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

BRENTFORD— SUICIDE OF THE FATIIEI. 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. Abot t twenty minutes to eleven o'clock yesterday forenoon, as Mr. Rowles, butcher, at Isleworth, was passing along the Great Western 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 the discovery the Rev. H. S. Trimmer, vicar of Heston, and one of the magistrates acting in the Brentford district, passed the house on his way to the meeting of the Local Commissioners of Assessed Taxes, at New Brentford, and instantly hastened to give information to the police. In New Brentford he met policeman Smith, T 92, whom he sent with all speed to the spot. Inspector Lawrence, T division, with Sergeant Scotney, T 5, soon followed, as did also two of Mr._ Cooper's assistants, that gentleman b t when sent for, when every aetitnegntiosnbsewnhicf_hrommercael skill could afford was rendered the wounded men. On and hweihsi their wounds being examined. the son was found to have been- stabbed unter the right. arm, near to the back, the weapon having entered just under the bladeboneahlassa injured rtehde the ht right sidelung r neck,at eh the father's hfbea ytrhaetzrho' the of the. right . shoulder, lefe having just missed the principal arteries vessels. and wsuorge°unciriss About an hour after the occurrence, the house was visited by Mr. H. Pownall, of SP ring -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, w he, after a consultation with the surgeons, determined on the removal 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.