The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-05-26 00:00:00

-11 MURDER IN LONDON.
ANOTHER ATTEMPTInu_

-mulling and brutal
An attempted murder of a moat se-. ' the house No.
character took place on Saturday 'aiming al„,- '. opposite
7, Little Russel-street, Covent-garden, Linmeu'ate),' en the
the stage door of D -lane Theatre.
cupied by a young
second floor of the house alluded to was (se'
couple named James Geary, 23. and Emily GrY.' r'fw
.., ue back room e
..,
hree
were married on the 4th of the present montl-4 fill ' '
weeks since, and to all appearance lived happl:l7 to
until the night on which he made so determined an '
on her life. Both James and Emily Geary were orig ;pally,.agttot
silk-spinnere, but latterly the husband has filled the site
tion of aporter to a furniture dealer in Great Queen-street,
Lincoln's-inn. On Saturday afternoon the newly.married
couple paid a visit to the mother of the wife, and during
their stay there nothing occurred which led to a suspicion
that there was or had been any disagieement between . hem.
On their way home there was some dispute about going to
a eoncert-room, the result of which was that they parted,
and the wife went home to Russell-street. At half-past
ten o'clock James Geary returned home, and, as appears
[
from the statement which has been made by the unfortu-
nate woman in the prospect of death, having dashed his
cap on the ground vent to the cupboard and took
out a dessert knife. He then rushed at his wife,
knocked her down, and cut her throat. She struggled with
him, screamed as loudly as she could, and exclaimed more
than once, " Oh dear, oh dear, don't murder me !" These
cries were heard by Mrs. Emily Baylis, the wife of police
constable 85 I', who occupied apartments in a higher part
of the house. She ran down stairs, and having communi-
cated the facts to Mrs. Evans, the landlady of the house,
they went up together to Geary's room. On opening the
door they saw Geary and his wife struggling violently with
each other on the floor, Geary having the knife in his hand,
and the woman bleeding from the throat. Mrs. Baylis anti
Mrs. Evans were horrified at the scene, and ran 0
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stairs with the view of obtaining assistance. At • -*°"—
door they met Baylis, the police constable, street
o
returning home from duty. He went yr
wh was just
and his wife struggling on the' i) stairs and f run 4
floor. The brutal fellow had hip -
on the bottom stair of the ki kit
down, with her head
aanding of the second
directly he saw the officer lie stifeet,eleading up -"les' illei
throat and worked it about. Tfite--svo'lmeaknuiefxe.cilnait.m:'he-dis, God's sake, save me !" Bayl
the knife from the womanreiessL Once Bei4o him and drew
7‘ Corfi
,unieted three slight wounlsr
Ooant.
his
towthnisthtrimoset.GeAarct
ditional assistance having been obtained Mrs. Geary was
conveyed on a stretcher to King's. Collegs:
Hosp ital, where
her case was at once seen eby Mr. Charles Heath, the
house -
e--
• urgeon, He found on the right side of the neck,
about an inch below the jaw, a wound three quarters
of ail inch long, communicating with the windpipe, and
also with the cesophagnsd immediately . Above and below this were
an
two superficial cuts, below the right
ear was a ragged wound extending under
_the skin for
nearly an inch ; immediately above tha collar bone, on
the same side, was another superfici
left side cf the neck, midway between 'l t , ciheu, t ,
et
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aOt
hr ne
bone
e ,
and jaw, was a transvenes cut one inchlong
three-quarters of a inch into the neck. Close penetrating
ear wAs a superficial cut. On the back
of
were three superficial cuts, each about alquearritegrhtohfanan
inch in length. Immediateiy after tlle attempt on his
reat were wife's life, Geary was conveyed to B sr terseseetd
bs tyat
ivi oinr.,
where the wounds on his
Snitch, the divisional surgeon They were found to be
very slight. The prisoner remains in custody. On Sunda
morning, at four o'clock, Mr. Ins° ter Mackenzie having
y
been informed that the unfortunateae
conveyed the prisoner to King's Cowllornan was
sinking,
in his presence the statement of his Nvifeewgeaslla°kEleniladLowannd.
The mother and sister of Mrs. Gearyry b v.isited hsr at the
hospital, but the interviews were
of her critical situation. Istios tishovculeegshetrref in
consequence
.trip_ossible that she
by ee dr as a careful,
can live many Lours.
perseverirg, industrious young woman,
her disposition, and one who was unlikely ytopeaceable in
offend her
husband by any misconduct on her part.

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.XT3AO.IZOINARY Ch ARGE OF ARSON.

On Saturday, Joseph Paul Fiaman, a German Jew,
lively carrying on business as a hairdresser, in Cable-
street, Whitechapel, London. and Raciael Fiaman, his
wife, were brought before Mr. Selfe, at the Thames police-
court, on remand, charged with unlawfully and maliciously
setting fire to their dwelling house, with intent to defraud
the Sun Fire and Life Insurance Company. This was a
most strange case, and has been noticed before. The
prisoners had only been in their late dwelling for seven
or eight weeks, and all their property in tee place did not
exceed in value, according to one witness, more than
£l5, while another valued it at £6 or £7 only. The
male prisoner inquired of Mr. John Ring, a tinplate worker,
the best office to insure his property and effects, and after-
wards told King he had applied to the Monarch fire office,
and his proposal was rejected, and he had insured his stock
in trade and furniture in the Sun office for £lOO. The
prisoner added that so and so Would happen, and on being
salted for an explanation, said his place would be on
.fire.
The two prisoners subsequently entered into conversations
with King about setting their place on fire, and obtaining
the insurance money, and exhibiting to him their prepa-
rations for carrying their -diabolical intentions into effect.
Ring on the morning of Sunday,
" I mean to set fire to the place
tThheelm7tahleinstant, prisoner
ansdenstaifdor,
this evening at eight or half-past eight o'clock." He had
previously taken King into an under-ground kitchen
beneath the shop. There was a pile of wood and coals
laid on the grate, and there was a line across the fire-place
and clothes upon it touching the grate. There was
another line, with rags and clothes upon it, hanging
close behind, and a line communicating from the fire-
place to some rags on a dresser. The male prisoner
asked King what he thought of the arrangements for
setting the place on fire, to which King replied, " You
know your own buqnsss best, Sultan would not have done
it better.' King communicated with Inspector Gernon,
of the H division, and he sent a police constable, named
Harris, No. Si H, to watch the house and the movements
of the prisoners. On Sunday evening the prisoners went
out, having first lighted a fire in the grate, but it did not
communicate with the lines as they anticipated. The
prisoners returned home about nine o'clock at night.
King entered the house directly afterwards, and the
prisoners said they had kindled a fire iu the gate, but the
clothes and lines were not igeited. The male prisener said
that he was glad the fire did not occur, as the csmphine be had
spread over the roes would have smelt so badly. He then
took King into the kitchen again, and pointed out to
him the gtspipe lying ou the ruiddie of the floor. It
had been forcibly broken off the branch pipe. The gas
was escaping, and King told Fiaman to sop it, or he
would have the house blown up, and he did se stop it.
Fiaman then said he would not commence the fire
until half-pest two or three o'clock en Monday after-
noon. On Monday morning King visited the prisoner
again. Fiaman said everything was ready, and sent
his wife out for a pint of naphtha. She came back,
and said she could not obtain any. The two prisoners
then went out together, and came back with a pint of
naptha, which the male neisoeer scattered over the raga,
clothes, and dresser in flit) kitchen, in the presence of a
yowlg men named Martin, his assistant, whom he had
hired that day, to whom he said, " You must not tell any
one what I am doing." Soon afterwards the female
prisoner went down into the kitchen, and King followed
her in a few minutes, and found her with a lighted torch
made with rags, and about to set 'file to the place. He
made her put it out and go upstairs. She then put on
her linnet and went out wits her child, and said she
was geing to convey it to the German Hospital. About
a quarter of an hour afterwards the male prisoner went
into the kitchin, and when he returned into his shop the
iire broke out, as intended, in the kitchen, and if. the fire-
men had not been at hand the house would in all proba-
bility have been destroyed in tea minutes. Mr. William
Tootbir, clerk iri the Sun Mee-office, said the male prisoner
effected an insurance at the Sun-offiee for £lOO on the
ath inst. The prisoners said they would reserve their (le-
fence, and Mr. Sell' ccmmited them for trial.

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bay the Members giliveonmEatetTiCeUlAlT.—bioOnn,
Mn. BARON CRANNbRaILquAN:
WTLII
of the Home Circuit,
tA
iSoa tomuerrr!gaßya
taer.osntrco. eveningehr;
nneu,
on his elevation- to the judicial
bench. The chair was taken by Mr. Sergeant Shea, the
kader of the circuit, supported by about one hundred
moinbers, and in addition by jrS F. Meager, Mr. Fussell
Gurney, and otherr, who, having left the circuit, were
auxion3 to express their concurrence in the feeling which
had promptid this tribute of respect to their distinguished
guest.

THE ....REPRESENTATION Or GRIZAT YAR3IOI.7TIL—An " ia.
diguation" meeting of the Liberals of Great Yarmouth
was held on Thursday evening at the Nelson-room, Star-
hotel. Arr. C. E. Bartram presided, and resolutions were
unanimously agreed to, to the effect that in the ?pinion
of the meeting the recent proceedings of the partisans of
Sir E. Lacon and Colonel Vereker, in presenting a frivol.
one and vexatious petition against the late triumphant
return of members for the borough, was nn attempt to sub-
vert the liberties of the constituency in the free constitu-
tional and legitimate e/eetion of their representatives,
which ought to be resisted and exposed, and that for this
purpose a (guarantee defence fund be entered into in the
event of the same being required. About £2OO was sab-
ueribed in the room, and a list of subscriptions from other
parts of the country (including £lOO, <4 or any larger
sum" from the Mayor Was Mao read,