The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1818-02-23 (London, England)

SUBSEQUEN7' SUICIDE.  Friday morning a discovery of a most &radiol description took place at Tottenham. A man named John Knighton, sped about twenty-eight, *years, who resided in d new-built house steer Tottenham chapel, and was Married ou Saturday mouth to a young woolen *hb lived servant to a gentleman named Wild. who was about the same age, were found in their house with their throats cut in a most effectual :manure. The house, it appears, has beets shut up ever since Friday week, and it was sup. posed by the inhabitants. as tit y were a tit W monied couple, that they had gone from Tottenham to spout! • few days. Several of the inhabitants called at the house as Monday last, and on every subsequent day in the week, and still found it shot up; but they had not the most remote idea of what had taken place. The young mass was always remarkable for his sobriety and good conduct ; his wife bore a good character, and hail for some years lived in a family at Tottenham. Some years ago she had a child by a Gentletuati. Whether her husband was sequsinted wills that circumstance until after he married, we have riot been able to learn. The father of the young muss deceased lives at Mulish, in Devonshire, steer Eater. Knighton had been in a melancholy state of mind for near a fortnight before the dreadful catastrophe took place, and his mental faculties were very much impaired; he talked incoherently. All4l could not attend to his business. Ile was foreman to a master cabinet-maker and carpenter at Tottenham, and his employer wondered that he did not come to his work as usual ; but front his being so recently married, he supposed that he had taken his wife during the remainder of the honeymoon to relations whom be had spoken of, and of whom lie said he expected to have a considerable sum of money, for the purpose of setting him up in business, and no suspicion entered his head, of any thing having 04.. carted of so serious a nature. On Friday, about one o'clock in the day, the proprietor of the next boom to that in which the deceased resided, was on the roof, giving instructions to a workman below to repair i . He observed also, that the house the deceased lived in was in is bad condition; there was a hole through the tiler, and the water bad run through the roof ; he looked through the cavity, and observed some blood on the top of the staircase; lie immediately thought of the premises lowing been locked tip in so extraordinary a tnanner for a week, and he felt convinced that something of an unusual nature had occurred. Ou looking again through another part of the roof be thought he discerned a human form on the floor, and a quantity of blood on the ground. Hs went immediately and communicated his suspicions to some persons in the neighbourhood ; the constables were sent fur, and Mr. Roberts. the Magistrate end Vicar of Tottenham, wets informed of what had beets discovered : they went in a body to Knighton's house and broke open the door, and went up stairs into the chamber, where they found Knighton and Isis wife with their throats dreadfully cut, his head nearly severed from his bad,. and besides the cut on her throat, she had is deep one on her face and chin. She lay on the bed covered with gore ; she had only her night doilies on. He was in a sitting posture, his head leaniug against the bedstead, A bloody razor lay between hien and Isis wife. It appeared that he had Aired some violence towards his wife; she bud resisted. and Modeled of his cutting her throat, as he appose-est to have attempted in the first instance, he cut her wills a razor across the face. and when he had overpowered her. effected his purpose and uut her throat ; after be had perpetrated that horrid cm i 000 r, he laid violent bands ott himself. and by cue stroke divided the main arteries of the neck and windpipe. The blood had flowed from the wife all over the bed on to the ground. and from his neck the blood had ruts along the floor to the staircase. and down the stairs. The sight of the man was truly terrific: his eyes were wide open; and one of the constables was so shocked at Ilse sight, lie Wilily faitited,and was taken touted' the house very unwell. and has continued so ever since. The officers of Tottenham sent information itansedietely to the Coroner. to summon a Jury to hold an loguest on the bodies.