The Warwickshire Herald. — 1894-10-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

STABBING AFFRAY.  HACKING AT A FAMILY WITH A KNIFE.  At the Aston Police Court on Wednesday, Wm. Thonmycroft, gun finisher, 11, Whitehead Road, Aston, was charged with wounding Rose Thorneycroft, his daughter, on the 23rd mat—The Magistrates' Clerk (to the complainant): What charge do you make against your father?--Complainant Ile tried to murder the three of u&—Supt. Walker said prisoner ran at the complainant with a knife, and his son struck him on the head and knocked him down.—Complainant showed the magistrates the wound that had been made on her jaw with the knife. It seemed slight. —The—Charge was reduced to one of assault, to which prisoner said he did not do it intentionally.—Complainant said her father came home between two and three o'clock the previous afternoon. He did not seem in his right eensee. He said he would murder her mother. Her brother was in the house, and he told him to go to work. Her brother went out. Prisoner was having his dinner and he got up and threw a chair on the fire, and then ran at her mother with a knife with which he had been taking his dinner. Witness and her mother ran out the house, and witness's brother returned to the house with them. He asked her father to make haste, and come to the shop and that he would wait for him. Her father, who had resumed his seat at the dinner table, told her brother to get off to work, and when he would not he ran at him with a knife, and said he would stab him in the ribs-. She and her mother caught hold of the prisoner, and he hacked at them with the knife, stabbing her in the law. Her brother then struck him on the head with the rolling pin. They then got him out into the yard and shut the door. He was like a madman.--Prisoner said he did not throw the chair on the fire. What roused him was his eon standing over him with the rolling pin when he was taking his dinner.--The Magistrates' Clerk You might be thankful he struck you with the rolling pin. If he had not you might have been here for something more serious.---Prisoner said the same eon had before knocked him down and broken two of his ribs. There was some jealousy between him and his wife He made specific charges.---The wife who was in Court said she had never been unfaithful to him.---Complainant said this was the second time he had attempted to murder her mother.--Prisoner admitted that he had had some drink on the date in question, and that he had been advised by his doctor not to take any as if he did he would not be able to pontrol himself.— Prisoner said he had only half a pint that day.--Mr. A. W. Wills said if this was not the effects of drink--not that that was any excuse for what he had done--it must be the effects of insanity and they had better have him examined to see if he should not be Dent to a lunatic asylum.--Prisoner said he was sane enough.---Prisoner's wife gave him a good character, and said when he took drink he chuld not control himself--He was sentenced to six week's imprisonment, the Chairman (Mr. J. A. Cooper) remarking that if he came there again on a similar charge he would not get off eo lightly.---Complainant said her mother pleaded that he might not be sent to prison but the sentence was adhered to.