The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-25 00:00:00

Attempted Murder at Surbiton.

Yesterday at Kingston-on-Thames Cornelius
Kane, a private in the 3d Hussars, stationed at
Aldershott, was charged on remand with attempting
to murder Agnes Adams at Surbiton. Agnes
Adams, a Scotchwoman, 23 years of age, said she
was engaged to marry the prisoner, and the banns
had been twice published. On the night of the 9th
January, while she was staying at her sister's at
Surbiton, the prisoner came there from Aldershot.
She and her sister were then washing. He appeared
the worse for liquor, and said they did not appear
to make him very welcome. Ile had conic to know
why she wished to postpone the marriage. They
wished to get him away from the house, but he
would not go. He was then told that he could
sleep with her brother-in•law, and if he did so, they
would tell him in the morning why they wished the
marriage postponed, as he was then not in a fit state
to be told. 'They induced him to go into his room,
but he came out again, and kept asking the reason.
She then told him that her sister did not wish her to
marry him while he remained in the army, and that
she advised her to wait till he came out. He again
went into his bedroom and remained about ten
minutes, and then her sister opened the door and
took the key out to lock the door from the sitting
room upon him ; her sister then began to undress
but she remained sitting in a chair. He shortly
afterwards knocked at the door again, and on her
sister asking what he wanted, he said to light his
pipe. Her sister took the candle to the door to pre-
vent his coming into the room again, and he rushed
past her, and stood in front of the fire-place. After
smacking his forehead he threw her down on the
floor, anti began to cut her with a razor. He made
a severe wound on her forehead, and then tried to
cut her throat, but she held his hand and struggled
with him for some time, but the razor cut her band
and went through. She could not tell when he cut
her on the left side of the nose, or inflicted the other
wounds she had received. Her sister was by, but
she did not know that he had a razor till she screamed
out, "He is cutting my throat." Her sister then
came to her assistance, and her brother-in-law, who
knocked him down and knelt upon him. The hands
of the complainant, her brother-in-law, and the pri-
soner were frightfully cut with the razor in the
struggle. The evidence of the witness given at the
previous hearing was then read over, from which it
appeared that the prisoner first formed the acquain-
tance of the complainant about four years ago at
Hamilton, in Scotland, but on the regiment beingre-
moved the acquaintance ceased. The complainant came
to London, and then to her sister, in search of a situa-
tion, and on hearing that prisoner's regiment was so
near a correspondence ensued, and the engagement
was renewed. In the same regiment there is also a
cousin of the complainant named William Moore,
and the object of the cross-examination. of Moore
by the prisoner was to show that he had boasted of
an intimacy with his cousin to the prisoner, and
that a correspondence had taken place lately
between them in order to set the marriage between
her and the prisoner on one side and make up a
match between her and her cousin. The com-
plainant and the cousin denied any cause for the
jealousy of the prisoner.; but the prisoner when
arrested told the police that Moore in the regiment
had driven him almost to madness. William
Russell, a comrade in the same regiment, said that
the prisoner told him he would cut the complainant's
throat. John Moore, brother-in-law to the com-
plainant, said that the prisoner told him he had
brought the razor
purposely to cut Agnes's throat,
and that his intention was also to kill him and his
wife and then destroy himself. Dr. Price Jones
said the complainant must have bled to death in a
few minutes had he not been so quickly fetched,
one of the arteries having been divided. The
prisoner, who said he had nothing to say, was then
fully committed to take his trial at the next assizes
at Kingston on the charge of attempted murder.

THE LATE VICTOR COUSIN.—The following ac-
count of Victor Cousin's last hours, from the pen of his
attached disciple and faithful friend M. Barthelemy St.
Hilaire, was addressed to a lady
in England :---" Madame,
—I have the paidful task of announcing that we have lost
our excellent friend, Cousin. whilst taking his second
breakfast with me he was seized with an invincible drowsi-
ness, and fell asleep, never again to recover his conscious-
ness. Ail that the doctors could do was not able to reani-
mate him one instant. He struggled, without appearing
to suffer, till five next morning. I did not quit him, and
received his last sigh. We had lately spoken much of you,
and his affection for you and yours was as lively as ever.
On the Saturday evening
wo had dined with one of our
neighbours, and M. Cousin had all his habitual amiability
for the ladies present. We left at a quarter past nine. In
morning he took his
the first meal about eight with good
appetite. At one he ate apparently with relish our com-
mon repast, and at the end he was struck !"

ROUGHING HORSES.—The following suggestion
has been made for roughing horses in cases of sudden
frost :—With an ordinary hammer, and a short, stout cast
steel chisel, such as might be carried in the waistcoat
pocket, you may rough a horse so Its to carry him firm and
safe on the ice. Take up the horse's foot precisely as
would the farrier, and of course direct the point of the
chisel towards the toe of the shoe, and you may make pro-
jecting barbs or teeth larger and deeper cut than you see
on the face of the farrier's rasp.