before yesterday. The accident occurred in the shaft of a tunnel near Winchester, where several men were employed in removing materials round the top; and in doing that, part of the arch beneath the shaft gave way, and nine of them were precipitated into the tunnel, and were buried under a mass of chalk which fell with them. Four of them were killed, four others were taken out severely injured, and one was slightly bruised. The tunnel had been visited at a late hour the evening before by superintending officers, who left it in what they considered to be a perfectly safe state. From four to six on Saturday morning, indications cf danger were observed by one of the foremen, and he removed his workmen; but the other, Ferris, did not appear to have any apprehensions, and he let his men go on with their work until the accident happened. The coroner's jury gave the following verdict-"We find a verdict of accidental death in each case, with a deodand of 501.; and the jury consider that Henry Ferris, the foreman over the deceased men, is not a fit person to be intrusted with the lives of men in so important a work."

9. ABDUCTION.-At the Liverpool Police-office, on the 5th inst., Mr. John Orr M'Gill, described as a handsome, gentlemanlike young man, Dr. John Osborne Quick, Richard Jones, Margaret Jones, James Wormand Rogerson, and Jane Clayton, were examined on a charge of carrying off Miss Crellin, a person of some property. She had not long before accepted the addresses of one Martin, but had broken off the match on his demanding that half of her pro

perty should be settled on him; and she paid him 250l. to buy off his threat of proceeding for breach of promise of marriage. He afterwards turned out to be really a Dr. Copeland, and a married man. On one occasion, she was prevailed upon to spend the day and night at the house of Mr. Rogerson; where she met a party, of whom Mrs. Jones, a charwoman and lodging-housekeeper, was one: the party went out for two days on various excursions, and there seems to have been a liberal use of brandy and champagne. At this party, she met M'Gill, and they wanted her to marry him at once: but she refused unless her property were settled on herself. She instituted proceedings against Martin, to make him refund the money which she had paid. One day she was induced to go to the house of Mrs. Clayton, a lodginghouse-keeper, with whom she had lodged, on the assurance that Martin was waiting for her with 150l. of the money; and there she was made to drink a liquid containing some dark stuff: she remembered nothing further, until she found herself, next morning, at Gretna Green, in bed with Mr. M'Gill and Mrs. Clayton; and she was then told by Dr. Quick, whom her screams brought into the room, that she was married to M'Gill. The case was adjourned till the next day, and then again adjourned. The prisoners were examined yesterday, and finally to day, when they were committed for trial. Dr. Copeland, a married man, who courted Miss Crellin under the name of Martin, was also examined and committed, on a charge of having defrauded Miss Crellin of 250., which he ex

torted under a threat of proceeding at law for a breach of promise of marriage.

HORRIBLE MURDER AND MUTILATION.-A murder came to light this week at a villa on Putney heath, which rivals the Greenacre murder in circumstances of atrocity. The mode of the discovery was singular. At Roehampton is Granard Lodge, the residence of Mr. Quelaz Shiell, an East-Indian merchant. Mr. Shiell's coachman, Daniel Good, a middle-aged Irishman, called in a chaise, at eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, the 6th inst., at the shop of Mr. Collingbourn, a pawnbroker, in Wandsworth, and bought a pair of black knee-breeches, which he took on credit. The shop-boy saw him at the same time put a pair of trousers under his coatskirt, and place them with the breeches in the chaise. Mr. Collingbourn followed him out, and charged him with the theft; but he denied it, and hurriedly drove off. The pawnbroker sent a policeman, William Gardner, after the thief; and with the officer went the shop-boy, and Robert Speed, a neighbour. Good lived at the stables about a quarter of a mile from Mr. Shiell's house; and when the boy rang the bell Gardner keeping in the background-Good himself came to the door. Gardner then approached, and told him that he was to arrest him for stealing a pair of black trousers. Good coolly replied, that he brought away some black breeches, and he offered to pay for them; but the policeman stuck to his instruc tions, and insisted on searching the chaise. Good offered no objection; and the chaise, the coachhouse, and one of the stables, were

searched. to no purpose. Gardner then approached another stable ; when Good at once put his back to the door and refused to let him enter. Their altercation drew to the spot Mr. Oughton, Mr. Shiell's bailiff; who insisted that Gardner should search the stable; and they all entered. Speed and the shopboy stood near Good, while Gardner searched. When he came to some corn-bins, the coachman exhibited great uneasiness, and urgently desired to go to Wandsworth to settle the matter with Mr. Collingbourn. Gardner then went to a stall which seemed to be filled with trusses of hay: he removed two trusses, and in some hay beneath, he discovered what he supposed to be a dead goose. He exclaimed, "My God! what's this?" and at the same moment, before he could be prevented, Good rushed from the stable, shut the door after him, and locked it. The party tried to burst it open, but could not; and then they returned to examine what Gardner had found in the hay. It proved to be the trunk of a woman's body, shorn of its head and limbs, and ripped open in front, with the internal parts removed. Renewed and successful efforts were made to open the stable-door; and the shop-boy was sent to the police on duty in the neighbourhood, to raise a hue and cry. The fugitive was tracked by his footsteps halfway across a field towards Putney; but he had escaped. The surgeon's assistant came and examined the body; the flesh of which had been carefully separated with a sharp instrument, while the bones had been broken or sawed through. The surgeon thought that the female had been about four or five and twenty; and that she had

never been a mother. While the party were engaged in this examination, their attention was drawn to an overpowering stench which proceeded from a harness-room. They entered; and in the fireplace they found a pile of wood, amid which were wood ashes, and the burnt remains of human bones of the head and limbs. A large axe was afterwards found in the room, and a saw, both covered with blood.

Good had been seen on the previous evening, with a young woman, at a public-house in Roehampton. It is said that they seemed to be "courting." He tried to take a wedding-ring off the woman's finger; but she told him that he should not have it except with her life. He reproached her with having lost a brooch that he had given her. But they left the place in a friendly mood.

In Good's house was found a little boy, his son, who had lived for two years with a woman whom Good called his sister, at No. 18 in South-street, Manchester - square. It appears that Good went to that house; and he left it on the evening in a cab-telling the man to drive as fast as possible to the Birmingham railway. He was so ghastly pale, that the cabman asked him if he was ill; and Good replied that he had been out all night drinking with some friends.

An inquest on the remains of the body discovered in the stable was held, and terminated on the 13th. The material facts elicited were these. Good had been in Mr. Shiell's service about two years; but he had not borne a very good character; and it was remarked that he had various engagements with women at different times. He rented a kitchen in VOL LXXXIV.

South-street, Manchester-square; where lived a woman who when brought to the house was called Jane Jones, but afterwards they were said to be married, and she was called Mrs. Good. She appeared to be about forty years of age, and reserved in her habits. With her lived a boy, said to be Good's son by a former wife. The man visited her occasionally. On Sunday the 3rd instant, she left the house. Good told the landlady, about a fortnight before, that she would probably leave the lodging in about a fortnight, to go to a place, four miles distant from Roehampton. On the Sunday, she expressed to a neighbour much fear at going to Roehampton, as she did not know what Good meant, or what he was "up to;' and she was ordered not to take the boy with her. On Monday the 4th, Good himself returned for the boy, and took away his wife's bed-things and mangle, to sell; as, he said, she had gone to a place. Good was seen by Mr. Layton, a confectioner at Putney, at a quarter past four o'clock on Sunday afternoon, on the Barnes road, with a woman dressed as Mrs.

Good is described to have been; and he introduced her to the witness as his sister. They were afterwards seen by a policeman, going from Barnes to Putney-park-lane; when they were talking loud and angrily. And a postman saw Good with a young woman who appeared very wretched, in Putney-parklane, on Sunday evening. Good said to him as he passed, "Don't say anything."

Good had been "courting" Lydia Susannah Butcher, the daughter of a shipwright at Woolwich. She denied all criminal acquaintance

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with him; but admitted that once, when kept out late by Good, she slept in the harness-room at Granard Lodge, of which Good kept the key, with entire control over it. She expected to be married to him in about a fortnight; for he told her, that the banns had been put up, but she did not know where. On Wednesday the 6th, he went over to Woolwich, and gave Butcher a bonnet and shawl, and some other things. He had promised them to her before; and said that they belonged to his wife, who died five years ago of a decline. He promised to bring her some more in a few days. The things which he gave her were identified by the landlady and others, as the clothes which Mrs. Good wore when she left Southstreet, on Sunday, the 3rd inst.

Good often had large fires in the harness-room, to dry the harness. On Tuesday the 5th, there was such a fire; and Mr. John Oughton, second gardener to Mr. Shiell, observed a very offensive smell. He asked Good if he had been singing the horses. Good replied that he had drunk too much the night before, and that he had been taking some toasted cheese, which always set him right.

Dr. Benjamin Ridge, of Putney, who examined the remains found in the stable, said that he did not think that the woman had ever had a child, but he was of opinion that she would have had one in about four or five months. He thought that she had met with a violent death, and that the body had been dismembered immediately afterwards. Charred bones found in the harness-room belonged to parts of the human body of which the trunk had been deprived. Small pieces of clothing found in

the room, cut and marked with blood, were identified as having belonged to Mrs. Good.

The Coroner's jury returned the following special verdict

"We find that the human body found on the premises of Mr. Sheill, in the parish of Putney, is that of Jane Jones, otherwise Jane Good; that she was in good health at the time of her death; and that Daniel Good did wilfully murder her."

It will be convenient to insert here a narrative of the apprehension and trial of the miscreant:

After eluding pursuit for nearly a fortnight, he was discovered working as a bricklayer's labourer at Tunbridge. He arrived there on the 10th, in a fish-van, and slept for the night at a public-house. He described himself as a bricklayer's labourer; and early the next morning he applied for work to the foreman of Mr. Henry Barrett, who was building some cottages near the South-eastern Railway. He gave his name as Connor; and in answer to some questions which were put to him, he said, that he had been a bricklayer's labourer for eighteen years, and had been working on the South-eastern Railway for fourteen days. He was accepted, and was found to be a good workman. He avoided communication with his fellow-workmen, and returned abrupt answers to any questions that were put to him. On one occasion he addressed one of the men in Irish; but he was not understood.

On getting work, Good took a lodging in the house of a Mrs. Hargreave. He told her that he had been a hawker and dealer in hare and rabbit skins, but had left off the business because the person with whom he used to deal had

become insolvent. Mrs. Hargreave noticed while he was with her many peculiarities in his conduct -such as being restless, and frequently sighing and moaning during the night; and when any one knocked at the door, he showed great anxiety and curiosity to know who it was.

On the 16th he was recognised by Thomas Rose, a man who had formerly been a policeman at Wandsworth. Rose said that he had frequently seen Good, and had often asked him for a light when in the stables in Putney Park-lane. This man gave information to the police, and the fugitive was seized and carried before the magistrates. While denying his identity to them, Good took out a comb, and with it turned back the hair from his forehead, as if for the purpose of hiding a bald place on his head; this had been mentioned in the police description to be a habit with him. When confronted with Rose he seemed agitated. He declined making any statement; and was conveyed to Maidstone Gaol. In a bundle which he brought with him to Tunbridge were found the clothes which he was described to have worn when he escaped; and under his jacket, as if to save the shoulder from the pressure of the hod, was found a piece of a woman's calico apron, stained with blood. On the evening of the 17th, he was removed from Maidstone to Bowstreet Police-station.

Next day Good was examined before Mr. Hall, the magistrate; remanded to Clerkenwell prison; and again examined at Bow-street on the 21st. The evidence was for the most part the same as that given at the Coroner's inquest.

Lydia Susannah Butcher made her deposition on both days with an expression of violent grief. On the first day, Good closely watched the evidence, but declined to examine the witnesses; and he did not evince much agitation, except once, when he heard the voice of Mary Good, his reputed wife in Spitalfields, who had been taken into custody-he then turned very palc. All his anxiety seemed now to centre in his son, an intelligent boy of ten, who was examined at the inquest. When the boy was brought forward now as a witness against him, he sat down, and wept much; and when the child was led out of court, Good asked and obtained Mr. Hall's permission to shake hands with him. He was then committed to Newgate for trial, on the charge of murder.

His trial for the murder took place in the Central Criminal Court. The place was crowded; several women, even young ladies, were among the auditory; and the number of barristers was great. On the bench were Lord Denman, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Justice Coltman, and the Recorder; and by their side were the Duke of Sussex, the Chevalier Bunsen, and others. With Good, Molly his reputed wife was placed at the bar, which both the prisoners approached with a firm and confident step, and both pleaded "Not guilty." Molly Good was removed, and the trial of Daniel proceeded.

It was conducted by the Attorney-General, whose statement, with the evidence which followed, added little of interest to the facts already known. Lydia Susannah Butcher now appeared to admit that her intercourse with Good had been more familiar than she