The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-07 00:00:00

HORRIBLE MURDER OF A WIFE
BY HER HUSBAND.

In presenting the remaining noblemen and gentlemen for
their degrees, the Orator made short and appropriate speeches,
but neither time nor space permits their insertion. The Latin
was very elegant, but Latin, however elegant, when translated
into English, looks very bald,
Messrs. Goulburn and Howes declaimed, and were presented
with medals by the Chancellor. The Duke of Cumberland,
and the Marquis of Londonderry, who were not present at
the commencement of the proceedings, arrived in the Senate
shortly before their termination at 5 o'clock. The Duke of
Cumberland was received with one or two hisses, which were
immediately drowned in hearty applause.

Foclock at non.
The greatest excitement still pervades gall' classes, anod no-
thing is talked of by any one but the murder referred to.—
The Coroner has issued his precept for the summoning of a
Jury, to assemble at six o'clock this evening. The deceased's
husband will, however, remain in the custody of the Mayor of
the town until the-inquest is held. Up to this hour the hus-
band of the deceased continued to sleep since the period he
was removed to the Guildhall. He has just been
awoke by
the police. His sleeping is of course ascribed to his having
taken laudanum in the morning.

THE INQUEST.
About six o'clock this evening R. J. Some, Esq., the
Borough Coroner, and the Jury summoned for the purpose,
assembled at the Coach and Horses public-house, in King_
street. The Jury were soon after sworn in, when the Coroner
delivered his charge, pointing out to them the difference which
exists between wilful murder and manslaughter. The Jury
then proceeded to view the spot where the horrid deed had
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the latter. The first witness was then called :
Henry Willis, of Plymouth, sworn; examined by the Co-
RONER—Did not know the deceased or her husband until that
morning. About 20 minutes before one o'clock was dining
about three doors from deceased's house in King-street, and
was attracted thither by a shriek. Ran out, but observed no-
thing, but on approaching the residence of Mr.. Honey, musi-
cian, the door being open, observed a female lying at the
bottom of the stairs. She was about two stairs up, lying on
her back, as if placed there. There was a stout woman stand-
ing near the body. One of deceased's hands was raised to her
neck. There was not much blood, but that which appeared
was around her neck, and some sprinkles on the staircase.
There was the mark of a bloody hand upon the wall. Deceased
had neither bonnet or cap ou. She was not dead when witness
arrived. Did not observe a necklace around ber neck. De-
ceased did not then move or speak ; her eyes were open.
By a Juryman—Did you observe any blood as you entered
the passage ?—No.
The CORONER here suggested the propriety of the Jurymen
making notes, and asking any questions they thought proper
after he had gone through his examination in chief : he said it
would save a great deal of their time.
By the CORONER—Did not observe any marks of blood in-
side the fore-door. Witness sent for a surgeon. Removed
the body before the surgeon came. The persons in the house
appeared much flurried. Deceased began to bleed immedi-
ately on her being moved. The same stout woman was present.
They lifted and removed the deceased from the stairs to the
adjoining room. The blood then immediately rushed out from
her neek—a vast quantity. Witness then observed that a large
incision bad been made in her throat. The deceased was
laid on the floor in the room. Deceased did not speak as she
was carried. She spoke afterwards. Dr. Hingaton arrived
before. deceased spoke. He arrived just as she had been laid
oa the floor. Mr. Wright, surgeon, was also then present.
They pressed the neck as tight as possible, to stop-the profuse
bleeding, which caused her to revive a little.
Here a woman was called, whore witness recognised as
having been present at this time. Her name was Worth. A
man in his shirt-sleeves was also then present.
Examination resumed.—Deceased then expressed a wish to
see her mother-in-law (meaning Mrs. Honey). Mrs. Honey
came to her, being near at the time. 'Witness raised deceased's
head, when she kissed her mother-in-law. After that, in less
than a minute, deceased said " Henry has done it with a razor."
Deceased did not speak after. She struggled two or three
minutes, as well as he could calculate, and appeared then to
have died. She appeared then quite dead. Witness laid her
head on the floor. Blood was all this time issuing from her
throat very fast. At times deceased made convulsive motions to
put her hand to her throat, but could not do so. Witness
remained in the room two or three minutes after she was dead,
during which time blood continued to flow. Witness went
out to the kitchen to assist females who were in great grief.
One was Mrs. King, deceased's own mother. Thinks, but
is not certain, that Dr. Hingsten left the room before witness.
Mr. Wright certainly did. Witness remained in the house
about an hour. Did not before leaving it again see the de-
ceased. Witness saw the husband in the room about five
minutes before deceased died. Did not know his name, be-
fore deceased called him Henry. Deceased did not look to-
wards her husband at the time she used this name. Cannot
undertake to say he was there when deceased said " Henry has
done it with a razor." After she had done so her husband said,
"It was I that did it." This was before her death.
The husband appeared as though he had drank a little, but
not to excess. He spoke the words collectedly ; he was not
intoxicated. He had no coat on. Witness did not observe
any blood about his clothes or his person. Deceased occupied
witness's attention, and he could therefore only say that all he
observed of the deceased's husband was, that he was in his
shirt sleeves.
Here an application was made to the Coroner, by one of
the policemen who had conveyed the deceased's husband to
prison, in whose charge he then was, as to what his (the Co-
roner's) wishes were respecting him ; he was then in the
Grand Jury room of the Guildhall, in the care of two officers,
and the policeman, therefore, was desirous of knowing who-
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tiler he should be locked up. The Coroner said, he was then
its the charge of the Mayor of the town, and he therefore could
give no directions respecting him until the inquest was over.
If be wished to come and attend the inquest,
lie was at liberty
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mined. He (the Coroner) sat there not only to examine
such witnesses as might present themselves on the part of the
Crown, but also such witnesses as might come on behalf of the
prisoner. This the Coroner requested that the officer would
communicate to the prisoner. The officer then stated that the
shirt which the prisoner had on was covered with blood, and
enquired whether he might take it off and put a clean one on.
The Coroner said there could be no objection to it, but that
in that case he (the officer) should take charge of that which
the prisoner then had on.
Examination by CORONER resumed.--The husband left the
room before the death of the deceased. He did not return
again. He went up stairs at the persuasion of witnes3 and
others. He did not appear very violent. He went away
peaceably. The police soon afterwards entered the
house. Does not know their names or numbers; seine
of them went up stairs. Witness saw the husband
again about half an hour after. He was up the first
flight of stairs under the charge of Drs. Crookworthy,
and Baldy, and Messrs. Roberts, and Freeman, Surgeons.
Warm water was being carried up stairs. Witness did not see
for what purpose the warm water was. Heard the surgeons
desire the husband to drink it. He did not say anything.
When the Police were about to remove him, he said to a per-
son on the stairs, " You need not stare so," and desired them
to take him through the back door, and not through the front
door. They took him through the front door, where they put
him in a carriage. Had not heard him say any thing after.
Here the CORONER read over the evidence, as taken down,
to the witness, and desired him to point out any corrections he
might wish to be made therein;—the only one which the wit-
ness requested to be made was in that part in which he had
stated that the deceased bad neither bonnet or cap on. He
would now state that lie was not certain whether or not the de-
ceased had a cap on. The minutes of the evidence having
been accordingly corrected were then signed by-the witness. --
Examined by a Juryman.—Witness -did not observe much
blood on the stairs or passage. Dr. Hings was pre sent
when tho deceased's husband said, " It wa stln
wit() did it."
He appeared very cool and celleeted, and not to be labouring
under aberration of mind. He did not appear to be like a

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. )
Plymouth, Sunday Afternoon, 2 o'clock.
This town has been thrown into a great state of excitement
by the perpetration of a foul and horrible murder of a young
married woman—Jane Honey, the wife of Henry Honey, who
resided with his father, Mr. Honey, a musician, at No. 11,
King-street. The general belief is, that the horrid deed was
committed by the deceased's own husband. Rumour with her
thousand tongues states a variety of causes as those which
prompted the inhuman act. As far as we can learn, the fol-
lowing is the substance of the affair :
About half-past twelve o'clock this morning the mother and
grandmother of the deceased's husband were alarmed by the
cries and shrieks of a female, and on proceeding to ascertain
from whence they came, they were surprised at finding the
deceased laying on her back, at the bottom of the staircase
leading from the passage to the front-door,
weltering in blood.
In a few seconds some persons who had also heard the shrieks
were attracted thither, and assisted in removing the deceased
into an adjoining parlour. Medical aid was immediately sent
for, and a physician and surgeon were on the spot in a few
minutes. The deceased's throat was then bleeding profusely,
caused by an incision having been made in her throat. They
then pressed it closely together to stop the bleeding, when the
deceased revived a little. She then uttered a word or two to
her mother-in-law, and said something in reference, as is sup-
posed, to the committal of the act by her husband and in a
few minutes after she expired ! The husband of the deceased
was in the house, during the whole of this period, in his shirt-
sleeves, which were marked with blood. The brutal act is
supposed to have been done by him ; and the general belief
is, that after the incision had been effected, the deceased ran
through the passage to the adjoining house for assistance, and
Mil.- met by some person, was conveyed back to the house,
and laid on the stairs. There are marks of blood on and along
the passage, and outside the front-door. After the fatal
stroke had been given, the deceased's husband took some
laudanum—of course with a view to self-destruction, but it
did not injure him. Police-officers having been sent for, the
husband was removed to the Guildhall, where he was locked
up in the custody of two persons. These were ordered to re-
miin with him, to prevent his doing away with himself, which
the surgeons thought, from his disturbed state of mind conse-
quent upon the transaction as well the taking the laudanum,
he might attempt. The deceased was about 20 years of age,
and her husband only 22 years. They had been married se-
veral years, and were living together at his father's house.
The father is a respectable man, and an old inhabitant of this
place (Plymouth.) The deceased's father has been dead some
time. Her mother is living hero, and keeps the Rose and
Crown, a public-house in Old Town-street.—Her feelings on
the occasion may be easier imagined than described. The fa-
ther of the deceased's husband was from home at Portsmouth.
General report states that the deceased's husband has for some
time past been leading a gay life. From the moment of the
discovery of the murder, crowds of persons had collected out-
side the residence of the deceased, anxiously enquiring into
and dilating upon the circumstances of the murder.—The phy-
sicians and surgeons of the town also repaired to the spot to
view the body of the deceased.

Earl Durham left town on Saturday for the Isle of
Wight, where he will occasionally sojourn until he takes
his departure for St. Petersburg, which it is now under-
stood will depend upon the return of the Emperor of Russia
to his capital, about the end of this month. The most
' favourable results are expected from the Embassy of his Lord-
ship, for judging from the success of his former mission, these
expectations are likely to be realized to the fullest extent.
MR. COOKE'S « MEMOIRS OF LORD 13mA NG-
nsokE."—" To Mr. 'Wingrove Cooke, of the English Bar,"
observes the " belongs the high praise of having pro-
duced a biography of the celebrated Lord Bolingbroe, at
once full, exact, and impartial, in which a sober critical discri-
mination seems invariably to have accompanied a very exten-
sive
examination pf authorities, and neither the merits nor the
faults of that remarkable personage are exaggerated or exte-
nuated. The portrait of one of the most eminent benefactors
of Literature has been restored to its proper place, and in its
proper colours ; the mists raised by Swift and Pope on the
one hand, and by Walpole and Warburton on the other, have
been cleared away, and we now see Lord Bolingbroke as a po-
litician, a philosopher, an author, a man, precisely as he was.
These 'Memoirs must be considered. an indispensable compa-
nion to the History of Queen Anne and the House of Hanover."
LONGEVITY OF LADIES.—In the manor of
.ox-
enhope, near Keighley, are residing five' females, whose united
ages amount to 430 years Mrs. Hartley, 91; Mrs.
Hird, 90; Mrs. Thomas, 87 ; Mrs. Over end, 82; Mrs.
Jowett, 80 ; being four very respectable widows, and one a
spinster of independent fortune,