Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1880-09-25 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

AND SUICIDE BIHMINGHAM.  An attempt at nilvder and suicide war perpetrated on Wednesday eyeing in Birmingham Fe • several years past William Deakin, about 55 years of age, and residing in lodgings at .5, :,ougmore-sue.q, has been paying hie addresees to A ink, lneleay, aged 28 years, the propriet. Ires of the Challenge Cup public-house, at the o .ruer of Gooch•street and Broomsgrove street. Dentin sometimes indulged in excessive drinking. and Miss losleay's relatives were very much averts° to her engagement with bins. He was it.formed that it was their desire that the en gagement should be broken off, and he received the last intinuatiou to that effect, apparently with the consent of Miss lueleay,•bout a mouth ago. Since that time he hes been very deepa ident. and has crank heavily He continued, however, to call at the Challenge Cup, and a fortnight ago, in the presence of a number of reople, while io the honsa, he threatened to e.t.a Miss Ineleay No partieular notias was i tAteu of this, although alone thee he line visit d ' the Ii as, almost daily, au.l repeated the threat several times. On Wednesday mornieg he called is and stayed some time, and again in , the afternoon lie was there drinking. ln the evening, about half-past live o'clock, he went into the s.nokeroom, •hielt is contiguous to the bar, and he there saw Miss foolery, who was on the other side the bar, in attendance upon costomers Shortly after he entered the hours, he asked for a glans of bitter beer, which necessitated Miss laleay's going into the cellar to draw the beer from the musk. The cellar door is opposite the partition of the bar and the amokeroom, and is only about two or three feet frcm the end of the stuokerooni counter. Mies usleay was returning from the cellar with the beer, and on turning her face towards the °winter of the awoken:min she wag &termed by seeing Deakin presenting a sip-chambered waiver at her. Belo e she bad time to escape h tired. Whether owing to the drink be had consumed or the excitement ilb WM labouring nuder, his aim was very unsteady, for although he leaned over the counter, and was within a foot or AO of his intended victim, be missed his mark, and tile bullet passed her head by a few i iehes, and was buried in wall. Miss lusleay screamed, and dropped on the ion, but iunne• <Eately lecoveriog herself, she turned to run into the bar. Deakin then fired a second shot as she passed through the door, and this happily proved ineffective. It miased her, and has not been found. She again screamed, and then, probably thinking that he had shot her, ha quickly pointed the revolver to his own limd and tired, the bullet entering his right ear. In the meantime the firMg had attracted the attention of a young man named George Watson, who was standing at his own Se immediately ran to the public house followed by hie father and a roan named Morrell. On their going into the smokeroom Deaken was found lying on the floor in a pool of blood, and Mine Insieay woe kneeling by his side holding his hand. D;L• Brocey, surgeon. was soon in attendanon, and no examination clearly showed that the bu, let had entered DealtiVe head, although it conld not be aacertained whereabouts it had lodged. Whether it had really entered the brain directly or glanced off in another direction was doubtful. However, the man's condition was very precarious and Mr Bracey considered it doubtful if Deaken would recover, inflammation of the brain being feared. Soon after 11 o'clock Deakin waa removed to the Queen's Hospital. Al one time be held a good position in the town and was well known. He was manager for a firm of iron-maaters, but eince he left that situation his mode of living has been very uncertain. Sometinies he has been a commission agent, and at other tiale4 was out of employment althogether.  Mr. Bass, M P. for Derby, has far recovered from his late accident as to admit of removal to Rangemore, near Burton-on-Trent. Mr Arthur Bass,M.P., who curious to. relate, , has also been laid aside hy no accident sustained in the Highlands, is progressirg favourably. Mr William Bass, brother of the member for Derby, was attacked with English cholree recently, and died on There:lay morning at an advanced age. OLDHAM BkICWSTER