The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-26 00:00:00

SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.

A shocking case of suicide and attempted 'murder,
bearing a striking analogy in many of its circumstances
to that of the man Mobbs, who was recently executed at
the Old Bailey, ()mimed on Saturday night last between
8 and 9 o'clock at No. 15, King-street, Soho.

In the front attic .of this house, which is in the occu-
pation'of Mr. Powell, a baker, had resided for !the last
four months one Haeas and his wife. The man was a
German, and a tinplate worker in the employ of Messrs.
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latterly he had entertained suspicions which continually
confined, and ever since the birth of the child it had
been the subject of repeated taunts from her husband.
It appears that a few days since Mrs. Haeas's mother,
who was a stranger to London, came up from Lancashire
to nurse her daughter in her confinement, and her pre-
sence operated as a considerable restraint upon the ill-
treatment of Haes. At tea-time upon Saturday, how-
ever,the man's bitterness again broke out, and he taunted
the woman about the child. Shortly afterwards he be.
came more claim, and he took the mother out with him
with the view, as he said, of purchasing some necessa-
ries for the infant. After they had been out some time
he managed, in a crowded and intricate thoroughfare, to
make his escape from the old woman, and, having thus
secured that she should not be present to interfere be-
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stabbed at her with the knife. She endeavoured to pro-
tect the child and herself, and thus received several se-
vere wounds upon the fleshy part of the left arm and
side ; but fortunately none of them were of a decidedly
fatal character. She screamed " Murder" with great
violence, and succeeded in making her way past the man
on to the stairs, where her strength failed her,, and she
fell exhausted and faint from loss of blood. 'She was
removed into a room on' the ground floor, and medical
assistance was immediately sent for. Without loss of
time Mr. R. E. Martin, of Frith-street, and Mr. J. F.
Clarke, of Gerrard-st., surgeons, attended and dressed the
wounds, after which she was removed to the workhouse
in Cleveland-street, where her case met with prompt and
able attention from Mr. Hutchinson, assistant to Mr.
Jones, of Soho-square, the surgeon to the workhouse,
under whose care she still remains.

In the meantime the police entered the attic in King.
street, in order to secure the perpetrator of the outrage;
but here a dreadful scene presented itself. The floor
was literally a pool of blood. Haeas lay partly on the
bed with his head nearly severed from his body. The
carotids on both sides were completely cut through, and
so were all the structures of the neck down to the cer-
vi,cal vertebra. It was unusually extensive for a self-
inflicted Wound ; and it is needless to say that he was
quite dead.
The police have found both the knife before referred
to and a razor smeared with blood, and there is no
doubt, from the appearance of the wounds, that those on
the woman were inflicted with the knife, while his own
throat was cut with the razor.
It is somewhat singular that the infant, which is a very
fine one, has escaped without injury. It was completely
drenched with blood from the mother's wounds ; but it
was otherwise unhurt, and is now doing well at the
workhouse. Mrs. Haeas is also progressing as favour.
ably as, under the circumstances of loss of blood, excite-
ment, and her recent confinement, can be expected.
She is, however, in a very low and weak state, and
cannot yet be pronounced to be out of danger.
The body of Haeas remains locked up in the attic at
No. 15, King-street, where it awaits the coroner's in-
quest.
Mrs. Haeas had had one other child, but it died about
four years ago.