The Sun. — 1859-05-16 (London, England)

PREMEDITATED MURDER BY A BROTHER-IN-LAW, AT HO.RNSEY.  Samuel Adams, aged 35, a dirty, dissipated, 'erocious-looking man with club feet, described on he charge-sheet as a shoemaker, residing at Ne. 30, Mary-street, Kingsland-road, was placed at the bar of the Clerkenwell Police-court, before Mr. Tyrwhitt, on Saturday, on remand, charged with maliciously cutting and wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm to Martha Page, his sisterin-law, at Howard-road, Hornsey. The poor woman being now dead, the charge resolved itself into one of wilful murder. The charge was first brought under the notice of the magistrate on the 6th inst., but although she was then in a dying state, her deposition has not been taken. The facts connected with this distressing case, as far as they have yet been collected, show that the prisoner not only contemplated the murder of his sister-in-law, but that of his wife also. It would appear that in consequence of the lazy, dissolute character of the prisoner, his wife, who is a hard-working, respectable woman, was compelled, some months since, to leave and keep herself. This seems to have very much annoyed the prisoner, and he has several times said he would be revenged, "if he swung for it." On the morning of the sth the prisoner was seen by a female who resides in the same house as the prisoner, sharpening a shoemaker's knife, and he then stated that before the day was out he would do something desperate. He was then persuaded not to do so, but he said he would, and, placing the shar-ppart of the knife in a cork, so that he should not cut himself, proceeded out. According to the facts, as ascertained by Inspector Langdon, of the N division, it would appear that the prisoner at once proceeded to the place where the deceased was engaged nursing a relative, who was lately confined, and, knocking at the door, was informed that he could not see his sister-in-law. Some time afterwards, the poor w..man left the house in company with a female. when the prisoner followed for a few yards, and then running in front, plunged the knife into the lower part of the deceased's person. The deceased, who was in her twenty-fourth year, and in a weakly state of health, was conveyed to the German Hospital, Dalston, where it was found, by the resident medical officer, that she was suffering from a severe wound in the lower part of her person, extending through the skin and muscle. Some neighbours detained the prisoner until the arrival of the police. The prisoner was taken before Mr. Tyrwhitt on the 6th instant, when he was very callous about the matter, and was remanded. On Friday, when he was brought up pro forma, and was told that perhaps while he was there the woman was dead, and that then he would be charged with the capital offence, he merely said, "Well, a good job too." The deceased, who maintained her senses to the last, and was very respectable, died in the German Hospital, while the prisoner was at the court. The following is the evidence already taken Police-constable Bolton, 466 N, said that on the afternoon of the sth of this month, he was in the Howard-road, when he heard a cry of "Police" and " Murder," and was called to take the prisoner into custody for stabbing a young woman. The female was in a fainting state, and said she was wounded in her side. When he took the prisoner into custody, he was told the charge, but he said nothing. He searched the prisoner, and found upon him a sharp knife, such as is generally and by shoe