The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING. JUNE 1, 1849.

ATTEMPTED MURDER BY A JEALOUS
HUSBAND.

Early cei Monday thornier, one of the Meet delibe-
rate attempts to aosmit seorder that has bra long time
came seder war anise, tw made is the bayonet of &Med,
by a yarns minvied mesa, sown Joha Barton; • the motive
weighed loathe mieness set, tibia sprang fegn *limy,
being a with le 'Mist eisgamery vessesage es the to
of his wile. Bates le the keeper or a mud rouseethisse's
shin as the Ballard side of Vietoria-beit.go, add lac isin
married between three sad four yeses, his wife being about
his ens eye between
years). They have only owe child, a little
• nearly tithe years of age. Fez tame coesiderable time
pest. Burton sod Me wife 0111.11 bees on terms of ;admen
and teisselphly wish • ran MS we
Wee Hardman, a
wmver, lowa a widower, Wilms (es we are told) buried the
wise alms months age. Latterly runes have noshed
the thee of Dunes that his wife sad Hardman were tee
Moe* le giilth however, he for • loth time appears to
ism snes--se doubt. thinking such reports
seem hem the lath whisk be omen te have keine, samely.
tthe Ilaudimau sod oho were sweethearts Wore their rupee-
ogg somigoth We mar add also, that he is said to have
thentheldney And Olds wife and child, sad hence he would
he enseleat to holing her guilty. Unhappily for hint, hew-
n.", be woo visited at his boas la Cabel-street, Gravel-Mae,
on Friday emus, by a male acquaintance of his, named
Owner, who told him he could furnish him with damning
tweets of his wife's guilt, as he (Censor) had that eight
tracked her to a plies where she had se smignation with
Hardman, and where he witnessed stilielent to clad= the
moms is exiationeo. This intelligsees appears to
thee filled the busload with the Menthe ef
killing his wife's admen ; fur on the day Waving (iletthday)
M puebaged •• pistol, bells, and powder. Early on Monday
emnig b • went to Hardman's bons, about half past six
o'neek, and, 'mocking at the doer, asked the man's mother
U her son Giles was In. " Yes," she replied, "be is up
slag is bed ;" on which he west up stairs to se him, seise-
=tie intended victim as he tutored the bedroom., by
eat kin seas. Hardman, ea hearing his voice, ex-
" Hallos, Jack, is that thee ?" to which Berton
reviledby stepping forward into the room, closing the room
dose after him, sac leaky if he em elt fastsn it inside,
as though he beg OM to esesmtheste sometkieg of
immense.. He then pulled off his coat or en
sad took treat the penult the pistol whisk he had
bought ea the Othesay. as abentheationed, and,
preening ft directly at Hardmonli hose,, peed the
bigger. The peimieg imbed of sa doe pen, and the mur-
derous weeps messed the, eilkedieg time to Hardman to
swhig ea his assailant, and 10 wrest it est el his heed. The
thus& was a short we' se Barton mode sanely any re-
sistance, but yielding his weapon with • reolanholy sigh,
said, " am nary it mimed, but I have got soother will do
the job I inteuded." After Hard' s& had obtained the pis-
tol, he end, "Now, Jack, I will begin thee, and say no.
thing about it, if them will promise sever to do suck a thing
aids;" bat the only reply he orald elicit from Burma was
a determised threat to take Me life, mew or later. Finding
Ma so beat ea murder, Hardman raised se outcry for a
essisn, whs. politheoutable Hill the *ion fetched to
and was informed of the attempt Buries had
mo(m, sea which he took him into custody. The
=nen,taklegaisteapreseed his regret that the pistol had
desiring the Gaugeable to take him away at ones,
and said be was quite provided ter the want When asked
what Gould have induced hies to asks such an attempt, he
Rover offered to deny it, bet told the offieer hew would raid a
further supply of powder ad balls in draer inside Ms
shop. After taking Lim to the Town-hall, sad delivering
up the pbtol to the chief constable, Mr. Neal,the officer, mo
ended to the shop of prisoner (the key of which Buns had
OTOS him oat of his peeket), for the purpose of starching for
the powder and balls mentioned, but on kb arrival he found
the shop bad b is opened by the primer's brsther-in-law,
who geld there were no each articles la the place. Disbeliev-
ing Aillellen (the brother in-law), the dime searched
and limn the powder sad bullets ia his peeling I NA seen
Wales tith he had heard of 13 artea's arrest, and bad heolesed
to the shop sad broke in the door for the novena( remeging
the ankles, the ethos took him into esseady es es a-
bets@ the hot, omens* from his sons* that be
mot law known whet Buren was about. In the mune of
the day Kr. Neal, the skin ceestable, had the dirge whisk
remained in the pistol drawn whoa it was lees& to be leaded
with no lees than WOO Millais.
On Tuesday the two Menem vet re brought up ihr ex.
maination before the mayor of Balfard, Burton charged with
maliciously attempting to shoot Haroman sad do him as..
ninon Wily harm, and Peter Auden= es an memory
before Ve tact.
After the bets of the attempt had been stated, as they are
given above, Baron supplied an mount of the drags.
stenos. which had led him to the set, and which we have
incorporated in our report of the affair, taking ocession to
animadvert es the conduct which Hardman had beset
trial
Hardman had
him in belie, and severe terms. He mid
had once amused hit (prisoner's) wife of having
been the cause of his owl, wife's death, and asked what sort
of man be could be considered who would commit en set el
adultery with the mindersr of his own wife ? He said he
had loved his wife fondly and dearly, but the prosecutor had
sow robbed him of all earthly hippie's, and his may regret
ins that he had not killed him. He should have made the
attempt earlier had it not been out of consideration br his
child's welfare, but now he was prepared for the worst.
At the request of a person who gave him a most excellent
character for kindness and affeetion towards his wife, and
who spoke of him in the highest terms, he was remanded.—
Hawked's Courier.