Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1882-11-04 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

MURDER OF A FAMILY IN  LONDON.   SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER. Laet Saturday morning a horrible discovery was made in Kentish Town, the wife and two children of a fishmonger named Meakin, dwelling at No. 2, Dunollie-place, Kentish To wnroad, being found in their beds with their throat cut. Mrs Meakin was about thirty , years of age, and-her children—a boy and a girl —named Frerizrick and Emily—five and two Lear! respectively. It appears that the husband, Hiram Mein, with his wife and two children, had lived at 2, Dimollie-pluce for some time, he being a fishmonger and poulterer. Ile is weU known to many of the inhabitants of Kentish Town and its neighbourhood, ripen whom he was in the habit of calling and serving, and was regarded by them as a very quiet and inoffensive man. Be had been married about seven years. and at first lived with his wife at Camberwell until they removed to Kentish Town. The other lodgers in the same house describe them as being very quiet persons, both of them being total abstainenaddeakin taking an active part in the temperance movement. It is also stated that he always appeared to be very fond of his wife and children, and they were never heard to quarrel. Of late, howeter, it has been noticed that the man was at times in a very desponding state of mind, owing, it is said, to his business not being in a very good condition, and his having& dread that he and his wife would come to want. On Friday evening, about half-pest seven o'clock, the man was seen by one of the lodgers in the passage. That is the last that was seen of him, and he then appeared to be in good health. He afterwards went into the kitchen where his wile and .children were. On Saturday morning, shortly after nine o'clock, one of the lndgers, a young woman, wanting some butter, went to purchase some from Mrs Meakin. After knocking at the door several times and getting no answer, she informed Mrs Elizabeth Kenzie, whoafterwards knocked at the door several times. Receiving no answer, she went into the front room, which was used as a bedroom, and on looking at the bed she saw Mrs Meakin with her daughter in a pool of blood with their throats cut. She at once called for assistance, and a Mr Moon, living at No. 4, in the same thoroughfare, went to a Kentish Town-road police station, when he informed Inspector Redstone of the discovery. The Inspector, with Police-sergeant Moore, 15 Y, at once proceeded to the house. Inspector Redstone, on making an examination, found that not only were the mother and daughteit *murdered, but also the little boy, who slept in a cot. Dr. Goodchild, of Highgate-road, wile had been called in, found that the three victims had been dead for several hours. Theyhad been murdered, presumably, as there was no appearance ef any struggle having taken place. The wall and bed were covered with blood, and when Inspector Redstone and Sergeant Moore made a search of the place they found under the bed a large hammer besmeared with blood, and a shoemaker's knife which was covered with blood. On Saturday evening the police at the Kentish Town-road station received a telegram from the Thames police stating that shortly before twelve o'clock the body ot a man, answering in every particular the description of the man wanted for the murder of his wife and two children, had been found floating in the Thames off London Bridge, and had been conveyed to the mortuary of Guy's Hospital. Inspectors Dodds and Redstone at once caused the sister-in-law to go and see if the Mall was Hiram Meakin, and upon her arrival at the mortuary she at once identified him.  ANOTHER TRAGEDY, A shocking case of attempted murder, followed by suicide, has occurred in Pentonvilleroad, Ignidon. A woman named Elizabeth Brown had been living for some time with a man named James Farey, and on Friday week,. after visiting a music hall in his company, went with him to a house in Pentonville-road, where be cut her throat, and attempted to murder her. Esrey left in the morning after paying the landlady, who afterwards found the woman Brown upstairs with her throat cut. The injured woman is now lying in the hospital In a serious condition. Farey is a butcher by trade, and has a wife and family living at Boweston-street, 1 Caledonia.n-rosAl, where he proceeded on Saturday, after having been absent several days. While there, he went into a closet at the back, wild committed suicide by cutting his throat.