The Sun. — 1844-10-18 (London, England)

ASSAULT ON A NV BY HER HUSBAND, A.NL ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. (Abridged from the Cheltenham Examine".) nt• On Saturday morning the neighbourhood of Ar°lllor pkasarit was thrown into a state of great excitement,„ dr. a report that a man named Young, a. c oh.l-dc.aler,resii"l, tl!ere, had stabbed his wife and two children. and u'riehe wards attempied suicide by cutting ids own throat ;: 'ea no ,noon spread far and ncar, and the was be,340, the populace, who used no very vale lilt:gunge .0 wards the culprit; and th,- policemen stationed on nv. premises had some difficult). in preserving order sin°.°, d" t4e crowd. In the afternoon the depositions of the i. j..:-ed woman were taken, at the house. before W. GY The husband, Richard Young, apparently about f°Ttl. years of age, was lying in bed with his throat bsn; d:tged up, quite sensible and collected ; ht' toll notice of his wife when she came into the room, sntl,t;;°,,(l but little interest in the proceedings. The fl,)or ;-rt.;b clothes, and several of the articles, were spotted 41' blood. Mrs. Young deposed that her husband and berselfblida frequent disagreements together, and she had from him. Four days before the assault they had oleo matters up. On the Friday night they went to bed kg very good terms. About four o'clock she was sw°lo, by a blow in the bowels, and putting her hand to Her bue. spot, she felt the blood running from her. who was out of bed, cried out, " Mother Viltnra Mother Young." She said, "Oh Richard. lam strhtit", you have killed me," and begged of him to gat a 11'. he did so, and went down stairs, leaving her in the a She ran into her son's room, calling " murder," sr:, heard her son say, " Oh don't, father, dout't do it," words to that effect. She then ran out of the 13°10, and into a neighbour's, who applied bandages to t wound and stopped the blood ; it bled very much; be Henry Young slept in an adjoining room, and IL—ba five o'clock was awoke by his mother rushing into thi, room crying "murder." She told him to run into 11 father's room ; he did so, and found his father sitting ‘,ithe side of the bed, and the blood running out of a gr gash in his throat. James Spring, police-constable 37, deposed to beill called in directly after the occurrence ; he found Irnu"e2 was lying on the bed,covered up in the clothes; he turnip him on his back, and found his throat cut, and the kn produced lying beside him, the pen blade being °rod Witness assisted the doctor to dress the wounds, 11.4, stayed in charge of the prisoner afterwards. fte,,,sfolt Policeman, we are not our own keepers ; do you 1". I shall be transported ? I knew nothing of it till 2. wife cried out ' I am stabbed.' I then recollected„ot and cut my throat, in hopes we might die together. my throat because I thought I had stabbed my wite' fig, Mr. Henry Taylor, surgeon—On seeing Mrs. lr°11:00 and being told what had occurred, requested to ocrt,',lt the wound, and found it an incised one ; it was ,taw-„tb, half an inch in length and one eighth of an inch in °eche and was just such a wound as would be caused by but penknife produced. It was not at all dangerous, m'ght have been serious. it This being the whole of the evidence, and the prig„ declining to say anything in his defence, he was 'Ol c witted to the assizes. Mr. Superintendent was bound over to prosecute, and the witnesses to gl evidence.