The Sun. — 1846-01-14 (London, England)

BRENT FORD-SUICIDE OF THE FATHER.  Yesterday Brentford was thrown into a state of considerable excitement and alarm, in consequence of the circulation of a report that a man named John Lowe had been stabbed by his own father, who had immediately afterwards attempted self-destruction, by cutting his throat with a razor.  About twenty minutes to eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, as Mr. Rowles, butcher, at Isleworth, was passing along the Great estern road, a short distance from Brentford-bridge, he saw John Lowe run out of his own shop, holding his hand to his right side, and exclaiming that he was stabbed and was a dead man, and hastening into the house of Mr. Millard, the George and Dragon public-house, a door or two off, into which he entered. Mr. Rowles instantly hastened into Lowe's house for the purpose of securing the supposed murderer, when in a back room behind the shop he discovered Thomas Lowe, the father, sitting in a chair with his throat cut, from which the blood was flowing profusely, the wounded man having still a razor in his right hand, which was covered with blood. Mr. Rowles instantly dispatched the first person he saw for Mr. Cooper, surgeon, of Brentford-butts, and in the meantime endeavoured to wrest the razor from the grasp of Thomas Lowe, in effecting which Mr. Rowles's own hand was much cut by the weapon. At the moment of nn sto pe e the tor the discovery the Rev. H. S. Trimmer, vicar of Heston, district, passed the to the meeting of the gtoivethienfsopromtatiol house on his way Local Commissioners of Assessed .Tax!ts, at New Brentford,and one of the magistrates acting in the Brentfordpolice. In New Bre.n_tfoFd he met policeman Smith, T 92w haennid Lawrence, T division, with Sergeant Scotney, T 5, binessmennttlywihthasatllen:pdeetod goon followed, as did also two of Mr. Cooper's assistants, that gentleman being absent from home when sent for, when every attention which medical skill could afford was rendered the wounded men. On their wounds being examined the son was found to have been stabbed under the right arm, near to the back, the weapon having entered just under the bladebone of the right shoulder, and it is feared by the surgeons has injured the right lung ; while the father's wound is also on the right side of the neck, the razor having just missed the principal arteries and vessels. About an hour after the occurrence, the house was visited by Mr. H. Pownall, of Spring-grove, Hounslow, the chairman of the Middlesex Quarter Sessions, and the Rev. Mr. Trimmer, accompanied by Mr. G. Clark, of New Brentford, clerk to the magistrates, who, after a consultation with the surgeons, determined on the re-. move cf Thomas Lowe, the father, to St. George's Hospital. A fly was immediately procured from the Castle Inn, New Brentford, in which he was conveyed by Sergeant Scotney and policeman Smith to that hospital. From the latest inquiries last evening, both at Brentford End and at St. George's Hospital, as to the state of both father and son, it was ascertained that the latter was lying at his own house in a most dangerous state, the surgeon being unable at present to give any opinion as to the probable result ; and the surgeons at the hospital state, from the father's advanced age (seventythree years) there is not much probability of his recovery.