The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-20 00:00:00

MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.
TRAGEDY AT CLAYTON-ON-THE-REIGHTS.
HALIFAX, Mattes 19.
The beautifsl and secluded little village of Clayton
was on Saturday the scans of • dreadful trespele, is eases-
queues of • young roan recently married having shot his
wife through the left breast .sal blown out hi. ems brains
The village of Clayton.on-the-Heighte his about eve miles
north of this borough, and is situated snider some of the
most wild and othantie seemly of the West Biding of
Yorkshire. The road winds round the sides of a barks of
steep. precipitous hills, with--e to tower almo't into the
clouds, presenting • dark, bold, ragged outline in
Warlike contrast with the vales below, which have
all the appearance of a weil-eultivathel mirk-shard
district It is is one of them delightful vale,
after toiling up bag aed heavy ascents, este of wrier
is of itself 'event miles is length, that you first on.. i•
sight of the volage. Though call- d Claytosson-the-Heights
you have to leave the road over these heights and descent'
for a eoetiderable distance before you reach the centre of the
present village, though it is probable that the name had Be
origin ir. some buildings on the hill side, ere the neighbour
hood bee .ms so populous as now. The subjects of the loo-
sest tragical occurrence are two young people named Abra-
ham and Elisabeth Jesup, each shoat 25 years of see,
and the canes of it an unhappy and ill.sseorted marriage,
leading to • separation, which the wife'. Meads bad un-
wisely attempted to render permaseut, instead of seek-
leg a reconciliation. The mail sappier of the vil-
lage am some extensive sees. patio di the ssigh-
beartto-d ; sad James. who had ease te reside the. bees
Brighouse, was • smith, sad use priseipally emmleyeel is
sharpening the delvers' tools. He had paid his addros.es '1
the girl for some twelve or months, aced shiest three
mouths ago they were married. Jelsop had set a estesge
furnished to take his wife to, and they took up disk rut
donee along with tka wife's /nether sad sister. The husband,
who had been given to iatoxiestion at times, had gives great
pe,miess of wee steady and thdastrions heti% at that time.
Fee some !maths before their marriage be had carried out
of Ilk easing. ss. per week to his intended wife, and for
Ave or six weeks after marriage the young pair seemed to be
ethafeetable enough. Some sunny weather which succeeded.
however, rendered it impossible that the quarrymen could
plonk their employment, and Jaiwop was throws
out el work. Almost immediately afterwards quarrels with
his wife and her friends led to his being turned oat of
the mother's house, and to • eonsequenteeparation. He had
,attempted in vales rthoseillation; sad persuasion failing to
'educe his young wife to leave the paternal roof with him,
he had recently consulted Mr. Briggs, the constable of the
village, to know if he could not enforce his rights. What was
the advice gives him by the peace officer has sot transpired,
and the unhappy sus seems to have sought an on
Saturday evening last, with a view to putting a period to all
future strife and beir,burning about the matter by murder-
ing his wife and afterwards destroying himself. Alter
ford() himself by taking several glasses of ardent spirits
at a publ‘ohouse "to keep up his courage " for the fatal
sane, he entered the house where she resided about half-
past three s'eloek on Saturday afternoon, and found ter
in the promisee of her mother and sister. Hs asked her
to sceseepsay him to the door for the purpose of •
private oonverseioo, but she declined, observing that she
had no secrete which her grittier might not hear. He then
attempted to induce his wife to give him as audience is
another room, telling her she might relate what peeled
afterwards to her mother .ii she thought St. This the also
refused, and he then took from one of his coat pockets •
pistol, and hastily advancing towards her, diet:barged it with
the situssle almost close to her person. The ball took effect
is tke left breast, but missed the heart, piercing the breast
is the direction of the left arm, and emerging immediately
seder the arm. Before any attempt at interfenne • could be
made, he then drew a second eistol, and placing the lasses
tads, his right ear, discharged the eocteire through his
bad. The unfortunate wife ran to the door, and
mak upon the causeway. in a oats of insensibility.
She was &Sterna:as carried to bed by her mother
and some neighbours who lent assistance, and surgical aid
being procured and the wounds steadied, she still surviv a.
It is feared, however, that the ball has passed through •
portion of the lungs, and that she Onset ultimately recover.
The wound which Jesup it lbeted on himself was of a more
immediately mortal character. He fell at once apse the
(leer, and expired in a pool of blood—his skull being fear-
fully shattered. The body was removed to the Bleck Horse
publichouse in Clayton, where, on Sunday sad Monday,
k was visited by a vast number ofoonatrypeople, who, ',one
with a great dread of these honifyiag scenes of morality,
tassel 'thereon' the curio ity to look upon them suds stab
eiretiostsimes. Mr. Dye's, the earoser, was to
hold an inquest ea the body last sight. The
young man's parents an net living, but he has brothers and
*liters who had those to the village 'nth the view of discharging
the mournful duties (as far as the verdict of • coroner's Jury
and the law which regulate such matters will allow) wniett
devolve upon them in consequence of this event. The wife
has only the parent living,—her father having destroyed
himself about terse years ago, by hanging.

HA/it:HESTER, MARCH 19.
TM tenasonss' agitation is comparatively hulled, and the
public meetings of the working clams appear to be at an
end. An important meeting of the Miller spinners was held
this afternoon at the offices of Mr. Heron, Dinle,ne'reet, for
the purpose of considering the steps desirable to take,
and was very numerously attended. A petition was adopted
praying for an eleven h,,urs bill re an effectual settlement of
the question, in preference to the present fluctuatingeystent,
and a deputation wee appointed to peoseed to Loadon on the
Miner.