The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-22 00:00:00

ALLEGED MURDER OF A WIFE BY

HER HUSBAND.

On Monday, a.t the Lambeth Police Court, Richard
Perry, 54, described as a labourer, residing at No.
22, Broad-street, Lambeth, was charged with having
caused the death of Jane Perry, his wife, by striking
her on the head and body in a frightful manner.
George Mitchell said ke lived at No. 22, Broad-
street, Lambeth,. in apartments underneath those oc-
cupiedtinu a ll
y quarrelling, the prisoner and li;s wife. They were con-
uarrelling, and the female was almost always
On Saturday evening last, between eight and
the prisoner and deceased came home,
dnrinuenk o'clock, O
apparently very comfortable, and shortly
afterwards the
. former went out, and was
prisoner,the
deceasedw haoangda Ilona
followed a little while attar by his wife.
Some time afterwards the prisoner brought
she entered the house. They had
some coals home,, and finding the deceased was out
and had locked his door he came down stairs, but at
appeared to be sober, went to bed, and
went out. She ravened at a very
the same time
some words about the door being locked, when the
mediately efterwarde a heavy fall,
late hour, ranch. intoxicated, when he heard them
that she hopd nothing had hap-
anag'succeeded by complete silence. His wife
which rre I
wl
hnimPerry and
.his wife, and immediately
pcaelnleedd
bouettwtoee
when,r he called out, " Who's this
afterwards he heard the prisoner put on his shoes and
prisoner then returned to
.said you heard the fall in the
lyinge
sm reo odomon wtanhneds stbtalri lOUs' g? h t all. bi
said
h t
onn7Yeu
?—Witness replied 14-nt he did, but
rhear her go down the stairs after that.
have heard her if she hr 1, Fa he could hear
prisoner'slineeMdmirdu.
it not Elliott
the least thing on the stairs. The prisoner, when he
came down to the landing near the door, called out
to witnees to get up,.iexclaiming that his wife had no
strength in her. Vi'tness got out of bed and assisted
him to carry the decereed up stairs, but he at once
perceived that she was dead, and told the prisoner so.
The latter exclaimed " Good God, you don't mean to
say so !" They then carried her into the room, and
put her on the bed, when he washed her face with
cold water, and sent the prisoner for a doctor. The
o than the prisoner's room.
r
police shortly entered the house, and brought one in,
when they pronounc, 1 her quite dead.
Sergeant Atler, of the L division, here informed
foundthe
za mr.
wasagEilsltio3attti,eta to m
tirheatluitsvtbee place where decease I was
laa
ll
Had she fallen down
stairs, must you have heard her ? Mitchell—yes ; I
was not asleep, and I could have heard a cat walk

you heard was the quar-
relling,,the incorroboratedMitchell,evidenceof e
rpyr e
The de-
ceased was covered with bruises from head to loins.
Witness heard no scuffling on Vie stairs, the fall took
place in the prisoner's room.
Miller, 136 L, proved being called into the house
between one and two o'clock on the morning of the
occurrence, and found the body of deceased yet
warm, upon which he procured medical attendance.
Sergeant Atler, 4L, said, he also went to the
house, when he looked at deceased, and perceived a
deep cut on the left eye, and another one across the
nose. They were quite fresh.. When apprehended
the prisoner told witness that his wife had. fallen out
of bed, and subsequently observed it was hard
for him to work all the week and then for his wife to
spend all the money.
There having been no medical examination, the
prisoner was remanded.
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JOHNSON'S HOUSE, BOLT-COURT.—Dr. Johnson's
house was burnt down in 1819, the premises having been
long previously occupied by the most eminent English printer
of his own or any other tine, Mr. Thomas Bensley, to whose
energy the world is indebted for the perfection of the print-
ing machine. The house of Johnson's friend, Mr. Allen,
the printer, was not destroyed by the disastrous fire which
reduced to ashes the Doctor's residence ; indeed, only one
corner of it was injured ; an° with that exception. it stands
as it was built shortly after the Great Fire of London. Mr.
AIL 'l's house stands at the head of Bolt-court; Dr. John-
son's stood to its left. On the site of the latter was erected,
after the before-mentioned fire. a spacious printing-office,
and both are now in the occupation of Mr. Tyler.—Notes
and Queries.
MADEIRA.—AII signs of disturbances in this island
having disappeared, her Majesty's steam-sloop Barracouta
left on the Bth instant, and returned to England; and her
Majesty's steam-frigate Retribution, 28, V(44 to leave the
island also, a week after the Barracoata.