The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-09-18 00:00:00

SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN LONDON.

Dm leg the whole ef Sunday and Mond iv consider-
able excitement was created thloughout the Eitat-end of
the metropolis, in consequence of a rumour that a
young man had attempted to murder a woman and
had afierwar.is tr MI to cut his own throat. The fol-
lowirg are t le facts relating to the melancholy affair :
about two years ago flyourg man, twenty-one years a age,
named J cues Goliey, met a }smog woman named %limy Anne
Chambers she was seventeen yours of age, sea lived with
her Ilkoaer and her married sister. Ile p-,i.1 his attentions
to her fir over a year. snit at the end of that time seduced
her After that he still c..ntlian dto keep company with her,
bit, as he was alway s disliked by her Nulty, iiti ri,ite to her
h.* were not vary otter, nitrite. Ile at length pro-
posed to her that she should leave her parent.' house and
go amt five wiih him at 12, Schoolhoure-lane, Sieptiey,
anil she tial Si). In Fehromiy last she gave Meth to a
/meals, child, and shortly if ter tlmt he lieget, to complain of
the exi ewe of their "airmail. ['rotten lett her without food,
sail when she complatomi to bisect the star eing state in
wh-ch she was he threateueal to murder her. One night in
,April la,t, while she ass li, bed, she saw him take a knife
hem underlies, h his pillow and give her a three look. She
raseeupon became elem..% tied, screaninig 1, drily, brought
is r neither to her assistance. The mo:her managed
to snatch the Vitt) away from the y lung man, but,
singular to state, the polite were no-, called in
Alter that occimence the young man ire qu.ntly said lie
art uld " kill his it wom in." thirdly a day ine.smi that
Ire diii 1114 Oen. her ale rut the head avil body Although lie
was iris situ it tin at a c..sl merchaM's, he rarely gate her
any money, and when tie retained home to het at bight ice'
w„, stasis in a state t On Tuesday iii last
wsek eine persons induced him to take the pledge, but, ca-
tear) to lid expectation, his violence towards the young
woman biome- gri ater than ever. On Wednesday meriing,
beta,' a tee no arid one o'clock, lie retained home, and
behaved itr nuon a brutal manure tows, is her that she said .1
will rot live with you any longer : I chlnake my chill and lei
home to my mother's." lie replied, "If you do not live whir
fire no other p.n.s man shall ever have you" Sue then left
the hou.e and went to her mid h,ir. On Thursday he called
routiel seine her, hut her married sister told him she was out.
He made paricular inquiries as to the room i to which she
rind her mother slept, and he a's asked whether they al-
ways bolted the door after they locked it at 'light. Ile then
went to the lock if the street door arid ex leaned it care.
fully, anti sMd, " If any of the fain !yr knock nt the door
no eight, after diuk, do you open it without look-
trig out of the window? " The sister states that
she became alarmed at the nature of these guess
tines, and gave him as much hese information as
she could about the arrangements of the family and their
sleeping apal iniiiit. lie then left, but his manner was PO
strange that the told her mother and Mary Arnie Cranibers
that she was sfrahl the oung man Gobey inteintel to murder
them. On Friday Owning Ooney b .ught slew clasp knife.
Ile went to a hi-wallop, aid sating the knife out, of his
pocket, edit to a young mart that he knew—
" 1 hare botioht h. knife to k4l no old woman, for lam
determined nut if she dont mot lice toiuic one ohs ohall Not list
with any cite the. oettle her, aid ptif a stop to that."
Its wee ailowed to leave the beershop, ar nothing more
was heard of him until Sunday moritine, at a little after ten
°Meek, when be called et No. 44, Upper Cornwall-street,
where he saw Mitt. Chambers, the author of Mary Anne
Chambers Ile said to her, Will you allow your daughter
to c me home with sic ?" and she renal el, "Never with rey
einsent." Goliey thee stood opposite her, looking at her
ferecemsly, and striking the kelle modest a door-key. lie thee
walked tonal els where Mrs. itateliers was standing, and
pulled the keit° out of hls to cket. Just at that momeut the
married daughter of Mrs chambers entered the rimni, hich
was er, the ground floor. The young w. mien had Clohey's
a little girl seven months old, ill her arms. Goliey went up
to the child, who was play Mg with a domino, and sai
"Toe will never play with another domino," suit suddenly
took the Alla imt of the young womm's arms. In less than
• mionte fo.hey was on his knees, lied had placed the child
on Its hack on the flow, lle then with his lett hand caught
bold of the wrists el the infant, and with his right at-
tempted to straw the &asp knife over the baby's throat.
tasks was diiii gnu the married sister rushed against bliss,
and, giving him a bl,w on the left shoulder, loiecked him
aside Before he hail tinie to recover himself she dragced
the baby from he'ween his legs, tied cried out, "Mother,
mother. let is. call the police Millie the monied sister
was catliitg Mit the }mum W.a1113171 Mary Anne made her ap-
pearance at the door, when Oohey rushed at her and struck
Ter in the right breast with the clasp toile. The wlmie
front part of her boom was instantly covered with blood.
After Ile Inol plunge I the knife luto her he I ressed it into
the flesh unier her right shoulde r. the young woman states
that after that she put out both h., heeds met pressed
sexiest his ci,est, and held him from I or, which com-
pelled him to drag the knife out of her. lie then rushed
Out of the ~,,, ni into a back kitchen. The young woman then
fell on the II cur, and the boards were covered with blood.
After Colley mitered the kitchen he wept to a To king glass
II at wit bangleg on the side of the wall, threw his head
hick. fuel conimenced to gash nt his throat with the clasp-
keite. He cut it in several places, and the taom wasiteleged
with blood The married sister ti en ran to the •ront their,
and chimed rut " tumor t" •• Murder!" A constable who
haprmied to he at the h.p 11 the street, c ime to her waist-
atice, and at once mitered the house, and upon going into the
hack kii, hen he caught hold of the man Githey. and after
sine strueglieg managed to wrench the kiiife from his grasp.
A doctor was at onee sent for, and attended to the wounds of
the )out g stunt amid the 3 outig w moan. ft gust it a.s his
tpinion ti at the young erl•mail was in no immediate danger, as
the .11114 am hioui she had received was for unately n a fleshy
tart Mum diately ebove the breast and molt reeath the
right c• Hardline He ordered the instant renioval of G.eni
to the L. whin Hospital, as h, was in a very dangerous state.
e po ice, who had arrested the mall on the charge of
attempted murder, carried him on a stretcher to the hos-
phut, min he lies still bi a dangerous state. The young
woman is progressing favourably.