The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1882-12-16 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

SHOCKING AFFAIR IN DIEMEN! HEAD.  A WOMAN SHOT.  TES inhabitants of Birkenhead were on Saturday last shocked at the intelligence of a tragedy perpetrated in their midst. The circumstances of the case at e briefly these. On Saturday morning, about a quarter to six o'clock, P.C. Sparrow was in Errneuth-street, when he met a man named Joseph Teece, a milkdealer and fishmonger, residing in Con waystreet. Teece asked the constabl- to accompmy him to the hospital, saying that he had tried to shoot himself, but, having failel, took poison. The officer proceeded to the hospital with Teece, to whom a stomach pump was applied by Dr. Brewer. There wero two wounds in To c..'s head, one on the forehead, and another on th.. haJk of the bead, and it ift• rwards tran-virt.„t that I,y were from pistol skes. A most extraordinary dreamstance is that the bullet entered the fotehe.d, but before coming in contact with the brain it was completely flattened, and shot upw .rds to the top (.1 the head, where it was found, about three inches from the spot it entered. About six o'clock, Mrs. Teece, wife of the man in question, rin into Wation street, where she saw police constables Stocton, Watson, and Wylie, telling them that her husband had -hot the servant girl. The officers accompanied Mrs. Teece to her house, where they found Jane Wainwright lying on a bed in a semi conscious state, bleeding ficen a wound in her forehead. Stemma went for Dr. Jeannette, the police-surgeon, who on arrival ordered the woman to be taken to the ho-pital. Mrs. Teece handed P.C. II urns six-chambered revolver, having fonr chambers loaded and two empty. It was discovered that a ballet had entered the woman Wainwright's brain. carrying away in its progress a piece of bane. The wound was probed to the depth of four and a-half incites, but the missil 3 was not found, there being no obstruction, consequently the bullet must have entered with great force. It is surmiAed that the pistol was fired close to the tranan's head, as her hair was siu,ged and there were marks of powder on her forehead. .  Praston, the stipe.niliary magistrate, on hearing of the aff Lir visited the hospital for he purpose of taking Wainwright's depositions, but her answers were so inarticulate that her statement was not reliable. The oily thing definite she sail was in answer to the question who had hid shot her, when -he said 'Joe." On Teece being searched two pistol cartridges, a small bottle containing laudanum labelled " poem," and a -ritten rambling statement ware fervid on bin, and were taken possession of by P.C. Harris. Per some :hue past Teece has been drinking heavily, which has resulted in his mind being , disordered, his idea being that there was someone in his house who w s going to give him poison.  The girl Wainwright, whose pArents reside iu William-street, has been wit It Teeee :,bout six years, attending his AI shop iu %esters:ree,. She is now lying at the hospital, sometimes rallying, sometimes sinking, but it is thought that she will not itywive, asVio bulkt is still in her brain.  Teeeo is doing as well as can be expecte.% and will on recovery ho charged with snow big Wainwright. Should the WOllll.ll die lie will be chargcd with her wilful murder.