The Warrington Examiner. — 1869-04-24 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE IN LONDON.  On Saturday, afternoon two shocking crimes were committed in Fleet-lane, Farringdon-street, City. A man murdered a woman, and then destroyed his own life. For some years past a man named Territ, a coal porter, has cohabited with a woman named Stallion. A week previously one of Territ's sons, aged 12, was caught stealing some cigars from a shop in the Old Bailey, and he was there sentenced to seven days' imprisonment. During the week, while he was at Holloway Gaol, the Territs and some persons named Pickering, who lived in the same house, were in the habit of chatting over the affair. They arranged that, when the boy's term of imprisonment had expired, they would go together in a cab to the gaol and bring him home. On Friday night, while Tenit was in a public house, he said, "I have a nasty job to do, and the sooner it is done the better. I have seen something wrong with my wife; I am jealous." He was asked to explain what he meant by making such a remark, and he answered, "I am jealous, and -." The rest of the sentence was unfit for publication. He was at 'that time sober, which was rather singular with him. He remained in the public house for some short time after he had made his statement, and when he was leaving he said, "It is a nasty job, but the sooner it is done the better." Nothing more was seen of him by the people at the public house until Saturday morning, when they saw him and the women in a four-wheeled cab. Seated opposite to them were the man Pickering and his wife. They were then driving to Holloway Gaol. In the afternoon they returned, accompanied by the boy who had been liberated. They were all of them at that time evidently under the influence of drink. At one o'clock Territ and the women went upstairs to their rooms. All the children were out. Neither the man nor the woman was ever after seen alive. At two o'clock the little boy, who had been let out of prison, ran upstairs, and in a short time after ran out of the room crying. He was asked what was the matter, and he replied that he had found his father and mother dead. The police and a doctor were at once sent for. Dr. Wilson, of Farringdon-street, found the bodies of the man and the woman lying dead upon a bed in the front room over the shop. They were both in a pool of blood, and there was a dreadful gash in the throat of each. During their search the police discovered in a cupboard in the room a razor. It was covered with blood. The doctor said that the wounds on the throat of each of the dead persons were so severe that death must in each case have been instantaneous, and therefore the police were afraid that the murderer had escaped. The doors of the shop were at once closed, and every person who was living in the house was examined by the police. Albert Territ, aged 12, stated that when he went into the room he saw his father and mother lying on the bed in a pool of blood. He went to the bedside, and he saw that the throats of each were cut. On his mother's hand he saw an open razor lying. The hand was lying on the bed with the back upwards. Near his mother's hand was his father's right hand, and that was open, as if the razor had fallen out of it. He stood looking at the bodies for a short time, and then he took the razor off his mother's hand and placed it in the cupboard, which he closed. The mystery of the hidden razor was then considered by the detectives to be cleared up, and the suspicions which had suddenly been aroused were dispelled. It is supposed by the police that the man Territ threw the woman down upon the bed and then cut her throat. After that he lay down alongside her and cut his own throat.  From the inquiries made by the police it would appear that the murder committed by Leonard Territ was premeditated for a month. It seems that, although Territ cohabited with'the woman HarrietiTalien, at 33, Fleet-lane, he had lodgings of his own in a small court of the Old Bailey. He slept about two nights a week at his lodgings. About a month ago he applied to the landlady of a house nearly opposite 33, Fleet-lane, and asked to be let a room on the first floor, the windows of which commanded a view of those of the room occupied by the woman Talien. He said, "I want that room, for I intend to watch my wife out of it. I suspect her." His manner was so strange that the landlady, who had almost agreed to let him the room, declined to do so. After Territ went away he said to a man that if it was as he suspected he would know what to do. A brother of the deceased woman has called at 33. Fleet-lane, and has seen the four childern of the man Territ. Although they are not entitled to any money under the will of Mrs. Talien's late husband, yet her relations intend to do something for the unhappy ones.  It would appear that Mr. Graves's proposal for a halfpenny -postage for printed matter, though rejected when brought before the House of Commons the other day, has not been entirely shelved by the Government. A Post-office official has been commissioned to make an inquiry into the subject. WHO WANTS TO SEE "THE LARGEST BIBLE IN THE WORLD? "—The late Mr. John Gray Bell, of Manchester, an untiring print-collector and book-hunter, devoted many years to the illustration of the bible, by inserting in Macklin's folio edition above a thousand original drawings and photographs, and nearly 10,000 engravings, with 360 specimen leaves of old and rare editions of the Bible. The result was sixty-three handsomely bound folio volumes, with double the number of illustrations contained in the famous Bowyer Bible of 45 volumes. 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