AN UNPLEASANT RAILWAY INCIDENT

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2517, 30 January 1877, Page 3

AN UNPLEASANT RAILWAY INCIDENT

• An extraordinary railway crime is described in the latest files of the London papers. In a train running between Liverpool and Chester there were in one compartment three persons—an artist'and two laborers —father and sop, named Holmes. Soon after the train passed Runcorn, the younger Holmes drew out a knife and attempted to cut the artist's throat. The latter thought that money was wanted, and gave him his purse, containing about £8. This the man threw out of the window, and a watch that was offered him shared the same fate. In the struggle the artist received knife wounds in the neck and face. He and the father endeavoured to over-power the young man, but they found it impossible. The assailant attempted to get through the window, and eventually succeeded, after biting the artist's right thumb off and injuring one of his fingers. At this time the train was near Frod sham, and the signal being against it, it had to draw up, and youDg Holmes fell from the carriage into the six-foot way just as the train was stopping. He had buried his wife on,the previous Sunday, and had been drinking to excess.