The Sun. — 1834-01-07 (London, England)

UNI N. HALL. Yesterday John Wyatt, landlord of the Marquis of Granby, Loman's Pond, Southwark, was brought up from the station-house of the M division, in the Southwark-bridge-road, charged wiih an attempt to murder his wife by cutting her throat with a knife. The prisoner, when placed at the bar, looked excessively bad, and seemed to be labouring under considerable despondency of mind, particularly when he heard that his wife was in that condition at present as to render her attendance at the office quite impossible. Alban Young, the first witness called, on Sunday evening was at the Marquis of Granby, and about eight o'clock, as he was taking a pint of porter in the tap-room, he heard a cry of " Murder," in a female voice, proceed from the direction of the bar. He immediately ran to the assistance of the person whose cries he had heard, and on entering the bar parlour saw the prisoner with one of his arms round his wife's neck, and she still crying " Murder." Witness seized the prisoner, and he then saw blood gushing from a wooed in Mrs. Wyatt's throat. The prisoner resisted being taken into custody, but upon the arrival of the police he was taken to the stationhouse. The witness added that he had previously heard the prisoner and his wife quarrelling with each other in the bar. Subsequently to the witness having run into the bar to the protection of Mrs. Wyatt, and when he seized her husband, she rushed out bleeding from the neck into the tap-room, and there fell, in a state of insensibility, into the arms of a person who happened to be there. In reply to Mr. MURRAY, the witness said that the prisoner was evidently under the influence of liquor. Inspector Brown, of the M division, while in the yard at the rear of the station-house, that morning, heard the prisoner address the locker (the man who has charge of the keys of the cells), and express himself to this effect—" I should like to know how Mrs. Wyatt is this morning, for I am afraid that in the heat of passion last night I did her some injury." The inspector added that the prisoner seemed unconscious of the nature of the injury he had inflicted on his wife until informed of it that morning.  Mr. Eales, surgeon, in Union-street, was called in to see Mrs. Wyatt on the night in question, and upon his arrival he found her sitting in the bar, and several persons around her. At present her removal would be attended with danger, but when he saw her that morning, no alarming symptoms prevailed. An application was here made to the Magistrates by a professional man, who attended on behalf of Mrs. Wyatt, to request that 701. found on the person of the prisoner when he was taken into custody, but which was now in the possession of the police inspector, might be delivered up for the benefit of his wife. The applicant then said that the money belonged to Mrs. Wyatt, who had been left a considerable sum by a deceased relative, entirely independent of her husband. The 701. formed a portion of the legacy, and to possess himself of the same the prisoner forced open his wife's box, previously to the attack upon her, and when he was apprehended the money was found concealed in his shoes on his feet. The application was opposed by Mr. Warner, who said that the disputes between the prisoner and his wife were mainly attributable to the money which she claimed as her own. He contended that the money, instead of being given up at present, might be left in the hands of the inspector, in whose possession it then was, until the proceedings consequent on the occurrence had been determined. Mr. Warner then proceeded to describe that he had been repeatedly engaged in endeavouring to conciliate the prisoner and his wife, who frequently quarrelled with each other, and added that he had often himself anticipated that something dreadful would happen to them.  The magistrates made no order with respect to the application of the 701., but were of opinion that the inspector had better keep possession of it at present. The prisoner was then remanded until the fate of his wife is known.