The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-25 00:00:00

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF TWO

FE 211 AL ES.
On Saturday, Mr. W. Blker, one of the coroners
for Middlesex, opened an inquiry, before a respectable
jury, at the Waite Hart Inn, Tottenham hall, touch-
ing the suicide of Carl Criglo. As might be imagined,
the proceedings created a deep interest. The jury
having been duly sworn, they went and viewed the
body of the unfortunate deceased. It was that of a
fine, tall, well-furmed man. The chest was exposed
for the examination of the jury, and six or seven
punctured wounds were observable in the regions of
the heart and stomach. This melancholy duty having
been performed, the following evidence was gone
into :--

Mr. William Henry Brand, the husband and father
of the wounded ladies, said :—I am a clerk at a
bankers in the City. I have known the deceased
since January last. He was a na'ive of Itattenbrech,
near Schwelw, in Westphalia, Bud was a kind of
agent or merchant for hi, father, who was a steel
manufacturer. He also acted for other houses.
When he first came to England, he lotiged at my
house at tim.s. lie was iu the habit of leaving for
a short time, and then returning. He was vtry strange
in his habits, and about a tnouth alter be had been
with to, he audd.nly left, and we could hear no
tidings of him. Knowing that he had no friends in
E 'gland, and thinkiog that he might have fallen into
had hands, I made an application to the Lord Mayor, at
the Mansion .house, with a view of getting
his d.scription and mysterious disappearance
made known. He came back in the
course of three siveek4, and, to show his state
of mind, I will read an extract of a letter which I
received from him at Sheffield, dated April the 13th:
" Wherever I go you strike me incognito. You
drive me from town to town, and you follow me
through England, and force me to spend my money."
We had been on the best of terms, and when he came
hack and was shown the letter, he could scarcely be-
l'iheevae
ltihvaetd ahectould have penned such an epistle. He
Sf
often
visited
d e G (German) mm:y house, u) Hostee,L andin I
may a
a
Finsbury-
square, but he e
that a more religious and moral man never lived. I
h
frequently noticed his melancholy demeanour. In
March last he was disappointed in not seeing his
brother, and since then there was a strange change in
his conduct. On last Monday three weeks he came
to our house, and informed us that he had been ad-
vised to return to his native country, and arrange-
ments were made for the ladies to see him off by the
steam-boat on the following Wednesday morning;
but, on going to the wharf, I found that he had not
been at the hotel all night, and nothing was known
as to where he had gone, although he had left hie
luggage behind. On Tu,sday last he returned to the
hotel, and on 'Wednesday morning, about eleven
o'clock, he came down to my house. He left early
in the afternoon, and returned to the hotel, where he
dined. He suddenly left the dinner table, ran up-
stairs to his bed room, and, in a few minutes, came
down, and hastened back to Tottenham. He came
to the front gate of my cottage, and seemed quite
agitated. My daughter's first impulse was to shut
the door, but he got to it before she could close it.
He said to her twice, " Miss Brand, are you alone P"
She replied that her mother was in an adjoining
room. He then rushed at her and stabbed her.
CORONER—Were you
present ? Witness—No, I
was not. lam stating only what they told me, and
altogether I don't think they could give you so many
facts as I can.

CORONER—But I cannot take your testimony as
evidence of the fact ; and yet I don't wish to agitate
the state of the wounded females by subjecting them
to an examination on oath. If one of them had been
killed, the inquiry would have assumed a very serious
aspect, but as the deceased has destroyed himself, our
duty is to confine ourselves simply to his state of
mind. Are the females in a condition to give evi•
dente ?

Mr. Clark, the medical attendant, thought there
would be no danger in examining .Misa Brand, but it
muet be done in her room.

The CORONER still declined that course, unless it
was really necessary.
Mr. Brand, in answer to the Coroner, stated that
the deceased bad paid particular attention to bis
daughter, and was her accepted suitor. They were
engaged in marriage, and he had expressed no objec-
tion to it, if the deceased secured himself in a regular
and certain way of business, They had never quar-
relled. He bad no doubt that the deceased destroy ed
himself and stabbed Mrs. and Miss Brand while in an
unsound state of mind.

Mr. William Ryder, the Tottenham station-master
of tte Eastern Counties Itailwqy, stated that at
twenty-two minutes to eight o'clock on Wednesday.
evening, his attention was called to Mr. Brand's cot-
tage, by hearing that his wife and daughter had bean
stubb.-d by some man who was in the house. He went
in and saw the deceased crouched down in a corner of
the wsAhouse. Blood was flowing from his chest.
lie was not dead. His head rested on witness's
knees, and after giving two or three gasps he expired.
The dagger with which he stabbed himself was found
close to the b(dy.

The constable here produced the weapon. It was
a kind of Spanish dagger; the point was broken, and
the blade besmeared with blood. Another dagger, of
the stiletto shape, with a spring-backed blade, WOIS
also d'scovered in his po,,session. It seems that be
had been in the habit of currying them about with
him since his residence in this country, and that he
had brought them frotn Germany.
Several of the jury regretted that something bad
not been done to prevent him from walking abroad
with such weapons while in the state described.
Mr. J. Clark, surgeon, of Tottenham, deposed to
being called to the deceased and Mrs. and Miss
Brand, on Wednesday evening. Found the deceased
dead. There were three wounds in the region of the
stomach, and two in the region of the heart. There
was also a cut on the side, and another on the thigh.
CORONER—CouId the deceased have inflicted those
injuries on himself ? Witness—l saw nothing to
lead me to suppose that they hlcl not been done by
himself; and judging from his past conduct, and the
acts we are inqu;ring into, I should say that he was of
unsound mind. Mrs. Brand was stabbed in the upper
part of the left side, and Miss Brand in the right
breast, One of the fingers cif her left hand was cut as
if by a sharp instrument drawn through it.
By a Juror—lt is certainly not impossible that the
deceased could have inflicted the wounds himself.
The CORONER here salt the inquiry bad better be
adjourned. It was possible perhaps, that the females
might have inflicted the injuries on the deceased in
self-defence, but certainly very improbable; besides,
it would tend to remove any reports that might be
raised prejudicial to the ladies.
The proceedings were accordingly adjourned, for
one of the ladies to give evidence of the fact in doubt.

Mr. BENEDICT.—The return of this accomplished
and popular musician, from his tour in North and South
America with Mdlle. Jenny Lind, will be hailed with una-
nimous satisfaction. It has been erroneously circulated that
Mr. Benedict intends to retire from active life, and rest
upon the laurels and the fortune he has reaped by his exer-
tions in the New World. The truth is just the contrary.
Mr. Benedict has no idea of i elinquishing the eminent position
he has so long and honourably maintained in this country.
He will immediately resume the duties interrupted by his
temporary absence—as much as ever a professor, and, if we
be not mistaken, more than ever in request. Such a man
could not well be spared. As a pianist, as a teacher, as
a conductor, as an accompanyist, and last, not least, as
a composer, Mr. Benedict decidedly stands in the first rank.
His abandonment of any one of these capacities would be a
Source of regret to all who interest themselves in musical
matters. We have, therefore, the greater pleasure in au-
art
nounciag that one so universally respected, both by
that
amateurs and musicians, will continue to exercise
of which he is assuredly one of the most distinguished
_..
repre-
sentatives. Mr. Benedict arrived on Saturday, by thev
.a!i_g_
!antic, in company with his friend and fellow-traveller,
Signor Belletti, the talented and popular singers
awrina7uvally
Bence from her Majesty's Theatre has
lamented during the present sea on. Mdbleelefabielny
not, aa
intends remaining at New York during Chers after the
Lind
we understand, to sing, but to repose
r the
.. fatigues of nearly a twelvemonth.
nightin-
gale" will, at any future period, unbelnd'il°l
Americans,during the
1 and consent to warm the hearts of the
.ict._Alusical World.
her resolution,
icy months we cannot undertake- Col:ire:we
discussion has
led to the respite of
taken place relative to the causesmwe
SARAH BARRED, —As considerable
misapprehension appears
this unfortunate criminal, and some
are officially requested to
still to exist in relation theret
impression to the effect that Sarah.
calculated to create an
wgly and wilfully in causing the
that her participation in the crime
state that subsequent to condemnation circumstances occurred
Barber took no part
husband's decease. An impression
deathcomm eonfehederehbuslyhaftandr:krahnidr
esettr first instance made upon the minds
i and being, with the causes which
of the gaol autcbcavey
ed to Mr. Baron Parke, his Lordship,
to this effect
originated it,
Ideation, granted her a respite of 11 das
after due c"b,seuuentiv been extended during her Majesty's
which t" bu This -was known to the parties in N • , gham
pleasure.
concerned on the evening of Sunday, the 3d instant,
but _..... ,on__
public until W natant,
nt'" ""ot made ednesday,
tae
or Itn
the 6th, when
but wa
the decision of the judge bad been confirmed by the Heine
Notts Gum &an.
Secretary.
THE STATE or LIVERPOOL ASSIZE Corrwrs.--Dur-
ing an important special jury Causes on Saturday, the pro-
ceedings were many times interrupted by the Learned Judge
(Mr. Justice Williams) communicating with the Sheriff in
regard to the unbearable state of the hall. While the body
of the court was at one time so densely suffocating that it
was almost impossible to breathe, the next moment a puffof
air would blow the papers from before his Lordship on the
bench. Alter sundry ineffectual attempts on the part of the
Under-Sheriff and his men to improve this state of things,
the side-doors were closed, and the bench and bar consigned
to the horrid sensation of a close crowded court, resembling
the far-famed black hole of Calcutta.
•
The Cambrian Archacological Association held its
first meeting on Thursday evening, at Tenby; the Earl of
Earl,
Cawdor, the president-elect. in the chair.
Thethe members
present his inaugural address, called the attention of Noble
h o
present to the most striking objects of arc g
:on the
loical interest
in the neighbourhood of Tenby, dweltandearlyp
history of the
remark-
able features which distinguished the
district. He suggested the propriety
be
of setting on foot a
clergy, conducted through the in-
strumentalityof a nature similar to
statistical survey of Wales, to
of the parochial
fully performed in Scotland.
that which had been so successfully
adird, the secretary The report of the committee _ f
wog
fret,
4114
tita
ex-
plained the arrangtintaiD ler we
uleitiPi; PArgeie