The Express. — 1846-11-18 (London, England)

MANSION-HOUSE.—Elizabeth IFood, the wife of Benjamin Wood, a City policeman, was brought before the Lord MMayor for final examination, upon the charge of having wounded her husband " with intent to kill am`, murder him "—Benjamin Wood, who had been in St. Thomas's Hospital, in consequence of a wound inflicted upon him upwards of a month ago, stated, that on the 14th of October he was living with his wife in Talbot-court, Gracechurchstreet ; that at a quarter peat one o'clock he bad his uniform on, and was ready to go en duty, and he coinplained to his wife about his droner not being ready. They had a few words ; he put on his hat to go out, and, as he was going towards the &sot-, she threw a knife at him, which struck him in the throat, but he did not think she threw it at him intentionally to wound hint. He then felt the blood running down, and it was etrearring about the floor, and ho ran down stairs to Doctor Smith's, and was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he had been ever since. He did nut recollect that he had made use of any threat towards her. He thought she had sat down to her dinner, and he thought she had the knife in her hand at the time. lie did not think she had picked it up purposely to throw it at him.—The prisoner : lie took up his truncheon to strike me with it. All the rest he ha said is the truth. I never meant to hurt him.—The witness said, in answer to a I question from the Lord Mayor, that he did not recollect whether or not he had his truncheon in his hand at the time, unless he was in the act of putting it in his poeket.—Mr. F. L. Clarke, assistant surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, said that the branches of the carotid artery had been severed, and Mr. Jolley .succeeded in repressing the bleeding by preying his fingers into the wound, and, as the only alternative, Mr. Jolley asked hint to cut down upon the carotid artery, and pass a ligature round it, as it was evident if that were not accomplished the man could not have survived more than two or three minutes. Witness effected that operation by making a distinct wound lower down the neck, and the bleeding instantly ceased. Since that time the wound had progressed favourably, but until the wound bad in a great measure closed the patient was in danger. John Davis, a City policeman,stated that after Wood had been taken to the hospital, he saw the prisoner, who stated tohim that while they V. CT* at dinner they had a quarrel, that he threatened to knock her down, and that she threw a knife at him, which she had in her hand ; that as he was stooping down to pick it up she saw the blood running from his neck, and she hallooed out murder.—The Lord Mayor: Prisoner, you have got yourself, by your passionate temper, into very serious trouble. It is my duty to commit you for trial. You can represent the things you have stated to me upon your trial, but you stand committed for having made the assault with intent to commit murder.—Theprisoner again solemnly declared that she never had a thought of injuring her husband, and handed in severel letters which she said she had received from her husband since the melancholy occurrence. She was then committed for trial.