The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

THE LATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND
SUICIDE AT IPSWICH.
The particulars connected with this tragical affair,
SO far as they came out before th 3 Coroner and
jury on Wednesday last, have already appeared in
The Sun.
An adjournment of the inquest was on Wednesday
agreed on, in order that the intended victim, Martha
Moyse, whose life the suicide James Waning, ves
frustrated in taking, should he so far recovered from
the wounds she had received as to give evidence. It
was believed at the adjournment of the inquest on
Wednesday that she would not have been able to
leave her room for four or five days, but her recovery
has been so rapid, that her medical attendant, Mr. G.
G. Sampsen, consented to her appearing on Friday
evening last before the Coroner (Mr. S. B. Jackaman)
and jury, who had re-assembled at the Feathers Inn for
the purpose of her depositions being taken.
Martha Moyse, who is a good-looking young
woman, was led into the room by a police-officer.
She looked pale, and could scarcely walk. Her left
arm was supported in a sling, and the wound under
her right lower jaw, which extended in an angular
direction from the hinder part of the ear to the corner
of her mouth, was strapped up with plaster. In the
course of her examination restoratives had to be ad-
ministered to prevent her fainting. Having been
sworn, she said, in answer to questions from the
Coroner—l am 19 years of age, and lam a single
woman. I have no friends. About two months ago
the deceased, James Wailing, invited me to go and
meal with him and his sister. I did go. A short
time after that he asked me to sleep with his sister.
He said I could do so without paying anything for
the accommodation. At the time he made me that
offer I was at lodgings at the house of a Mrs. Mur •
rell, in the Bramford-road; and I gave up my lodg-
ings in the Bramford-road, for which I paid, and
slept with Wailing's sister for two nights in the same
room in which the deceased slept. After having slept
with his sister two nights I used to sleep with the
deceased, which I continued to do up to last Sunday
night. The reason of my not returning to sleep with
him after then was not from any misunderstanding
or angry words passing between us. I refuse to state
where I slept last Monday night.
Tne CORONER—When did you last see the de-
ceased ? Witness—On Tuesday afternoon. The de-
ceased's sister, Sarah, having come to me while I was
at a house close by, and asked me three times to go
and see her at her own house, I at last consented to
go with her.
The CORONER—Who was in the house when you
went there ? Witness.—The deceased; he was stand-
ing behind the door when 1 went in.
The CORONER—Did you speak to him, or did he
speak to you? Witness—He first spoke to me, say-
ing, " Well, Martha." His sister then went out of
the house, pulling the door to after her. He then sat
down in a chair behind the door, and pulled me on his
knee. He said to me, " Well, Martha, we are alone
now." I said, " Yes, we are." He then said to me,
" I suppose you have left Baldry ?" I answered,
" Yes, I have." He said to me, on my saying that,
" I suppose you have left me too ?" I told him that I
had not, though I intended to do so.
The CORONER—During the time this conversation
took place, was there anything in his demeanour or
countenance that gave reason to be alarmed ?—Wit-
ness—No, nothing at all to create the least suspicion
in my mind that he intended to harm me; but while
I was sitting upon his knee I happened to turn my
eyes towards the window, when I saw a razor in his
right hand. It was open. He then looked very angry.
He said to me, holding up the razor, " This will do
your business." I then screamed out, and tried to
throw myself from his arms, but he grasped me so
tightly round my waist with his left arm that I could
not disengage myself from him. I then struggled
'with him, wen he threw me down upon the floor en
my left aide. He placed his knees upon my body,
and tried to cut my throat.
The CORONER—Were you sere emiog all this while ?
Witness—Yes, Sir, I was as loudly as I could. I
felt him struggling to get at my throat, and I used
all my efforts to prevent him cutting me there. I
bad my shawl on, and I used that to protect me as
well as I could. During the struggle I got hold of
the razor with my left hand, but finding that I had
hold of it he drew it through my hand, which was
rendered useless by the wound it gave me. Then it
was that ha cut use under the right side of my face
underneath the lower jaw. At that very moment a
woman named Teager opened the door and came into
the room. From that time I became insensible,
knowing not what afterwards happened until I found
myself upon the bed of a neighbour. The motive
the deceased had for acting as he did I am at a loss to
understand. He might be jealous of me. If he were
so, I am not aware of it.

A Juror (Mr. Seaton)—Did the deceased ever
offer you any money, or 'nold out any inducement for
you to consent to marry him? Witness—No.
A. Juror—Did he ever offer you marriage? Wit-
ness—He did.

A Juror—Did you comply with his wish, so far
as to promise him that you would marry ? Witness
—I promised him that I would not.

The CORONBR—When was that offer made ? Wit-
ness—l cannot tell exactly; but I believe the offer
wag made about a month ago.
The CORONER—YOU at once declined the offer.
Did you P Witness—l did, Sir.
The CORONER—Did he repeat the offer to you ?
Witness—No, he did not ; but his sister did on two,
if not on three occasions afterwards.

A Juror—Did he ever give you any money with
the understanding that you should marry him ? Wit-
ness—Never.

Another Juror—Did you go to the theatre with
the deceased last Monday evening ? Witness—No.
The Juror—When was the last time you went with
him to the theatre? Witness—l cannot remember the
night.
The CORONER—WhiIe you knew the deceased did
you observe anything in his conduct to induce you to
believe that he at any time was unconscious of what
he was about, or that he was at times not a rational
being? Witness—No; quite the contrary.
A Juror—Do you know whether he ever lost any
money ? Witness—l once heard him say that he bad
lost 61., but I did not believe it. I thought he had
spent it.
A Juror—Did not the deceased on one occasion
pick your pocket ? 'Witness—He did ; but he after-
wards returned to me what he took from me.

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The CORONER, in summing up the—
evidence, said
that the deceased, beyond all doubt, intended to mur-
der Martha Moyse; but the point for them to consi-
der was, whether, at the time he committed self-
murder he was in such a state of mind that he knew
perfectly well what he was about. From the evi-
dence adduced there could be no doubt of that ; but it
was for the jury to say whether he was so or not.
The jury, after a few minutes' consultation, re-
turned the following verdict :—" Temporary insa-
nity," to the surprise of every parson present.

THE RECENT COLLIERY ACCIDENT.
BEDMINSTER, FRIDAY.—The Coroner resumed the
investigation this atternoon. A great deal of evidence
was adduced, but it was principally confirmatory of
that which we have already given. We now subjoin
such details as are new, in order to complete the case.
The CORONER observed, since yesterday the whole
of the rope bad been recovered, and placed for the
inspection of the jury in the yard.
Ellis, the banksmen, recalled, said he had heard no
complaints of the rope being defective till last Friday,
when Mr. Reynolds spoke to him about it; be told
Pillioger of it the same day. It was cut and spliced
in consequence: that was the new rope; he believed
the ropes were strong enough.
In answer to the CORONER, Inspector Alexander
said he did not believe that any of the rope had been
kept back.
John Webster, coal miner, deposed that at the
time of the accident he was working in the pit at the
first level, about sixteen or eighteen yards from the
shaft. He heard the noise of the falling rope; witness
knew the rope was unsafe; he did not object to going
down with five men, but he considered two more
Would have been too many; on Saturday morning
witness told two men to get off because of the unsafe
Condition of the rope; Pillinger was present and
Tust have heard him. Binding had been discharged
for Complaining about the rope.
William Binding re-called—About twelvemonths
Sao he was working in the same pit for the same mas-
ers ten ; the ropewitness broke in. bringing up a load of coal •
seteei_n?lained, and Newman the bailiff said
"Thee
mouth;" he was
go there again, thee hest too much
again, but felt
a%indciicharged. Witness was taken on
be
etsmaiidated from complaining; about
a fortnight ago
pointing
to some companions, " there is
a faulty place,"
it out.
James Fryer depeeneg
connected with the that he had been intimately
management of collieries several
‘years ; he had seen the rope in the yard, and was of
opinion that it was hardly stout e
to be
when a
rope Wtl4 worn so bed as this it ought
be repaired
for a pit of 240 fathoms the rope
ought to have been
nine inches in wleith.
By Mr. Bevan—The size of the rope would depend
on the depth of the pit and the weight to be brought
up; he had known a pit in Gloucestershire where a
rope brought up nine men in a bucket with safety,
but it was broken when the empty bucket was sent
clown.
Thomas Simms re-examined —Did not consider the
rope a stii' able one, or to be 1-pended u-on ;it ought
to have been eight inches wide, and made of eight
ropes.
John Parsons, a miner, was in the pit at the time
of the accident; he heard the rope fall, the rush of
wind put out his light. Before they went down in the
morning they complained of the rope; two of the
men since dead then jumped off. Witness had been
uut of work some weeks; in consequence of the pit
being unsafe he had been afraid to go up and down.
Thomas Tovey deposed that on the morning of the