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

SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDERS  AT TOTTENHAM.  CORONER'S INQUEST. I M Saturday, Mr. W. Baker opened an inquiry, the White Hart Inn, Tottenham-ball, touching the mitt. of Carl Criglo. The jury haring been sworn, viewed body deceased. It was that of a fine, tall, wed-formed a. 'C., chest was expand fur the examination of the s. and or seem punctured wounds were ob.creable ire It aeons of the heart and .tuniaell. Mr. William Ilenry the hushandand tatht r of the wounded ladies, woo  ..... lie said.--I am a clerk at a hatiker's in the •e. I lisive known the deceased since Janus last. He ,-: a mitts,. of Hattenbrgch, neor Tiehwelm, in Westphalia, I wig a kind of agent or merchant for hi,, father, who was i I unitufaeturer. Ile aho mined for other homes. When tot tame to 'England, lie lodged ut my hou.e ut times. wa iu the habit of having for a short time, and then renon:. He was very strange in his habits and uhout a nth he had been with na, he suddenly left, and oiniA hear no tiding, of him. Knowing that he had no in England, and thinking that he might have into tail hands I made application to the Lord id the Mutoion-house, with a view of getting his t••.II and ni,igerious disappearance made known. Ile I, in the course id* three weeks, and, to show his . .  1 will rral ancatract  1%1,1 ICOMi him at Sheffield, dated April the 13tV:—. o'hcri air I go you strike me incognito. You drive me tomn to town, and you follow me through llii4land, I fun,. me to spend my money." W 5 had tarn the hest of terms, and when ho came bark I wa- shown the letter, he could scarcely hethat he couhi have peon, d such uu epistle. Ile hued at .5.141. (Li-raui) Hotel, in Finsbury. e, but he often vi•ittil toy house, and I may say a more raligious and moral man m rev lived. I fre. noticed his melancholy demeanour. In March last o ,h-appointed in not see lug his brother, and since then r. was • ',trim" change in his conduct. On last Mon, !late weeks he come to our house, and informed us that ! en advised to return to his native country, and . 31 nta were mile for the holies to see him ulf by the , „it on the following Wednesday morning; but, on • the wharf, 1 found that he had not been at the hotel  '.t. and nothing was known as to where he had gone, he had kit his, lu,m-age behind. On Tuesday last "anted to the hotel, and on Wednesday morning, about ..'elock, he came down to my house. lle left early atternoon, and returned to the hotel, where he 1k suddenly left the dinner table, run up-stairs to .ns,m, and, in a few usluntee, came down, and hashto Tottenham. Ile came to the front gate of my .. and seemed quite agitated. My daughter's first ant to shut the door, hot he got to it before she i.,se it. He said to her twice, " Mins Mond, are you ' she replied that her mother was in an adjoining Ile then rushed at her and stabbed her. r Were you pnse sit ? Witness—No, I was not. ..nog only what they told me, and altogether I don't ' y could give y au so many lane as I can. r —But I cannot take your testimony as evidence t ; and yet I don't wish to agitate the state of ink d females by subjecting th, in to an examination an. 11 one of them loud been killed, the inquiry would moused a wry ',minus reepect, hot as the demand J. •troyed himself our duty is to confine ours-Ire, simply Le state of mind. Are the females in a condition to give ?  r!..rk. the medial attendant, thought there would O.oz^ r in t Limining Mb% lirmid, but it must be dune  still declined that cJurst., auk,' it was realty  I.r in answer to the coroner, stated that the de.l ,rid particular attention to his daughter, and II a% pd d suitor. They were engaged in tuarriage, and %penned no objection to it if the deceased secured bin a feindir and certain way of business. They had iinsweelled. Ile hail no doubt that the deceased doEar and stabbed Mrs. and Miss Brand while in is.asiul state of mind.  lie Wiliam liyder, the Tottenham rn Couaties Railway, stated that at twenty-two o'clock on Wednesday evening, his attest I.e. railed to Mr. ItrAnd's cottage, by hearing that his and daughter had been stabbed by some man who was tt“ t.ott.e. Ile eft at in and saw the deceased crouched ma is foruvr of the washbouse. Blood was flowing sa chest. Ho was not dead. Ills head rest,ll on  miss-% knees, and atter giving two or three gasps he ear. d The dagger with which he stabbed himself was and ... ...e MUNN body. Ih. • .iistabin here producAl the weapon. It was like a 'AL.-4 .i.s•pr ; the point was broken, and the blade ~,tool with blood. Another dagger, of the stiletto shape, th a .1: 01::..liatked blade, was also discovered in his pos. ...i.,.. It seems that he had been in the habit of carrying nu ..b.ut with him since his residence in this country, el that he hall brought them from Uermany. Prur,i of the jury regretted that something had not 1 tas doll, to 'invent him walking abroad with such esprit. While in the state described. ,'r .1 Clark, surgeon, of 'Tottenham, deposed to being d '!.. the 'lmamal and Mrs. and Mew Brand, on Wed.., ,t t ning. Found the deceased dead. There were , O.uuds in the notion of the stomach, and two in the .-.".d the heart. There was also It cut ou the side, and • .:her on the thigh. 1...,nt0r • Could the &ceased have inflicted those injuries t haws. li,—Witness: I PAW nothing to lead me to sup• ..... that tiny had nut betu done by himself; and, judging 1 ,ni In. hi. past conduct, and the acts we arc inquiring . . 1 should say that he was of unsound mind. Mrs. ,n.I Ira. .tablocd in the upper part of the left side, and ••• Brand in the right breast. One of the fingers of her t hand was cut as if by • slop instrument drawn etch it.  4- Ls 1 -.,*ironer here said the inquiry had better bo adnao. It was possible, perhaps, that the females might ‘l indatid the injuries on the deceased in self-defence, eertatuly eiry improbable; besides, it would tend to ore any everts that might be raised prejudicial to the  proceedings were accordingly adjourned, for one of Lases to glee idellee of the Let in doubt.  IND Ludy of LIVE .tT