The Sun. — 1840-02-06 (London, England)

NCHESTE R, MONDAY.—This morning, at the 130, rough Court, a man named Gill was brought before D. Maude, Esq., the stipendiary magistrate, charged with an attempt to murder his own wife, to whom he had been married about fourteen years, but who for the last. five sears had been separated from him, owing to his ill usage. The prisoner had been to Africa during the last two years, it appears. and returned to Manchester about a fortnight ago. During this time be had sought and obtained repeated interviews with his wife, the object of which was to persuade her to let him live with her. She refused to do this, but offered to do all she could to maintain him if he would continue separate. On Friday evening last he called and repeated his persuasions, and was sitting alone with her at tea, when he suddenly seized hold of a claspknife, and, dragging his wife into a dark room used for coals, threw her down, and, after deliberately feeling about her neck for the jugular vein, drew the !mile across her throat, inflicting a wound about half ao inch deep and three inches long. He then left the houS'c and was going down the street, when some neighbours, who had been alarmed by the cries of his wife, suspecting what was the matter, raised the hue and cry after him, and he was soon afterwards safely lodged in the keeping of the police. His wife was found weltering in her blood where he had left her ; but, on the assistance of a surgeon being procured, it was discovered that the wound was not fatal, the lain having missed his object. The following are the particulars of what transpired in Court :—Mr. Saunders, of the firm of Birch and Saunders, attorneys, appeared to prosecute, and, having detailed the above facts, Mary Ann Gill, the prisoner's wife, was called into the witness-box and sworn. The unfortunate woman appeared very weak from loss of blood, and, being much affected on seeing the prisoner, it was some time before she could proceed with her statement. After detailing the particulars, the prisoner put a number of questions to his wife, of which the only ones to the purpose were the following : Prisoner—Did not I ask you on Friday to be reconciled to me, and I would try to get work and assist you to keep my children ? Wife—You did. Prisoner—Did you not then fly into a passion, and use opprobrious epithets, saying I had borrowed another man's clothes? Wife—No ; nothing of the kind. Mr. Maude—Had you said anything to the prisoner to make him angry ? Wife—No, Sir ;he appeared all the time unusually civil ; but I obsert ed that the muscles of his face worked very much. Prisoner—Did you not say that you had been obliged to prostitute yourself to keep a house over your head, and did not I feel as though the veins in my head had swollen to double their usual size, and I seized you, and said, " Then you shall die, you —, in your whoredom ?" Wife—Oh, dear, no. Mr. M.lude—Then you say nothing of the kind to him ? Wife—l told him, Sir, that he had tried to drive me to prostitution, and I would never live with him again. Prisoner—ad I not accuse you of improperly admitting. a man into the house ? Wife—Yes, but the accusation was unfounded. The prisoner said he was a murdered man, but did not attempt to deny that he had previously threatened to destroy his w;le. Mr. Boyer, surgeon, said he had dressed the wound in Mrs. Gill's throat, which was about half an inch deep and three inches !orig. In his opinion she had narrowly escaped death. The prisener was then committed to the Liverpool assizes for trial, charged with cutting with intent to murder.  BDIUROWING MONEY on