The Express. — 1864-09-26 (London, England)

THE TRAGEDY AT PRESTON.—CONFINEION OP THE MURDERER—The man, William Barry (not Berry, u bareto:ore printed), who murdered him wife at Preston and afterwards attempted to commit suicide, about • fortnight ago, was brought up at the Preston police court on Saturday. Dr. Malden haying granted a certificate that be was fit to be removed from the Houle of Recovery to the hospital in the House of Correction. Poliosoonatable Dilworth mid, " I have been in charge of the prisoner at the House of Recovery- He has made a statement to me relative to the death of his wife. It was on the tith of September. He said, ' Hate (Hrs. Leach) came down to our house in Lundstreet about 6 o'clock on Ronda,. eventing. I and my wife, with Hate, went up to Leach's. I bad some green peas. After that I became giddy. I told Ned (Leach) I imagined I was going to be put in prima. Ned mid, • No, no, you have done nothing.' I then said I would go and drown myself. About twelve o'clock Mary and me went to bed. Ned and his wife went to bed at the same time. At four o'clock in the morning I thought I heard some one tap-tap at the door. I touched Mary, and said, 'The devil must be here.' Leech's wife got up and weal down stabs, and when she came bark I got op end fasteeed the door. I went back to bed, and heard the tap-tap at the door. I put my hand out for my tremors, which were on the floor, and I took the knife out of my pocket into bed, and sakto Mary, ' The first one that comes in to strike me, I will put the knife into him. I then began trembling, and, if I think rightly, it was then I did the job. I think I made • sewed blow at her. I knew what I war doing. Ido not know whether it was thee I did this, pointing with his linger to his own throat. He mid, • The devil dose it, and no one else.'" The prisoner, who had kept his eyes closed during the greater part of the inquiry, was then removed. SHOCKING MURDER AND Rriciott. —A shocking murder, followed by the suicide of the murderer, bar been committed at Middlesbro'. The perpetrator was a German Jew, named Hem Kern., residing as Vine-street, is that tows, who en F6day afternoon out the throat of has eon, a flee intending boy, named Denial Henry, about five years of age. It appears that the lad and his father were is the room together, the mother being absent in another part of the house, which is a tenemented one, when • female neighbour went up stain and told Beres that his wife, with whom she had bad some conversation, was going to leave him on amount of a quarrel which they had had that morning. Os this, the man, in a mute of apparently great perplexity, came down stairs into the woman's academia; and complained bitterly of the conduct of his wife, in stripping the place of ire furniture. Having thus unburdened himself of his sad tale, Kern* returned to his room, from which load screams were soon heard booing. Alarmed by the noise, Yrs. Herne and the neighbour previously alluded to, rushed up into the apartment, in which a horrible eight presented itself. Side by side en the floor lay the little boy and his father, with their throats cut from ear to ear, their heads being nearly severed from their bodies. The floor was saturated with blood, and in the Cass of both the anklets. gate victims life was found to be extinct, the murderer Led suicide holding in his right hand a new, with which be had doubtless made the fatal attack on his helpless son sad afterwards, in a similar manner, put an end to his own enigma% The poor man, who wail thirty-ex years al Agit , had for some time mitered from the lo of his eyesight, and L this, with the unhappy state of his domestic arrangements, is amigard as the motive at the rash and terrible deedi.— lireirceek Chronicle.