FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 5, 11 June 1864, Page 3

FRIGHTFUL DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY.

A melancholy accident occured in Messrs Robinson's biscuit mill, Carlisle, recently, which resulted in the horrible death of a young lady, and added one more to the long list of casualties having their origin in the use of crinoline. The unfortunate young lady was Miss Nelson, who resided at tho small village of Wliaile, hi this county. For, a few days past she had been staying with Mr Atkinson, one of the travellers for Messrs... Robinson and Company, and with 'whose wife she was on terms of intimacy and friendship. .Monday 'afternoon was fixed upon for an inspection of the works, and shortly after throe o'clock Mr ahd . Mrs Aitkenson, accompanied by Miss Nelson and Mr Burrow, a young gentleman from Leeds, who was visiting her; arid to whom, it is said, she was engaged to be married, proceeded to the mill to see the 'process of biscuit manufacture. They had just entered the building on the ground floor and passed through into that department, devoted to the grindiug of flour, and Mr Aitkenson was about to leave them for a few minutes tb confer with one of the firm, when tho fearful accident took place. A row of millstones.- above are- 'driven by a corre-sponding-number of bevelled cog .-wheels ' below, communicating theii*/ power: 'by means of uprightshafts. When the flour has been ground up'-stairs it passes down into a lpng- trough or box, and along with the -produce .of alt the millstones is passed! to . the other end by the operation of an Archimedean screw. The screw is an object pf> interest to visitors, and it can only be seen afc intervals through holes in the wooden framework behind which the flour descends. • Thp wheels .-below/ stand ; aboufc three feet in height, iand along the front of them is a strong brass rod to protect passers-by frorri being caught by the machinery. -The space ; bctween the rod 1 and the wheels is. sufficient for the prbtec-; tion of the workmen engaged, .-but as was unfor-; tunatoly proved on Monday, not sufficient tp keep; out' the expansive dresses now worn' by ladies.* •When Mr 'Aitkenson .[whs going but -by the.dbor,[ Miss Nelson'had leaned! forward against. thqbrass[ rail- to look into one ofthe holes already mentioned-; to seethe operation 1 [of the /Archimedean yscijew 4 Her7pressure against the rod. csaused the lower partof her dress, to .pass trader and., come in contact] with the cog wheels, by which it was instantly; fastened, and she haying .been thrown down, everyj revolution drew- r thb liriforfcimatb y'p,ung lady nearer -* to the awf id. death ! fiha[y^ face.* Her- heartrending [eries and those of hpr^compa- j ions attracted the attention of' others -'to the spot,] but gradually she was drawn into the small space be- ; low and there horribly torn by each revolution of -tiie [ "wheels;"' 1 Her friehd,' Mir.. BuiTpw,, seized her[ , and < every', attempt was* made to '.lescue'^herji' but;. all [ efforts tbbxtricatbthe poor sufferer were of ppurse '■ unavailing agamst the force' of the powerful engine : that drove the maclimeryYThe engine was stopped as soon as possible,yDut;\,rtbt'i'hefp'r.e-.the.._,,.w{holo bf 'the*-* rafbrtuhate" "'lady's'" body, had bcen.diai'.Ti into the wheels and tiu*ned'round,thb.[sliaffc. . ' The awftd^spectiacle bccupie'd biit two7pr three seconds, 7aM" cteath'was "'alinqst ! ''instahtanep'iii;y'7pn^^ . [body being taken outKit^resenteda^.hiangled aricii mufcaatbd-appearaiA'be; the link /torn and .severed from the [trunk^ Jlhe r head.,-vyas ; riot so much. ihjui*ed, ,prob£tbly[pwirig to the^uppef j part* bf'thV bbdy ; beihg las^&aiwh to" thb wlieels, ; i and. by that time [the "ehginp had been, stppped. [ {The'^deceasbtt^was 'WoW2df^i6£iig^—tlaHisle '■ Journal.

A HIGHLAND MODE OF RECKONING.'" A Highlander, who had become " unfortunate," came to G-lasgow.to .meet Ins "friends," that is' ;his .creditors. / Of r course he was longfhqadcd, •enough to wait'upon.'.'a man of -pusiness.'' \ The lawyer thought he saw. as itnuch- about Donald's mumphing, that if he had been honest to the'backbone tlie cre'difors might liave looked for full pay-i ,ment, and* truth to tell, they; not. -only, thought so, >l)ut j. plainly^ told, fthiS-> to^ :their -Celtic idebtor. Donald at ; first tented, at ;55,; hi/the .. pound.- -| This was! indignantly. rejected^andthe^hole -terrors qf ,[ the Ja;w threatened • against -diim, -'which-' shook his [nerves wonderfully;, as he -,tqld[;his/[[legal: adviser .tliat.he did not, like / : ' l thae--r-^tirty.shh.*raoflisherß 7to.be troubling; a> Bhentleman;"r'7! H[e-lroßeifctp lOs. 7in[ the [ pound,A bdfcvvbeyond- -that '-her would iiqt. übijdgeir,^ lived, in a[very remote, part of ; the West Highlands,' liis {creditors eoiisidered A it ? pJudeut' J to accept' of •this offer, although satisfiedthat they "were deliberately swmcßed^,-He.,grau^&^ for liis composition, payable at three jrnd six« months after ; date. ,y, About,, the-end^'rof the six months 7the7[la^er:%yrbtV client, re- ; mmding him that [the .last; mstalmentiwas about due. Indue course lie 7receivcd' : from Donald a, very rough-looking • epistle, 7 to; tlia following \efcw2AXAA:-A'A^AAAiAAy.*:yyAA>yxx:- _ I '' " Dear Sir, — I am shust y.Pur'letter received by Dugald IVDPhei'sorijclier; next i door' neeborl and .etfbsmvrV'She'U-p'rochtjt.-lrom; the^Po'st offish, aa she was coming v aus^y'..roSurely:-ye .must pc not richt about the- statement to [ pay-^-it fpi*> notj duo for threo months yet;* You'll, knew it was to. pay at three and [siiimbnth^'Now^^you'll knew that three and six months_pe ...nine, months all the world overTand'hi" Glasgow too pc surely. I called on pbor Mr. M'TavishjUhe schooliMster — clever man Mr. M'Tavish, • £es, as in the* wholo world; and- Glasg6w7' too y and he is a"' cousin of ■my own-~and heWd tome, 'Donald, sure three and six month be'7iiirielmonth..allJihe. > T7.9rld,,over.' -She'iftid "that'outbf [her [ovrn .mouth, and t ho wohdeMd7ve^7mubh wnere^you'had'learned your counting.:- -I- told liim that -lawyers were -fery !pad counters ; that, poor ignorant ipodies, they only kiiowed/what'twp tunes [[ three . paid [(whaur you'll get the fpurpence ?-- t cpt , Pß don't [ i know) shust.pe sax>hd. eightpene'e, a thing, they [are very fond of charging for/doing very, httle.; So, "you'U[ see I 'stood" youi* friend with the, maister/ and'you 'got 'off pravely., He[ pitied, you poor ignorant podies, surely, that 7 did -hot know' hoo. many months mak nine.*. " [ But as to the statement you sbe tliat itis ho [ due. for.th'reenionths past and '' tb ? come : and as I am to bb in Glasgow* in faro qr three m6hths"after that, "the bits o' Bills' can, lie over till I. come.* —^them, do they thocht a shentloman will not pay. .dirty bits o" Glasgow weaver bodies. , -77— ~ Y7..7,7*heir impudence, if I*ll had^them here %hey would hot craw so crouso as they .did when they'll had he ,nainsel' . in Glasgow. I would make them petter pairns wi* my stick o'er their shbuthers7 My very plood was poiling when the :— - — uncivil [pcast-S ytiirncd up their noses at the five shillings, and would have her in jail. . Did you'll over knew such inpudence, . to iail a, shentloman,. a nineteenth cousin of Jura's 't O . — them, if she'll knew then, what she'll, knew now, — —a baWbbe less nor mair' they would' have got than .her five shillings, and plenty, and too much too. I will saw you soon. ,Goot day . to you, and mind mc to Rpfy, my cousin Rory. Praw lad, Rory, and very like his mother. ' Yes.