The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-06 00:00:00

JEALOUSY .AND ATTEMPTED MURDER 1141

BIMIINOKAM.

(Prom the Birming has Daily Pat.)
An atrocious attempt at murder took place yes-
terday In Cbeapside, about nine o'clock in the morning,
which bee coma no limn. err:kerma and indignation in the
locality. The attempted murderer is • plane boa masker,
mama William Smith, 23 years of
is age,
. residing with his
mother in Moseley-street. His vkaint • y widow,
with Iwo children, named Mrs. Owen, who ham • la
No. 20, Cart, Ci;eapsida, • poem of excellent chiseler, is
the employment of Mr. T. Con, baton and walandle man-
' &rawer, aLlonner-Oreet.
It appears that sheet three mouths age Smith beano or
quieted with Mrs. Owen, to whom be seems to have be-
acme even violently attached. HI" visits to her boom were
; they were in the habit of walking out together,
~iwmwapganntly on the bait possible terms. Up to Fri-
day ire samara remained is this state ; bet on that day It
Is said Ma Owen rejected Ms adrenals', and declined
wires the faileray. Smith wee violently gasp/
spin her sa assent of this rejection, and spot bar es
foraag to see him whin be celled aa Saturday be wee Meal
by seeseel perms to Wm threats ageing bor. Os Mara
day, however.. he =mead to see MTS. 0.011 ; a vrawariale-
tion susses to has ear prase, sad is tbso owaleptabs=
mild MEL Oen gni bar Nide doestraw to •
sa Diriend sled bed esiseged peelealie
of than takes. tabentrady they all ntain together to
Mrs. Owen's hones. He rood
these drab, the wering,
sad indeed ell night, sad, it Is sold, was pralsedy sob..
karat II eels& • girl mama has ItiV who is • hi-
low-weetteromea with Mrs. Owes, sad la bar bona
let he the purpose of going to s piety, st that time the
two lac = append to be as the most kindly tense.
It inn that Mrs. Oran inbeepeatly retired to red,
haviag &NM lying upon the soh. Early in the morning
the girt Hamentne roamed from tbsai: and saw him
then; mules down wain about @look yesterday
massing, she head Smith sad Mrs. Wig oa the
sok by the ilra while ease was peopered for
legektan. They ware traidag . baths pri
waked somethig la itsitits nem whisk did net like,
end acoorallegiy raged Mrs. Owes le asks baste to go to
work. Smith upon IMi beserae ram sad • eldest gasped
arose, of • carats: se say see antra the attention of the
neighbours, wits heard Mesa dodoes drat be would out She.
Owen's bend of. Mine at dem tanpeel to • Mealy
way, mad • pod adisesindleg sesuni to le grend been=
tram.

This resefal date et set, bername, eaten*
I. Mee. Owes poosemid Mhe elembar in the purpose
of sea p est. MIMS ashisaly Soda started op, and
whitest wag a word rated up stairs after her. Is •
moan die the girl Smits heed a fearful shriek. She
insisatiy dished Mar the baboon, sad then saw Mrs. Owes
ensished es be leer in a peel of blood, and Smith slanting
nor be alibi her Swag with • mac With pea
ensiows pnessos of misil Huambo= egos Ste
attompiled wonderer, end at a is wrest-
fag the weans km his grasp. reisemes tine sir mind
as alone by eeresniag ; but Smith, nibs* best wpm the
tiossiniesion d sender, drew a knits frost die pooket, and
made • seemed Meek saopaona his unfortsmen ends. Mrs.
Owlet, Yawner, had esfidrs lonlodos stremgth to break
away ken ides, awl hod NNW the saes is her flight,
whin she wee n.../trolistrsommeMe looms, 272, who took
bar nailer his
Medical etteer (seedbed, east hr, sad Mr. Cis ,
of Meeeley-street, sod Mr. leas. d
strew, were promptly Is Masbate& They tenni
that serious wounds had been Whaled, sad that
the Man arteries had narrowly mewed Wary.
While the surgeons were attending upon he, Smith art
soot the and of the sofa upon which she wee Ind, end
silsond to be intatiessed. This, however, ins mere pieseson
as epos the cautables renioviag him to Alrener-street
station he walked well sad spoke resioaally. He end that it
was *Miley which had led Ida to de tionusinies of the
Grime ; that he hod seam Mrs. Owes walking with • mos at
the ~seedier afternoon end he burst We teen ae he woks.
The Soar of the nom is which the nem was made was
coven with bleed. Mrs. 011ie 111•11 s.Mheel in it end
the leads sad dross d&Mb wen deeply seined with it ;
the venni* he promoted ea being tats. Waugh the
street in this Nate ortitlog the utmost horror.
Yesterday naming Sena was takes beim Mr. T. C. 8.
lLyssenley et the Pablie4lllol, Metwaeren, whoa Chef
Sapeitreetdet nippier soothed br • seemed until Seer.
day, es the ponied that Mrs. Owes woo =obis to be ebbe
ersmised or removed. _ _

The ap;licaticia-"""was pasted, aad the prieaser will be
breaght ap egais as Saturday.

SINGULAR AOCIDENT.—A singular nasidant hap.
puma at lends, morals; Brighton Lewes. Twe
appreatiees west over from by the Wee s'elimek
tele. wad proceeded to 13erocetbs, eking ley Weeded to
flak la de tier. Ose of Ow le throwing him Nam isto
water 1./ad his book to hi. wmagmeMee's eye. They our
to Loom inwoMemiy, mad woos to the disparity, elms ft
wee Sand tbot the hook had mimed the hell of the poor
Mrs eys. He wee rearmed la a to dr Medea
mad wat by rail to the By. Isannory et when
book was extracted, mad the patient I. demi Ira
OIRL BURNED TO DRATH.—Om Saturday morn-
ing, wltna Beek Collier, about mile years of se of wit,
daughter of Mr. David Collar, b6clSb, was swim
boned sear the fireplace is the obey of Mr. shot
maker. Wog time, ler Meths,
caught Ira. Rumba out late the siren with Mr.' #l7 —mmei:
Isamu ohm woo observed by Mr. Cobs's, fir pr who it
Moody got hold cis Wombat, sad wrapped ft read Mr. By
floe somas Ur dawn vr•re Noe szoomekked, bet mot
tbe poor girl was dnedfolly scorched mod brad. Rio
we immediately conveyed boom. sad stememil by Dr.
Ralson, who applied v+tioos restored•re, bat whitest afoot,
as she Eared oo until .boot too o'clock at algid, whin
doe twasinmomml hot malfrrisgs.—idergwrpt laps&

Under this head, Punch publishes the following
letter "From oar own Penny-alms
94,-1 received the following paragraph, cut from a pro.
Tindal paper, your orders to investigate the drew:lista:wee,
led your cheque for 1001. In • quarter of an hour the pan-
graphwas mod, the cheque changed, and your t,
his dimwits corner of a lbet-olme carriage, was smoking
like mod to keep out babies end minding@
" EXTBAOILDISARY Occonnancs.—A provincial oontem-
WobbMa the followbg.:—Os Tuesday last a son of Mr.
s, of Iggiebemdt, as.. pertain, • boy six yews of
esti, biome skit after eating a mistily of fruit, and vomited
m eel telly 16 Letseg @Ed preportiosetely thick. This took
plea in Ids father's Mar, and in presages of several mem-
bwe of the family. A townersen was present at
the time, and while the ma suffocating, blood oozing
from his month and nostrils, observed something moving to
and fro in the month, end seising it, pulled out an eel,
which, as stated above, wee upwards of 16 feet long. The
boy's mother Mates that about two years ago she can remero-
bet the child explaining that it had swallowed • hale eel that
hid begs swimming about in its manikin. TM boy enjoyed
ordain, health, end complained of no unwed enwitiou
his Musech. His mother observed that his appetite wee
rather ravenous, and that he was subject to Martin fa hie
skim, sod imam when awake."
It is Me to the directors of the Math Northern Belly,,
to state that the journey was performed without men;lbra-
Mats, end that we reached NAM. within we hem sad a
war gear the tine sgpelistel 4ZM tiewbela The
viefale vase civil, end the grids end peewee weaned no
fair eakteey Is emeipting my little pweemiery cemplimeut
Mask • passenger, desirous to smoke, t'd desirous not to be
behind with fellow-travellers, gawkily women, might
choose to hinder.

As I reached Durbiton, I felt that it must be • remarkable
place, sod no indeed it turned out to be. Durblton, the Simon
Doer hot, and the Roman Dolisebonirem, was founded—
Wehave expunged
t an enormous nib from the County
smd the nee reluctance, Immo& as he had
nothing to do with Durbiton at all, but to go on thence to the
scene of his duty.]
The country round Igglisburgli is of • very peculiar charac-
ter. In geological structure ts features of no smell
intaint There is much ell* sod, with Gothic strata, and
bins lies formation, cropping out from °angora& and cluneh
day. I have no hesitation In stating, that the odium ere ba-
sal* la nature and will be found to contain hornblende
ants; end it is evident that the ancient monks, who waned
• school near the spot, wire aware of this oirciumstanoe, and
of the facility ft afforded fee supplying the little boy. with
slates kr the demonstration end Wants of arithmetical
ber. The whodunit population here is large in num-
srsubjoin table ot the quantity of corn end other
week grown in this end the adj.:quoin:rho shoos 1801.
[Then were • let of Hanna in • but not perceiving
their Immediate bearing on the boy the eel, we have
elireinshid them.]:
On reaching Lggitbizgli, I demanded to see the ream, es
I conceived that the °Meld in question might hollitate my
investigation into the abeam oircumstimon bdimad in the
above stiitsnont. I regret to suite that I was at once awl*
the victim of rank wit, tar I wee remained to • range of low
buildings of one story In height, with wooden doors ; and,
one of these being opened, I was told that the object of my
inquiry would be found within. Aware diet • country mayor
is sometimes a member of the lower dames, I entered
unhesitatingly ; bat, from an aroma which met my
olfactory organs, I instantly perceived that I was
In • stable, the only other occupant of which was
en aged quadruped of the equeetrlat species, and, on
, I was hailed with • about and the jeering ques-
tion, Vow I liked t' ould mare r' Yielding to circus-
over which I had no control, sad with which it
would bare been third** foolish to quanta, I joined in the
neenhairat, tad by • present of refreshment to the party
convinced them that I bore no mains. I Ibis learned that
Igglebergh peineesid no municipal institatisne, sad hat my
remerobse mut be conducted without the efil they would
have aoudad me.

Thlterefore 7 the eel
sanrised my new acquaintance that the story
of the bey bad reached London, sad inquired
whether it were true. They expressed greet wonder that
it bed Oct into print, and could not conceive by what mew
this bed occurred ; but they all agreed that a boy of 'gels-
burgh bad brought up an eel. I than made Jaquith." am to
the family of the boy ; and, though the detail were obtained
with some difficulty, I believe that I am pretty nearly car-
een. hew or Isaiah Wobbles was • shoemaker in Ipswich,
In Suffolk, in the LAW part of the last century ; but,
having embraced the dochmee of Johanna or Joanna South-
mita, le situated himself from his family, and leaving
Ipswich he came over to legleburgb, and speedily obtained
the hand of the handsome daughter of a cobbler in the latter
She, dying in be, tweety-ninth aecouchement, gave
to the father of the subo) oar present memoir,
Welter Wobbled, who bad been brought up as •
(a point of considerable importance), but who neveratnt=
to tionime, became there are no fish to be got near Iggle-
ber&orir nobody likely to parches" them if there were
my; He monied Mies Mnuy, a young moon et attrac-
tions end assomplishaimits, and became • preacher in the
methodist emmexuet. in which he enjoys considerable repute.
I =tract hem the Pulpit the following sermon, which he
delivered an ecession of the execution of the Manning..
[Not • bit of it.]
Having obtained these details, I went to the hobs of the
Wobbles's. It is an unpretending structure, it. architecture
being • combination of the very earliest English with the
very latest builder's contract. It stands in • small garden,
fa which I did not notice any botanloal rarity, and the day
being evidently that devoted by the family to the purification
ef its under-clothing, the rural appearance of the Indocile
woe subordinated to that of domestic heithdty. There was
se adiestetion of concealment that the circumstances of the
hosemesid were not effluent, and I noticed that the spherical
pestles of • pair of muculine nether habiliment" bore Arne
of having been patched Hastily observing them point. I
aimed the bee" and bad no difficulty in distend, recog-
nising the bey of whom I wee In search. He was peeling
potatoes and occasionally giving • laser brother • clout on
the head, whoa the latter presumed to suck the peelings
thrown ride by Ids elder.
" Whe swallowed the eel r' I said playfully, wishing to
myself into the boy's confides..lsfels ripest to Mee that by reply was not of a character which
it h used or &simile to commit to print.
"Is that the way to answer the gentleman ?" said his mo-
ther, who still retained the hey cheek and pleasant smile
that bad adorned Miss Hutty.
" Don't see ea It. any business of his'n," remarked the

"That easy be so," said hie smother ; " but civility is the
"Yeebusinss of
tightsevery Cheeky."
sre y domed mamma, sold the boy,
to his feet sad diarming me with a plesseat but re-
•" It wael,Otis who swallowed the
eel, mid ft was alio I who lisp. the ad-
vice of my doer pereat, I my little it is here,
sir, Wafted ' For • good 0, sir, I might deserve
that ammo lato • goad is tie Slat add, mad cheek the
water la haste. I 'saintly telt a wriggling within, and it
crumpled sty beloved mother's cane for five minutes, and
enema caps of warm weer, to iodate the animal I had
swallowed to return to light."
" It ell took place is one day ?" I demanded.
" la Ave naiades, deer sir, or perhaps seven, as I had to
rd hoes ruder earaer."
" Aad where is the sal, my young hided P"
" It Is hem sir ; sad I have much pleasure is showing it
to you. sad la testifylai my gratitude to Providence for hsy-
tar this
He mord= iltde cup from the mantel-piece. The cup
was bored. "A Present hoes Henley-a- homes.' The letters
were la gold. There wee water in the cap. The sal wee in
the water. I took it out and measured it. It was exactly as inch
sad ihreonighths in loath. I replaced it.
" Have you bad any visitorshare lately, kirs.Wobblei ?" I

"Nobody to eget of sir. The only stranger has been
Mr. (ha Yoruba, the Nam of the Durbiton newspaper,
who happseed to call abets week ago.
" He am the .d, tar'
YINI, ; and its his joking way be made • picture of
and of his father with the eel. Here It le, sir."
. yaw take twenty guineas for it r
Whilipleswere, a; thirty, it yen prehr It," said she.
dd.yralarin"Mty It .hall be." I Mkt the wawa on
the taboo, tipped Charley with a crown, and bawased bs to
boa to moot myself to you. Ilea is tbs pietas.

80CIETT FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN ICNOWLEDOR.
—The Mr moat or tar weiwy attic the merlon woe
bold at 67, Liwroberarbrida ywowday. Tie Raw et
Leda mak& Sovsnil laemsmtlog owaromisatke• boa
Idle were rert, the sethasy havms omstribaSsi 10,0001.
lemmas tip podia saw is Mils. Mowry oar for lb,
sosisty's shissft AS bee" m well as is IlAs whale, was
speed to, ad bests me grata tor poor Marlow A
erwardwebbi d Maar and ✓gait sod wow
giese or ao wig Lila dad we sommood.
DEATH sr CMORlNO.—Yesterday (Monday)
shampoo, s young womb, of a usfortunste elms. amass
liorpres ammo. or Una readlog Is Misnothrokee,
commie, ma Iterdera Misr the foll.whigoiromolemee :
Abu *no o'aerly Me Malay a as Mae rim ea
lodes/ webs Mq eel aft laward or as Mawr. hada
Ms lift bde draw, dalobarg el beal r boog ta bet.
Is s Mr ukase obe moo withwAsigr ae door,
Mae arra, sad ao•bi• re fa& TM
tba • Pero of beef MI Mak la Mr s
Mew bar ; bat ca Wag bar sift*
lalliwead, as diamlebell . ad lbw do ✓hams d Dr.
Gerearobee. Tbe Mama rearood flu Mr
=4l.l=yaelburradozoseseilr et berizei
7e•
fre Bid. L tie awarkes, awry Wire wee .rds or alba
the aim bat Is elk; ded by tbe time UM Mr welled
011111 MOM the leareary maid the haw imbed ripireL—
Ildardisryd /spry's.

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