The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-07 00:00:00

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—IV Ito oii "V..: .:I', Cett.4iT),:-: .tit. ' . is'
Prilene .: es elm not seeping with you in your
room lase nig'ilt t--Witne,,s—No. - •
Prisoner—When did she Sleep with you ?—"Wit- '':
nesi—li-vever tu her life.
The' prisoner here said that the woman was iu
Ste'• n Perry's mom all last night. . • , v .
~ v .hen• Perry, the son, said--1 an 13 years of
aoe..- -.xt
.birth-clay, and reside with my_ father
at 'o. 1, Fox-court, Gray's-iniirearit. This morn-
ing, at a little after five, my father ;had come to .
the first fl :or landing with a tub of water when the
prisoner rushed out of his room. I was in • bed at '
the time. I heard my father scream out and the pri-
soner swore at him. I then got up, and was eating
in a chair screaming when the prisoner rushed in
and stabbed me in the finger and thigh., lie did it .
with a black-hindled knife like the one now pro- -
duced, and which he brought from his' own room.
When he cut me he did not say anything to
After this the prisoner went
_and pulled. the bed.!
clothes from off the oth-r four
.children and was
ping to do s:imething to them, when I struck him
with the tongs and then opened the window and •
called out, "Murder." A policeman then came up,
and I was taken to the hospital where I had my
thigh sewed up.
i The prisoner here, iu a very loud and excited
' manner, said, " I never touched him ,with the
knife. e had the knife in his hands as well as the
tongs. I never touched the child or the children.
The woman Wilkie was in the room when I went -
in. I have been working for the last six months
to keep that fellow's family."
Mr. Tyrwhi t—Was there any woman in the
room ?

Witness—No. The woman Wilkie Came last
night about eight o'clock for the washing, and
stopped about tea minutes, when she went away,
and she did not come beck again that night.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Has she been living in the same
room as your father?
rWitness—No . .
The prisoner—Will you have the audacity Ito
swear that she was not in the room this morning ?
Witness—Yes, she was not there.
After the evidence of the policeman had been
taken,

Mr. Tyrwhitt told the prisoner, after the usual
caution, that he might say anything he pleased in
answer to the charge, but at the same time advised
him that he had better, in the absence of any legal
adviser, refrain from doing so.
The prisoner said he should like the woman
Wilkie called. She was a bad person, and although
he had worked for h -r she would go with the other
man. When he was at the hospital he saw her
waiting to see Perry in the ward. She had kept
that man's family for some time with his (the pri-
soner's) money.
Mrs. Wilkie was then called, and said she had
been living with the prisoner as his wife for about
18 months. Since he had turned her out, she had
none washing for Perry and his sister. Witness
was there last night, but did not stop.
Prisoner, in a vehement manner—Why, I saw
you there this morning, after the act was done. I
am not jealous without a cause. Have you not
been improp,rly intimate with Perry 1
Witness—Certainly not.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he could not see what good
the prisoner had done by calling the last witness ;
and if he had taken his advice, he would not have
done so. It was his duty to remand the prisoner
for a few diys on the charge of attempted murder,
to ses how the injured man progressed.
The prisoner, who seemed to work himself into
a passion, was then removed.

Upon inquiry at the hospital, it was stated that
Perry was still in a precarious state. By this
event five children were left without any one to
look after them, and by the advice of the magis-
trate Sergeant Weston, of the A division, took
them to the workhouse, with the exception of the
eldest girl, whom the rector of St. Andrew's at once
kindly took into the Na ional Schools in Hatton-
garden.