The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-08-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

CHARGE OF STABBING AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  Charles S-1;;;,-- ship's fireman, was charg,d at West London Police-court,onTuesday, with stabbing his wife, and also with attempting to commit suicide. The wife was unable to attend in consequence of the injuries she had received.—Police-con • table 477 X said on Monday night, about 10 o'clock. lie was called to Osborne-cottages, South Actor., being informed that a man had stabbed his wife. Ile saw the wife, and found that she had a bad wound in the thumb. He stopped the wound, and sent for medical assistance. Ile found the prisoner had two cuts in the throat, Ile told him the charge, and he made a state.. ment, which he took down in writing. The statement was as follows: "My wife was bed. I said I was ping to have a game .1 Deeming to-night. I took the knife from the table, and went towards her and said, 'Now, Jenny. are you prepared, like Deeming's offsprings ' pointed the handle of the knife to her thrnat. threw up her hands and said, 'Oh, Jim, see wits, you have done.' I then caught hold of her wri-t and saw it was bleeding. I said, 'Mate, it it an awful cut. I then turned round and cut ri • throst with the same knife."—The constable produced a white-handled knife which he found or. the floor at the bottom of the bed. When he shewed the knife to the prisoner he said, "That's the knits I did the crime witb."—Dr. And Jolly deposed that lie was called to Osborne-cottages, where he saa the prisoner, who had two incised wounds 03 Ili. 1, ft side of the throat, each being above t we-thi rils of an inch in length. The wounds w€-re not deep. Witness found the wooly. suffering from an incised wound on th• left hand, between the thumb and finger, two inches in length. The wound might have beci. caused by the knife. There must have been • considerable amount of violence. The wouee was not bleeding, as the constable lisr coinpressed the vein before Witness arrive,. Prisoner said it was quite an accident, his witi catching hold of the knife.—Mr. Curtis Bennett remanded the prisoner, and directed the police tr communicate with him in the event of the wits becoming in a dangerous state.  In answer to a demand for explanations, made at St. Petersburg by the representative of China. concerning the presence of Russian troops in the Pamirs, the Russian Government have given the Chinese Government assurances that the expeditim. under Colonel Yanoff was merely an explorini expedition, and that it would not occupy any territory in the Pamirs region. The report that the notorious Johann Most, the Anarchist, who was first a devout Roman Catholic and next a zealous Atheist, has enlisted in the Salvation Army turns out, says the Echo, to be true. When it was first announced, early in the spring of the present year, it was supposed to be an April joke. His conversion, like that of as many famous characters in history, was due to the influence of a woman. Heir Most has been fascinate' by the beautiful eyes and winning ways of a female captain. She induced the fierce man to attend succession of meetings, and the American leaders 0' the army now boast that the ferocious old slime who came to flirt remained to pray and sins Hallelujah. He is accredited with anxiety to returi to Europe, but it is doubtful whether the Germs' colic will uut much faith in his conversicn.  Mi!dun. a New South Wales tewe,where the sale of drink is prohibited, has 4,000 inhabitants, but only one policeman. The town of Sontra., in the district of Cassel, was on Sunday the scene of an extensive Are. The flames destroyed 140 buildings, or nearly half the town. An eagle of extraordinary dimensions, which the Emperor William brought with him from his last Norwegian voyage, bas become one of the popular sights of Potsdam.