The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-19 00:00:00

In answer to further questions, she replied as follows

—He formerly kept this house. On Saturday evening
last, between five and six o'clock, I was alone in the par-
lour getting my husband's supper ready, when I heard a
tap at the window. The door was fastened. It was very
dark. I went to the window, and inquired, " Who is
there?" The prisoner replied, "It is me." I said,
" Halloo, master, is it you; is anybody with you?" He
said, " No, I am alone." I opened the door. He en-
tered and placed his back against it. He said, I want a
bit of paint if your husband has got a bit to give me.
I said he has got none, and asked him to sit down. He
said he had been over to Newington to pay the interest
of some things which were in pledge. I told him if he
had mentioned that to us before we would have given him
some money. I asked him to have some tobacco. He took
some. There was an iron candlestick on the table with a
lighted candle. He smoked about five minutes. He said,
you will be too late with your husband's supper. I got
up to put the meat in the saucepan. I turned round
and was going towards the fireplace when I heard the
prisoner's footsteps behind me. I turned round and he
looked very pale. I felt very much frightened when
suddenly the light disappeared, and I felt a tremendous
blow on my head. I screamed " Murder," and he struck
me with some instrument on the head, which cut me six
or seven times. He struck me repeatedly on the head.
I must have received upwards of a dozen blows. I had
my bonnet on at the time. He got me into the corner of
the room, and beat me on the head; he caught me by the
throat, and I thought he would have killed me.
The prisoner, who seemed quite perturbed and agitated,
here turned pale, walked about, exclaiming, " Oh, dear!
oh, dear;" at length he seated himself on a trunk in the
room, and hid his face in his hat, stooping down.
Witness—l struggled with him, and got his head under
my arm, and I had strength enough left to drag him to
the door, and opened it. I cried " Murder" as well as I
could, when he ran off, leaving me insensible.
Mr. Greenwood—Did he ever talk to you of money,
as if he wished to fish out of you whether you carried
money about you ? Witness—On Friday night he called
and he asked how we thought we should pass our Christ-
mas. I told him my husband bad resolved on going into
the country to see his father and mother, and it would
cost him 5L About a month ago my cousin was robbed.
He said he was surprised we had not been robbed. I
told him there was no fear of that, as I always carried
my money in my pockets. I occasionally lent the pri-
soner money, a sovereign at a time, because we thought
he had net with misfortunes.
Mr. Greenwood—Did he say anything while he was
beating you ? Witness—He never said a word from the
first to the last. My shoulders, my stays, and all my
clothes were soaked with blood. My nose bled very
much.
Mr. Greenwood inquired if the prisoner wished to ask
the witness any questions ? Prisoner (tremulously)—
Ask her if she said anything to me about any man that
used to call here.
Witness—l never did say anything about the man.
Prisoner—Ask her if she never said she would give
information to the parish officers that I had deserted my
wife, and cause my arrest.
Witness—l never did anything of the kind.
Prisoner—Ask her if she did not seize me by the
throat.
Mr. Mould (to Mrs. Haines)--I suppose you consi-
dered it a death-struggle to save your life? Mrs. Haines
—I did so.
She added, the first blow he struck her was on the
front of the head. She here because very weak, and her
examination was closed.
The prisoner was then conveyed to the House of Cor-
rection, under the commitment of the magistrate. It
was yesterday reported that Mrs, Haines was still in a
very dangerous state. The prisoner is said to have been
formerly a lieutenant in the navy ; he is about five feet
four inches high, thin, pale, and 55 years of age.

Mr. Thomas Moore, the celebrated Irish poet, is
much recovered.—Limeriek Chronicle.
Mr C. G. Green, jun., the celebrated aeronaut,
after visiting and ascending in all the principal cities in
the north of Germany, arrived in London on Monday
night, via Ostend.
FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE.—On Wednesday evening Mr.
Payne held an inquest at Mr. Cross's, the George, Beech-
street, Barbican, on the body of Mr. Benjamin Henry
Croot, aged 59, lately residing at No. 11, Bridgewater-
square. City police-constable, No. 15, said that on the
evening of Sunday last, about eight o'clock, he was sent
for to the house in which the deceased resided, and found
him lying on the floor of his bed-room, with blood flowing
from his body. A sword was lying near him, and also a
knife, both of which were besmeared with blood. Wil-
liam Lovell said that he had been in the service of the
deceased about nine years. Whilst he was in the room
adjoining his master's sleeping apartment he heard a
heavy fall, and upon going into the bedroom he found
deceased on the floor. He lifted him, and held him up
until the police and two surgeons arrived. A sword was
on a chair, and the point projected over the elbow. Mr.
John Bellingham, Great Cambridge-street, Hagger
stone, said deceased lately entered into partnership with
him,' having left the service of Messrs. Harmer and
Pearson for that purpose. He considered that the
leaving his situation and entering into business had
preyed on his mind. Mr. Chime, surgeon, said that he
was called in to attend deceased on the night in ques-
tion. He found a wound in the region of the stomach,
which he sewed up. Deceased rallied a little, and after-
wards expired. The wound might have been inflicted
with either the knife or the sword. It appeared to have
been commenced with the latter, and finished with the
former. Verdict, " Temporary Insanity."

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THE PARISH OV ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN, AND
THE COMMISSIONERS OF WOODS AND FORESTS.—The
announcement of the fact that it is the intention of the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests to compel the
parishioners of St. Paul, Covent-garden, to contribute
largely to the expenses of constructing the projected
new street from Cranbourne- street to New-street, C overkt-
garden, has excited some sensation in the latter parish,
and measures are now being adopted for offering the
most determined opposition to the measure. In the first
place, the parishioners of St. Paul, Covent-garden com-
plain that they should be made to contribute, under any
circumstances, to the expenses of carrying out what they
maintain to be a great public, not local improvement,
when they know that the coat of all the other contem-
plated metropolitan improvements are to be paid out of
the public money. But what, they say,
very materially
aggravates their case, is the fact, that though about two-
thirds of the intended new street will be in the parish
of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the ratepayers there are
not to be asked to advance one single sixpence towards
the necessary funds. The parishioners of St. Paul's are
to be saddled with a large portion of the expenses which
will be incurred in carrying out the contemplated im-
provements, by means of a parochial rate of 6d. in the
pound, to be levied by the overseers of the parish. The
rate would have been much heavier but for the princely
contribution of 10,0001. which the Duke of Bedford has
just intimated his intention of making towards the ex-
penses of the intended improvements. The parish is in
a state of great excitement on the subject, and a requisi •
Lion is already in course of signature, calling on the
vestry to get up a public meeting without delay, in order
that the rate-payers may have an opportunity of making
known to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests the
injury and injustice which they allege is about to be
done to them.
DRATH OF A MARRIED FEISIALE BY FIRE.—Mr.
Mills held an inquest on Tuesday, at the Globe, Derby-
street, King's-cross, on the body of Mrs. Sarah Hopkins,
aged 58, wife of Mr. William Hopkins, poor-rate col-
lector of the parish of St. Pancras, living at 14, Munster-
street, Gray's Inn-road. About midday on Saturday,
the deceased was cooking some chops in the kitchen,
when her dress suddenly ignited, and notwithstanding
her screams, before her husband could get down to her
assistance, she was enveloped in flames, and frightfully
burnt over the arms, neck, and various parts of the per-
son. A surgeon was soon called in, but the injuries
were such as to cause her death on the following morn-
ing. Verdict, "Accidental death."