The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-29 00:00:00

AFIROCLOUS REVENGE.

We. have to relate one of those dreadful instances of
-IL:spend.; depravity which reflect disgrace, not merely
on the age, but on human nature itself: Friday shout
n:ie o'clock at noon, a Weidman, named Daniel Owen,
a cow-keeper, came to town from Edmonton, and pro-
e,astlecl to the house of one Jones, his brother-in-law,
who is also a cow-keeper, resident in Gibraltar-row,
Prospect-place, St. George's ftd.ds. After knocking at
the door, he was admitted to the room on the ground
fiooa, where .Tones, with his wife and maid scrvaut, was I:
at dinner.—After sitting for a few minutes, he started
cup, and with two knives, (wit's which he had presided
laniself before his visit) he rushed to the execution of
his execrable purpose. He first attacked the man Jones,
whom he wounded dreadtlilly in the belly and the head
so as for sonie seconds to deprive him of sense and mu-
tiers. He then flew at Mrs. Jones, his own sister, and
inflicted upon her several shocking wounds ; he stab-
bed her in the forehead, cut her severely, though not
dangerously between two of her ribs, and having thrust
his knife in her mouth, drew it clean through the face
to the ear, lacerating her tongue, and laying the cheek
completely open. The ruffian last struck at the ser-
saint-girl, whom he seriously cut in the face and one
of her hands, besides dividing the main artery of the
can. The poor wretches, though faint and almost in-
sinsible with terror and logs of blood, contrived to make
their way into the street, where they were immedime-
ly observed by their neighbours, and were carried into
the adjoining houses till medical assistance could be
procure 1. In the mean time the assassin had fastened
the door of Jones's house, and with loud imprecations
threatened to destroy any person who should dare to
approach him. This, threat, together with the im-
pression of the horrible scene before them, and the cir-
cumstance of Owen (who is a reinarLably large and
powerful Irian) being armed with two. knives, com-
pletely deterred the multitude, though soon consisting
of many hundreds, from attempting to enter the house.
Police-officers, however, wen' sent for, and on their
arrival and atter the interval of nearly en hour, it was
determined to break into the house, and seize the des-
perate villain; For this purpose a °Teat number of
persons armed with peers and crow-rliars, some with
ladders at the wine:mos. and some on the pyound, made
n.simultaneous attack on the house, and bursting it
open above and below, rushed in with great force. They
found Owen on the first landing-place, standing with
.an sir of defiance, and whettirg his knives one upon
the.other, as if for the purpose of rendering them more
effectually Murderous. One of the officers, however,
without a mement's delay, struck him a violent blow
seith a crow-bar on the head, which knocked off his
hat tad-staggered him; and another instantly took ad-
vantage .of his tottering, seized one of his legs, and
threw him on the ground. Still the reffian was able to
resist, which he did so obstinately, that the officers
were compelled to beat and even wound him severely
about the face and body, before he was -sul,dued to a
state of acquiescence; they then put him into a hack-
ney coach, and conveyed him to the prison in Horsmon-
ger-lane, thousands of the multitude attending the
mach, and with arms of various kinds, in order to pre-
vent the possibility of his esoape. •
While this was going on, surgical aid had been
procured for t'he wounded, and the result of the exami-
nation made by Mr. D'xon. surgeon, of Newington, •
was, that he considered the husband likely to die, the
" wife dreadfully though not mortally wounded, and the
girl, though very seriously hurt, likely to recover. The
man and .the servant were, at the recommendation of
the surgeon, taken to one of the hospitals in the Bo-
rough, we believe St Thomas's. Mrs. Jones was carried
back to her own house.
Our readers will naturally inquire what could have
been the cause, however inadequate, of this savage bar-
harity ? We are not able to answer this question any
farther than by stating, that we have been informed,
thatabout a year ago there was alaw suit between Owen
4nd Jones respecting some property, which Owen con-
.eeived to belong to himself, but which Jones claimed in
right of his wife. An action was tried, the result of
which was favourable to Jones ; and Owen ever since
has expressed much dissatisfaction, and is supposed there-
from to have conceived that desperate revenge which he
-unhappily executed. His purpose was so malignantly
atrocious, that he, at the time of his monstrous outrage
cpressed a determination to murder, if he could, his
own son, a lad who lived with his .uncle and aunt as
assistant in their business,-and whom his father appears
to have hated from no other cause. Fortunately this
youth was not in the house. The parties are all Welch;
Jones and his wife are about 40 years of age ; the ser-
vant girl about 20; 'Owenis between 45 and 50, and
is, as we have before stated, a man of remarkably tinmi-
.dable size and strength The age of his son we did
.not hear:

. Miss Carew. a very promising young actress and vo-
cal performer, is among the dismissals fr,m Covent-
garsien Theatre. This is extraordinary; as she was an
.admirable substitute for Miss Stephens in case of illness,
as well as .* very useful auxiliary.—Mr. Welsh, her
musical tutor, is also discarded.