The Sun. — 1860-12-10 (London, England)

THAMES.  FRIGHTFUL CASE OF STABBING.—A young and intelgent-looking Spanish seaman named Fillipo Crussil, was brought before Mr. Yardley charged with seriously wounding his wife Clara Augusta, a German woman, whose left cheek was covered with a large surgical bandage.  A Spanish and a German interpreter were sworn to translate the evidence.  The magistrate, after hearing the statement of the woman, directed Mr. Pyer, the chief clerk, to take the depositions, and said he should commit the prisoner for trial. The woman, according to her own statement, has been a prostitute two years, and became acquainted with, and married the prisoner 14 months ago. He did not maintain her, and when he went to sea, left her no allotment or any means of supporting herself except by leading an immoral life. Soon after this ill-starred marriage he went to sea, and upon his return he went to Liverpool arid spent all his wages among some loose women in that port. About eight or nine days ago he came to London, and visited his wife, without a penny in his pocket. The woman said she could not afford to keep him, and he said he would not go to sea again, and that he would make her support him, and he would take care she should not go on the streets again. On Thursday night last he visited her again at her lodgings, 46, Cable-street, Whitechapel, and, upon seeing a young man there, " who was very kind to her, and gave her money, food, and a pair of boots," he said he would be revenged and murder her. She spoke to him very kindly, and begged him to leave the house. Ho held a knife over her, threatened to cut her to pieces, and after killing her he would be off to sea again. After breaking several panes of glass and doing considerable mischief, heleft the house. On Saturday night, at a late hour, the prisoner again visited the house, broke down a wall, and said he would wash his hands in the blood of the woman. She ran away, and he followed her into the next house ; and after striking her on the mouth with his fist, he struck at her with his knife, and cut her down the face from the temple to the jaw-bone, inflicting a terrible wound. A woman who was present was next attacked by the prisoner, who attempted to stab her, and she only escaped by throwing herself over a wall. The prisoner's wife, who lost a large quantity of blood, was conveyed to the house of a surgeon, who dressed the wound. The prisoner was arrested directly afterwards. The evidence of the woman was corroborated in all its particulars, and the only part Qf the testimony contradicted by the prisoner was that he had threatened to wash his hands in the blood of his wife. The witnesses declared he said this in English. The prisoner declared that he did not understand English, and that he said nothing of the kind. Mr. John Courley, a surgeon, of No. 71, High-street Whitechapel, said—l dressed the wound of the prosecutrix on Saturday night at half-past 12 o'clock. The wound extended from the temple bone down to the lower part of the under jaw. It is a dangercus wound, a kind of tear, and erysipelas may ensue. The knife with which the wound was inflicted was prodused, and at one o'clock this afternoon the prisoner was committed for trial.