The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-11-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ENGLEDUE. Yours very trulY,  the Ladies and,  )I;ATIT 0  MURDER AND SUICIDE BY A DEAF AND  DUMB MAN  A dreadful murder and suicide were committed at Wincolmlee, Hull, by a deaf and dumb man, named Robert Hickson. The wretched man had quarrelled with his wife, Sarah Hickson, about some domestic matter, upon which he seized a poker, and struck her a dreadful blow on the head, and afterwards destroyed himself, by cutting his throat with a razor.  An inquest was held on the bodies on Friday night, and, after being sworn, the jury proceeded to view them. They were found lying side by side on a slightly raised rilatform in a small, neatly furnished room, in Owen 's-square, New George-street. The sight was a most appalling one, the throat of the man being cut from ear to ear, whilst the woman's skull was literally smashed to pieces. The floor was deluged with blood, but partly covered with sawdust. Immediately over the corpses was a portrait of Hickson, painted in oil by himself. In another part of the room was a painting of Christ, in the same style as the portrait, and executed by the deceased.  Selina Hickson, daughter of the deceased, deposed—l am going for eight years old, and lived with my father and mother. They quarrelled yesterday about marrying. My father went ow soon after breakfast this morning. He was deaf and dumb. He came back at twelve to-day, to his dinner. He came in dripping wet, and mother said she was so poorly she could scarcely wash for him. He was angry because there was not a dry waistcoat for him to put on. Mother talked to him with ber fingers. Father seemed in a passion when they were quarrelling, but I have seen him worse before. We were getting our dinners, and so was mother, when he came in. He took up a poker from the fireside and struck mother four or five times. She fell down on the hearth, and I never heard her speak again. Father took a razor from the cupboard top and cut his throat. Then I ran out.  Hickson was in the employ of Mr. Binning, a coal-merchant, as a coal-porter. It appeared, from the evidence of Mr. Binning, and other witnesses, that he had latterly become jealous of his wife, in consequence of a man named Charles Richardson having been seen walking with her. Mr. Binning had spoken to Richardson on the subject, when be said, " he had walked with Hickson's wife, and would do so again." On being called before the jury liiehardson said that Hickson had once accused him of being connected with his wife—" but very little." He had never repeated the accusation, and he (Richardson) never met her at Binning's stables. Had spoken to her in the street, but nothing more. Never met her by appointment, and had only walked the length of a street with her when they met accidentally.  Several jurymen said this witness wa the deaths of the deceased.  rally guilty of  The jury, in the case of the suicide, returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity," caused in their opinion by the improper conduct of one of his fellow-workmen with reference to deceased's wife. In the case of the murder, the jury returned the extraordinary verdict of " Excusable homicide."