The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-18 00:00:00

MURDER AT BIRMINGHAM.

At midnight, on Tuesday, Police-constablo Pa-
trick Golden was on duty in Dartmouth-street, lisrmios.
ham, when he heard the report of a pistol • few yards off,
followed by a deep moaning. He ran towards the spot,
and found • young woman lying in a twit of blood, her
feet being in the gutter, and her head towards the middle
et the street. He lifted her up and recognised her as a
young woman who was lately married to • young man
named George Hall. He found a wound on her face,
from which the blood was flowing freely. The young
woman was at woe conveyed to her mother's house.
She was quite insensible. A bullet had shattered the jaw,
and penring the neck had lodged in the vertebra. .1 sur-
geon removed portions of the fractured bone, and did every.
thing in his power to alleviate the sufferings of the woman,
but gave no hope of her recovery. The next stage of the
tragedy developed itself an hour afterwards. Police-constable
W. Dromage was on duty at Hockley•bill shortly after 1
o'clock, when he was accosted by a man having two pistols
in his posses ion, who told him that a short time before
a relative of hie, aimed George Hall, cams to him in the
Wellington Inn, and asked him to take a glass of brandy
with him as it would be the last be would ask him to
take. On being asked what he meant, he replied that he
had shot his wife, and banded him a couple of pistols;
and having taken of his brandy he left the house with
the landlord to go borne to his father's. The man gave
the pistols to the officer who accompanied him to Hall's
father's house in Birmingham. On arriving there, they
fouod Hall sitting an a sofa in the same room with his
father, mother, sister, and brother, and the landlord of
the Wellington Inn. The officer claimed Hall as his
prisoner, and charged him with having shot his wife
with the intention of murdering her. The prisoner
quietly mid, "It is tree ; I did," and gave himself
up to the officer. He was not at all excited, but, on the
contrary, was perfectly calm and collected, and even
gentle in his manner. On coming away from the house,
he shook hands with all his friends, and said, " Good
bye, I hope we shall meet in heaven." The pistols were
perfectly new. One of them had been discharged • the
other was loaded, but hod so sap on. Os the ciarge
being drawn, the shottiag was found to consist of •
conical ball. The prisoner was brought before the magis-
trate yesterday; and on • medical certificate being
produced to the effect that the young woman was in
• highly dangerous state, be was remanded until Saturday.
He is by trails a damper, and was employed in a work-
shop in Vyse-street. It appears that the prisoner and
the young woman were married last Christmas-day.
Before the marriage, the prisoner told her that he had
furnished a nice house in good style, sad that they
would enter upon it after their marriage. He, how-
ever, went into ledgiup, and his wife was so angry at
this that she left him in nine days, and refused to live
with him tall • house was provided. This greatly exesipip
rated the peuonert who gave way to an extreme It ef
*lousy.Oo Tuesday night he allied at the place where
his wife was living in Pnoceeeetrese, and demanded her
to give up the earrings and wedding rio with which be
presented her at their marriage, saying he was going off
to UverpooL After some words, they parted. In two
hours afterwards the prisoner called for his wife at her
mother's house, sad they went out together between 9 end
10 o'clock, and waked about for two hours, talking over
their affairs. The morsel has already been told.
The young woman died last night, at • quarter to 5
o'clock. after sawing fearful agoay, aggravated by as un-
soecereful attempt to extract the bell.