The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

ATTEMPTED MURDER.

Last night, shortly before ten o'clock, the vicinity of
Drury-lane again became the scene of alarm, occasioned by
another deliberate attempt at assassination' which will, in
all probability, terminate fatally to the unfortunate victim.
From the particulars collected, it appears that at the hour
above-mentioned loud screams were heard to proceed from
the kitchen of the house N 0.3, Feathers-court. occupied by
a man named Hannan, and his wife, Margaret Hannan ; and,
in an instant after, a woman was seen rushing from the house
into the court bleeding profusely from a frightful wound in
the neck. The poor creature stig Yered, and fell into the
arms of some neighbours, who, attracted by her screams, had
assembled around the house. She was sensible at the time,
and exclaimed, "Oh, my husband has stabbed me!" With-
out loss of time the unfortunate woman was carried to
the shop of Mr. Walker, the surgeon at the corner of Black-
moor-street, when on examination by that gentleman, a
large wound was discovered in her neck on the right side,
in length upwards of three inches, and completely dividing
the external jugular vein on that able. The blood was
flowing copiously from the wound, and it was with some diffi-
culty Mr. Walker succeeded in tying the jugular vein, and in
sewing up the gash. Having effected this, however, the
woman was conveyed in a fainting condition to King's Col-
lege Hospital, where she was placed under the care of Mr.
Duncan, the house surgeon, by whom she is pronounced in a
very dangerous condition. The alarm created by the occur-
rence drew the attention of the police to the spot, and the
husband, Hannan, was instantly taken into custody in tha
passage of the house, and conveyed to Bow-street station.
On the arrival of the accused at the station-house the charge
was taken against him by Mr. Inspector Logan, and, in
answer to interrogatories, he said his name was John Hannan,
that he was a bricklayer by trade, but got his living by selling
playbills at the Princess's Theatre, and carrying boards.
He denied the charge against him, and said if anything had
happened to his wife she did it herself. At the time of the
screams he had just come home, and was on his way to the
kitchen ; but had not seen his wife since three o'clock in the
afternoon ; that previous to that he pawned his coat, and
they spent part of the money in drink together • and that
his wife, who is a cripple, and walks with a crutch,
constablecxe aehr aa beenrrom
continually drunk for the last three weeks. He added that
who
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took the prisoner if he had been minutnetlilyaessearched, and if
any weapon had been found, to which a reply was given
that he had been searched, as also the house, and that no
weapon had been found, nor was there any blood on his
clothes. The accused was then mere minutely examined in
the presence of the inspector, but no marks of blood were
found on him. He then asked to be admitted to bail, but
was refused, and he was locked
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statements of the the man
and drinking all
day, that he had
the as was frequently their custom; and
her. The man,
on several occasions threatened to murder
however, when brought into the station at Bow:stre,ap-
peared perfectly sober. The last account at then hospital,a very dan-
gerousto the state of the woman, was that she wasb
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condition. She persists
handled knife, but which
husband stabbed her with a white elhlliontugsagpeathrsat from
the
has not been found.

TO MURDER.
THE ATTWEI*I
TUNBRIDGE-WEL
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woman whose life he had attempted, although in a very
weak state, being sufficiently recovered to give evidence.
The evidence taken at the previous examination having
been read,
Frances Sanders deposed, that she lived fellow-servant
with the prisoner at the Camden Hotel, Tunbridge. wells.
They had lived on good terms with each other till the afternoon
of Sunday, the 7th inst , when she left the hotel alone, and met
Obed Everest, W. Bull, and Fanny Underdown, opposite the
Beehive beer-shop. They all proceeded along Mount-Ephraim,
in the direction of Rusthall, when the prisoner overtcok them.
He seemed in very good humour, and they all went to
Twort's tan yard: about two miles from Tunbridge-wells,
where the prisoner went in and brought out a quart of cider,
which they drank between them. He then fetched out two
quarts of cider more, one of which he drank himself. They
then returned in the same way they went, through Hurst-
wood, till they came to a stile near Dunny-bottom, where
her mother lived. She left them at the stile to go to her
mother's, promising to meet them at the stile again in half-
an-hour. On her return the prisoner sat on the Stile asleep
the others were standing a short distance off: Bull then
went and awoke , the prisoner, and they proceeded
through the adds towards the Wells, leaving the pri-
Kw at the stile I;it whey they 1104 ,fit