The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-08 00:00:00

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN MARYLEBONE.

James Wadden was indicted for feloniously and mali-
ciously wounding Hannah Maria Dixon, with intent to
murder her. lhere was also an indictment against bim for
feloniously marrying the same person, his first wife,
Elizabeth, being then alive.

The parties resided at a coffeeshop in New Church-
square, Paddington, and on the 10th of November they
returned home about half-past eleven, and went upstairs to
their bedroom, After locking the door the injured woman
said they commenced quarrelling, and as she was about
getting into bed the prisoner attacked her with a razor, and
cut her throat in a desperate manner. He raised a cry of
murder and police, and on the room door being opened and
as4istance arriving, the prisoner said the woman had inflicted
flab injuries on her throat with her own hand. This she
most positively denied. He also asserted that she got out
of bed before she did so; but the police constable, when he
entered the room, said the bed had not been disturbed after
it had been arranged in the morning.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty of intent to murder,

Mr. Justice Keating said it would be needless to proceed
with the other indictments. The jury had found the pri-
soner guilty of a very atrocious crime, and that offence he
had aggravated by the mean and dastardly attempt to fix
the crime on the unfortunate woman herself. The sentence
of the Court was that tho prisoner be kept in penal servi-
tude for the term of his natural life.

THIRD COURT.
(Before the Common Sergeant.)
Sarah Stone pleaded guilty to an indictment charging
her with unlawfully concealing the birth of her infant
child.
Sentence deferred.

Albert Cox, labourer, and John Blacken, were indicted
for stealing from Robert Elliot two coats, a waistcoat, hat,
gold ring, and other articles his property.
The jury found both prisoners guilty.
The Common Sergeant sentenced them to 18 months'
imprisonment with hard labour.

FOURTH COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)

Arthur Newman, 42, dealer, was indicted for conspiring
to defraud divers persons, and in pursuance cf such
conspiracy obtaining from Jeremiah Walton divers goods,
value £l,OOO, without making payment for the same, or in-
tending to do so. There was also another it dictment of the
same description against the prisoner for obtaining various
sums of money from John Grindley and Reginald Chaun-
cey.

(The case was proceeding when we went to press.)

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

LONDON, Jan. B.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; light breeze, and fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 7.—Wiud
fiom London for Melbourne. Sailed—Fairlie, for Sydney.
MILFORD, Jan. 7.—Arrived—Hero, from Sulina for
Queensto aen.

PORTSMOUTH, Dec 7.—Wind variable.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Pylades, from Sheerness.
NENE ORT, Jan. 7,—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Caledonia,
for Rio Janeiro.
ABERDEEN, Jan. 7.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived—Vilac,
from Rio Grande.

(EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
PLYMOUTH, Thursday, 10 a.m.
The steamship Liverpool, Captain Charlesworth, which
went down off Cape Lynas, left this port on Sunday morn-
ing, having shipped wool for Liverpool, valued, it is said,
a; £1,200.

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Jan. 7—Stanislas, from Gravelines; Marcia
from Havre ; the Colleen Bawn, from Port Adelaide'
Anna, from Alexandria; John and Jane, from Boulogne;;
Mary Ann, from Bruges.

Arrived, Jan. B.—Augusta, from Seville ; King William,
from Lisbon; Scovells, from Bruges; Highland Chief, from
Boston.

Sailed.—Amazon, steamer, for Mogadore.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Columbine, from Melbourne ; Higbland Chief,
from Boston; Icellia, barqu ‘, from Madras; Ellen Itose,
from Gambia ; Gulierma, from New York—all for London ;
Ida, screw steamer, from London, for Oporto; Marley Hill,
screw steamer, from London, for Genoa.
Anchored—Sarnian Gem, for 'Prom , Matilda, for Falk-
lana Islands ; Wilhelmine, for Mayaguez— all from London.

FLOODS AT DEAL.—We regret to state that some
of the farmers in the locality of Deal have sustained consi-
derable damage from the effects of the late high tide. The
sheep in the marshes, amounting to some hundreds, fortu-
nately escaped ; they were oared for just in time and re-
moved to a place of safety, only a day or two before the
flood came. From several acres sown with wheat, the soil
has been fairly washed away, so as to leave not the remotest
chance of a crop ; a field of fine parsnips shared the same
tfhateey, and
remainedlong lnineeasrloyffcoeul celery beds are impregnated
hvvialltser. While the flood was rapidly advancing in the Sand-
away,
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