The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET. STABBING. William, Entwisle
Willis, a law-writer, 61 years of. age, was brought up in
custody, from King's College Hospital, charged, with
stabbing his' wife in the•throat, and subsequently attempt-
ing to commit suicide, on. Christmas-day last.
Mary Willis, the prosecutrix, of 5, Lee's-buildings,
Chancery-lane, stated that she had been married to the
prisoner about 22 years, and within twelve months after
her marriage he was committed for seven days from the
Hatton-garden Police Court for assaulting her with a
poker. They had lived together very happily ever since,
and .had had six- children. For the last three or four
years they had slept in separate beds, and for more than
eleven months past he had not contributed a penny to-
wards her support. She had worked for her own living,
and had paid the rent of their lodgings herself. On
Christmas eve she went to bed shortly after 12, and
about ti•o• hours afterwards was aroused from her sleep
by her husband, who came into the room without a light,
and got into her, bed. He said, " Poll. I am come to you,
for lam so cold." She replied merely, "Then why come
to me if you are bold ?" 'ln the next moment she received
a Violent stab froni ii.sha.ip.-pOinted knife, which severed
herja, 7.* and entered her throat, and in raising her baud to
resist him she received a Cut 'upon her fingers. She then
called as loudly asilie-Was able to a Mr. Hyatt, who lived
at the bottom of the bonse, exclaiming " My husband
has-stabbed me." Hyatt and his son Caine to her as-
sistance, the prisoner,, in the meantime, having gone
back to his own, room. A surgeon was sent for, and her
wounds were dressed under his direction. The next
morning her daughter found the carving-knife produced
in her (witness's) bed, stained with bloqd.
Hyatt deposed that, on being called up,, he went to
Mrs. Willis's room and found her bed-linen saturated,
with bleed, there being also a large pool of blood upon
•thelloor. He sent his son for a constable and then en-
tered the oilier room; where he found the prisoner lying
on the bed, wrapped up in some of the bed-cloth9s, and
also bleeding considerably from some wounds in his ,
threaL. Witness spoke to him, and the prisoner said,
she is not dead my hand must have been nervous."
Witness added that the prisoner and his family had been
living in the house..with him about 5 years, and they
were often quarrelling, chiefly in .consequence of the
drunken habits of the '' • •

Mr. Henry—lS the prOseolitrix a well-conducted per-
son ?

Witness said he never knew anything to the contrary
of her. She appeared a hard-working woman, although
occasionally indulging in a glass.
The prisoner—Have you never seen her lifted upstairs,
in a state of drunkenness, by her own children ?
Witness—Never ; but I have often seen you in that
predicament.
The prisoner here accused his wife of infidelity, but
she avowed her innocence of the charge, and Hyatt
stated that he had seen nothing improper in her beha-
viour while in his house.

Mr. Jones, a surgeon, who was sent for to attend Mrs.
Willis in the night, described the wound in her throat
as a. very dangerous one, being close to the artery. If
it had been a little deeper it must have been fatal.
Mr. Taylor the house surgeon of King's College Hos-
pital, deposed' to having attended the prisoner while in
the hospital. Be had several skin wounds in the throat,
inflicted by a razor, apparently, but none of them of a
dangerous character.
The prisoner said he should reserve his defence for the
trial. In the meantime, having had nothing better than
rice-water for eleven day; he implored the permission of
the magistrate to have a glass of beer. He felt that he
should die of exhaustion if it was withheld from him any
longer.
Mr. Henry said the medical men had no doubt wisely
directed that he should be kept without beer, and the
order must be adhered to.
Tile prisoner was then committed for trial.
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MARYLEBONE. —T.IXTENSIVE PLUNDER.—A. man
named Brown, and a privaie in the 2d battalion of the
Grenadier Guards, was, together with a young woman
named lif %fey, placed before Mr... Broughton for
re-examination, the male prisoner being charged with
h4ooaving stolen
property to the amount of from 3001. to
b.tlongino. to the officers of the regiment, and the
female with receiving a portion of the pltinder, and dis-
posing of the save with a
guilty knowlE ©:
Mr. Humphries appeared for the pdg osepution.
From the evidence idneltito ab initia, *rid which Was
very lengthy, it appeared that the prisoner, whose trade
was that of a carpenter, was in the habit of making
boxes, &c., for the officers in the store-room, where va-
luable property was deposited by their in boxes, &c., at