The Sun. — 1834-09-11 (London, England)

LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday George Belt, a journeyman shoe-maker, who has been in custody for the last fortnight, on a charge of having, in a fit of love and jealousy, made a most determined and desperate attempt to murder a female, named Martha Clements, was brought before Messrs. NV A LKER and TUBBS for final examination.  The prosecutrix, whose mannerand appearance seem much superior to the generality of persons in her situation, is still suffering most severely from the effects of the serious injuries inflicted on her person by the prisoner, anti was obliged to be removed from her residence to the office and back again in a hackney-coach. On being accommodated with a chair and sworn, she stated that on Tuesday fortnight between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, while engaged in washing out her room, she heard some one enter the apartment in a hurried manner, and on turning round she observed it was the prisoner, with a knife in his hand. He instantly rushed towards her and said, " Martha, I am come to murder you, and murder you I will before I leave you." He then dashed the knife towards her abdomen on her left side with great force, and owing to an alteration in her stays. the busk was on the left side, and the knife passed through it and wounded her severely, as the blood at once spouted out, and her shoes and dress were in a moment covered with it. The prisoner then endeavoured to drag the knife across her pereon, exclaiming at the same time, " rip you open ;" but  it was so fast in the whalebone that he could not do so, and  it was with some difficulty he could draw it out. On getting it• out, however, he made many thrusts at her heart, but the whalebone of her stays warded all except one off, and he then made a cut at the lower part of her person and inflicted a deep wound on the fleshy part of the thigh. By this time she had fallen to the ground from exhaustion, when the prisoner made a cut at her throat, but she put up her hand to protect herself, and received a severe cut on one of her fingers. At this time the prisoner, hearing some person coming down stairs, rushed out of her room, and through the front door into the street, and she was certain, that had not her cries brought this person (her landlord) to her assistance the prisoner would have killed her on the spot. In reply to the qUestions of the Magistrates the witness stated that about ten or twelve years ago the prisoner occupied apartments in her mother's house, and he then paid her every marked attention ; but in consequence of his going into the army, she had lost sight of him from that time until some months ago, when he renewed his attentions. Being in rather reduced circumstances at the time, and the prisoner making very specious promises to her, she agreed to his putting up their banns at Shoreditch Church, and, thinking that they might save the amount of his lodging, she consented to his coming to live with her, and for four or five weeks they resided together as man and wife. During this time, however, lie conducted himself so improperly, by selling the articles with which she was entrusted to wash, getting drunk, &c., that she determined on having nothing further to do with him, and she accordingly removed into another neighbourhood. He was fully committed for trial.  W OR