The Express. — 1862-05-23 (London, England)

DOUBLE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED  SUICIDE.  The immediate neighbourhood of St. Paul',„ Cathedral was yesterday evening the icons Of • frightful occurrence. At about half-put three in the afternoon of yesterday, Mrs. Vise, who has for come years put carried on the boluses of a milliner at 30, Ludgate-street, within one door of Ave-Maria-law, and who is well known in fashionable 611310, sent her servant, a girl named Tate, to  a neighbour* chemist's, for some powders, which she alleged she mated for the destruction of vermin. The marmot-maid executed her message, and brought heck to her mistress the article which she required, but a few minutes after her return she was again summoned by her, and a second time despatched upon the same errand. On her recur* with the powders which she had been sent to purchase, she t up-stens to her mistress's room, which wee upon the floor, but finding the door closed she apprehended that something wrong had occurred, became excited, and, without attempting to enter the room. she honied down-stairs, and intimated to Mrs. Vyse's sister the nature of her suspicions. When the room door, which, ' although shut, did not prove to be barred or fastened, was pened, a frightful sight met their view. There was Mn. I ?Vyse sitting on • chair, an open and bloodstained raaor in her right hand, her heed bent forward, and a torrent of blood gushing from a broad cut in her throat into • basin placed Dusan it. The two women, with rare presence of mind, at once stopped the hemorrhage, when the unfortunate victim of her own rub. new, finding that she was interrupted in the tionnunniation ' of self murder, pointing to another Town. feebly uttered the words, " Oh, there ; go there ; there an my children." ' Shocked by the weight which these broken but suggestive phrases added to the misery of the scene, one of the women hastened to the place isdisatad, and there found the dead bodies of two of Yrs. Vries children—little girls, one four and the other seven years of sr. Upon their however, there was DO nark of vioWnw and u =llllllSalt an hour before been seen full of life and aninialitatilere °mild be no other opinion with respect to their MUM diamiatien the. that it had been occasioned by palosm'ffilereasse at see alarmed the restof the establish. mentorfaswilrlimar Warta were made to eteunelthe woundia Mrs. Vyeafillrest until the arrival of scene surgeon, in aserchill olfola a smeassger was at came despatched, at the A l owl is Inffientios of the horrible sees which lel NOI OS oat lhouneied to Inspector Ho we 4 of ale' t Plestelreet station, and to Mr. Wey, Oa for the ward of Farringdon Within. loilloslithi was soon found, bet his aerviose were, * it of no weal. aeUnsy had hem rime time bet In the our of this slippy sear his prof... baldvs if Ihm geoleat sdestegeL es be bound up stayed the letierrhege. It was the opinion *am loosening officer Viet she ought to have been at Ineearisie# II to St. Ilarisr's Ilindt but such tt: So. fee. Thes. very . alleging WiMbi. Liteel= It lb a be fatrl. am Sees doenefillos AO heiltilen to rem. . !se ern bonen wash se eisbobays en - to re. los ler wound end • acrollas the work of self-bene. Ws else is, with A iltie aids Is condition, down upon a bed. Of her came Ohio as be no doubt -Her suffering is the work of her own had, but until the coroner's inquiry lets the light in upon al the circumstances antecedent to the tragedy, it is impossible tor ay whether she really 000templabid the murder of her children when she sent for the insecticide powder, of which strychnine is one of the principal ingredient., or whether they may not Omissive' Yore insantionaly tasted the poison and Immediately died of Hi tidsitte, a misfortune like which might. have hurried their unhappy mother into such • state ci fussy as to regard suicide as the easiest esoepe from her miaery. The Squat upon the children will probably be held tessrrow sr Ifeciday. Last night all wee moitement in the sighbeerhoei, end the exertions of a strong body ol potlee wwe Toga's% to keep the thoroughfare oleo of that elan of lounger. who delight in the indulges. of • morbid suriosity. __ •