The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-07 00:00:00

rHB ATTEMPTED PARRICIDE AT CHISWICK.

ILI,

POLICE-COURT.

Hoary BMA, re MemMose, the yomag ass @barged with
Using attempted to murder kis father by drug mstok at
him, was dully szamthed retarder. While his father was
giving his evidence the primate toreadrer his from
hM ,as if he was amine to avoid a but the
father closely sendiaked the exterior of sea with •
neelaasholy explode. of memiseeacm. The primer paid
peat atteetios to the *Adage as it snot as, and cast °sea-
glottal gleams at the bast and seek tie whoa they were pro.
dated by the toadied with= and hid ea the table before the
migiatrate. The seams of the tie was isteeared with blood,
ea& slightly singed is the pert where the ballet had passed
thecae'.
thr. Bird, the easily: of Hasmasesesith, attemded cm
behalf of the wallsethestko toes.
At Mree'eleek Kr. Dods. took his seat an the beach, Ind

the evidenee wee gone Into as follows:
Willi.. Andante, the delver of the cab No. 815, was the
first witness examined—He Mated that he resided at No. 2,
Sipe• yard, Whiteehapel. On Tharsday evening the 4th of
October last, between seven and eight o'clock, he was on the I
yank in the Miseries, when the prisoner came up and en-
gaged him to Chiswick for 14s. The primer did not appear
quite sober. They went into a publWhones.t.oitter
oppo-
site the stand, and the prisoner entered the
witness had partaken of a glass of ram, wha the grinner
had ordered for him, he went into the parker, when he
law the prisoner with hie hand memo silver, width was
lying on the table, which *duped him to observe as the
landlady, " He seems to have a good deal of money almost
him." They then proceeded on the journey, end an
she way they looked in at several publiclesses on the reed.
They called at the White Hone, in High street, Knights-
bridge, where the prisoner appeared to be kit° end
where they had some more drink. The primes? said some-
thing to a female at the bar about giving her some rent, and
having left his handkerchief with her as a pledge that he
was in earnest about bringing the rent, they rammed their
journey, still stopping at public-houses on the way, and
drinking at each. When they came to the Bleck Lion, in
Black Lion-lane, they stoned again. The prisoner spoke to
the landlady who seemed to know him, and witness had
something to drink, bat did not see the prisoner have any. I
It was bandy they had. The prisoner then got up on the
box of thecah and directed witness when to drive to. and
when they came to Mr. Monkhowe's residence the prisoner
requested witness to get down, ring the bell, and ask if
Mr. Monkhouse wee at home. If he was, witness was
to say there was a gentleman from Louden at the gate who
wished to see him. Witness did se he was told and a female
answered the door. He asked if Mr. Monkhouse was at
home, and she said " Yes," when he told her them was a
gentleman from town who wished to speak to him. The
female el and the gate, and after being absent for a few
minutes, she returned, when the prisoner came up and
shed past her, disregarding her statement that he must
send in his name, observing, " I will go in and see him my.
self." The prisoner then went in and closed the gate afar
him, and witness returned to his cab. Shortly afterwards he
heard a report of firearm, and the prisoner then joined him
in the cab, directing hies: to drive on. Witness asked him
" What was that noise I heard," and he said, smilingly,
't Oh, that's nothing " or words to the effect of
" that's not here." Witness then drove to a public-house
in the main road, and there asked the prisoner to settle
with him, when he said he wanted to go to Ea!ing. Wit-
ness replied that he could not gr, , as it was his time home.
The prisoner said, " You must go sad I will give you a
sovereign altogether." Witness ultimately speed le go,
and took him to the Bell, at Ealing, where they had some
mere brandy ; and then, at the prisoner's request, witness
drove him to a house up the lane, where witness believed
she prisoner's brother resided. The prisoner rung the bell
several times, but, receiving no answer, they returned to
the public-house, and he asked the landlord to give witness
a sovereign. The landlord refused ; and, while they were
talking about the fare, the constable came up and took him
into custody.
Elizabeth Barnes, housemaid in the service of Mr. John
Farmer Monkhouse, the gentleman shot at, was the nett
witness examined—She stated that she knew the prisoner,
who was the second son of her master. On Thursday night,
the 4th of October lest, about 10 o'cl ,ck, she heard a ring at
her master's gate bell, when she went out and saw the last
witness, who asked if Mr. Monkhouse was at home. She
replied, " yes," and asked the cabman his name. He said,
" Here's a gentleman front town wants to see him." She
left the man at the gate, closed it, and as she approached
the house, which was about five or sac yards from the
gate, she saw her master standing on the threshold. She
told him there was a gentleman from town wished to see
Pint, and he told her to go and ask his name. She went
back, opened the gate, and coked the cabman the gentle-
man's name. The cabman hesitated a moment or so,
and ell at once the prisoner rushed forward from the side
of the cabman, nearly knocking her down, and said—" I am
a blockhouse, and I will speak to him." He rushed for-
ward to the house, and she immediately afterwards beard
two rehrts as of firs-arms. She saw two flashes and inch.
does to her master. At the first shot she observed her
master fall, and at the second shot the prisoner returned,
and teeing " There!" bounded peat her, and ran out of the
premises. She ran into the ;house, where she saw her
master crawling on his bands and knees towards the par-
lour with blood upon his throat. She and her mistress
assisted him into the parlour. He was afterwards removed
to a bedroom, and then Mr. Perfect, a surgeon, was sent'
for. About a week before the prisoner was at her muter's
house, and she heard him say to her master, stamping his
foot upon the ground, " This is the last time I will ever
cram the threshold of your door."
John Farmer Monkhouse, of Chiswick-mall, Chiswick,
gentleman, the father of the prisoner, deposed as follows :
The prisoner is my eon. On Thursday night, the 4th of
October, &bunt tan o'clock, I heard a ring at my gate bell.
I went to the front door when the maid went to the gate,
and I then beard a man say, " A gentleman from London
wishes to see Mr. Monkhouse." Immediately after I heard
my son (the prisoner) say, " I am a Mookhouse," and he
rushed up to where I was standing and shot me. I fell and
heard a second shot. It was so momentary that I did not
observe anything particular. It was previous to my falling
that I heard the two shots.
Mr. Thomas William Camberlain Perfect, the medical
gentleman who was called in to see Mr. Monkhouse after he
was shot, stated that he found that gentleman ?oral log
blood, and ordered him to be immediately put to bed. Upon
examining the neck, he found that a ball had passed through
his nett-tie, and perforated the flesh, passing by the thyroid
cartilage of the neck, at the centre of the most projecting
point of the windpipe. It did not penetrate the sir tube, but
woun.ing the gullet, striking against the panics' cenobite,
and da wending between the external and internal carotid
arteriee, it came out at the back of the neck, and lodged in
the shirt collar. Ha produced the bullet, together with the
collar and stock which Mr. blockhouse wore at the time.
Henry Reason, eve of the mounted police, T 247, deposed
to having received information on the night in question of
Mr. Mon-khans* having been shot at, and to tracing the cab
to the Bell Inn at Baling. He there saw the prisoner, and
asked him if his name was not Monkheuse. The prisoner
told him that it was not; but witness told him that he
answered the description of the penal he was alter, and be
mast go with him. Witness then took him to the Ealing
police-station, where he searched him and found the harp I
of a pistol in his right-hand coat pocket, and the stock in
the left-baud pocket, together with eight bullets and about
thirteen cape, ell of which he now produced. Thin was
some loose powder in the inside pocket of his great coat.
Re examined the pistol, and found that it had been recently
diselearged ; and while doing eo, the prisoner observed, rs I"
I bed a brace of loaded pistols, I would blow my own brains
out." He then took hint to the Hammersmith police-
station. Oa the Sunday night following, from information
he received, he went to Mr. Williams, at Baling, the land-
lord of the public house, and there received a powder flask
containing gunpowder, and a second pistol, both of which
he also produced. The pistol appeared to have been recently
fired.
Mr. William Williams, the landlord of the Bell Inn at
Ealing, stated that he knew the prisoner by sight, and recol-
lected his coming to his house on Thursday night, the 4th
October. He came into witness's kitchen between 8 and 9
o'clock, when witness was sitting, and took from his
pociets two pistols 11,4 a small packet of powder, which he
laid on a table. Witness took them up an placed them is a
drawer. At that moment some person WWI from the bar.
and witness went to answer the cell. When he returned to
the kitchen the prisoner had a pistol in his hand, and he
said to him, "Da not take them things from the drawer
again, as it is very improper to have nth things in a room."
At that moment he was called to the bar again, and in going
there he met the officer Beason ia the maw. The officer
said, " Will you show me to go into the kitchen ?" and he
replied, " Certainly, by ail means." The officer *ea went
in and arrested she prisoner. On the Sunday following the
officer called again, and he headed to him the second pistol
and packet of powder, which had already been prodan&
Mr. Edward Raiford, surrggeeoon, of Hammersmith, the me-
dical attendant of Mr. Mon 's family, stated that on
the 4th of October, late in the evening, he was called is to
see Mr. Monkhouse. He found him suffering from a wound
in the neck, which seemed to have been produced by a pistol
shot. He continued to attend him, and fireboat a fortnight
Mr. blockhouse was in imminent danger. The wound was
now healed, bat Mr. Monkhense was not yet perfectly re-
covered.
Mr. Sudan asked if the bullet of the mond pistol had
been found ?
Mr. lespector Inks intimated that it had lodged in the
coning of the passage, from which it had not been extracted.
This was the PM against the prisoner. •
Mr. Haulm then asked the prisoner if be anything to
say, now that he bad beard all the evidence against bins,
giving him the usual caution, that he was not bound to say
anything unless he choose, ut that it he did it would be
taken down in writing, and might be mod against him on
the tried.
The prisoner made no reply, but Mr. Bird intimated that
he would reserve his defence till the trial.
The
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The avert during the investigation was crowded with most
stoole—
of the respectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood.

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