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August .e English the River Ife was cddon was j on several I it play in e first dis- !iks of 1 he J ••orvice for i 5 in which South at 1 of the L in. high. :c greatly h whoni lieA P.i, who lost last week, optford.— mi he hadsee un at ioni.» i..-.;.iMYSTERIOUS DEATH ON THE EASTERN HAILWAY.On Wednesday evening Mr. C. C. Lewis resumed at Snaresbrook the adjourned inquiry relative to the death of Mr. Henry Thomas Jones, aged 21, a corn factor, of Snaresbrook Hall, Woodl'ord-road, and 70, Lower Thames-street.—-Air. Thomas Prowett Jones, who identified the body, stated that the deceased was liis son. On Wednesday, the Stli inst., deceased left home at nine o'clock in the morning as usual to proceed to business, and witness heard at 12 the same night that lie had been found dead or dying in a railway carriage. He was very regular in getting home. ♦—George Clarke, a signalman at Snaresbrook Station of the Great Eastern Kailway, said he was on duty at the signal-box when the 10 minutes past 11 p.m. Liver-pool-street train came up, and as it passed his box he observed the deceased hanging almost at full length from the window of a first-class carriage on the off-side. Witness left his box and gave notice to the rear guard of the train.—Alfred Hill, a porter at Snaresbrook Station, said the rear guard of the train told him the deceased liad struck his head against the girder-bridge, and witness assisted to convoy him to the waiting-room. He observed blood upon the clothing of the deceased. Deceased ■was bleeding from the eyes, nose, mouth, and the back and side of the head.—Dr. Argles deposed that he saw the deceased in the waiting-room at Snaresbrook at 10 minutes to 12. He was quite senseless, and died in 20 minutes. He liad known of several cases of injury from contact with the bridge.—Mr. Thomas R. Denman, of Mill Cottage, Woodford, a stockbroker, stated that he was in the same train as the deceased on the night of the Sth in sr. He saw the deceased enter the train at Liverpool-street, in the same carriage as himself, but the next compartment, that nearest the engine. He appeared to be perfectly sober, and witness had the impression that the compartment into which he got was empty then, and that the train started without any other person entering it. Witness sat at the oti-side of the carriage, with the window down, and neither saw nor heard anything of the deceased until after the}' left Ley tons! one, where he hoard a ‘'bang,” which seemed like the report of firearms, lie at once jumped up and looked out of the window, when he saw the deceased apparently pushing himself through the window, and he gradually fell forward until he hung head downwards. They had then just passed the grdor-bridgc between Ley tinstone and Snaresbrook. and witness came to the conclusion that deceased had struck his head against that bridge.—Ry the Coroner .♦ He knew the bridge to be dangerous, and that accidents had happened there before.—Francis Wallikcr deposed that he was fore guard of the train in question. His attention was called to the deceased at Snaresbrook by the last witness, and he found him in the front compartment of the first-class carriage, which was the third coach from the engine. Heard no report or other noise at the girder-bridge. After leaving Lcy-tonstone, and again on going to the tunnel, witness looked out of his window and there v as no one leaning out of the windows then. When witness discovered the deceased, lie was leaning halfway out of the window, with his arms through the avm-siings within the carriage. It was stated that the distance between the railway line and the pillar of the bridge was only 2ft. 11 in., so that the space between the carriage doors and the pillar would 1 e 1ft. 8in. at the most, —inspector Kolfe. of the Wanstcad police, stated that with a railway official ho examined the eight pillars. Tli ere wlt; re no marks of hair or blood upon any of them. Four of them were, however, much cut about, and it appeared that only the night before a door of a first-class carriage was caught by a pillar and smashed to atoms. A stick, extended 21in. from the carriage window, struck three pillars of the bridge. - The Coroner, having summed up, the jury returned a verdict ‘‘ That the deceas ed died from fraeture of the skull, caused by Ids head coming into contact with an iron bridge on the Great Eastern Railway, ’ and they added a rider expressing an opinion that the bridge was highly dangerous. and requested the Coroner to write to the Board of Trade and the railway directors on the subject.Drowxed whilst Bathing.—On Wednesday Dr. Diploek held an inquest at Kuislip on Alexander Robertson, a jeweller’s assistant, invergary, Crouch-ond, who met his death Lv dmwnmo* in flm
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London Magnet
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Aug 20, 1888
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