The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-08 00:00:00

THE ATTEMP FED P kItRICIDE AT

Cala N'lCk.

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At 9 o'cl•A on 8 tturd.l night Mr. Mookhousa
t.mlautt:i.thisinnitehvedaittaicalbbelyactienrore.vd:
fatal. The unfortunate gentlemen is or a very full habit of
cover from the effees of a pistel-shot wound,. where the bul-
let has gone completely through the neck. It is. quite cer-
tain that although the bullet has net prtersted other of the
leer r blood vessels, BrYtt..l of the ens eller veins mast have
been severed in its prelims. T..it fact is pr ..vet. by the
gaseity of bleed whist the oh or orate g otleman vomits;
shortly after the fated occuerese The impresion at present
'Strained is, that a coagul oio ot • lend has termed
over the wounded see is, which, for the time, hes
allayed the blessing. Ir true ee ally be the case, it may
bast out at any time, and the fear of ocesioning such a
disaster has hitherto prevented the sursoce in attend-
wrap (Miners. Bowling a,.d 11.1 .111) from probing the
wend. On Fridsy m g th • syrnromi of the un-
fortunate gentleman were so unfavourable that it was dtented
neess,ary to take al ounces ot thee' tines him, eine.
whiM he has been sore trengu I, and in other respects in an
improved state. Or his tidiness 71. C,Tt ry, however, we be-
lieve we may state there n the sestetest tope.
The result of careful ieguirtes made testi the spot by our
reporter proves to demenstration that the wretched young
man's attempt on his tat ber's lilt arose from family differ-
ences of a very painful nature, wl.ieh have arms cs.'eted
between Mr. M..nkhouse, 5e.... a. d bie sins by his first Mr-
Huge, more especially the young in el e., w in custody. It
app as that the youth was eppr mice, in 1838 to the naval
servLe. and made he first voyage es a Iniclaniplaan In the
John Fleming, Host Indiaman, unes r Captsin ltees. He
continued in the some sh.p two or three years, and served
one voyage as second officer. A few yeas ago •he vetsel is
which he then sailed was wrecked, and be lust everything
he pesessed, saving his life wit'. corwieerhble difficulty. On
anteing at Liverpool he wrote to hie father, req....sting to be
supplied with another outfit.
Mr. bleukhouse, sea., who is adcuittel on all hands to
hive behaved with great hirdises te his ebil.tren, refused
to afford hiss In any assistance. Ted, circumstatco seems to
have rankled on the mind of the you, g man and although
he has occasionally visited his Manly since, :hen returuiug
home from sea, these has never been airy degree of amity
between his father and himself. The breach previously
. sating was widened about eighteen months since by an un-
forts] .te proceeding on the part of the young man. On
returuing home from sea is March, 1848, he went down to
Chiswick, taking with him a young woman, whom he
described as a captain's daughter, and in reduced as
his iutendtd wife to the members of his family. The
reel char ,cter of this young lady was soon observed, and,
a., a matter of course, Mr. blot.k..eure, nn.,wet exceedingly
indignant, and turned boat ells inn and his c/ides
orate cut of the house. The young man soon
shipped himself again, and nothing mire 111111 beard of
him until he presented himself at his fetter*. house on Sunday
night last. As already dessibed, Mr. 11...nkhouse, stn.,
upeteided him with his conduct, sei e elm se his estenish-
meat that he should dare to show his face at home vitae have
lug insulted his mother and river in the manlier we have
detailed. The young man 1•31 v. ry much excited at his
lather's eoeducc, and t9.-y parted en the worst possible
terns.
It has been stated that there is • great dr;,l of propnly is
the family ; this should rather he uedeesewd as a past than
a present fact. Tee eriginal John Monkhouse, the great-
grandfather of the assassin, who was a tailor in Coventry-
street, sassed a eery large fortune-200,0001., it is said—
cbiefly by diecountieg bills fir young intbtery dicers, cat an
usurious rate of jute rest. Ile earl two sons, mil; one of
wh .m survived him; and tt is son' In turn, became the father
re the unn.rtunate man who has fen n shot. The property was
entailed by Mr. Mockhouse's innueltather, and be has only •
his interest iu it, tee principal g Mg, at his death, to Mr.
John bloekhouse, jun., el Ea ing. The some degree
of estrangement describ,l to exist between the remain
and his lather else prevails between Mr. John Monkeouse,
jun., and Mr. John Monkhmse, see.; in fact, altogether,
it is scarcely possible to conceive a family living oar mots
unhappy terms. The property of the falter, as well as the
reversionary interest of his Eon, has been eztentively meet-
gag .d, and thus what a few years Sus was a very valuable
I acrimony is now a mere steel ton of its former self.
The meanie, Henry Monklionse, in common with his two
sisters and younotr brother' sea. eetithel, at his Loner's
death, to a so-fourth share of 8,7221. 4s. 41. in This a per
Cent. Comas ; this being a rov.sien mm'e under Mr. Monk-
house's m silage seelement for his you. ger children. Oa
Wednesday last, Hem Monkheuse cell d upon a legal
person carrying on bailors in the r.. igeb 'urh end of Vha r.cery-
lane, who, having formerly acted as suliMors tr h.s tattler,
knew the cit.:eminences of the family, airs. refried to .411 Ws re-
v...111,:-.IIIIIXY for Vl.rj Of ZOci) The
acting partsr itt the firu..;• clined to have ail thieg to do es ith
the purchase, and advised him. if he had dett rsdised to sell in
to pot it tip by. auteion in the City, where he mioht rely on ob-
taining its fair value. Tsang Mosikhonse made no reply
to that suggstion, but en being asked what he would do
with the money produced by os eels, he r. plied, teat he
knew what he was about ; th.t he should i .vcs the in. nay
in the part purchase of a schooner, sad take a run to the
coast of Africa.
The pistol toured upon the accused was a rifle boatel, and
th.. bullet which passed througe Mr. Moekkeute's neck
beats all the mutt coirespor...ius ACM the carrel, s a that of
the identity of the i..strument welt which th hell was fired
there cannot be the sliAletat doubt.
Mr. Monkhouse has no eel, a wha'ever to the Ole of
"Captain." Ile nos r wan in tt.o royal navy; he served
unly as stand Alcor in • maze:int v. 1.11.1, and that only fur
a ray short time.