The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-25 00:00:00

ATTEMPT dT MURDER.

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An attempt at murder wee yesterday made at
Witham, Essex, tinder the following circumstances :—A
young w named Freeborn, cook to Mr. James Upson.
in the parish named, became '• angled" toe young
man named Charles Finch, who wee then working ate Lea
in the neighbourhood of Kelvedon. Soon after the owe
mencement of this engagement he went out to the Crimea to
join the Army Works Corps,
.or as a navvy, and but recent!,
returned to the neighbourhood. In the meantime It memo
the young woman had formed en attachment in some other
quarter, which impairs too likely to cost her her life. A ferl
minutes after three yesterday she left her martees honr
for the purpose, of proceeding to the parish church, d. •isdM
shoat half a mile, and, so far as her own statement can he
understood, had not proceeded many yards before she sam
Finch sitting on the bank, mueli to her surprise, for eh*
bad not men him since his return, and, indeed, believed him
to be in London. lie waited until she was quits
elms to him, then suddenly sprang upon her, threw her
down in the ditch, and with a mutt cut her
throat, without uttering • ainglo word. He then left bet•
but apparently fearing he had not fully accomplished Wi
be returnod again a few minutes afterwards sad
=Saesecond incision, end then immediately made off. The
poor girl must have been very soon found, fur about 3.30 a
messenger arrived at the Witham police-station. The cons
stables, with the exception of one, were at the parish churchi
they ware, however, celled out during the service, causing.
as may be supposed, no small consternation among the cone
megadon, and, with Mr. Superintendent Cooke. of the
Eoeex constabulary, were speedily on the spot, Mr. Thome
Temkin, a medical gentleman, being already in attendances
The young woman, who is about twenty-four years of age,
• and bears a respectable character, being removed to het
. made?. house, march was immediately commenced in the
woods, and in a few hours Finch was captured by • labour-
! int man named Green us he was attempting to escape from
the wood. Police-constable Medley, who was near, toot
him in chary, sad by 7 o'clock in the evening, he tea
- !edged is s cell at the Witham police-station. The windpipe
fs completely severed, bat the main arteries have escaped;
so that there Is some chance of the poor wommis recovery.

EE.CAIPTUSE or AN ESCATZD CONVICT.—UpaII
the lith of this month, a man named Peter Hutchison, el
Blyth, Baillie, under sentence of fifteen years' transport&
Noe, escaped from Jedburith prison. On Thursday, cots
stable Christie, of the Edinburgh county police, stationed it
Clorebridge, got information of a man answering his demi?s
Lion being in that nsighbourhood. Having obtained ma
assistance of his neighbouring constables, they proceeded 10
Old Middleton, and there succeeded in apprehending hilts
whoa it company with three men, all of whom had e
eacka under their arms, ready to start off on a no:a
foray. The prisoner was conveyed by Christie 10 his oil

quake*.
TER DARTMOOR PnisoN.—A convict at Dartinedit
prieonomenei Charles M'Caithy, has jot been committed
to the Devon county gaol at Exeter, on the charge d
meaultiog and wounding, with intent to murder, a warder
of the Dartmoor convict prison. It vpaare that the nei•
sonar heavenly neaconducted himasif seem he hild teell
lodged at 't,mam' prison, and bad wade three eittemild
to escape. A few days ago ho made an attempt to map e
by running away from the separate cells when let oak
to wash lexamilf, and he also took a leading part in an act ed
Insubordination in which eight other convicts ware we.
corned. The prlaoser, it sppeAre, assaulted the welder In
question in a barberone manner, and aftcrwsrdr, with itight
(Ahern, node his way oat of the working shed with the
testis. defecting We tempo