The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-09-20 00:00:00

DOUBLE MURDER & ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

IN LONDON.

A terrible minis was committed on Tuesday at No.
20, Lancingstreet, Easton-square, Loudon. • skeet
composed of tenements of the humbler classes. It
appears that the house in (portion is occupied by •
printer named Emmett, • man aged about 40 years,
who has resided there with his wife and four children
for some time. Emmett, it would appear, had been
suffering with an ulcerated leg, and has become some-
what depressed. His wile bad occasion to go out
shortly after nine, and on her return she was let into
the house by her son, who up to that time had been
playing in adjoining room with a pack of cards, one
of the lodgers in the house had also been engaged in
her household duties, not having noticed anything
particular as having taken place. When Mrs. Emmett
went into the back bedroom she found the bed
saturated with blood, and the bodies of her two
children, aged one and four respectively, lying in • large
pool of blood, and on the floor was the insensible form
of her husband, who had • slight scar on the left side
of the neck and • large contused wound on the fore-
head. The pdice were at once communicated with,
and Emmett was removed to the University College
Hospital, where he now remain/. The doctor then
proceeded to the scene of the tragedy at No. 20,
Lancing•strest, and he first examined the body of the
elder child, • boy aged f dir years, This body had •
pointed wound on either side of the neck, exactly over
the carotid vein. Death must have been instantaneous,
and no one without some knowledge of anatomy would
have inflicted such • wound. In the second CAOO the
body was that of a child aged one year, and this body
had but one wound, similar to the other, and inflicted
with great force and accuracy. There is no doubt but
that Emmett was out of hie mind. He is described ad
a very inoffeneive man, and, like his wife, much
respected by the neighbours. The wound on his fore-
head is supposed to have been inflicted by • hammer,
which was found at the bedside, as well as the knife
with which the children were stabbed.
An inquest was held, on Thursday, on the bodies of
the two children who were murdered on Tuesday
afternoon, at Lanclug-street, near Ruston-square,
London. A verdict of "Wilful mmrder" was returned
against Richard Hammett, the Laker.

ASSISTING To oommir swaps.
John Evans, a soldier, was Indicted on Wednestbet
M°rli Ins at the Central Cruninel Court, for the wilful
murder of Emma Thompson, by throwing her over West-
minster Bridge on the morning ot Anguet_,llth.___,All.!:
some evidence had been taken, the jury fetninon, • "`"'"'"
of not guilty, and the prisoner was discharged.
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