The Sun. — 1862-08-28 (London, England)

THE LATE DISCOVERY L CASTLESZREET, TONG-ACRE.  THE MYSTERY CLEARED UP. Information was received yes'orday by Superintendent l‘l'Kenz e, of the F division, by which all doubt or mystery with respect to the blood-stained linen, &c., lately thrown away by a woman in Caste-street, Long-acre, is completely removed. It appears that a gentleman, whose name and address and circumstances are known, was in that habit of visiting an unfortunate woman living in Towerstreet, Seven-dials. On Friday,lsth inst, he called on her, and saying that he was not very well, asked her to allow him to lie down in her room, to which she consented. After he had been in bed some time she went to the room and found him insensible. She sent for Mr. Roberts, surgeon, of Earl-street, who, after applying restoratives without effect, and opening a vein in the arm, pronounced life to be extinct. Information was given to the coroner in the usual manner, an inquest was held, and Mr. Roberts made a post-mortem examination of the body, the result of which was that the cause of death was disease of the heart aid congestion of the brain. The jury returned a verdict of natural death. The post-mortem examination took place in the room where the man died, bfiiing the woman's bedroom, and Mr. Roberts cut away the shirt and undershirt as being the easiest way of removing them from the body. They were stained with blood, partly from the opening of the vein, and partly during the post-mortem examination. The woman was puzzled how to dispose of the blood-stained articles, and foolishly took them out into the street to throw them away. This is the simple explanation of the " supposed murder." It ie curious that the police were occupied during a great part of Tuesday night in investigating certain information affordel by the friends of a person who has been missing from home since the sth inst. He was a cylinder-sinker, formerly employed on the Eastern Bengal Railway, and had but lately returned from India. Two maid servants and a washerwoman employed at the coffeehouse where he lodged, identified the torn and bloody shirt as having belonged to him. They are clearly mistaken in that identification, as the articles are unquestionably those removed from the body of the gentleman who died at the house in Tower-street, and who of course was a very different person from the Indian cylinder sinker.  ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE  NORWICH, Aug.—Full particulars have been re' ceived to-day at the chief office of the Norfolk County Police of a shocking affair which occurred on Monday, at North Lopham, near }lading. It appears that a cloth hawker named Richard Roberts, who has for some time resided at Lopham, has been for the past two years keeping company" with Eaza Hunt, a young woman living in the parish, who owns some cottage property of the value of about £2O per annum. Their wedding has been repeatedly arranged to take place; but it has been postponed from time to time for reasons which are not generally known, except that Roberts has been in pecuniary difficulties. These misfortunes and the fact that a rival local suitor had appeared for the hand of the young woman seem to have preyed upon his mind ; and from a few broken sentences which the injured woman has been able to articulate to her attendants, it has transpired that on Monday morning, at an early hour, he called her up, having come down by mail train from London_ She let him in to her house, and he took a chair in the front room of the cottage, she returning to the bed in which she had sleeping with another woman. About 8 o'clock both the women got up and went downstairs, where they found Roberts still in the front room reading a book. Hunt proceeded to prepare breakfast and the other woman having left the house, the parties sat down to breakfast together. Suddenly, according to the young woman's statement, without using any angry expression, Roberts seized her violently, threw her down, knelt on her, and cut her throat. She screamed loudly, and a neighbour named Higgins, living under the same roof, rushed in to her assistance, but the injuries which she had sustained were so serious that she soon lost all consciousness. When Higgins and the other persons who had collected began to recover from their alarm they found that Roberts was standing in the room also severely wounded, and bleeding profusely. He, ran upstairs, and being pursued was found crouching under a bed with a knife in his hand, and insensible. The circumstances were at once reported to Mr. Cockell, one of the local magistrates, who issued' a warrant for the apprehension of Roberts ; but it was found that the injuries which he had inflicted on himself were so serious that he could not be removed, and last night he was scarcely expected to survive. His intended victim has rallied, and some hopes are entertained of her recovery.