The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-28 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE

NORWICH, Aug.—Full particulars have been re-
ceived to-day at the chief office of the Norfolk
County Police of a shocking affair which occurred
on Monday, at North Lopham, near Harling. It,
appears that a cloth hawker named Richard Roberts,
who has for some time resided at Lopharn, has been
for the past two years " keeping company" with
Eliza Hunt, a young woman living in the parish,
who owns some cottage property of the value of
about £2O per annum. Their wedding has been
repeatedly arranged to take place; but it has been
Postponed from time to time for reasons which are
not generally known, except that Roberts has been
in pecuniary difficulties. These misfortunes and the;
fact that a rival local suitor had appeared for the.
hand of the young woman seem to have preyed
upon his mind ; and from a few broken sentences
which the injured woman has been able to articu-
late to her attendants, it has transpired that on.
Mondaymorning, at an early hour, he called her up,
having come down by mail train from London_ She
let him in to her house, and he took a chair in the
front room of the cottage, she returning to the bed,
in which she had sleeping with another woman.
About 8 o'clock both the women got up and went
downstairs, where they found Roberts still in the
front room reading a book. Hunt proceeded to
prepare breakfast and the other woman having
left the house, the parties sat down to breakfast
together, Suddenly, according to the young
woman s statement, without using any angry ex-
pression, Roberts seized her violently, threw
her down, knelt on her, and cut her throat.
She screamed loudly, and a neighbour named
Higgins, living under the same roof, rushed in to
her assistance, but the injuries which she had sus-
tained were so serious that she soon lost all con-
sciousness. When Higgins and the other persor_is
who had collected began to recover from their
alarm they found that Roberts was standing in. the
room also severely wounded, and bleeding profusely.
He ran upstairs, and being pursued was found
crouching under a bed with a knife in his hand, and
insensible. The circumstances were at once reported
to Mr. Cockell, one of the local magistrates, who
issued a warrant for the apprehension of Roberts ;
but it was found that the injuries which he had.
inflicted on himself were so serious that he could.
not be removed, and last night he was scarcely ex-
pected to survive. His intended victim has rallied,
and some hopes are entertained of her recovery.

THE BANK OF ENGLAND NOTE
FORSERIES.

Yesterday john Lee was brought up before Mr.
Bigge, stipendiary magistrate, at the 'Town hall,
Brighton, charged with uttering a forged £5 Bank
of England note, well knowing it to be forged.
Superintendent Barnden briefly stated the case,
the facts of which have already appeared in The
Sun.

Richard Alexander Bevan, a partner in the Union
Bank in Brighton, stated that the note produced,
purporting to be a Bank of England note, was paid
into their bank on Monday, the 18th inst., and sent
to the bank of Jones Lloyd and Co., their bankers,
on the following day. The initials on the note are
" L. T." the number is 83,165, and it is dated 26th
of March, 1862. He received the note himself, and
it was forwarded to London by one of the clerks in
the bank. It was returned by Jones Lloyd and Co.
on the following Friday, as it was discovered that
the note was forged.
Prisoner, in answer to Mr. Bigge, said he had no-
thing to ask the witness. He was an innocentman.
Caleb Kenward, an apprentice to Mr. Corder,
linendraper, North-street, deposed that prisoner
passed the forged £5 note produced on Monday the
18th of August, about 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
He saw prisoner standing at the counter.
Prisoner here interrupted witness, calling upon
Almighty God to witness his innocence. He was
as innocent as an unborn babe.
Witness continued—An apprentice brought him
the note, and he saw the change given.
Prisoner—l can prove I'm a highly respectable
jeweller in London.
Witness—l,Vhen the note was brought to him he
was in the adjoining shop. He (witness) took the
note to Mr. Corder, and then took it back to his
desk, where it remained till the evening, when he
delivered it to Mr. Frederick Corder with other
money. That was between 5 and 6 o'clock. He
did not see any more of it. The apprentice who gave
him the note was named Thomas Meager. Witness
a
gave Meager £4 Os. 9d. in change, and saw another
named George Starr give it to prisoner.
Witness first saw the prisoner when he went to
show the note to Mr. Corder, and also when the
money was paid to him by Starr.
Superintendent Barnden—How long were you
standing by the counter when you saw the pri-
-1 soner there ?
Witness—Two or three minutes.
Did you take particular notice of him.
Yes, I did.
Have you any doubt at all about the prisoner ?
—Not the slightest doubt, sir.
By Mr. Bigge--Saw prisoner on Saturday in
Lewes Gaol. He was brought before witness.
By Superintendent Barnden—Previous to his
going to Lewes
he was cautioned that if he had
any doubt about the prisoner's identity he should
give him the benefit of it;
but he had no doubt.
By Mr. Brims e_-The note was not endorsed when
first brought to witness ; but prisoner afterwards
endorsed it,
',Frederick Lardner,l4, King's-road,
Chelsea."
Mr. Gadstan,
clerk in a firm at 34, Old Jewry,
London,
here entered the room, and said he WO
desirous of representing the prisoner.
lßigge decided that he could not allow this.
If ..r
solicitors appeared for a prisoner the magistrates
bad some control over them, which they bad not
over a clerk.

Mr. White, chief officer, then asked for a remand
till Tuesday next, which was granted.
Mr. Gadston—Will your Worship accept bail?
Mr. Bagge—Certainly not.
Prisoner burst into tears, and called upon
Almighty God to attest his innocence.
He was then removed.

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EXECUTION AT WARSAW.--.A. letter from Warsaw,
of the 21st inst., in the Independance, says :—" The
execution of Louis Jaroszynski for the attempt on the life
of the Grand Duke Constantine took place ths morning at
nine o'clock, on the glade of the citadel, in presence of a
crowd composed of about tea thousand persons, among
whom were a large number of women belonging to the
middle classes. He was brought to the place of execution
in a cart drawn by one horse, seated, and having beside
him a Capuchin monk, holding a crucifix. On arriving at
the foot of the scaffold the sentence was read to him, and he
was covered with a long white dress which covered he
head; in a few seconds human justice was satisfied. This
melancholy siieetacle made a deep impression on the crowd,
especially the female portion, but no disturbance took puce.
Jaroszynski had been condemned by the court-martial to
be shot, but the authorities charged with the reattached of
of the rights
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The
the trial ordered him to be deprived
757, and season tickets 3,950, aayy niticeknttss
to his condition, and he was executed by hanging*"
at the building yesterday were 4rBa,alkBiBn,gshailli
r)totalg- of 52,895
visitors—just abOut the usual average for Wednesday.