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WIFE SHOT BY HER HUSBAND.
On Friday night, between six and seven o'clock,
John Hunt, who keeps a public-house in Waterbeach
Fen, near Cambridge, went into his house with a
loaded gun, which he discharged at his wife, and in-
stantly escaped. The gun was discharged at the poor
woman's head, and the charge blew away part of her
lower jaw, and, passing in an oblique direction, also
took off and lacerated the upper part of her shoulder
Mr Pinchard, surgeon, of Cottenham, was called in
with all possible speed, and he extracted two large
pieces of bone from the lower jaw, and dressed the
wounds, but it was not thought possible the poor
creature could long survive the extensive injuries she
had received.

There were two other men in the house when the
murderous attempt was made, but they were too pa
ralysed by the occurrence to secure Hunt, who in-
stantly made his escape, and has not since been heard
of, although diligent search was made at an early hour
this morning. It appears that it was a feeling of
jealousy that prompted the wretched man to the com-
mittal of the diabolical act; he had, we understand,
many times threatened to take away the life of his
wife, and had been absent from his home for several
days past. The parties had been married twenty-six
year, and have three children, the eldest being mar-
ried, and Hunt is supposed to have got through a
deal of property. Mrs. Hunt is the daughter of an
old gentleman named Newton, who left the scene of
the tragedy only a few minutes before the arrival of
the infuriated husband.

Hunt is about forty-five years of age; and it is
generally supposed at Waterbeach that he had com-
mitted suicide, and search has been made in the river
which runs near the house, but without success.
The Cambridge Independent Press, in noticing this
melancholy occurrence in a second edition, states that
this is the fifth attempt at murder in the town and
neighbourhood of Cambridge, within the last three
weeks. The attempt made by the green-grocer, in
the market-place of the town, to cut his wife's throat
very recently, proceeded from the same cause of
jealousy which it appears was the origin of the Water
beach tragedy. The last account relative to the latter
occurrence, which reached Cambridge on Monday
night, stated that the unfortunate woman still lingered
in the most excruciating agony, without any hope
being entertained of her recovery.