The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-10-13 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A WOMAN AT NEWCASTLE.  About two o'clock last Saturday afternoon a man named Dunuell visited the house of a siugle woman named Maggio Cooper in Marlborough. street, Newcastle. It appears that these two had formerly been on good terms, but recently Cooper forbad him to visit her, and this had evidently made him jealous. On Saturday about one o'clock he entered her room, and a little later screams were heard, and Dannell was seen to jump oat of the window and walk away. The door of the room was burst open, and it was found tiler Cooper was bleeding profusely, her throat being cut. Dr. Dixon, Superintendent Campbell, and four policemen were quickly at the house. The doctor having looked at the wounds, the poor woman told him and the policemen that the man referred to had come into the house and wished to renew their acquaintance, but she refused. The Iman had a knife in his hand at the time, and was cutting tobacco. Upon her refusing he struck her with his fist on the forehead. An officer showed her a knife he had found, and she said that was tne knife the man had. The injured woman was immediately conveyed to the Royal Infirmary, which is close by the scene of the outrage. The upper part of her clothing was saturated with blood, and there was a deal of blood on the floor of the room. It was found that there were five wounds on the woman's face and neck. The most serious of I these is a wound about four inches long on the , left side of the neck, immediately over the large blood-vessels. This wound is very deep, and I reaches to the back of the throat. The perpetrator of the outrage was taken into custody about eight o'clock on Saturday night, and was afterwards taken to the Royal Infirmary, when .the sworn deposition of his victim was taken before Dr. Phillipson. The poor woman passed a very bad night, and was in a critical condition throughout Sunday, being almost unable to speak. At the Newcastle-on-Tyne Police Court on Monday Benjamin Dunnell (36) was charged with having attempted to murder Margaret Cooper by stabbing her in the neck with a knife while in a room at 18, Back Marlborough-street, in that city, about two o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday last. The prisoner was undefended.— Superintendent Campbell said he would call sufficient evidence and ask for a remand.— Thomas Fordham, labourer, said he lived in the room above Cooper's, with whom the I prisoner Dunnell had been living. On Saturday afternoon the witness was in Mrs ' Cooper's house when the prisoner came in, and asked him to go out. He went out and I walked to the end of the street, and on returning I , in about five minutes after he had left he found I the window and door open, and Margaret Cooper ! lying in blood on the floor.—Dr. Baigent, house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Newcastle, said he saw Margaret Cooper at 2.50 p.m. on Saturday. She was covered with blood about the chest and the arms. She was very cold, and almost pulseless from loss of blood. He ex- ' amined her throat and face, and found five wounds. The largest of these started on the left side of the throat. It commenced about the middle line, and extended transversely upwards for about two inches. The direction it penetrated was upwards and inwards. It entered the near side of the throat at the back of the mouth. The external jugular vein was divided and bleeding. The second wound was on the or-0 ,te side of the throat; it was one inch long 111 a transverse direction, and penetrated a little inwards, , and was about an inch deep. The third wound ' was situated a little above the lost one, and to the right of it. It was curved in direction, but penetrated almost directly backwards, and just stopped short of the great vessels of the neck The fourth v,,onnd was on the right side A the chin, and was superficial' and the fifth wound was situated above the right angle of the south. The latter was an inch in length, and three inches in depth; it was separated from the mouth only by the mucous membrane., There were slight wounds on the chin, nose, lips, and and several recent abrasions on various parts the woman's body. She was in a critical condition, although since the previous day she had somewhat improved.—The prisoner was then remanded for a week.  .. eyes, parte 0f