Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-04-21 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE.  Another shocking murder and suicide was committed on Tuesday morning, in Drury-lane, London. A man named Richard Whitly, with his wife Mary Whitly and seven children, the eldest beings son seventeen years of age, have for some time occupied a front attic in a court in Drury lane. Between six and seven o'clock in the morning a man named Richaid Maddison, who Bred on the opposite side of the court, beard cries of" Murder '"from one of the houses, of which at first he did not, however, take much notice, as It was a matter of very frequent occurrence As however the screams continued, though much fainter, and some women, also attracted by theories, gathered about the door, he ,Sladdisoni looked out from his window, and then the women fold him that Mliitly had cut his wife's throat. Without waiting to dress himself completely he ran down, and just thou a police-constable came up and the two men went into the pusage together, where they found a woman, who afterwards turned out to be Mrs. Whitly, lying head foremost downstairs with her head on the third stair from the bottom. Maddison and the policeman lifted her up off the stairs, and laid her along the passage, when they found that she was quite dead. Information having been conveyed to the police-station at Bon-street, the officers at once hurried to the scene of the tragedy, but by that time the coroner's officer for St Maryle-Strand, was on the spot and took charge of the body, which he at once had conveyed to the vestry-house of the parish, that being the most convenient place. In the meantime, and just as tie police arrived, one of the little girls came downstairs and said her father was upstairs and had killed himself, upon which some of the officers went upstairs arid fend the body of the man lying covered with blood, with his head against the door On lifting him up there was found underneath hint a large-bladed clasp-knife, covered with blood. The woman's body, on being examined by the medical men, exhibited no appearance of a struggle or of a violent death The murderer, on being discovered, was gasping but totally unconscious, and he was rennited at once to the hospital, where he died shoitly after having been admitted.  The murderer and his victim lived with their seven children in one room not more than twelve feet square, the eldest son lying at the end of the bed whereon his lather and mother slept, and the other children lying on the floor The son Thomas went out to work at his usual time, leaving hisfather snd mother in bed together, and of course the lad himself knows no more of what occurred, lint one of the children a girl between seven and eight year. old, states, upon being interrogated, that her father stabbed her mother as she lay In bed, and after she Jumped up and ran to the window and screamed, " Murder," and then she ran out of the room. and he cut his own throat  The children have been sent to the Strand workhouse. It appears that the unhappy couple have been in the constant mop of quarrelling, and the son states that on Saturday night last his father threatened to kill his mother, hut, they were not drunk, either on Saturday, Sunday, or last night.