The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1891-07-11 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDEROUS ASSAULTS IN  DLIDDLESBROUGII.  TWO WOMEN DESPERATELY ATTACKED.  Some sensational scenes were enacted in Middlesbrough last, Saturday evening, after a rather long period of immunity from serious crimes of I violence. The most serious case was a stabbing! affray that evening in a cottage—No. 1, Victoria- ' yard, Wellington-street. An ironworker named Thomas Lumley, living at No. 15, Wood- . house-terrace, appears to have been in this ' house in company with a woman of the unfortunate class, named Elizabeth Tierney. While there he put his hand into one of his pockets to feel for his money, and not finding it theie be accused the I woman of robbing him. She denied it, but he I insisted that she had, and, drawing a knife from his pocket, attacked her furiously. She became alarmed, and rushed to the window to call for help. The prisoner caught her before she could reach it, , and stabbed her. As she made her way to the stars he again struck her several times with the weapon, and she fell head foremost down stairs. He  -7 STABBED HER ABOUT THE BREAST no less than six times. Her screams brought to her , ts'id another woman living in the house, named Ellen ! Horn, and the man at once turned his knife upon i her, and stabbed her in the body. Horn, imme. diately afterwards rushed cut and stated to a neighbour that she was isubbeil, and was followed by Lumley, who, however had scarcely reached the front door of the house when some of the neighhours who had gone to the assistance of Tierney closed the door upon him, and thus prevented bins from making his escape. He en leavoured to force the door open, but was unsuccessful.  , LUMLEY NEXT ATTEMPTED ILLS OWN LIP?. Probably believing that he had made an end of Tierney, and desperate of being caged in the house, he went into the kitchen and ste...bed himselt also in the region of the heart, inhictin,g seven wounds before he desisted in his 'determined efforts to destroy himself. The police, who had been sent for were quickly on the mane, and Sergeant Blisbeck and Police-constable Barnes handculed the prisoner and removed him to the Illar]set-place Police ; Station, the two injured women meanwhile being ! taken in a cab to the North Riding Infirmary. Lninley walked with the ()dicers to the 'police I station, where his wounds were washed by the officer in charge, Sergeant Skilbeck, after 1 which it was deemed advisable to remove hies to the Infirmary. The condition of the woman Tierney appears to be the mostserious, but ! the knife seema to have been too short Ito have reached • vital part, and, apart from the serious loss of blood, there are hopes of her recovery. The other woman and the man were not at the tim believed to be in a ! really critical condition. When the man was in 1 the hands of the police his money was found in Ins waistcoat pocket. He appeared to be tinder the impress on that it was in his trousers pocket; and, ! nos finding it there when he put his hand in, he imagined that h. had been robbed. ,When he ; found that this was not so' the man was dumbfounded for the moment, and then he said he did not know what he could have been thinking about; !he supposed he must have been mad. He evidently felt much remorse for what he had done, and erpressed the hope the: the woman Tierney would not die, for her own sake, and that of his t poor old mother. For if she died he would have to ! swing for her.