Time adjnitmeel inque.st on the bodies ell and George P.
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l'ain. 1,11, 1,1,1,21 the engio. 11,, TIIIIESday MOM^ in;'• "1'1 di(1 noot tioiu 0.010 mal light on. the 1111O1, but the with.- • esurriel in stating, Clint the carriages were moving with very gr a. velocity before they were overturued. John 31V ,Ii. a young men Who was a passenger in th.e last open carriage from the engine, said.— " At first, on W ednesday, I netieed nothing particular ; hut WC Solon Went so fist that I said to those in the carriage with ow, We are going at a desperate rate.' I stood iii;ut there was such a current of air that I could hardly keep my hat on with beth my hands. I next observed a strange motion in the car. riuge; and in ahout two minutes more it fell oil, rolled over twice, and then lay in the valley. When it ceased to move I got out. I had no other hurt than a slight blow on one eye."
The brother of Foster stated the substance of a coaversation with his brother on Thursday ; when he told him that there was something the matter with the wheels of the engine which caused the overturn. A letter from Mr. Wools, the superimenele•nt of the loeometive department of the London and Seuth-western Railway, Was read; in which he gave Foster a good character, as a useful, sober, and steady driver, during the time he was employed on that railway : he had only been engaged, however, for three weeks there as train-driver. Foster's brother under- went a long examination respecting son e.. statements he load made cal- culated to be loighly prejudicial to the Conlishly it helm he then denied having made.
'1'lle Tour, after deltherating front ten till half-past two out 'lb in•sday morning, returned a verdict of " A. sldental Death," with a &eel:led on th.• engine of :mot.
At a general meeting of the Eastern Railways Company, held on Thurs.Lty at the damdoin Tavern, a report front the Directers in refe- rence to the late eacident en the railway was reit I. In tide report, the
Directors are express their regret and extreme surprise, . . . . " that tilt not 1;:vesthration mo,1 tohILniaide mintier Clot' perfect eh:intuit-1' of the line, acid of an the arraw_oemeato: e.onnected with.
it, be meaosmof partk3 Summoned by the Coron-yr 111,•,■ffiloctcd toi lo the hIsissd of a verdict of ;21-os,, and cal nc,2lig ace :cgainst the unfortunate person whose ;114 .iisrcg:L:',1 of ob.-violet orders 10018 SO clearly proved to have alone iwea.ioned the areideolt, it sever.. .losland of 5001. has been inflicted on the Company?"
[Would the Directors prefer payia;... heavy danro...vo's to lb.., sufferers, Or their relatives ?—:tn " assythment," a, tho !...zo■,',eh law t -rms it % Except against the iwojwielors of such ttedertsaings is I.:idly:1y,, the public have nol effectual means of entIoreing respinsibility or remedy. " The unfortanate pieson," th.s Company's S■01'N'a !It, is i 0 Imis grolVe ; the pro- prietors survive, and are able to answer the pecueiary consequences of their servant's act.]
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