The Sun. — 1851-08-25 (London, England)

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF TWO'  FEIIIA LE S. On Saturday, Mr. AV. Baker, one of the coroners for Midniestx, opened an inquiry, before a respectable jury, at the Waite Hart Inn, Tottenham-hall, touch., ing the suicid of Carl Criglo. As might be imagined, the proceedings created a deep interest. The jury having been duly sworn, they went and viewed the body of the unfortunate deceased. It was that of a fine, tall, well-formed man. The chest was exposed for the examination of the jury, and six or seven punctured wounds were observable in the regions of the heart and stomach. This melancholy duty having been performed, the following evidence was gone into :  Mr. William Henry Brand, the husband and father of the wounded ladies, said :—I am a clerk at a bankers in the City. I have known the deceased since. January last. He was a native of Rattenbrech; near Schwelm, in Westphalia, and was a kind of agent or merchant for his father, who was a steel manufacturer. Ha also acted for other houses. When he first came to England, he lodged at my house at times. He was in the habit of leaving for a short time, and then returning. He was very strange in his habits, and about a mouth alter he had been with us, he suddenly left, and we could hear DO tidings of him. Knowing that he had no friends in E eland, and thinking that he might have fallen into had hands, I made an application to the Lord Mayor, at the Msnsiou 'house, with a view of getting his description and mysterious disappearance made known. He came back in the course of three weeks, and, to show his state of wind, I will read an extract of a letter which I rece-ived from him at Sheffield, dated April the 13th: " Wherever I go you strike me incognito. You drive me from town to town, and you follow me through England, and force me to spend my money.", We had been on the best of terms, and when be came hack and was shown the letter, he could scarcely lieve that he could have penned such an epistle. He then lived at Seyde (German) Hotel, in Finsbury-. square, but he often visited my house, and I may sat that a more religious and moral man never lived. frequently noticed his melancholy demeanour. In March last he was disappointed in not seeing his brother, and since then there was a strange change in kis conduct. On last Monday three weeks he cams to our house, and informed us that he had been advised to return to his native country, and arrange.; ments were made for the ladies to see him off by the steam-boat on the following Wednesday morning; to the wharf, I found that he had not beenbu t , oa nt the going hotel all night, and nothing was known as to where he had gone, although he bad left his luggage behind. On Tuesday lest he returned to the hotel, t and on Wednesday morning, about eleven o'clock, he came down to my house. He left early in the afternoon, and returned to the hotel, where he dined. He suddenly left the dinner table, ran upstairs to his bed room, and, in a few minutes, cams down, and hastened back to Tottenham. He came to the front gate of my cottage, and seemed quite agitated. My daughter's first impulse was to shut the door, but he got to it before she could close it. He said to her twice, " Miss Brand, are you alone?. She replied that her mother was in an adjoining room. He then rushed at her and stabbed her.