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

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF TWO'

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FEIIIA LE S. -
On Saturday, Mr. AV. Baker, one of the coroners
for Midniestx, opened an inquiry, before a respectable
jury, at the Waite Hart Inn, Tottenham-hall, touch.,
ing the suicid 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-formed 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 native of Rattenbrech;
near Schwelm, in Westphalia, and was a kind of
agent or merchant for his father, who was a steel
manufacturer. Ha also acted for other houses.
When he first came to England, he lodged at my
house at times. He was in the habit of leaving for
a short time, and then returning. He was very strange
in his habits, and about a mouth alter he had been
with us, he suddenly left, and we could hear DO
tidings of him. Knowing that he had no friends in
E eland, and thinking that he might have fallen into
had hands, I made an application to the Lord Mayor, at
the Msnsiou 'house, with a view of getting
his description and mysterious disappearance
made known. He came back in the
course of three weeks, and, to show his state
of wind, I will read an extract of a letter which I
rece-ived 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 be came
hack and was shown the letter, he could scarcely
lieve that he could have penned such an epistle. He
then lived at Seyde (German) Hotel, in Finsbury-.
square, but he often visited my house, and I may sat
that a more religious and moral man never lived.
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
kis conduct. On last Monday three weeks he cams
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;
to the wharf, I found that he had not
beenbu t , oa nt
the going
hotel all night, and nothing was known
as to where he had gone, although he bad left his
luggage behind. On Tuesday lest he returned to the
hotel, t 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, cams
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?.
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•
dence ?

Mr. Clark, the medical attendant, thought there
would be no danger in examining Miss Brand, but it
must 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 had paid particular attention to his
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 bad never quar-
relled. He had no doubt that the deceased destroyed
himself and stabbed Mrs. and Miss Brand while in an
unsound state of mind.

Mr. William Ryder, the Tottenham station-master
of tt:e Eastern Counties Railway, stated that at
twenty-two minutes to eight o'clock on Wednesday
evening, his attention was called to Mr. Brand's cot-
t3ge, by hearing that his wife and daughter had been
stabbed by some man who was in the house. He went
in and saw the deceased crouched down in a corner of
the wa'hhouse. Blood was flowing from his chest.
He was not dead. His head rested on witness's
knees, and after giving two or three gasps be expired.
The dagger with which he stabbed himself was found
close to the body.
The constable here produced the weapon. It was
a kind of ....Vanish dagger; the point was broken, and
,he blade besmeared ‘i i:11 blood. Another dagger, of
the stiletto shape, with a sprirg-backed blade, was
also d7scovered in his possession. It seems that he
had been in the habit of currying them about with
him since his residence in this country, and that he
had brought them from Germany.
Several Of the jury regretted that Something had
not been done to prevent him from walking abroad
with such weapons while in the state described.

Mr. J. Clark, snrgeon, 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 Et 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 had not been done by
himself; and judging from his Fast conduct, and the
acts we are inqu'ring into, I should say that he was of
unsound mind. Mrs. Brand was stubbed in the upper
part of the left side, and Miss- Brand in the right
breast, One of the fingers of her left hand was cut as
if by a sharp instrument drawn
through
By a Juror—lt is certainly not impossible that the
deceased could have inflicted the wounds himself.
The CORONER here sidd the inquiry bad better be
adjourned. It was possible, perhaps, that the females
might have inflicted the injuries on the deceased in
,elf-defence, but certainly very improbsble ; besides,
it would tend to remove any reports that might be
rai-ed prejudicial to the ladies.
The proceedings were eccordingly adjourned, for
one of the ladies to give evidence of tae fact in doubt.

Mr. BEBEDICT.—The return of this accomplished
and popular musician, from his tour in .North and South
America with Mink.... 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 relinquishing the eminent position
he has so long and honourably maintain( d in this country.
He will immediately resume the duties interrupted by his
temporary absence—ae much as ever a professor, and, if we
be nut mistaken, more than ever in request. Such a man
could not w ell be spared. As a pianist, as a teacher, as
a conductor, as an accumpanyisr, and last, not least, as
a composer, Mr. Benedict decidedly stands in the first rank.
His a bandaninent of any one of these capacities would be a
source of regret to all who inter, st themselves in musical
maters. We have, therefore, the greater pleasure in It 1:
nounciag that one so universally respected, both
4°_,-,
amateurs and musicians, will continue to exercise that ri
of which he is assuredly one of the must distinguished
repre-
sentatives. Mr. Benedict arrived on Saturday, theb:trl
At-
lantic, in comp-try with his friend and teflaw;
hose ab-
Signor Belletti, the talented and popular sin
ger'continuallv
sence from tier Mai, sty's Theatre has bees Jenny Lind
lamented during the present sea-on.
IVidiweinter—not, as
s
intends remaining at New York during theaulf
alter the
we understand, to sing, but to reposie li “ nightin-
fatigues of nearly a twelvemonth.her resolution,
Americans during the
gale" will, at any future period, unhe%nVdi
and consent to warm the hearts of the
Musical World.
icy months we cannot underfake Predict.—ta., lerable discussion has
SARAH BARBER —As c
causes
which
. eht lin en
lr
led to the respite of
we aie officially requested to
taken place relative to the q
this unfortunate criminal,
ail' to exist in reiation tetiosnd
eninat.on circuinstancesoccurred
state that subsequent tno arcen'td:Seorne misapprehension appears
impression to the effect that Sarah
calculated to
partcreate a
nd, and that her participation in the crime
knowingly and wilfully in causing the
dßeaartbhe Barber
f took
her nhousba
her husband's decease. An impression
commenced only after the first instance made upon the minds
.effect was 'a
to this e
authorities, and being, with the causes which
been granted
extended
during r
of the /4"1. convey.ed to Mr. Baron Parke,
espit
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M 1 alj es days,ty ' a
his Lordsh.
originated it, ,
due cOll5.
after
which
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This was known to
Pleasore•the parties in Nottingham
concerned on the evening of Sunday, the 3d instant,
but co
but was not made public until Wedne:day, the 6th, when
the decision of the judge had been confirmed by the Home
Secretary.—Notts Guardian.
subsequently_

THE STATE Of LIVERPOOL ASSIZE COURTS.—Dur-
ing an important special jury cause, 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 ball. While the body
of the court was at one time so densely sufibcating that it
was almost impossible to breathe, the next moment a puffof
air would blow the papers from before his Lordship 00 the
bench. After sundry ineffectual attempts on the
Under-Sheriff and his men to improve this state of things;
the side-doors were closed, and the bench and bar consigned
ea
to the horrid sensation of a close crowded court, resembling
the far-lamed black hole of Calcutta. part of the
Tenby; Earl of
the
first meeting on Thursday evening, at
The Noble Earl,
The Cambrian Archaeological Association held its
Cawdor, the president-elect, in the chair.
of archmological interest
in his inaugural address, called thetsa
present to the most striking
()-bj''acnd dwelt upon the remark-
in the neighbourhood of Tent? , ention of the members
o riety of setting on foot a
district. Ile suggested the propriety
, phrepeonducted through the in-
strumentalityable features which distinguishedj. the early history of the
statistical survey of a nature similar to
parochial so successfully performed in Scotland.
that which bad been
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clergy,
of the
committees being adopted, the secretary ex-
plained The report of the
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