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WANDSWORTH.DESERTION OP A NURSE CHILD.A working man, who was accompanied by a genteel looking boy, six years of age, entered the court and presented a letter to the magistrate, who, upon reading it, said he was very sorry for him, but he could not help him.In reply to the magistrate, the man said he went to the board of guardians on Tuesday last, but they refused to enter into the merits of the case. It was entirely out of his power to keep the child. His wife had deserted him, and he now had no home.The magistrate said the man was under no legal obligation to keep the child, and if he were deserted the parish would be bound to take him into the workhouse.The man said he was willing to give every information about the boy, who was born at Epsom. He did not know his father. He had heard that the mother had a brother who was a surgeon in Brighton. He had not received any money from the mother for two years, and he did not know where to find her.The magistrate instructed Sergeant Dudley to see the relieving officer, and told him it appeared that the boy was a nurse child left with his wife, who had since gone away from her husband.Ultimately it was arranged that in the event of the parish officers refusing to receive the boy he should be brought before the magistrate again, with a view of beiDg removed to an industrial school.At Stockport, a lad named Williamson has been committed to the Chester assizes on a charge of attempting to upset the London and Liverpool express train near to Stockport, on the night of the 14tli inst. The prisoner and several other boys placed ten “chairs,” or iron girders by which the rails are secured to the sleepers, on to the down line as the express was running at the rate of 50 miles an hour ; but such was the power of the velocity of the engine that it smashed each “ chair” in two, and thus happily averted a frightful catastrophe. The engine had its springs broken, and the prisoner admits that he intended to have “ a spill and a smash.”The boiler of a flax mill at Randalstown, countyAntrim, burst yesterday afternoon, killing Mr. Barnett, the owner, and five of his men. Four others were seriouslyinjured.
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London Express
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Aug 28, 1867
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