The Express. — 1847-08-16 (London, England)

ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE.  A deliberate effielapt at murder and suicide was nods ea fly aftetneta, of which the following packable have Mee /lewd how various sources. The victim is Mr. Oemoi Oeverbsy„ wine-merchant, of 12, Mukha% asarly eepeehe he New Corn Exchanee. The intended iseanth is Mr. him Ovenstone, who has for some tizzadnitiserrkd hasiame as an upholsterer in Great Merjbheee. It MINN that Overawe was greatly exasperated by an ezeontiga babe hem seat into his house. Overtakee beime—ie eselamelha with a Mr. Greiner, the sargnee of a hanbrope—ammeger el ea kin in Holborn, to whom Mr. Crawley bad seggined wine sad spirits, and Ovenstora's coma/nee Lilies Kr. Crawley proceeded at law against him for the ammeat doe to the estate, about 1501. What may have leamphei halite emit el the skim is not =Mows, hat it emlala het those ithethaince aim is =kin the neembeees eliempa Mr. Crawly is blend to be memerried i Ovowitene has • wife liDoh arc mash empielled In the dram in hay awe inkOWll. • sentement el the eircumelnesse was made by Mr. Crawley to the reporter of the Weekly CAroniele, at St. Theemes Hospital, whither he ealfsrer was taken YeetmthwEatardsy ) aftereoee, shad half-pest ko'elock, while with • friend in the wise trade, my clerk came 0•71;s70 mid that Mr. Ovensbeeet Great Tichfield-screet, mead is speak to me. I immediately went into my where I found Mr. pmt, to whom I said, Mr. Ovenstone, I thilethethil aid you want to see me ? • He replied, ' Yee, sir, I do.' I inquired what his basiesse was with me ? Whin be shouted out, ' What do you mean by doing what peahen dose ? Yon are • pretty fellow. I think.' My impremba was, that be was alluding to a sale that had taken place at ide been. I told him that I had nothing to do with it, that I had kik my ease in my mileker's heads. I had no gooier attend hale words than M pat his hands into his pocket, as I eatl hr the purpose eleawiag eat his bitadkerekiel, bras et which he pulled oat a plied, preeethed the asolb et the, owl before I bad time to get away, be diebargeoll the eatande In my face. I immediately rem est into the street end cried murder, end afterwards went to Mr. Harris's surgery, and from thence I fame to this WOW in a ob. Whoa I ran out °neatens was is the ream, tai I anibeebed hem ray clerk that he locked him I. be pewee kb Barge What afterwards took place I do not know et my own laswledge, but I have been told that Ovonelleme shot himself the moment after I ran into the street." The narrative is continued by Mr. Crawley's clerk, who, when be saw his master was wounded, locked the attempted murderer in the office, and had hardly done so when a second report of tiro-arms was heart Two constables entered, and found Ovenstoae sitting in a chair, with a couple of pistols near him, and blood flowing is copious streams from his head and face. They immediately secured both the pistols end Ovenstone, end took him to Guy's Hospital, where two of the house. surgeons were in instant attendance. They found that the in:Aries he had inflicted on himself were of • frightful character: the ball appeared to have entered at the mouth, passed in an oblique direction, end lodged over the left temple. The medical gentlemen hare been successful in extricating the ball which had lodged in Ovenstone's head, and it is now in the care of Edmonds, the officer. There seems to be no doubt about its having been the intention of the wretched man to kill Mr. Crawley end then destroy himself, as, in addition to the fact of his having with hum two heavily-leaded pistols, a written statement was found in his coat pocket, which was evidently drawn up so as to give • full explanation of the several reasons that had actuated him to attempt the commission of the crime. In it he states that disgrace has been brought on him by Crawley, far not consulting with him and Cremer to get possession of the Bull Inn. " One must go for an example, it continues, " to deter  such wretches fraud, log the like. I cannot help saying that my solicitor ought to have looked into this matter of bond before be advised me to be an assignee in this bankruptcy, and which, had he done so, would have prevented all that has occurred. Death is far more than the disgraceful dentin' Crawley has me in, and driven me le do that whisk I never have contemplated. This intim will se doubt eau* a good deal of grief to you an bat you must forget it, as you could never expect that I should ever know happiness again in this world after Crawley's conduct towards me." The rest of the statement related to family circumstances of no interest to the public. It was signed " John Ovenatone," and addressed to " lin. Maly Jackson and Beatrice Jenkinson Ovenatone, 46, Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square." Upon making inquiries last evening at St. Themas's nor ley,t a 1 it al w to ther ascertained oldhe s huf: unfortunate tet sufferer, Mr. Craw,: surgeon to the institution, had made an examination of his patient, and found that the bullet from the pistol, after psalm through the cheek, and fracturing the jawbone, had lodged in the antrum. To extract this required considerable care. lie succeeded, however, in doing so, but it is feared that erysipelas may supervene.  A