The Sun. — 1852-12-23 (London, England)

TEE EWT ATTEMPTED CASTLE.M ND SUICIDE IN  On Tuesday morning, at the borough police-court, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Robert Knox, a tailor, was brought up for further examination, on the charge of attempting to murder his wife. Mrs. Knox, who was disinclined to appear against her husband, but had been summoned by the magistrates to attend, said, that on the evening of Saturday, the 28th of November, her husband came home very tipsy, and a 'quarrel took place between them, but she lost all recollection of what happened until she found herself wounded, and police-officers in the room. They had been married twenty-eight years, and had nine children. Mrs. Brennan said she lived in the room adjoining the prisoner's. About one o'clock in the morning of Sunday, the 29th November, she heard a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Knox screaming on the stair-head, and on going to their room she found the prisoner and his wife lying on the floor. Both were bleeding. The prisoner said, "I have done it, and want to die in peace." Mr. Brennan, the husband of the last witness, said that on the morning in question he followed his wife into Knox's room, assisted to lift Mr. and Mrs. Knox from the floor, and then went for policemen and medical assistance. Mr. Finnigan, clothes dealer, Dog-bank, said that, at one o'clock on the morning of the 29th ult., he heard the prisoner's daughter shout, "My mother is stabbed—he had a knife to my mother." He ran into their room, and saw Mrs. Knox lying on her left side, near the window. The prisoner was lying close to her, and a large carvingknife was sticking in his breast. Vitness inquired who did it, and the prisoner then drew the knife from his body, threw it upon the ground, and said, "You see I have done it myself." Mrs Knox screamed and said, "Oh, my heart—l am dying ;" to which the prisoner replied, "Die hard, you b--."—Mrs. Finnigan, wife pfr`the'last witness, said that when she entered the i:oom,on the morning in question she heard the prisoner, who had been told that his wife would recover, say, " I wish I had done it more effectually, and I wish to die in peace." She unloosed Mrs. Knox's sts.is, and found that she had been stabbed.—Mr. J. L. Miller, surgeon, said that between one and two o'clock on the morning of the 29th ult., be was sent for to the prisoner's house in Dog-bank. Mrs. Knox had a wound two inches in depth over the eighth rib, which must have been inflicted with great violence by a sharp knife. For several days she was dangerously ill, but was now out of danger. The prisbner had a wound two or three inches deep immediately over the breast bone, but it was .not a dangerous one, the knife having been arrested in its progress by the bone. Several other witnesses -were examined, after which Mr. Stoker, solicitor, who appeared for the prisoner, said that Mrs. Knox had no wish to prosecute, but if the magistrates considered that that was not sufficient reason why the prisoner should not be sent for trial, he could say nothing after the evidence that had been given. Mr. Airey, the sitting magistrate, said that the case must undoubtedly be ,• sent for trial. The prisoner was fully committed for trial at the next assizes.