The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

VESTERN CIRCUIT.
canna COSZT.-211

MARCH 10.
UR. mane MI.
NORD'S.. _

Wallow Wright, • bleekem- ith, was indicted for the wO-
- Made, a Ann Wright, alias Ara Collins, at Lydiard
Ylice, ea the 18th ofliovember bat
was • Joanna's blacksmith, residing at
Nook, trittli away, where he had worked for a Mr. Ed-
meads saes May, 1883. For the first twelvemonths he re-
lied at Weans Bassett, in • lodging-house, kept by • man
awaskThemeoloshley. He was accompanied by a woman,
sake pm* es his wife, and a little girl. While living there
%be Irma' left him, saying she was going on • visit to her
iffeeffs, but she went awe with another man. The ori-
el.* was so much of by this that he could
tbejogs
sat o on ;with his usual work, aid his master
his mind was unbalanced. He went in search of
es far as his auras would allow, but:did not
la finding than. In about a month the woman re-'
tarred to him, sad his master hang taken a wimp for
him at Hook, the primal: with the deceased and the little
eOild,
ebild, west to reside then'. They continued to reside there
for twisty wake, appereatly on the most amicable terms
they wen weer known by the neighbours to quarrel until
the 18th of November. About seven o'clock oa the morn-
ing of that day, the woman was heard screaming 'jolted,
by a woman named Bliss Filson. The child was also
screaming. ninon went immediately to the prisoner's
kenos, but before she arrived there, the lielltill of the
wawa bed ceased. She rattled the door, whist' wee
lacked. The child was still streaming, and said, to Pmy„
father, de open the door." In • few mascots the Op
maw opened the door Fillmore went in, and saw 1
**deceased lying on the floor in a pool of blood. The pet-'
sewer was standing near the fire-place. She asked him
what be had been doing, but he made no reply. She then 1
wont eat, and celled to • men named Painter, who was
ggona( by to his work. Painter and another man, Themes
Tiekton, went into the hones, where they law the won=
Wag surrounded with blood, and the prisoner lying by her
sW with his throat cut. The two men turned towards the
deer to seek assistance ; Painter looked round, and saw the
=had got up, and was coming towards him with a
wigs his head. They went outside, end the prisoner
stood in the doorway, and Waled out for 'boat a minute
sad • half. He then went in and shut the door. The two
men tried to open the doer; there seemed a great weight 1
wins it. When Shay kola it ID, they saw the prisoner 1
=
ea the ether Me of the hoses, and the knife had
beat his bawd. Tiekton then went away to
get sweet OM end returned with Thomas Habgood,
who raised the prisoner up, placed him in a sitting oration,
end mapped a cloth around his neck. Habgood akin him
Who bed been quarrelling with his wife. The prisoner re-
gnirTom liackerley has been the cause of all this."
Directly afterwards he said of his wife that she had been
with another man. Habgood said, " Pooh, pooh, that's •
poor GUM ; there's no other man in the parish wants your
wife, lam sure." He then said it was while she was away.
The prisoner remained in the custody of the police until the
following Monday, when he stated to a man who was left in
sharp of him, that it was a very bad job, and he was sorry
it had occurred ; but it was sll through • man at Wootton
Bassett. He also said that if he had met with that
man when he went after his wife, he should have
killed bins. The superintendent of the Swabia
pollee oohed the prisoner who the woman was. He said he
could met melba her name ; he had mat with her about
three yeses cad • half ago at Drifield, in Yorkshire. The
mama Wt him far shouts month, and he thought she had
gene to visit her friends, but afterwards he found that she
had pae off with another man, and that was what they
had be quarrelling shout. She had told him that she
weaM go off spin with him, and threatened to cut his (the
primer's) throat. She jumped up and went to the cup-
board to reach a razor, and, as he said, to prevent biennia,
his throat he out hers. He further added that as she was
reaching the razor, he struck her a back-handed haw with
the knife. The surgeon who was called in destabed the
wound as mortal, and the death basteateasene. The pri-
mmer made the following statement bane the mishirates.
4, we were sitting at breakfast, and I baypisei to menties
about the man. She said she world sees be away
with him another month. I laughed et her. She
jumped andrad rased • noes ea the
cupboard, was in the ea of mein terse. I
got up and want round the table, end pre her • cut at the
back of her seek. The little girl VIM to the door, when
she saw the blood. I did not haw the door was locked. I
let her out, and mime back and eat my own throat."
Mr. Arai), having addressed the fay on behalf of the
prisoner,The learned Judge summed up, and the jury, after • brief
eranlation returned the following verdict: "We and the
Jpsframer asilty of committing the murder is a Pt of
OP
Mr.
7eistice Kra then passed upon the prisoner the sal-
aam of death.
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