The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-23 00:00:00

DOUBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED

SUICIDE.

The immediate neighbourhood of St. Paul',„
Cathedral was yesterday evening the icons Of • frightful
occurrence. At about half-put three in the afternoon of
yesterday, Mrs. Vise, who has for come years put carried
on the boluses of a milliner at 30, Ludgate-street, within
one door of Ave-Maria-law, and who is well known in
fashionable 611310, sent her servant, a girl named Tate, to

a neighbour* chemist's, for some powders, which she
alleged she mated for the destruction of vermin.
The marmot-maid executed her message, and brought
heck to her mistress the article which she required, but a
few minutes after her return she was again summoned by
her, and a second time despatched upon the same errand.
On her recur* with the powders which she had been sent to
purchase, she t up-stens to her mistress's room, which
wee upon the floor, but finding the door closed she
apprehended that something wrong had occurred, became
excited, and, without attempting to enter the room. she
honied down-stairs, and intimated to Mrs. Vyse's sister the
nature of her suspicions. When the room door, which,
' although shut, did not prove to be barred or fastened, was
pened, a frightful sight met their view. There was Mn.
I ?Vyse sitting on • chair, an open and blood-
stained raaor in her right hand, her heed
bent forward, and a torrent of blood gushing from a broad
cut in her throat into • basin placed Dusan it. The two
women, with rare presence of mind, at once stopped the
hemorrhage, when the unfortunate victim of her own rub.
new, finding that she was interrupted in the tionnunniation
' of self murder, pointing to another Town. feebly uttered
the words, " Oh, there ; go there ; there an my children."
' Shocked by the weight which these broken but
suggestive phrases added to the misery of the scene,
one of the women hastened to the place isdisatad, and there
found the dead bodies of two of Yrs. Vries children—little
girls, one four and the other seven years of sr. Upon their
however, there was DO nark of vioWnw and u
=llllllSalt an hour before been seen full of life and
aninialitatilere °mild be no other opinion with respect to
their MUM diamiatien the. that it had been occasioned by
palosm'ffilereasse at see alarmed the restof the establish.
mentorfaswilrlimar Warta were made to eteunelthe woundia
Mrs. Vyeafillrest until the arrival of scene surgeon, in
aserchill olfola a smeassger was at came despatched, at the
A l owl is Inffientios of the horrible sees which
lel NOI OS oat lhouneied to Inspector Ho we 4 of
ale' t Plestelreet station, and to Mr. Wey,
Oa for the ward of Farringdon Within.
loilloslithi was soon found, bet his aerviose were,
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it of no weal. aeUnsy had hem rime time
bet In the our of this slippy sear his prof...
baldvs if Ihm geoleat sdestegeL es be bound up
stayed the letierrhege. It was the opinion
*am loosening officer Viet she ought to have been at
Ineearisie# II to St. Ilarisr's Ilindt but such
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a be fatrl.
am Sees doenefillos AO heiltilen to rem. .
!se ern bonen wash se eisbobays en - to re.
los ler wound end • acrollas the work of self-bene.
Ws else is, with A iltie aids Is condition,
down upon a bed. Of her came Ohio as be no doubt -Her
suffering is the work of her own had, but until the coro-
ner's inquiry lets the light in upon al the circumstances
antecedent to the tragedy, it is impossible tor ay whether
she really 000templabid the murder of her children when
she sent for the insecticide powder, of which strychnine is
one of the principal ingredient., or whether they may not
Omissive' Yore insantionaly tasted the poison and Imme-
diately died of Hi tidsitte, a misfortune like which might.
have hurried their unhappy mother into such • state ci
fussy as to regard suicide as the easiest esoepe from her
miaery. The Squat upon the children will probably be
held tessrrow sr Ifeciday. Last night all wee moitement in
the sighbeerhoei, end the exertions of a strong body ol
potlee wwe Toga's% to keep the thoroughfare oleo of that
elan of lounger. who delight in the indulges. of • morbid
suriosity.
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