The Potteries Examiner : — 1875-03-27 (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE ' THROUGH LOVE. Oa Monday night, at about nine o'clock, a startling tragedy wearied at Harborne, which excited intense commotion in the village. A young man named John Davis attempted to murder his sweatheart, Elizabeth H rrnes. h" cutting her throat, and then commit,od dlectod hurriolly, and at a late hoar, there _  “ipplause.i They would have to mak', cool thole that this country would ever see. He “elined waste I nici te. allectea aJy, awl at a late near, „„ guarantees, and the greatest part of it would be called to be money in the atone place, or spent on a wrong may possibly be some trifling inaccuracies in the details, for, and he wished to cushion the question for them a purpose. or ostentation, or when its ex aenditure pro- but the following are the main facts :—Davis, who is little—(longldorl—so that when the amount was asked diced a feeling of injustice, when it paralysed energy young man, under twenty years of age, and is employed for the guarantors would say. This is exactly what I or enterprise, and when men attemptol to purchase at Elliott's metal sheathing works, at Se:ly Oak, has for expected.” They might have had some defects, but he with it that which money conl I not buy. National re- twelve months or so been courting the .girl Haynes, a was sure they bad all had their moner's worth. and sources were either private wealth or pnblic wealth, servant at the house of Mr. Smythe, W. ilington.road, those defects [meld be remedied in the future, First, The first was that possessed ho clubs, companies. and Harborne. Davis was of a jealous temperament, and they most remomher that the scheme was experimental; any coporatiou which could show a distinct title to there have been frequent quarrels. So serious have they were just launching it into the astrict, and experi- their possessions. Public money included taxes, all these been that it is known the young man has three. ments were proverbially expensive, but altogether they Crown lands, and Crown lands used to include all the toned the girl's life, and has carried a razor in his had mach to congratulate thomselves upon. It Was the land of the country, and every estate that could point pocket. Once already, it is said, he has attempted to intro-Motion of a movement for which the district per. to no special owner, but which existed for the people's take his own life through some frenzy of jealousy. It hugs was not quite prepared. And when they remem. good. The law really knew no such thing as a church. is known that on Sunday afternoon there was a di. lamet the excellencies of the imtruction given, and the popularly understood', but simply an ecclesiastical na- agreement between them, in consequence of the young aptitude with which it bad been received, and when tiou at large. After explaining the nature of tithes, woman refusing to allow him to join her in her master's they took in account that the percentage of those who he argued that they arose oat of eastern in a remote I pew at Harborte Church. They met on Monday evenhad received first class certificates were above the age, when custom and law were nearly inseparable, and lag. soon after eight o'clock. The young woman went average of any other placo where the scheme had been traced the history of the question from Charlemagne to into the shop of Mr. Harlow, grOcer. High-street. tried, there was some came for gratification. (Hear, the time when Henry