clerk at the Kington and Radnorshire Bank. Kington, and the son of t"tV schoolmaster, New Radnor. •> i. M Kaig started from Kington on Satur- t ay evening, July 3^ for a sjjort tour, and should have returned in time for business on j. uesday. He is well-known and highly respected. Le spent Saturday night in bfirewaoury, and on Sunday morning pro- ceeded to Llangollen. Be probably intended to make a circular tour through North Wales, but his subsequent movements have not lwen fully traced. Great anxiety is felt regarding his fate.
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------,. DRUNK WHEN MARRIED."
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DRUNK WHEN MARRIED." CURIOUS SWANSEA BIGAMY CHARGE. Tom Dennis T29), groom, was charged on remand at Swansoa on Tuesday with bigamy. :vlr. Lawrence Richards, who prosecuted, paid prisoner, who had been in service at Swansea, was arrested at Rye. He want to Swansea two years ago, passed himself off as a single man, and married Edith May Hopkins at the registry office in June, after keeping company with her for two years. A month 0-§o, in consequence of what her brother told her, she taxed him with having been previously married, lie admitted this and said fie had maintained his wife tiif Txvjently, and that. he was drunk when he rnaJTied her. It was subsequently discovered that prisoner had, in 1907, married Rose Jane Uernden. who was still a.live, at Rye. It appeared that the suspicions of Miss Bopkins were aroused by defendant's receipt I' of letters. Prisoner was committed for trial at the "68izes.
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':s; BRIDGEND MINISTER CHARGED WITH FRAUD.—See Page 7. 1
VICTIM ALMOST DECAPITATED.…
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VICTIM ALMOST DECAPITATED. ■¥- DOUBLE TRAGEDY NEAR LONDON, MAD JEALOUSY OF REJECTED SUITOli, A terrible double tragedy was enaxsted shortly before midnight on Saturday in Col- ville-road, Acton Groon. West London. A man named Jack Bee, who was a painter, cut the throat of a woman named May White, aged twenty, daughter of a carpen- ter, and then gashed his own throat with thoe same razor and tore open the wound until fle bled to death, both deaths resulting within a few minutes. Bee had been engaged to May White for eight months, but, owing to his habits. through which ho lost his situation, ^he ez;gagement was broken off, and oer- tain presents, including a watch and an engagement ring, were returned to him on Good Friday last, with a short note ter- minating the engagement. He wrote several letters askiny for forgiveness, and a renewal of the engagement, but no notice was taken of these. L While the woman was waiting for the return of her parents at the garden gate he suddenly appeared, and after a. short con- versation, in which a neighbour said she heard the woman say "No," the man attacked her in the manner described. The victim was a good-looking, healthy, athletic woman, and was a photographer's assistant. It appeals that at half-past eleven at night Miss White was on her way home with a friend when she was heard to say, "It would be all right if some one were waiting for me round the door when I get there." This remark, it is said, was prompted by threats that the young man ha,d used to her, and indicated that she had a premonition that he would resort to violence. No sooner had she left her friend and turned to enter the front gate of her home. Orchard Cottage, in Colville-road, than the man leapt out from behind the bushes in the smalLfront garden. The pair were seen by a neighbour to be engaged in close conversation behind the closed gate for some time. Suddenly the man produced a razor, and, seizing her by the shoulder, he drew it with terrible force across her throat, almost severing her heed from her body. She gave one loud shriek of agony and then fell into the arms of a neigh- bour wbo had rushed to her assistance. 'w Meanwhile a scene of the most poignant character was taking place Within the home. Her parent,s were absent, and the only occu- pants of the oottage were ther elder sister, Lily, and several young children. They rushed intf. the garden, terrified by her cry, and as they did so the man brushed past them into 1.hp passage and sank down against the wall, bleeding from a terrible razor wound he had inflicted in his throat. One of the aead girl's infant sisters, seeing the razor in his hand, managed to wrest it fiom him. Bee thereupon arose, and with a final effort staggered into the front room, whore he collapsed. The distracted sister's cries of terror, as she realised the terrible purport of the scene before ber, effectually aroused the neigh- bourhood, and a crowd quickly gathered. The wounded girl was carried into the house, and the victims were laid side by side in the little front room. It was at once apparent that the unhappy girl was dead, but in spite of His terrible wounds the man still lingered. The police, under Sub-divisional Inspector Andrews, promptly appeared and removed him 9.n an ambulance to the Acton Cottage Hospital, but on arrival there he was faunlt to be dead. Mi^s White is described as of unusual beauty and charm. ""i.th a sunny disposition that made her exceedingly popular. Her acquaintance with the dead man began aboait twelve months ago while he was keeping a general store in the neighbourhood. They were much in each other's company for three months, and seemed closely attached, but at tho end of that period Mr. White, who is in the employ of the Army and Navy Stores, heard some story about Bee's charac- ter that caused him to order his daughter to break off the acquaintance and to forbid Bee the house. The young man, who seems to have been very sincerely attached to tie girl, was obviously much affected by the separation. On several occasions he met her and urged her, Jatterly with threats, to disobey her father and resume their former relatione. He is said to have threatened her at Easter in such terms that she went in fear of serious violence. To several of her friends she expressed her fear of Bee's jealous anger. MYSTERIOUS LETTER. A verdict of murder and suicide was pet urtM-d at the inquest on Tuesday. The Coroner said that little was known about Bee, but tho following extraordinary letter had been received by the dead girl's mother: Madam,—I regret in the pa.pers to- day the regrettable death of your young daughter. I will appear at the inquest to- morrow, as I think 1 am Bee's wife and the mother of his four children. I cannot get there until three o'clock, as I am engaged in business. The father of the girl victim stated that Bee kept company with his daughter until Easter. On Good Friday Beo asked permis- sion to take his fianoe to the seaside. Wit- ness gave his oorusemt, but Bee did not turn up. Nothing was heard of him for a week, when he was seen in a dilapidated coinditMn as though he had been drinking. Subse- quently Bee wrote asking- forgiveness and saying he would in future be a teetotaler. He was seen again, however, the worse for drink, ana witness and his wife advisfd their daughter to return the presents and have nothing more to do with him. The girl's sister Lilian described the fatal soene. She saw her sister and Bee talking together at the gate. Witness heard a scuffle and ran out, and as she did so Bee passed her in the passage. He was cutting his throat, and her Eister was lying by the front door. Another eoster said she took the razor from Bee after he had cut his throat, and in doing BO her hand was cut. A letter was found on Bee addressed to Miss White, in which he asked for forgiveness and promised to give up his drui*?T' habits. On the night of the murder he wa-, turned out of his lodgings because he was in arrears with his rent. It
"NEVER AGAIN!"
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"NEVER AGAIN!" LONDON SEA-TRIPPERS ORDEAL IN THE FOG. The Mavis, a steamer belonging to thd General Steam Navigation Company, which left London on Sunday morning, arrived at Yarmouth at half-past two on Monday after- noon, nineteen hours overdue, having boea fogbound. She was crowded with passengers, who cheered lustily when the boat reachod the quay. They stated that the Mavis wa.s anchored off Covehithe for seventeen hours The women and children among the passen- gers behaved well throng-hout their ordeal but the first lady who descended the gan., way called out, "Never again!' The Southwold Belle, also from London was fourteen hours late on the same journey. 300 LlilIE-RICIK TRIPPERS "HELD UP." Three hundred excursionists, who left 'K, Limerick on Sunday for Kilkee, were unable to return until Monday, their steamer being detained at Kilrush on the return journey owing to a dense fog in the river.
JAPANESE DISASTER.I ---.
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JAPANESE DISASTER. I NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED CORAL FISHERS DROWNED. MILAN, Tuesday. A telegram from Tokio to the Secolo" says that :) very strong squall surprised a flotilla of coral fishing boats off Kobe, result- ing in the death of 457 fishermen. Mjany escaped with injuries. have left for too scene of the disaster.—Reuter.
FATHER Of EIGHT CHILDREN.…
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FATHER Of EIGHT CHILDREN. DROWNED WHILST FISHING FOR SUNDAY FOOD. A boating accident occurred on Satur- day evening in Barry Roads. One man was drowned, and two others were rescued after considerable difficulty. On Saturday afternoon three men, named James Garland, aged 45, living at 23. Bassett- street, Barry Dock, a dock labourer; John Benson, of 5, Commercial-road. Cadoxton, seaman, and James Boyes, of 19, Millward- road, Cadoxton, labourer, put out from Barry Dock in a small sailing boat for the purpose of having a few hours' line fishing in the Channel. They proceeded in the direction of Lavernock. About eight o'clock, just as the men were adjusting the sails, a sudden squall came on, and the boat was capsized. For some time tho three men clung to the bottom of the upturned boat. and made signs of distress, with the view of attracting the atten- tion of passing shipping or someone on shore. Benson and Boyes could swim, but Garland could not, and they did all they could for nearly- half an hour to keep the latter afloat, but, becoming exhaubtoo, he sank and was drowned. Some time afterwards the position of the two men, who slili clung to the upturned boat, was observed by a passing steamer, and the pilot boat Susan, which was in tow, at, put. off to the rescue, and the men, who by this time were giving up hope, were landed at Lavernock. The cap- oized boat was also taken p.shore, and a search was made for the body of the drownoo man, but without success. Benson and Boyes were taken to Ball Cottage, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Harold M. LlQyd. nere they received every attention, and at 60 «!L,er ur returned to their homes. »een afterwards, one of the rescued men said he could hardly say how the accident Happened. The weather was calm, and the sea as still as a pond.. "As we were puttinc up the sails," he said, "a 'capful' of wind came along, and the boat capsized." Garland clung to the keel of the boat for a long time, and both men held on to him, but all at once he disappeared, and did not rise again. Garland had been out of employment for more than a month, and went to fish on Saturday in the hope that his family might have some food on Sunday. He leaves a widow and eight children, five of whom are entirely dependent. The boat in which the accident happened JAMES GAliLAXlJ, THE DHOWNED MAX. I was brought back to Barry on Sunday by Bonson and Boyes, but the body of Garland has not yet been recovered.
MARDY MAN DROWNED.
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MARDY MAN DROWNED. COLLIER'S STRANGE CONDUCT AT BIDEFORD. Giving evidence at the inqueet at Bideford OR h&turday on Enoch Davis, a miner from Mardy, who was drowned on Friday, Police- constable Hastin said deceased complained to him of being laughed at. Witness sug- constable Hastin said deceased complained to him of being laughed at. Witness sug- gested he had been drinking, and he replied he had been on the beer for days. Witness took him to his lodgings at ttbe King's Arms, and asked the landlady not to supply more liquor, and suggested she or his companion should get a doctor if he got no better. Deceased was soeit in the river, making no at,tempt to get out. He sank, and was drowned before assistance reached him. He had told Thomas, a companion, who was away at Appledore at the time, that he could swim. Deceased's bank-book showed he had drawn nearly £2S during the past three weeks at Mardy, Bath, and Bideford, leaving a balance of about £ 1. A verdict of Found drowned" was returned. TWO BOYS DROWNED AT BURRY PORT. The bodies of the two young lads, John Henry Williams. CaedoJan, Burry Port, and John Tieharne, Cwmmawr, Llannon, who were drowned whilst bathing on the beach between the Burry Port and Pembrey Har- bours, wore recovered by Coastguard Peard on Saturday. Mr. W. W. Brodie, district coroner, held an inquest at the Parish-hall, Burry Port, on Saturday evening. Mr. Thomas Williams, Caedolan, Burry Port, and Mr. John Treharne, checkweieher, Tumble (fathers of the deceased), W. Tre- harne (brother of one of the deceased), Mr. J. Burry Thomas, schoolmaster, Abertillery, and Dr. J. H. Williams, Burry Port gave evidence, and a verdict of Accidental drown- ing was returned. BRAVE EFFORTS TO RESCUE A LLANTIUSANT MAN. Mr. W. II, Pine. a young man residing with his parents at Brynteg Cottage; Llantrisant, was on Tuesday afternoon the victim of a bathing fatality. Mr. Pine and two comrades —Messrs. Charles Regan and Richard Morgan —had gone to an old feeder at Liantwit Main for a bathe. Deceased, who was a non- swimmer, got beyond his depth, and con- spicuously gallant efforts were made by his comrades to save the unfortunate man. Mr. Regan was the first, to reach him, but the deceased clung to his rescuer's leg, with the result tha.t it required all the efforts of Mr. Morgan to obviate a double fatality, and both men were quite exhausted in their brave attempts to reach their comrade. Mr. Mort, of Llantrisant, also deserves a word of praise. Divesting himself of some of his clothes he dived into the water and ultimately succeeded in recovering the lifeless body. Police-sergeant Jones and others rendered valuable help and endeavoured to bring abcut artificial respiration, but all efforts at reviving the unfortunate man proved of no avail, Dr. Lodie, who was summoned, pronouncing life extinct. Two children, named Wilfred Milner and Arthur Siminonde, both aged seven years of West Smethwick, have been drowned while bathing in a brook which connects the two canals near their homes They walked through a shallow tunnel and stepped from it into a tank at the end, containing about 20ft. of water and mud.
GIRL CIRCUS PERFORMER.
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GIRL CIRCUS PERFORMER. SHOT DEAD BY A CHINAMAN AT FRANKFORT. A crime resembling in many details the recent murder of Elsie Siegel in the Chinese quarter of New York has been enacted at Frankfort, the victim being a girl circus performer named Hildegard Hoffman. The details available seem to show that yellow people exercised a peculiar fascination over the unfortunate young woman. For some time she had men friendly with a Chinaman named Tien-Yon, but recently the made the acquaintance of a diminutive Japanese, by profession a juggler. Her friend- 1 ship for the Japanese she endeavoured io keep a secret frcm Tien-Yon, but he even- tualiy heard of it, and in an access of rage shot the girl dead, and immediately after- v?rds took his own life.—Central News,
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AN ADDITION TO THE SIGN. DAME WALES! That's proper! But you will have to put in the names of more big companies soon.
-,\ EXPLOSION ON A MOTOR LAUNCH.…
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EXPLOSION ON A MOTOR LAUNCH. -+-- LADY DIES AFTER BEING KESCUED. A shocking accident has occurred near Auchencairn, on the Sol way Coast. A motor launch with five persons aooard suddenly blow up, and was burned to the water's edge. One of the party swam ashore, a lady wac rescued alive but died later, and a gentleman was found alive, but the other two occupants have not been discovered. The accident i? believed to have been caused by the cooking stove upsetting and the flames igniting some petrol. The Launch belonged to Mr. Fergusson, of II Creetown. who. with Mrs. Fergusson, Captain t a-ird, Adam iiirreii, fisherman, and a motor- man, was aboard when the accident happened. Mr. Fersuzson -"id the motorman are missing. An Edinburgh telegram regarding the disaster states that Mr. Alan Ferg-useon is the ton of the lata Sir James Ferguson. M.P., < i-iiilc- it tLc Ja^uica, earthquake, and he, with his wife, Captain Hendryson Caird, of Cassencary, Mr. Adam Birrell, lessee of the fishings at Crcetown, and Sydney Seal, chauffeur to Mr. Fergusson, set out lor Kippford. They left, the latter place at night for home, and when naif-way round, in Balearry Bay, the launch blew up. Mrs. Fergusson was killed, and Mr. Fergusson OhA the chauff-sur (Seal) are missing, but Captain Caird and -ir. Birrell are safe. Mr. Fergusson and his chauffeur, the telegram adds, were experts in engineering and capable yachtsmen. The name of the launch xr was the Sirius. It is believed that an oil stove used for cooking purposes was upset in some way among the petrol, with tne I disastrous re-s-ults described. A Dalbeattie correspondent telegraphs that as the launch was returning from Kippford the paraffin stove in the cabin w; lighted, and immediately the boat was blown up through the vapour of the petrol becoming ignited and exploding. When the occupants of the yacht saw that there was 110 possi- bility of extinguishing the fire, preparations were made for leaving the boat. Birrell, an expert sailor, secured the lifebelts, and put one on each mem-ber of the party, also placing a spar between MrE. Fergueson's arms further to assist her. Birrell having reached the Itascarel shore, two miles off, apprited a Mr. Bell, who cycled to the lifeboat, and had two rockets fired. Word having been sent to Balcorry. the steamboat Foam went to the assistance of Mrs. Fergusson, who was picked up unconscious and taken ashore, but, despite medical aid, ehe died in a, short time. Captain Caird was atso picked in a weak condition, but gradually revived. Other craft joined in the sea.rch. A Sunday message stated that search was continued that- day for the bodies of Mr. Fergusson and Seal, the motorman, but it was feared that they had been carried out to sea. Captain Caird and Birrell are progress- ing favourably. TWO FISHERMEN LOST. Two experienced ftenermen, Alfred Le Pro- vost and John Bourgaise, put out from Rocquaine Harbour, Guernsey, in the 16-foot fishing-boat Joli. Later the Joli was fould stranded on a, reef of rocks about a mile from the harbour. The sails were set and the two men missing. The weather tfuring the night was fine. The boat was little damaged, and it is presumed that the men were thrown out whenitstrn-k.
ATTACK ON A COMEDIAN.
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ATTACK ON A COMEDIAN. ONE OF THE DEFENDANTS SENT FOR TRIAL. The attack on a music-hall artiste in Red Lion-street, Holborn, came before Mr. Mar- sham again at Bow-street Police-court on Tuesday, when Harry Cooper and James Sibyear were charged on remand witu causing bodily harm to Mr. William Maclean, a music-hall artiste, and with assaulting police officers. Mrs. Maclean, the prosecutor's wife, who, with her husband, was seated in a motor- car at the time of the occurrence, said that after the vehicle had been pulled up in Red Lion-street, Holborn, and during the tem- porary absence of the prosecutor, Cooper and another man stepped on to the car. One of them touched the starting handle, and wit- ness said, Don't do that; you don't know what you are doing. Please get down." The prosecutor then returned, and pushed Cooper aside. Cooper took something from his pocket and struck the prosecutor three times. Six or seven men tried to get Cooper away. Further evidence having been given of the assault, Mr. Barker (Messrs. Wontner and Sons), who prosecuted, asked the magistrate to commit both accused for trial. Mr. Marsham remarked that Sibyear did not appear to have taken any part in the attack 011 the prosecutor, but sentenced him to one month's hard labour for assaulting Detective Wiltshire. Cooper was committed for triaJ.
ROMANTIC TRAGEDY.
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ROMANTIC TRAGEDY. JILTED MAN ATTACKS BROTHER AND KILLS HIMSELF. At an inquest at Birmingham on Monday: on Arthur Clews the jury returned a verdict of Suicide while of unsound mind." Chris- tilla. Martin said that she formerly walked out with the deceased, but latterly she had been courted by his brother Harry, and they were to have been married this month. 1 Arthur was informed of this on Thursday, and on Friday he attacked his brother with the thin end of a. smith's hammer, leaving him apparently dead, and then ctf his own throat with'a razor. No hope is hald out for the recovery of the brother, who was severely injured on the he.d.
(---TRAM WRECKED BY ¡A TRAIN.…
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( TRAM WRECKED BY ¡ A TRAIN. -■ -f- — DISASTROUS COLLISION NEAR PARIS. The "Journal" says: -A terrible accident occurred last night between Seeaux aiut Longjumeau, in tht vicinity of Paris. A tram on the Odeon-Arpajon service was travelling at a good spowi when it was stepped in the darkness by a vehicle, the horse of which had fallen. At this moment a gooas train camo up the driver of which did net perceive the signals of distress 01 the tram conductor and a collision resulted. line tram was com- pletely wreaked, and pai^engers were thrown under the wheels of the train. The work of rescue occupied several hours. All the dead and injured have been con- veyed to Longjumeau. An enormous crow 1 is 'gathered at sthe fcene of the accident. It is ascertained that twelve persons pore killed, including six men, four women, an4 two girls. One of the women vraa delivered of a eidld on the seono o-f the disaster, bas the baby only survived a few minutes, Thirty wore injured, and several are in a sericU6 condition. All the victims were market- garden people i going to the Paris Hanes to dispose- of their! produce, or Parisians returning from suburban junketings. The official inquiry confirms the accounts of the accident already given, merely adding that the accident occurred at about a qua— ter to eleven, that the horse of the vehicle which caused the stoppage oi the passenger train had its hoof caught in the rails, and that the engine of the goods train practi- cally climbed up on to tho top cf the last carriage of the passenger train, reducing it absolutely to atoms. According to a Central News message from Paris, sixteen persons were killed and 30 injured
CHEItMOMOTOlt DISASTER.|
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CHEItMOMOTOlt DISASTER. DRIVER SAYS HIS REGULAR SPEED WAS 25 MILES AN HOUR. The inquest respecting the death of Mr. John S. Purry. a chartered accountant, of Parliament Hill, who was killed in the motor- car disaster at North Cheam on Saturday, was held at Cheam on Tuesday. The driver of the green car, Charles 11. Bartlett, of Kemplay-road, Harapstead, said he was taking Mr. Purry, his eldest eon, and Miss Cock to Feltham. near Bognor. He was at the time of the accident, he thought, going about twenty-five miles an hour, but it might have been a little faster. My regular speed is twenty-five miles an hour," he added. I The Coroner: All over the country?—Yes. I never go fast. I only drive for pleasure. Yen know what the legal speed limit is?— Yes, but I see dozens of cars going over forty miles an hour. I sometimes go thirty I miles on the Barnet Road. He did noi know what made his car turn over. He turned it a little to the right, it gave two or three bounds, and he remem- bered nothing else till ho came to in the hospital. Dr. Chearnley Smith said the car had fallen cn Mr. Purry"s chest, killing him instantly, Dr. Chearnley Smith said the car had fallen cn Mr. Purry"s chest, killing him instantly, and the jury returned a verdict of "Acci- dental death."
IGREAT NEPHEW OF GENERAL PICTON,I
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GREAT NEPHEW OF GENERAL PICTON, COMMITS SUICIDE AT BRISTOL STATION. The inquett wae required at the Bristol Coroner's-c'o'urt on Tuesday on Mr. Edward Picton, a gentleman of private mean. who Picton, a gentleman of private mean. who lived at 16, The Green, Richmond, Surrey. Deceased, who was a great-nephew of General Picton, was found in a lavatory at Temple Meads Station on Wednesday last with his throat cut and two bulLet wounds in his breast. He wae a bachelor, and for 24 years had lived in the same house at Richmond, a housekeeper and servant attend- in.g to his wants. liis relatives live in Souti) Wales, and he formerly spent a great deal of time at Porthcawl. On Tueeday, August 3, he left home, giving his houeekoeper to understand that he was going to Cromer. Previously he had told her to la-bel his keys, but as he seemed cheerful and there was nothing unusual in his demeanour no par- ticular attention was paid to that. Mr. Hugh Robson Sadler, solicitor, E.aid he had known deceased intimately for some time. He was well off, and, but for the iact that his health had been failing, there was nothing to cause him any worry or anxiety so far as he knew. The jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide, but there was no evidence to show his state of mind at the time.
"PLANING" FOR ALL.
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"PLANING" FOR ALL. MACHINE SOON TO BE IX DAILY USE. PARIS, Monday. According to the "Journal," Mr. Orville Wright has stated tha.t he and his brother are completing and perfecting their aero plane. He considers that the machine will soon be in daily use and available to every- one, both as regards price and working. With this apparatus, he says,, one will be able to "plane to one's heart's content.—Reuter.
IKISH MURDER SENTENCE.
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IKISH MURDER SENTENCE. In the case of Richard Justin, under eeis tei,.c-, of d'a.th in Belfast Prison, the Lot' Lieutenant sees no reason for interference with the oourse of the law. Prisoner was 1 'siund guilty of having unmercifully beaten his step-daughter, causing her death. j
PASSENGERS' PREDICAMENT NEAR…
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PASSENGERS' PREDICAMENT NEAR DUBLIN. A Dublin correspondent telegraphs that the pleasure steamer Duke of Abercorn, of the Duke Line, with close on 250 pa-ssengers aboard, ran ashore on Dalkey Island in dense fog. Iortunateiy, the sea was calm, and the Pteamer was travelling at reduced speed, She left Bray at nine o'clock, and a loud crash as she grounded gave intimation of what had occurred. Althougn a large proportion of the P¡¡'$' sftajjers were women, there was no panic, and tho men ax once set to work to launch tho boats. News of the disaster ouickly spread, an d shortly residents at Dalkey and local fishermen K.re on the scene, rendering all Possible aasistanca, and within, an hour of the vessel striding all th3 passengers were- j landed without mishap. Four special trains i.tra leruisitkrasd &» j Dalkey, and blur pa-ssengers were conveyed tc Dublin, \yhere they arrived ahortly after mid- nig-ht The steamer's bow is stove iu, and it is believed she ba,6 sustained other serious damage. It is stated the vessel was attempting to go through the channel between the island and; the mainland. The tide wa-s low at the time. A Lloyd's message states that there were from two to three hundred paseengers' 011 board the Duke of Abercorn. These were ail landed cn Dalkey Island, some in boats and some by climbing up ths rocks. All were afterwards convoyed to the m&inland. Lloyd's as-ent was the first to render assistance, and remained in charge until all were safely landed. The steamer floated with the morn- ing's tide, and arrived at Dublin at four o'clock with considerable damage to her bow p. When the Duke of Abercorn struck on the rocks the impact was so severe that, many passengers were thrown down. No Tie were, however, ininred. Intense excite- ment and alarm prevailed for a few moments and some ladies fainted.* Calm was soon restored. FOG IN IRISH SEA. A heavy fog settled ever the Irish Sea on Tuesday night, and still prevailed on Wednes- day. Cross-channel steamers, including the mail exress, have been considerably delayed both to and from Ireland
ON THE HOCKS BY HOLYHEAD v--
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ON THE HOCKS BY HOLYHEAD v A large steam yacht, name unknown, and the coasting steamer Leo ran on the rocks near Holyhead during a dense fog on Wed- nesday night, but both got off with slight damage. The Holyhead steam lifeboat went to the assistance of the vessels. An unfortunate accident hefoll the rocket apparatus, which overturned when ronndin a sharp corneT, throwing the coastguards and votTinteer crew into the roadway. Six sustained nasty wounds a.nd had to be con- veyed to Holyhead Ly motor-car for medical aid.
ASHORE OFF ST. DAVIDS.
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ASHORE OFF ST. DAVIDS. LONDON STEAMER SUCCESSFULLY RE-FLOATED. The large cargo steamer Mana ton, of Loadon. ran ashore on the north-fca<st ledges of the Smalls about 11.5 a.m. on Wednesday. iue Manaton was bound from Liverpool, light, to load in one of the Bristol Channel ports! for Kurraehee. The steamer was comma-nded i by Captain R. J. Work, and is of 4,025 ton- nage, and carried a crew of 4S hands. At the time of the disaster the Smalls were firing fog signals, afi it was very thick during the morning. The steamer was close up to the doors of the lighthouse, and the crew were able to walk ashore. As soon as the vessel struck a telephonR message was despatched to Chief-coastguard Hunt, St. David's, who at once sent, one of his men to St. Justinian's, and called out Cap- ta-in Rarge, an underwriter-director from London, and Captain Anderson, owner of the salvage steamer Lady of 1 be Isle, who 13 attending the Langton Grange wreck. The salvage steamer at once proceeded "with all her salvage pumps and plants to the Smalls to render assistance to the steamboat. The Manaton is owned by Messrs. Lambert Brothers, of London, and was built in 1902 by Messrs. J. Priest-nan and Co., Sunder- land. She was got off tho rocks at high tide, and proceeded south. The water ballast forehead had been pumped out and her engines were kept going astern all the tiin"• Dd the <-t earner struck on the ebb tide they would not have been able to get her off It appears that she has received considerable damage, some of her plates being wrenched off as the big hull slid off the rocks.
FALL OF 1,000 FEET.
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FALL OF 1,000 FEET. TOURIST CARRIES HIS DYING SISTER. In a fearful fall of nearly 1,000ft. on the Col des Ecrins. in the French Alps, two tourists, Herr Gley, a German, and Mile. Copdepond, of Lyons, were killed, while too latter's brother, M. Capdepond, was gravely injured. They were descending a "couloir" or cor- ridor of ice when all lost their foot-hold &nd slid rapidly downwards at a fearful speed After fa.lling nea.riy 1,000ft. Herr Gley broke his skull on the glacier. Mile. Capdepond fell fa.-e downwards a.nd her brother on his back. When the young man revived he found that his left arm was broken, among numerous other injuries, while his sister was dying. Ho made an heroic effort to carry her on his shoulder down to La Berarde, but his! strength quickly gave out. He then pro- ceeded alone, taking two nights and a- day to reach La Berarde, a distance which a strong man can cover in four hours. A rescue party at once started out, and recovered Mile. Capdepond's body. Her brother's condition is serious. )
I i TERRITORIAL CAMP DISASTER.…
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TERRITORIAL CAMP DISASTER. 4. 14 MEN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN WILTSHIRE. A message from Tilshead, Wiltshire, received on Thursday stated that a motor-car ran into some soldiers return- ing to camp, killing seven and injuring twenty. A later telegram modified this horror, and stated that there were no deaths, the casualties being ten men injured. Other telegrams during the day put the number of deaths at four, with ten injured; but the balance of probability is that none of the men were killed, though several were seriously, even dangerously, injured. 7 The last telegram stated that four- teen men were injured. The disaster oi-cured early in the morn- ing. The soldiers were returning to Rollestone Camp from the manoeuvres. KNOCKKD RIGHT AND LEFT." An Exchange Telegraph Company's m-assage states that the accident occurred ir. the neighbourhood of Trowbridge, a.nd that a motor van, said to belong to a, London new- paper, ran into the soldiers when they were on the march. One account states that a number of men were killed, and another that Eye were seriously injured. A special correspondent of the Londoa "Evening News" states that ten men of tho 4th I/ondon Brigade of the Field Artillery were injured to-day in a. rfotor-car accident. The time was 4.30 a..m., and the -place about a mile from Rollestone Camp. The 10th Battalion, made up to strength with detachments of the 4th Ammunition Column, had been to Okehampton (which is on the border of Dartmoor) far firing prac- tice. They were marching from the detrain- ing station to camp, and there was a heavy mist, on the hillocks, as well a. in the dip-. There were 98 men in the party. They wero SINGING ON THE MARCH. Suddenly the rear rank men heard a mot.or- car coming, and parted 10 make way for it- The singing prevented the men in the centre of the column from hearing the warning, and the car drove out oi the mist and knocked, men left and right. The lamp glasses of the car were smashed in the collision with the soldiers. The car is now in the brigade camp under guard. The injured men were removed to BuHord Military Hospital. Another account states that the car was proceeding down a steep declivity leading to the camp when the accident occurred, a.nd was conveying newspapers to the camp. NO DEATHS. A message received in Ijondon from th. local manager of the newspaper to which the car belongs states that ten men were injured. Ttvo cases are dangerous, three serious, but, thf-r« have been no deaths. Telegraphing later, the I*ree« Association De-Mzes correspondent says:—It is stated thai four soldiers were killed and ten injured. LIST OF INJURED. The accident has not apparently, been attended with such disastrous consequences as at first reported. Ten men are no* m hospital, five of them belonging to thf, 4Wl Ammunition Column and five to the l()i.h Battery Royal Garrison Artillery. The official list of injured is as follow" 10t,h BATTERY. Gunner Snow, dangerously injured. Gunner Trint. seriously. Actine-bombadier A. S. Thompson, seriously. Driver Tuliey, slightly. Gunner Fox, slightly 4th AMMUNITION COLUMN. Gunner Poltaul, dangerously. Driver Gwillian, seriously. Gunner C. Taylor, slightly. Gunner Fowler, slightly. Gunner K. Anderson, slightly. The brigade headquarters are at Lew]sham. About fourteen men have been injured. Two are not expected to recover, seven are seriously injured, whik-t foar others are. under medical treatment. It is said that the mist prevailing at the time prevented tba driver of the car from seeing the troops. The ambulances of the Territorials at Rol, lestone Camp were soon on the scene of the disaster, and a number of doc-tors rendered first aid. the most serious cases being deait with first and conveyed to Bulford Military Hospital. At the time of wiring no deaths had been reported.
FIVE MEN INJURED.; 4
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FIVE MEN INJURED. 4 BUNKER EXPLOSION AT BRISTOL. A serious explosion, resulting in injury te five men, occurred about three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon on board the steamship Port Royal, one of the Elder-Dempster Com- pany's Jamaica liners, whilst lying off AVOOl. mouth. The men were painting a bunker and a carpenter passed with a lighted la.mp too near a quantity of naphtha paint. The result was an explosion, all the men being seriously burnt. They were conveyed to Bristol Infirmary in an ambulance. Their names are :-William Smith, of Bedminster; John Ranaham, St. Augustine's; William Hardwiok. irehampton; Thomas Petty, of Pill, and E. Poole, of Pill. Hardwick v.-aa the carpenter who carried the lamp. Fortunately, no fire followed the explosion, and but little damage was done to the vessel. f)
GERMAN BALLOON.
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GERMAN BALLOON. BROUGHT DOWN BY A GUN FIRE. A Renter's telegram states that a Ger- man balloon, with four occupants, was crossing the Russian frontier on Thursday when the Russian frontier guards opened a heavy fire on it. 1118 balloon was compelled to descend. Three of the aeronauts were killed, and the other was seriously wounded. According to a. later message the Russia Guards opened fire on the balloon before it had reached the Russian frontier. The balloon crossed the frontier at the village of Trzelaika, in Silesia. The news of the affair came from Katto Mitz. Breflan (later).—It is now stated that the Russian guards opened fire on the German balloon before it had reached the Russian frontier. The balloon crossed the frontier at the village of Przelaika in Silesia.
TEN LIVES LOST IN HOTEL FIRE.
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TEN LIVES LOST IN HOTEL FIRE. NEW YORK, Wednesday. A dispatch from Yernon, in Yancouver Island, British Columbia, renorts a disas- trous fire which occurred last night at a hotel on the shoi of the lake. So quickly did the flan.^s spread that the premises were almost totally- destroyed, and ten of the guests lost their lives while attempting to make their escape from the blazing building. Several other persons were injured, sustaining more or less 6erious burns.
RESIGNATION OF GERMAN WAR…
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RESIGNATION OF GERMAN WAR MINISTER. BERLIN, Wednesday. General von Einem, Minister for War, has resigned, and has been appointed by the Kadser to command the Seventb Array Corps. —CCntral News.