The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-05 00:00:00

THE FENIAN TRIAI.S.

A WOMAN SHOOTING AT A POLICEMAN.
(THIS DAY.)
(BY TELEGRAPH).
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.

A Liverpool woman has attempted to shoot a
policeman who refused to tell ber where a witness against
Allen lived. The pistol missed fire, and the policeman
wrenched it from her and Amsted bor.

THE DISTURBANCES IN EZETE.R.-( THIS DAY.)

(REUTER'S TELZOILLN.)
EXETER, TUESDAY Noarrisa.

Great excitement continues to prevail here.
This morning the streets were lined with people. Only
six persons were taken into custody bet night. Further
disturbances are anticipated to-night, partly from the food
riots, and partly from the expected attempt, with the
assistance of the soldiers, to suppress the bonfires in cele-
bration of Gunpowder Plot D►y.

SUICIDE OP A POLICEMAN-ALLEGED MAN-
SLAUGHTER OP HIS WIFE.

About four o'clock yesterday morning a tall
powerful officer of the Leeds polio° force, named Thomas
Holt, committed suicide by cutting his throat. His son,
• youth fifteen years of age, heard him going downstairs, ,
and on receiving an evasive answer as to the cause of •
dropping which he heard, he followed him to the room
below, when he was horrified to find him sat astride • chair
with his head over a pail into which there was flowing a
stream of blood from a terrible gash in his throat. The
youth exclaimed in anguiah. " Father, what have you
done that for r to which he replied, " I have done it to i
get out of my misery. Give me • drink of water." The
water was supplied to him, and an alarm immediately
given. Police-constable Porritt, who along with several ,
neighbours ran to give assistance, endeavoured to stop the
bleeding, but this proved ineffectual, end death resulted in
about 20 minutes. The cause of the rash act appears to be
deceased's dread of an inquiry which was to be made re-
specting the death of his wife on Friday. The result of an !
investigation instituted by Mr. Wetherell, and carried oat
by Detective-officer Marshall and Police-sergeant Roper, ,
appears to be that the deceased had occasionally usec' his I
wife in a very brutal manner. On the 21st October she I
attended • wedding breakfast at the Lord Nelson Inn,
Kirkstallquad, after which she returned to her own house.
where Holt saw her about 12 o'clock, and charged
her with being drunk. Mrs. Hall went into the house of
her sister, Mrs. Holt, and then saw the deceased officerbeating his wife's bead against the wall, and she !
implored him to desist. The following day she again
visited her sister, about 6 o'clock in the evening, but the
shutters and door being fast she was unable to gain admis-
sion. She, however. heard sounds as though Holt was
again thrashing his wife, but could not see him. Mrs.
Holt was afterwards removed to her sister's house, where
she remarked that her husband had done too much at her
this time, wed she believed she would not get over it.
On the Wednesday night, the 16th Oct., the effect of bar
treatment had been such that she had • fit, and lost the
nee of one arm. On regaining consciousness she spin re-
marked that her husband had done for her this time. She
remained at Mts. Hall's house until Monday last when she
was removed to her own home, where she bad another fit,
and after lingering for the remainder of the week she ex-
pired on Friday. A coroner's inquest is to be held on the
bodies of Holt and his wife at the Town Hall this after-
noon, when the result of • post mortem examination on
the body of Mrs. Holt will be made known.—Leeds
Mercury.