The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-27 00:00:00

TIL4MES POLICE.

JEALOUSY AND ATTEMPT TO M URDER.—YeStOrdoy
Jeremiah Driscoll, an Irish labourer, was brought before
Mr. GREENWOOD, for final examination, charged with mak-
ing a desperate attempt to murder his wife by stabbing
her with a pen-knife in the side, and wounding her in the
hand while labouring under a fit of jealousy.
Mary Driscoll, a woman of respectable demeanour about
forty-six years of age, who has been in a very weak state
since she was stabbed by her husband, was led into the
office, and accommodated with a seat while she gave her
evidence, which she did with much difficulty. She stated
that she had been separated from her husband, who was a
carpenter, for some time, and kept a green-grocery shop in
Sun Tavern Fields Shadwell. Her husband occasionally
visited her, but she had not seen him for five weeks until
the morning of Sunday the 16th inst., when she was dis-
turbed when in bed in the middle of the night by the in-
trusion of a man into her bed-chamber. When she awoke,
she found her husband standing over her, and she was
about to start out of bed, when her husband said--" Take
that you -" accompanying his words with a dreadful
thrust at her side. She found herself stabbed, and the
blood gushing from the wound. She got out of bed, and
screamed murder, on which her husband made another stab
at her. She put up her hand to protect her person, and re-
ceived a deep cut on the hand. She then ran down stairs,
calling out murder, followed by her husband who knocked
her down, and began kicking her about the body. Her
cries brought a policeman to the spot, and her husband en-
deavoured to make his escape, but was secured. She was
taken to a surgeon, who dressed her wounds, and sent her
home again directly. She had ever since been confined to
her bed.

Mr. GREENWOOD said that on the first examination the
prisoner stated that he saw another man in bed with his
wife, and that in a moment of desperation he rushed into
the mom and struck his wife. He asked if there was any
truth in that statement ?

Drs. Driscoll solemnly declared the assertion was un-
true. The man of whom her husband was jealous was a
sailor,a lodger, who was in his own bed on the night in
question. The seaman was a young man about twenty-
two years of age, and -she was forty-six.
The prisoner vehemently declared that he looked through
the window, in consequence of some stories having reached
him of his wife's infidelity, and be saw the sailor in his
wife's bed. He called out for them to open the door, and
u hen they refused he broke his way in. By that time the
sailor had left the room, and gone to his own bed.
The wife again denied the statement of her husband, and
in answer to the questions of the magistrate said she found
the knife with which the wounds were inflicted in the shop
behind some cabbages, where it had been thrown. She
knew it to be her husband's knife.
Sullivan, a policeman, No. 248 K, stated that about 12
in the morning he heard cries of murder proceeding from
the house of No. 4, Sun Tavern-fields. He went there, and
found the door open, and the prisoner about to emerge from
the shop. He said he had just found his wife in bed with
another man, and immediately seized her by the neck, and
said "He would be d—d if he did not choke her, and if he
had an opportunity he would murder her." He threw her
from him and began kicking her. Witness pulled him away
and gave him into the care of another policeman while he
assisted the woman to her bed. He went into the room
where the sailor was in bed, and afterwards into that where
the woman was stabbed. It did not appear that two per-
sons had been sleeping in her bed.
Prisoner—.l saw them with my own eyes.
Mr. John Arthur, a surgeon, of No. 69, High-street,
Shadwell, stated that he attended the woman on the Sun-
day morning she was stabbed. There was a punctured
wound on the right side of the abdomen, of considerable
depth, which had been inflicted with a small cutting knife.
There was another wound on her hand, an incised one,
which had been effected with a sharp instrument. A slight
inflammation took place, and the wound on the woman's
side was likely to have been a very dangerous one, if she
had not kept herself quiet ; she was still in a very bad state
of health.

Mr. GREENWOOD said it appeared the woman had been
very seriously wounded. He asked if there was any danger
attending the case ? Mr. Arthur said there was not, if
the woman kept herself quiet, and took care of herself ;
otherwise be could not say how the case might terminate.
The prisoner repeated the statements he had before made
and declared that the sailor and his wife had been living to-
gether as man and wife for sonic time, and that when be
broke into his house the sailor was escaping into his own
room, and his wife was on the stairs. He denied having
stabbed his wife, and said that he had never seen the knife
before.

Mr. GREENwoon said he had no doubt the woman had
)eco stabbed, and committed Driscoll for trial,