Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-10 00:00:00

THE MURDER IN LONDON.

Thursday having been appointed for the examination of
Thomas Hebert Davie, aged 39. a carpenter, residing at 11,
Dorset-street, Bills- pond road, Islington, who stands
charged with the wilful murder of his wife, Mary Davis, at
his residence in Dorset-street, the approaches to tho court,
notwithstanding the untoward state of the weather, were
dere ely crowded. When the pisoner was placed at the
bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, he appeared in a very dull and
though.fnl state of mind, and he seemed to have been
weepieg a great deal. Siece he has been locked up in the
Kingsland police station, -ehere he has been under the
charge of Inspector Lanedon of the N division, he has
been very reserved, and said but little. Mrs. Sarah Stump,
a lodger in the same hence, stated she heard a grumbling
neise about 11 p m. on the night of the 6th inst., in Mrs.
Davis's apartments. She heard the prisoner swear and
soy, I will do for you, and said I wilt go and fetch it.
The wife replied, "You rogue, you are going to kill me."
She then ceded her husband. and told him the prisoner
was going to kill his wife. Her husband got out of bed,
ran down stairs, fol'owed by her, and then they saw the
prisons' come out of the bed-room, fellewel by the
deceaeed, with their child in her arms. She staggee ed
in the passeda en I ran iato the street. Mr. Jehn
Scum;, the husband of the last witness, a lab u er,
said he was in bhi and heard his wife say, -For God's sake
Jack, do ge down stairs, for Davis says he will murder
his wife. fle heard screams of mercer. Upon proceeding
down stairs he saw Davis standing in the passage near the
bedroom door, with a razor iu his hand covered with
blood. Mrs. Davis, the deceased, was moving along the
raQsage. Witness said, " For God's sake, what have you
done, Davis!" Ha replied, "I have done the deed for
her this time; ctmo on Jack, I will give myself up to you."
Witness seid, " Boh, what a foolish man you must be ''
Prisoner replied, " I do not care ; I am a happy man now,
and I will die for her." Witness took the raz or from him.
Police constable Halliday, 518 N, then came up, and
witness gave him into custody for killirg his wite He at
the same time gave the police constable the razor, which
was covereil with blood at the time. Mrs. Sarah
Day said she heard the prisoner and his wife come home
about elev n o'clock on Tuesday night. When they
were in the passage the prisoner swore at deceased.
She replied, "No, Davis, do not say that. I have eaoug,h
of von ; I want no more." They then went into the bed-
room and shut the door, when I again heard quarrelling,
and heard the prisoner swear. Prisoner then locked the
bed-room door. The wife shortly after swore, and said,
" You are going to murder me." Cries of murder were
then heard ; an I upon running dawn stairs she saw the
prisoner standing at the bed-room door with a razor
half shut in his hand. He then saw the wife stagger
along the passage with her child in her arms, and blood
was streaming from her throe.. Prisoner said, "I have
done it, lam now a happy man " Mr. Jams Williamson
said he was a surgeon, and when he was called to
see the deceased he found her lying on the ground.
She had a handkerchief tied round her throat, and
her dress was covered with blood. He found a very deep
wound extending from ear to ear. The wound was deep-
est on the left Fide. The windpipe was almost cut
thronh. The wound had divided the superficial jugular
veins -on both sides ; on the It fc side it had divided the
chief one. Tho wound was the cause of death. Mr.
Tyrwhitt : Was the wound such a one as might be caused
by a r,zo; ? Witness: Yes. Mr. Tyrwhitt : Then nothing
could be done for her ? Witness : No ; she was quite dead.
Police constable Holliday, 518 N, said he heard screams of
police, and upon going to the spot he saw the deceased lying
on the ground bleeding very much. When he took him into
custody he made no remark, but seemed very much excited.
Police-sergeant Boyle also went to the spot when the
prisoner sent for him three times. On going to him first
he Fait, '• Well, sergeant, shake hands with me," and I did.
The second time he did the same. On the third time he
said, " Well, sergeant, what am I charged with ?" The
eergearit replied, with wilfully murdering his wife ;
and be then cautioned him as to what he might say.
The prisener was drunk Prisoner then said, " I wish I
was in India, and I would lick some of the--." He
afterwards said he asked him (the sergeant) to take care
of all he had got, as he should want all he had got far him-
self to defend him. Ha then pointed to a workbox, and told
him to take care co.' the marriage certificate which was in the
box On his way to the station he asked if his wife was
dead. On being informed that she was, he said it was a
bad job—it cannot be helped now. It was all dons in a
moment. Mr. Tyrwhitt : Did you consider. the prisoner
was drunk ? Witness: I should say he was decidedly
drank. Inspector Largdon, tf the N division, said that at
the police statior, on Wednesday morning, the prisoner
asked if his wife was dead, and when I told him she was,
he exclaimed, " Good God, a better wife never walked
English ground ; it was done unintentionally, but I
did not do it. I like her. too well to serve her like
that." On their way that morning to the police-
court, in' a cab, the prisoner said, " Well, it is a very
had job, but I can assure you that I did not do it."
a-a < • vt Ylao v•lacLitv) aishena
the prisoner if he had anything to say, at the same time
informing him that anything he might say would be taken
down in writing, and might be used against him at his
trial. The prisoner, who seemed in a very dejected state,
and who had been seated durirg the examination of the
witnesses, rose and said, " I shall reserve my defence for
ano her place." Mr, Tyrwhitt, in committing the prisoner
to Newgate for trial far the wilful murder of his wife,
complimented the police upon the way in which they had
Icautioned the prisoner previous to receiving his state.
manta. The prisoner, when he was leaving the dock.
turned round, with tears in his eyes, and a-ked to le
permitted to see his dear child, a request which was at once
I •
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STORM ON TllO TRIE.II COAST. —There has bnn a fearful
gale and storm r,l9ng the whole of the east coast of
I eland. The ee. in mazy parts dashed with great violence
on the laud. The livers, to, were swollen. Sereral
persons made rario V C sna pea from drowning ; but no
actual loss of life is rec.), thd.

A TRAVELLER IN A DfI.F.AINIA.—At an ercampmert of
Surnris, who are, cnnpar.ativelv speaking, rather a had
race, I got a less' n on this subject. One young woman
of them was re spy beautiful, although she had grown up
in thejun;le, without even a tent to protect her from the
fierce sun and from the colt dews et' night. Her c mi-
plexion was unusually fair; her black locks were wound
round her head somewhat in Greci an style ; and her
scanty prineats—a :hilt and shirt—scatc.ly concealed
finer. -roen!ed and almost feult:ess limb=. As sbe was
sufferiag slightly from fever, I gave her some medicine,
and also s nue syrup, she directing me to pour it into Vie
hollow of her hand, while, by applying her mouth to her
wrist, she was able ta drink without allowing any to es-
epic. Thafotturately, when I was feeling the pulse of
this Surnfc beauty, ber half- vielooch, extremely ugly,
black, and savage husband, made his appearance, hearing
a laokeralimb;dgoat upo t his shoulders, and looking all
susaieion and wrath. He evidently had no feith whatever
in my moral character, and looked upon any medical busi-
ness as a mere diabolical aratence, which it was his dery
and interest to expose. minding himself upon our tete-
a tete, he spoke in a rude end provok'ng way, which I
could interpret easily without catching the separate
meani ag of almost a single word. Esp easily ha tried, and
with succe s, to excite a laugh against me, by derisively
ieq iring if I could tern him, or my portion of his b dy,
white. It is dargerous in Belo.ahistan to let the I mall be
turned against one ley an angry man, thaugh it is EX9C-•
(lien! not to be haqy noticing good humoured ridicule.
In ails case it was lucky that I taiderstcol hit ridicule;
for while the servant with me was explainieg, there was
time to consider how it stolid be met. The expedient I
adopted was to pull out a knife, catch him by the arm,
and make a s'ight incis'on, intimating that there was
net hieg easier than to turn him white, only, in the first
place be a o eld have to submit to being fl,ya:d. This rude
and not very brilliant jest took amazi gly, and preserv. d
my moral supremacy. His companions seemed highly
tickled and deligted at the idea of their friend losing his
skin, and anw themselves nn the ground, rolling about,
laughing, and repeating—" IFekullo wants to be made
white ! Hakullo must. be flayed !" Marayas himself
seemed paral)sed at the mid...city of the proposal, and
turned away growling precisely as a savage dog does (rem
an untried foe which it is doubtful about attack'ng. 'I his
di I not please h's friends at al!, and they were so earnest
on the steject, that I began to fear—tee more so as he
s erred as unpopular chtarocter atnorg them—that they
might tie him up, and insist on the operation being per-
formed. After this be estt.blished himself behind a bush
close by, and c nsolcd himself with examini ag and
handling his matchlock in a way which showed how
his thoughts were running; fer he aimed at me with it
more than once, when he theught I was not observing.
The cord n t being liglsted, here was no danger in
this ; but when he rose, lighted a large pipe, and took
it over to his lair, I thought it expeJient to ts"e k to
his affectionato friends on the subject, whereon they
said he was a bad mar, - and took his gun away from
him. There was :so great ch nice of the laws of hos-
pitality being broken ; but the possibility of the .rufflan
wrecking his vengeance on the unoffending wife,
eff ,rded an tin' lea•ing subject of contemplation. Well
was: it that Hakullo had a demoniac-lookirg mother-
in-law, who seemed omite able to protect herself and
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