The Sun. — 1837-05-03 (London, England)

HOSKINS—And so you got tipsy afterwards ? Mrs. Donohue—Your Honour's jist guessed it. I was so mightily well plased at what I had seen, that I could not help taking a drap ; and hope, upon sich an occasion, your Honour will forgive me. The man wot cuts off a woman's head, can be no friend to the shemale sex, anyhow ; and shough I dislikes cruelty, I think he ought to be burnt to death, so that he may be after remembering the smart for the rist of his days. Mr. Hosktss —What are you, Mrs. Donohue ? Mrs. Donohue—A washerwoman, your Honour ; and I lives in York-court, near your Honour's office. Mr. HostuNs—Well, go about your business ; but mind, don't get in the suds again by drinking. Mrs. ponollue— Good luck to your Honour, I see you arc a friend to the fair sex ; and may you live long to enjoy the swate craters, and never change your opinions. Mrs. Donohue then withdrew.  ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUlClDE.—Ycsterday morning, an investigation took place at the gaol, at Ilford, relative to the attempt made by Thomas Cornell, a carpenter, at Stratford, to murder a young woman, named Austin, and afterwards to cut his own throat. Under the care of Mr. Valiance, surgeon, both Cornell and the woman were soon in a fair way of recovery : but as the former attempted to termiminate his life by rending open the wound, he was confined in a strait-jacket, and two persons were appointed to attend him. On Saturday, being sufficiently recovered to be removed, he was taken before the Magistrates at Ilford, and by them remanded for fursher examination yesterday. The strait-jacket was continued upon him in the prison. It has been stated that a woman who lived with the prisoner had disappeared—as he said, after having robbed him—and it was hinted that suspicions were entertained that she had been murdered. This, we find, is totally without foundation—the woman in question had lived with the prisoner for the last twelve years, and a short time ago she left him, since when he has appeared in rather a disturbed state. After Cornell was committed to Ilford Gaol on Saturday, she, however, made her appearance, and requested permission to see him, which was refused. Cornell, who is a middle-aged man, still looks very weak and wan from the wound in his throat. The young woman, whom he is charged with attempting to murder, is the daughter of a widow who receives relief from West Ham parish, and has not, we understand, been one of the most virtuous characters. After Austin and other witnesses had been eix.amined, the prisoner, on being asked what he had to say, in a very faint voice said, " All I've got to say is, that it was from affliction, and from being in trouble from that woman I have been living with—l don't mean this woman—which caused me to drink,,, and I was not in my proper mind. That's all 1 have to say," The prisoner was then fully committed for trial at the Central Court for the attempt to murder. The prisoner, in the course of a few hours after, was removed to Newgate. —Essex Herald. A dreadful accident occurred on Tuesday last in a quarry belonging to Mr. J. Price, situate at the high end of Gateshead, by which five men were crushed to death. It appeared from the evidence given before the coroner and jury, that the unfortunate men had worked to a considerable depth in the quarry, when it was considered necessary, from its peculiar formation, and the want of space for the ingress arid egress of carts in the removal of the stone, to erect a scaffolding at the top, and with a crane and " sheer-legs" draw up the stone to the bank. At the time of the accident upwards of '2O tons of stone were lying on the scaffold, and the men had just drawn up a tubfull, of about half-a-ton weight, when suddenly the scaffolding, with a tremendous crash, gave way with the unfortunate sufferers, burying them amidst the stones arid timber, and the result was as stated above. The following special verdict was returned—« \`T find that the death was accidental ; that it occurred in a quarry close adjoining the public highway in Gateshead, and was caused by the falling of a scaffold insufficient to support the weight of stone which had been placed upon it; and we arc strongly of opinion that the working of the said quarry should be immediately discontinued, and the excavation filled up." The German women arc so clumsy about the feet that I suspected them, for a long time, of wearing boots under their stockings.—Frazer's Magazine.