ATTEMPTED MATRICIDE.
A shocking attempt by a son to murder his mother is reported from St. Neots,Huntingdonshire. It appears that on March 12 a man about 25 years of f . - age,- named Thomas Bailey, a boot- . maker, who has been suffering for some time from religious monomania drew a sboemakers’s knife across the throat of mother as she was kneeling in front ’ of the fire. A frightful wound was in- ! ‘ flicted, the windpipe being cut, and very slight hopes are entertained of the , ..woman's recovery. The son was at ‘ once apprehended, and in the afternoon Was taken before Colonel Humbley, chairman of the St. Neots Bench, who sent him on remand to Huntingdon ; Gaol. When asked what induced him to commit the crime, the prisoner answered, “We wanted to go to Heaven, both of ns.” The deposition of the in- ■ jured woman has been taken.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2538, 10 May 1881, Page 3
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145ATTEMPTED MATRICIDE. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2538, 10 May 1881, Page 3
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