The Sun. — 1851-08-25 (London, England)

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF TWO  FE 211 AL ES. On Saturday, Mr. W. Blker, one of the coroners for Middlesex, opened an inquiry, before a respectable jury, at the Waite Hart Inn, Tottenham hall, touching the suicide of Carl Criglo. As might be imagined, the proceedings created a deep interest. The jury having been duly sworn, they went and viewed the body of the unfortunate deceased. It was that of a fine, tall, well-furmed man. The chest was exposed for the examination of the jury, and six or seven punctured wounds were observable in the regions of the heart and stomach. This melancholy duty having been performed, the following evidence was gone into :- Mr. William Henry Brand, the husband and father of the wounded ladies, said :—I am a clerk at a bankers in the City. I have known the deceased since January last. He was a na'ive of Itattenbrech, near Schwelw, in Westphalia, Bud was a kind of agent or merchant for hi, father, who was a steel manufacturer. He also acted for other houses. When he first came to England, he lotiged at my house at tim.s. lie was iu the habit of leaving for a short time, and then returning. He was vtry strange in his habits, and about a tnouth alter be had been with to, he audd.nly left, and we could hear no tidings of him. Knowing that he had no friends in E 'gland, and thinkiog that he might have fallen into had hands, I made an application to the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion .house, with a view of getting his d.scription and mysterious disappearance made known. He came back in the course of three siveek4, and, to show his state of mind, I will read an extract of a letter which I received from him at Sheffield, dated April the 13th: " Wherever I go you strike me incognito. You drive me from town to town, and you follow me through England, and force me to spend my money." We had been on the best of terms, and when he came hack and was shown the letter, he could scarcely bel'iheevae ltihvaetd ahectould have penned such an epistle. He Sf often visited d e G (German) mm:y house, u) Hostee,L andin I may a a Finsburysquare, but he e that a more religious and moral man never lived. I h frequently noticed his melancholy demeanour. In March last he was disappointed in not seeing his brother, and since then there was a strange change in his conduct. On last Monday three weeks he came to our house, and informed us that he had been advised to return to his native country, and arrangements were made for the ladies to see him off by the steam-boat on the following Wednesday morning; but, on going to the wharf, I found that he had not been at the hotel all night, and nothing was known as to where he had gone, although he had left hie luggage behind. On Tu,sday last he returned to the hotel, and on 'Wednesday morning, about eleven o'clock, he came down to my house. He left early in the afternoon, and returned to the hotel, where he dined. He suddenly left the dinner table, ran upstairs to his bed room, and, in a few minutes, came down, and hastened back to Tottenham. He came to the front gate of my cottage, and seemed quite agitated. My daughter's first impulse was to shut the door, but he got to it before she could close it. He said to her twice, " Miss Brand, are you alone P" She replied that her mother was in an adjoining room. He then rushed at her and stabbed her.