The Express. — 1863-08-14 (London, England)

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT BETHNALGREEN.  The jury, having been sworn, proceeded yesterday afternoon W VIOW the room, at Nu. 4, Globe-street, where the crime was committed. It was miserably furnished. Atone end of it was a weaver's loom, on which was extended a piece of velvet nearly finished, on which the family bad teen employed almost up to the Lour of the murder. In a corner lay the corpse of the woman, on a miserable bed. A fearful gash on the left side of the neck and throat, and a deluge of blood on the door, showed how she had come by her death. A number of large dowers in pots upon a bench formed a singular contrast with the otherwise squalid appearance of the place. Elizabeth Dopey said that she was the daughter of the deceased persons. At a quarter past eleven on Tuesday evening they were at supper when their father came in. A person in the house sent for a pot of beer, Her father sat down aid lighted Lis pips. He said. " Whet have I done:" Witness's mother said, " You have been to work to-day, you have got money, and you can go and get some supper." ' He said, •. Very well," and drank some of the beer, but ate Ino supper. He bad does no work at the loom for two years. The work now on the loom was witness's brother's. All the family went to bed, leaving James Dopey up sinokiag. Being tired they tell asleep soon. Witness was shortly awoke by hearing a noise. She started up, and her father touched her face in getting across her. He ran, and witness did not know where to. Her mother cried out, "Oh, Harry, father has cut my throat." George Dupey got a light, and Harry put the sheet to a great wound in deceased's throat. She died in less than an hour. James Dopey was not quite sober that night. When he drank he was like a madman. He had never threatened his wife, but he was lately very strange in his manner. He used to take about band-boxes and do other slight work. Henry Dopey said that he lived with the deceased. Witness went to bed atone o'clock. His father had come in at nine o'clock, and his wife asked him to send for a candle, as they were in the dark. He did not do so, but went out to the Greyhound public-houses He came in again at 11 o'clock. Witness corroborated the account given by the previous witness. Witness identified the razor produced as his own. It was kept behind a box in the room. He had never heard his father threaten to take his wife's life. They used to quarrel when he was drunk. The family used to say, latterly, that " father was going mad, or something," for he used to make a muddle of what he was talking about, and he used to search about an empty room. If he had been in his right mind he never would Lave done this. G. Feast, 163 K, said that he was on duty about 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning. on the banks of the Regent', Canal, near the workhouse. He saw some clothe on the opposite bank, and he crossed over with soother constable. They then found a body in the water. They got it out, and found it only partially dressed. There was a akin wound in the throat. There was a coat and a hat on the bank. In the pocket of the coat was a razor and a case. None of the family could identify the razor. James Dupey never shaved himself. The name " Bucks," was scratched OD the razor handle.  A gentleman present said that be bad • person named Buckey in his employ, and that his wife said a man had called and borrowed her husband's razor lately. James W inter, a weaver, sou in-law of the deceased man, said that on Tuesday last he called on witness with the razor produced, and asked him if it would shave silk velvet well. Witness said that it would not unless it was pound. The Coroner then summed up, and said that it was very clear that the man Dupey was iu • state of insanity when he destroyed his wife's life and his own. . .  The jury returned • verdict "That the woman !dui& Dopey was wilfully murdered by her husbaud James Dopey, and that the said James Dupey committed suicide while in • state of unsound mind."  The proceedings then terminated.