Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-10-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

SHOCKING MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT HADFIELD. On Saturday night last a shocking murder was committed at Station•road, Hadfield, in the borough of Glossop. The murderer is Albert Robinson, and the victim his wife, Jane Elna Robinson. He ix the son of the late Bold Robinson, who kept the Red Ball's Head, Market.street, Mottram, and will not be 21 years of age till next February. Last October bin mother got married again to William Hall Middleton, and it is said that he wee very much displeased at his mother's marriage. At any rate, he did not remain at home long after, and shortly before Christmas he married his victim. She was a widow with two children, and kept Hurst Clough tollbar, which is on the road between Mottram and Broadbottom. He was not 20 years of age then, and she was 12 or 13 years his senior. Her character was anything but of good repute, and he, too, is said to have possessed none of the most agreeable dispositions. At any rate, with their disparity of of age and other circumstances, they very soon began to live an unhappy life, and they got notice to leave the tollbar. they removed to Station road, Hadfield, and he found employment as a weaver at Platt's top mill. It is reported that while he was at work on Saturday last he was informed that his wife was drinking with a number of men. Pending the Coroner's inquiry it would be out of place to go into particulars into the unfortunate circumstances that ensued further than that after he went home they had several quarrels. This was nothing unusual, but on this occasion the quarrelling had a fatal termination. At ten minutes to nine he was seeo:to get hold of her by the shoulder and draw a knife or some sharp ins• trument across her throat or close to her throat. After doing the deed he at once bolted. The neighbours ran to the assistance of his wife, and Dr. Burnett, of Mottrant, happened to be in neighbourhood, and was called in. He found that the wound commenced at the vertebra of the neck, and came round to the angle of the jawbone and over that bone to the mouth, It ! was superficial on the jawbone, as it could not be otherwise, but between that and the back. bone of the neck it WM very deep, the arteries being severed. The doctor saw at once that it was fatal, but he remained with her to her death, ! which took plane at a quarter to ten, or 55 min! undo after the wound was inflicted. In the mean-, ! time information wee sent to the police at Glossop and they at once started in search of the murderer. They traced him to Woolley Bridge, and there lost all clue of him. They they then went to his mother's, the Bull's Head, Mottram, and marched the house minutely, but did not find Lim. The officers who did this were Sergeants Hague and Cooper. After leaving Mottram they met near the Gun Inn, Hollingworth, just before eleven o'clock, one of the Cheshire Constabulary, and he and they returned to the Bull's Head, and found the murderer on the couch chair, with hie throat cut. Ile was quite ingconscious,.n .d h andi chockt the d hand,di not knowthwhere l cut his throat, but it most have been in the neighbourhood of, or in, Mottram, for he could not have come all the way from from the Derbyshire side with his throat cut without IMO, climbing to exhaustion from loss Of blood. It transpired that when he got to the neighbourhood of his mother's house he went into an out, house in the backyard. He used to have the use of this house when he lived at home and put • padlock ou it, but although he had a key