The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-27 00:00:00

ATROCIOUS REVENGE.

NVe have to relate-one of those dreadful in-
stances of desperate depravity Which reflect dim-
grace, not merely on the age, but on human
nature itself. Yesterday, about- one .o'clock at
noon, a Weidman, named David Owen, a caw-
keeper, came to town from Edmonton, and pro-
ceeded to the house of . one Jones, his brother-
in-law, who is also a cow-keeper, resident in
Gibraltar-row, Prospect-place, St.. George's-a
fields. After knocking at the door he was ad-
mitted to the room on the ground floor, where
Jones, with Isis wife and maid-servant, was at din-
, tier. After sitting for a few minutes, lie started up,
and with two knives-(with which lie bad provid-
ed himself before his visit), he rushed to the exe-
cution of his execrable purpoq. He first attacked
the man Jones, whom he wounded dieadfully in
the belly and the, head, so as for some seconds to
deprive him of,ease and .notion. lie then flew
at Mrs. Jones; his own sister, end inflicted neon'
her several shocking wounds : he stabbed her
the forehead, cut her severely though not danger-
ously between two of her ribs, and having thrust
his knife in her mouth, drew it clean through the
(lira to the ear, lacerating her tongue, and laying'
the cheek completely open. The ruffian last struck
at the servant girl, whom he seriously cut in the
face and one tat her hands, besides dividing the
Main artery of her ,arm,_ The poor wretches,
though faint andalmost insensible with terror and
loss of blood, contrived to make their way into the
street, where '.they were immediately observed by
their neighbours, and Were carried into the ad-
joining Louses till Medical assistance could be
procured.. In the mean time the assassin had
'fastened the door of jones's house, and with loud
imprecations threatened to destroy any persim
.who should dare to approach him. This thieat,
together with the impression of the horrible
scene before then's, and the circumstance of Owen
(who is 'a remarkably large and powerful titan)
being armed with two knives, completely deterred
the multitude, though soon consisting of 'litany hun-
dreds, from attempting to enter the house. Police
()Beers were scut for, and on their arrival, and after
the interval of nedrly an hour, it was determined
.to break into the house and seize the desperate
villain. For this purpose a great number of per,.
sons at med With -pokers and crow-bars, some with
ladders at the windows, and some on the grouts',
made a simultaneous attack on the house, end
bursting it open above and below, rushed in.
with greet force. They found Owen on the first
landing place, standing with an air of defiance,
and whetting his knives one upon the other, as
if for the purpose of rendering them more effec-
tually niurderous One of the officers, however,
without a moment's delay, struck him a violent blow
with a crow-bar on the head; which knocled off
his hat and staggered him ; and another instantly
took advantage of his tottering, seized one of his
legs, and threw' him on the ground. Still the
ruffian was able to resist, whieh he. did. so obsti-
nately, that' the officers were compelled to beat
and even wound him severely about the face and
body, before he, was subdued to a state of ae-
Ttiescence ; they then put him into a .hackney-
coach, and conveyed him to the prison in‘llorse-
monger-lane, thousands of the multitude attending
the conch, and with arms of various kinds,. in order
to-prevent the possibility of'bis escape. While this
was goinmt°on, surgical aid had been procured for the
wounded, and the result of the examination made
by Mr. Dixon, surgeon, of Newington, was, that
he considered the husband likely to die, the wife
drealltully though not mortally wounded, and the
girl, though very seriously ,hurt, likely to recover.
The man and time servant were, at the recommeri-
datitin of the surgeon, taken to St. Thomas's
Hospital.—Mrs. Jones was carried back to her
own house.

Our Readers will naturally inquire what could
have been the rause, however inadequate, of this
savage barbarity ? We are not able to answer
this question any farther than by staring, that we
have been informed; that about a year ago there
wa,s a law-su;t between Owen and Jones resnect-
ing some property, which Owen conceived to be-
long to himself, but which Jones claimed in right
of his wife. An action was tried, the result of
which was favourable to Jones ; and Owen ever
since has e%pressed much dissatisfaction, and is
supposed therefrom to have conceived that despe.-
rate revenge which he yesterday executed.
purpose was so malignantly atrocious, that he, at
the time of his outrage yesterday, expressed a
determination to murder, if be conlol, his own son,
a lad who lived with his uncle and aunt, as as-
sistant in their business, and whom his father ap-
pears to have hated from no other cause.—For•
tunately this youth was not in the house. The
parties arc all- Welch ; Jones and his wife are
about 40 years of age; the servant girl about 20 ;
Owen is between 45 and 50, and is, as we have
before stated, a man of remarkably formidable
size and strength. -The age of the Son we did not
hear.—(llloHting Paper.)

The fears entertained for the safety of Mr. C. J..
and Mr. G. G. Whitcburch, both of
-this University, (mentioned in one last Journal)
are now so fully confirmed, as to leave no doubt
in the minds of their afflicted relatives that
were shipwrecked on the evening of the 12th of
August; the body of a Captain Hohnberg, who.'
it seems, was a passenger in the same vessel with
them from Guernsey, having been brought into
Deal harbour, where it has been interred with.
every decent respect.—(Oxford Journal, Sept. 26.)
On Thursday a Public Meeting was held at the
!George Inn, From, to consider of the expediency
of establishing a Savings Bank in that populous
town. The M,arquis of BATH, the Earl of CORK,
and Mr.'CLIAMPNEYS, of Orchardleigh, attended,
and by their patronage and information, gave
great effect to the meeting, which was more re-
spectable titan numerous, and consequently more
competent perhaps to give effect to the object in
view.—A Committee was appointed, and the re-
sult most satistactory to the general good.
Wednesday evening, about eight o'clock, as
William Ansell, upwards of 70 years of age, was
driving the Paddington stage coach into the
stable-yard of his master, Mr. Morris, at the
Yorkshire Stingo, his lad came in contact with
the top of the gateway, by which be was so DI Hai,
bruised that he died yesterday morning.