The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-29 00:00:00

TILE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN

SOllO.

Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest on the body
of Barclolph Theodore Heasse, who had committed
suicide after making a desperate attempt to murder his
wife.

Francis Hays, who lodged at the same house as the
deceased, No. 15, King-street, said he had known him
for the last six months. He was about 34 years of
age, and a tin-plate worker. Last Saturday evening,
about nine o'clock, witness heard the cry of "Murder,"
and rushed upstairs to the second floor landing. He
there saw a woman in her night dress ; she said, " I am
murdered." Witness helped her down to his own room,
and soon found that she was covered with blood. Wit-
ness ran for a policeman, whom he found at the corner
of Nassau-street, and they proceeded upstairs and found
the deceased making a gurgling noise in his throat, and
the blood pouring out from a very large wound. He was
lying on the bed, with one leg and arm hanging off it.
There was also a very young child lying on the bed, and
it was covered with blood. The policeman sent witness
for a doctor, but he had to go to five or six places before
one could be found at home. When witness returned
two surgeons had arrived in the house. The poor woman
was subsequently removed in blankets to the workhouse.
Hannah Hodgkin, the mother-in-law of the deceased,
stated that she lived in Spalding, in Lincolnshire, and
came up to town on last Wednesday, to attend her
daughter in her confinement, which happened on the
Wednesday morning. The deceased sent the letter and
the money for her. He seemed very good to his wife ;
in fact, so much so, that his wife said they were more
than usually comfortable. On Saturday night last, a
little before seven o'clock, he asked her to go out to
market with him, and she did so. He left her at a tea
shop in Grafton•street, Soho, saying that he would be
back in a minute. Witness, being a stranger, waited
for two hours, lest she should be lost. At last she was
fetched home, and what she saw there nearly sent her
out of her mind. Her daughter and the deceased bad
been married eleven months, but she had never had
eleven minutes comfort with him. He bought a razor
last summer, and in a quarrel stated that they should
both go off together in one bloody bed. She wrote to
witness about his bad treatment and jealous temper,
and witness sent for her to come home. She had left
him upon one occasion. On Saturday, he appeared
very kind and considerate the whole of the day—so
much so, that witness was rather surprised at it. He
never showed any disposition to do his wife harm be-
fore witness.

Diana Brand lived with her husband at 15, King-
street, Soho. She only knew the deceased by lodging in
the same house. She did not associate with them, be-
cause her husband had an objection to foreigners. Wit-
ness was present when the deceased's wife was confined.
He came and looked closely at the infant, shook his
head, and said, " Enough, enough." Ho appeared
otherwise very kind.
After some further evidence,

Mr. Walter Bullock, 16, Rupert-street, Haymarket,
master tin-plate worker, stated that the deceased had
worked for him about four years. He was a sober man,
but of very irritable temper. Witness believed that he
had spoken to the men in the shop about being jealous
of his wife, but nobody noticed him. He has been of
late very irregular in his work for the last few weeks,
and witness had spoken to him about it. No one thought
that he was insane.

The Coroner summed up the evidence, and the jury
returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased de-
stroyed himself whilst in a state of temporary insanity.

THE ALLEGED POISONING OF A WIIOLE
FAMILY AT BERMONDSEY.

Yesterday Mr. Carter resumed the investigation of
the mysterious circumstances connected with the death
of James George Trump, aged 6 years, the son of a
plasterer, residing at No. 9, Prince's-road, some particu-
lars of which have already appeared in The Sun.
On the former occasion the testimony adduced tended
to show that on Saturday week the deceased, his father
and mother, dined off some hashed mutton covered with
a kind of paste made with flour and water. After dinner
they were all seized with violent sickness and the de-
ceased expired on the same day. An infant, aged 17
months, who had some of the gravy out of the hash,
but did not partake of any of the paste, was not taken ill.
Mr. Lambert, of Neckenger-street, Bermondsey, the
baker of whom it was alleged the flour with which the
paste was made was obtained, attended during the pro-
ceeding..

Richard Trump, the father of the deceased, deposed,
that after dinner ou Monday week last, he left home as
usual to go to his work, but in about an hour after-
wards was seized with sickness and vomited several
times. On returning home to tea, witness found his
wife and the deceased lying down before the fire. His
wife complained of sickness, and also informed him that
the deceased had been sick, but that he (deceased) had
not complained of any pain. Witness again left home•
about six o'clock in the evening, and returned about one
next morning, when finding deceased was worse, pro-
cured the attendance of Dr. Paul, but the deceased
expired before his arrival.

The Coroner—When you were seized with the sick-
ness did you feel any sensation of thirst, or heat in the
throat ?

Witness—Not at all, sir.

Coroner—Can you in any way account for yourself,
and wife, and child being so suddenly seized with sick-
ness directly after dinner ?
Witness—No, sir, not in any way.
Coroner— In what was the hash cooked ?
Witness—ln an iron saucepan.

A Juryman—Had you any copper cooking utensils in
use at the time ?

Witness—None whatever.

Coroner—On the last occasion your wife swore that
you did not belong to any burial club : is that true ?
Witness—l belong to the Foresters' Order, but
neither myself, wife, nor children are entered in a
burial club.

Coroner—Did any person ever use any threat against
you or your family ?

Witness—l never heard of any.
Coroner—Did your wife ever purchase any article to
destroy vermin ?

Witness—None that I ever saw.
The Coroner said, from a communication he had re-
ceived from Mr. Paul, the surgeon, he felt the case
must be again adjourned.
_ . _

A. juryman observed that the house in Prince's-road
had only been occupied by Trump fur six weeks, and
that it was previously tenanted by a bonnet-cleaner.
He believed in bonnet cleaning articles of pernicious
character were used, and that some might have been
left about the house.

The Coroner (addressing Mrs. Trump)—Did you ever
discover anything in paper which looked like salt lying
about the house ?

Mrs. ;,Trump—No, sir, the house was thoroughly
cleaned when we went to reside there.

After some further evidence, the case was adjourned
for a week, when the result of Mr. Paul's analysis will
be made known.

SPOILT STAMPS.—To prevent any delay to parties who
may be desirous of exchanging the old receipt stamps,
which have now become useless by the new Penny Re-
ceipt Stamp Act, the Commissioners of Stamps and
Taxes (Inland Revenue Office), Somerset House, have
issued a notice, informing the public, that the allowance
for spoilt stamps, which has hitherto been daily, except
Sundays, will henceforth only be on Tuesdays, Thurs-
days, and Saturdays, between the hours of twelve at
noon and two o'clock in the afternoon, when they can
obtain the new penny stamps in exchange.
GLASGOW.—We understand there is some probability
of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton presiding at the Athe-
naeum soiree, which was recently postponed till the mid-
dle of January.
THE UNFOB.TUNA.TE STEAM-SHIP HUMBOLDT.—A tele-
graphic despatch, dated at Halifax, 12th inst., states
that the Humboldt still held together, but the wind was
from the east, and there was no possibility of saving
her. The cargo was getting out with difficulty. Her
stern was all under water on the larboard side, as far as
the wheelhouse. The engine is very little above the
water at low tide ; the cargo forward was all under
water. The steamer Marion, from New York, arrived
on the afternoon of the 10th inst., and was rendering
assistance. A later despatch received from Mortimer
Levingston, Esq., at Halifax, states that the ship was
fast breaking up, and would in all probability soon go to
pieces. Only about 200 tons of the cargo will be saved
out of the 450 on board when she left Havre. The Halifax
Chronicle attributes the loss of this vessel to the igno-
rance of the person who attempted to pilot her into the
harbour, and intimates that he was not an authorised
pilot. It says :—"There never was a more flagrant
case. A fisherman appears on the deck of a steam-ship,
which, with her cargo, is valued at eight hundred thou-
sand dollars. He represents himself to be a pilot, and
on being asked for his certificate, stated that he had left
it in his boat or at home. Confiaing in his statement,
and naturally anxious to secure for their passengers rest
and refreshments in a friendly port, •the officers gave
him charge of the ship. He alt ered her course contrary
to their judgment. They remonstrated ; he persevered
in his stupid ignorance, and in a few moments she
struck upon the Sisters, and the sea rushed into her
with such rapidity that there was no rescue for human
' life, but by a frightful squandering and waste of an
enormous amount of capital. 'To punish that pilot
ought to be the first wise thought of every man inter-
ested in the character and prosperity of this fine sea-
port.".,