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CENTRAL CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
It is proposed to dispose of the Crown enses nt the
next Criminal Sittings of the Central Criminal Court,
commnneine on Monday next, In the order in which
they appear in tlie following list
Charles Williams, assniilijw;itli intent to rob.
Louis Jacobs end Max Gross, stealiug in a dwelling.
Same, the like.
Margaret Murray Tnrnbull, manslaughter.
Eliza Besmore, larceny.
Anole Corcoran, stealing from tbe person.
William Thompson, rape.
Joseph George Carpenter, wounding with intent to
Uo grievous bodily harm.
Thomas Simons and William Gibpnn, stealing Irom
tbe person.
Joseph Stead, false pretences.
John Meilett, carnally abu-ina a qirl under ten years.
James Mitchell Trevnrrow, rape,
Robert Harrison, arson.
Adam Wilkinson, as-aiiitlng a Custom House officer
in.the execution oi his fluty.
Tiie Pilot reports that a diabolical attempt
to upset tbe train which leaves Newcastle at
ten and reaches Wallsend at half-past tea
p.m. was made on Saturday by soiue scoun
drels, who are as yet undiscovered. Wliiia a
miner named Powell was walking homo
about half-past nine on Saturday night lie
observed a heavy railway sleeper lyiug
across the rails, about fifty yards on tbe
Newcastle side of the Open Top-bridge,
close to Wallsend. The sleeper liud
been carefully laid across the rails,
and firmly wedged in with large stones,
to prevent its being easily swept away, arid
so secure the train being thrown off tbe
rails. Powell at once removed the obstruc
tion, and reported tbe matter to tbe porter
in cbarge at Wallsend. It is difficult to
imagine what could have been the object of
the ruffian wboattempted to perpetrate such
a horrible outrage, for if the sleeper had re
mained in its place an hour looger one of the
most fearful railway catastrophes on record
would have occurred. Last Saturday being
pay day, the ten o'clock train was crowded
with passengers, and if it had been thrown
off the rails many hundreds must hare been
killed aud wounded. . The matter has been
placed in the hands of the, police, but 03 yet
no clue to the, culprits, as fat as we are
aware, ba»,beea discovered. - - -
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