The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-30 00:00:00

ATTEMPT AT AWED= AIM SUICIDE AT

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A shocking attempt to commit murder and sui-
cide was made on Tooth', sight, by a man sand Anthony
Rayner, reading in Holmees-yard, York-street. Leeds.
Rayner had been in the habit of treating his wife—who bon
the character of an honest industrious woman—with diss-
enting brutality. He accused her of infidelity, and as she
lay in bed on Tuesday night he assailed her with the foul•
abuse, and then announcing his intention of murdering
her, plunged a knife into her right temple. The poor
woman ailed loudly for assistance, and struggled as well as
she could with her husband, who in the mean-
time got hold of a razor, and attacked her with
that instrument. The daughter, hearing her mother's
screams, tau down stain and Let in some of the neighbour!,
who had been aroused by the noise, and who succeeded in
snatching the unfortunate women from her husband's
clutches. She was takes into uu adjoining house, and
shortly afterwards removed to the Infirmary, where it was
found that she had received • deeply incised wound on the
right temple, a small incised wound on the right side of the
nose, and a very deep gash right across the pant of the left
hand. Polioe.otficer Garforth went to Rayuer's house and
found that the fellow, after his wife had been rescued. had
locked the door. The officer demanded admission, but re-
ceived so answer, aad was compelled to break open the
door. On entering the hones he found Rayner !ring
me the bed with his throat art.Oarforth took him into
custody, and charged him with attempting to murder his
wife whereupon Rayner remarked—" Is she dead'!" lipos
being answered in the negative, he said, "I am sorry she
is not dead, sad myself also." He added that he had been
to Goole to get a knife on purpose to do the
_job, but found
it was too weak, and then he got a razor. The razor, he
said, was under the bed, sad cis looking then the dicer
found a razor open, and smeared with blood. Ha also
found a bloody knife in the room, sod the bed and
bedclothes were saturated with blond. Another rater,
closed, and sot marked with blood, was found in
a hat on • chair is the room. The prisoner—who, it
may be observed, was perfectly sober—was takes to the
Infirmary ;oa his way thither he stud eztessaed fe-
ast that he had sot completed the . He stated that
he had got the wrong razor, by mistake ; and that if be
had got the one which he had in his hat, and which
he had sharpened fur the purpose, he would have dose for
his wife and himself too. The razor found under the bed
was a very blunt one, but the ono in the hat had bias m-
oistly sharpened. The knife had also been racially
sharpesed, but the blade wee not very strong, :sod the paint
was rather broken. The woman is the more seri-
only injured ; but, fortunately, neither hushed
nor wife is in immediate dangle. The waved which
Rayner had inflicted on his own threat—dose with
the same razor with which be attacked his wife—is
about an inch long, but not deep, sad has not affected any
vital part. Ar. Jessop, the hotue-surgeoe, thinks
the man must have backed at his throat with the razor five
or six times. The only reason Rayner gives for his mur-
derous deed is, that he was suffering from hunger.

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