The Express. — 1849-01-20 (London, England)

MAHLHOHOUGH-STRBET.—Csanon Or Yunnan.— W. S. /break wee charged on suspicion of murdering his wife Maria, by stabbing her with a knife.—W. White, who essuginithe them next to that of the prisoner, said : About lealf-poet eines last aight I was awoke by hearing the priNOW say, " Pat that knife down ; my dear Maria, do put thee Wfs down." The deceased said, " I will net put it down." I then heard a scuffle between them, as if the pri• seem wee tryfts to take the knife away from bar. I heard the women cry out, " Good God, I am cut run for a doctor ; help, help." The door of the room was then opened, and I heard the prisoner run out. I went into the wimner's room, and saw the prisoner's wife lying on the bed, which was on the floor. Some part of her Clothes were off, and there was a wound en her left breast, from which blood was flowing, as also tem her month. She never spike or moved from the time I went into the room. I saw a knife stained with blood lying on a table close by the bed, and a great deal of blood was thud the room. The prisoner came in sad said, " I have been for the doctor, but I could not see him." When the doctor came he said, " She is dead ; I can do nothing for her." The prisoaer kissed his ra wife, andtim to the doctor to restore her. The prisoner y sobsr.-By Yr. Leadly, the chief clerk : The parti between the two rooms is so slight that I could hear every word through it. The prisoner was extremely fond of his wife, but they sometimes quarrelled. On Wednesday night I heard them quarreL From what I could heir the prisoner was toasting something before the fire. I heard the prisoner My, " Yon have pushed my arm into the fire, do not do it again." They afterwards appeared to be on good terms with each other, and retired to rest quietly. On Thursday afternoon I heard them sirwing together, and they appeared to be vmy merry. —Mary White, wife of last witness, said she heard beamed say, " I have cut myself, fetch the doctor." Heard the deceased say, " I have done it," and the prisoner replied, " Yes, you have, Maria." Was positive she heard her say so. In other respects this witness corroborated the evidence of her husband.—Mary Clark, who rented the house in Wells-street, where the prisoner and his wife lodged, said, on Thursday fortnight the prisoner came and hired the first floor back room. A few days after they came I heard the deceased abuse the prisoner m most shocking terms respecting some bacon which he had bean buying. I heard the prisoner say to hie wife, " You will diagram me in these lodgings, as you have in others." With this exception, they appeared to be on very good terms. About 12 o'clock on Thursday night I went up stairs to the prisoner's room, and saw the deceased lying ea the floor, quite dead. The prisoner was kneeling by her side, speaking to her in the most endearing terms, and had both her hands clasped in his, grasping them tightly to his nrck. I asked him if she wee dead ? Her eOed "No ; she is not dead, she is only in a fit. I have often Nth her in each fits for three hours at • time." I asked the how it was done. He gave me a knife, stained with blood, and said, "This is what it was done with." The knife aphave been recently wiped, and war smeared with tloa:ld to all the way down the blade. I said, " Who wiped this knife ?" The prisoner looked very wild, and said, " I am surprised at you asking such a question." —Mr. Hartley, surgeon, said the prisoner came to him much agitated, and said his wife had just stabbed herself. Witness timid the deceased lying in a miserable room on some rep, which served for a bed. Found a wound two inches in depth beneath the left breast. The wound caused almost immediate death. The prisoner was much affected.—The police-coastable said, the prisoner when taken into custody said he was innocent, but was ready to submit to the laws of his country.—Several witnesses deposed to the fondness for his wife generally displayed by the prisoner, and that when they did quarrel, it was always the wife who began it.—The prisoner, who said he had no defence to salter was remanded. ATTEDITTED SUICIDE IN corrsicararcon 01