Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1862-04-02 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. ^ A shocking murder was committed at Battersea-hill, Mill-hill, Hendon, on Saturday. A young woman named Anne Cox, aged 22, resided wit's her parents in this place. James Lawrence, aged 21, a farm labourer, to whom it was understood she wa.s about to be married, lodged in the I same cottage. About six o'clock on Saturday morning Lawrence was heard to get up as usual, it was supposed to go to his work. Shortly after this the inmates of the house were startled by a very loud report, as if a gun had been discharged in the house. This was immediately followed by a second report, which caused C 01.6 mother to rush into the kitchen, whence the noise seemed to proceed. Here a frightful sight presented itself. Near the window she saw her daughter lying without any signs of life, and blood running from gunshot wounds on each side of the neck. Lawrence, also wounded, was lying close beside her, with a double-barrelled gun near his feet. The mother was about to call for help, when a policc•constable named Savage, 297 S, who had been attracted to the spot by the noise, entered the house. Dr. Rouse, of Hendon, was sent for, and was soon on the spot. He gave it as his opinion that the young woman's death had been instantaneous, and that the gun must have been placed close to her neck when fired, as the flesh was slightly scorched. The bull-t with which the gun had been loaded had passed through the neck. Lawrence was still alive. He was found to have a portion of his jaw-bone broken, and some of his teeth and a part of his cheek blown away. After Dr. Rouse ' had done what he could to his wounds, a cart was procured, and he was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital. There he was at once attended to by the house surgeon. The impression is that the man Lawrence found the woman in the kitchen, and that after shooting her he put the muzzle of the gun to his mouth, and pulled the trigger with his foot. The motive assigned is that Lawrence was jealous of the deceased, in consequence of his having seen her in conversation wit% another young man in the village whom he believed to be his rival. It appears that Lawrence is going on very well at present, and that there is a probability of his recovering. He is constantly watched by the police. He is able to talk, and has stated that his sweetheart shot herself first, and that he afterwards took the gun and shot himself.  Mu. W. F. Wixtanam.—A Norwich correspondent sends the following:—" Mr. Windham continues a current topic of conversation in Norfolk. Mr. It. J. IL Harvey, a member of the eminent local banking firm of Harvey and Hudson, has advanced £35,000 upon a bill of sale upon the Felhrigg estate, and it is stated that the income derived from the property will now be wholly absorbed in the payment of interest on the advances made upon it, although Mr. Windham has still a reversionary interest in some other property to fall back upon. Mrs. Windham is now in Paris. She has separated from her husband, but it is now stated that terms cannot be adjusted as to the provision proposed to be made for her. Mr. Windham himself continues in Norfolk, where his chief amusement appears to be coachdriving. On Saturday, as on preceding days, he "tooled' up to Norwich, taking up all the stray passengers he could collect on the way; and, as he carries persons gratuitously, he is actually said to injure the trade of a limo fide coach proprietor who works on the same line of road. Mr. Windham was proposed as a member of a lacal masonic lodge in the course of last week, but the members present declined to admit him."— ACM/EN rAL Discoa-nains.—ln medicine, as well as in mechanical science, the most remarkable and beneficial dixeoveries are frequently the result of mere accident. In alluding to one of the finest remedial agent s of modern times, Dr. de longli's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil, Mr. Thomas Hunt, the eminent Surgeon to the Western Dis. pensary for the diseases of the Skin, in a communication to the Medical Tinges and Ga:ette, remarks: "I had never heard that Cod Liver Oi; had been found extensively useful in the Skin Diseases (excepting those of a s•rumous origin) until I happened to meet with the widelycirculated observations of Dr. de Jongli. I resolved to put it to the test of experiment, and I ,have now prescribed it about in one hundred and twenty cases Vf Skin Disease. It is bare justice to Dr. de Jough to say, that the success attending its use in dispensary praticc fully satisfies me that lie has not exaggerated its value. .10 avoid the chance ot adulteration, and secure uniformity of quality, I have invariably prescribed, in the cutaneous cases herein alluded to, the Oil sold in bottles with Dr. de Jongh's seal upon them."  Printed and published by THOMAS MOUTON Hums, the Iterate. Office, 51,