MURDER OR ATTEMPTED MURDERS.

Annie BERGER, a young married woman, a French polisher by trade, was charged before the Birmingham magistrates on Tuesday with attempting to poison her two children, aged respectively two and three years and herself.

It was stated that on Monday she took the two children up to the garret of the house where she lived with her mother, and administered to them and herself a dose of some concoction said to be a solution of bichromate of potash, which caused all three such violent pain that they immediately began to cry out. One of the neighbours who was attracted to the spot by the noise, found them in a prostrate condition, and gave the children some milk which caused them to vomit. On their removal to the hospital antidotes were administered to them and the stomach pump was applied to the woman but it was not until Tuesday that they were all pronounced out of danger.

When questioned by the police as to a motive for the crime, the prisoner stated that she had been deserted by her husband, who left her two years ago. For a long time she had struggled to keep herself and children, but not being able to get work she was driven to despair and determined to destroy the children and herself. The prisoner was remanded.

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On Tuesday morning, a man named William BAIRSTOW, aged 35, a dyer's labourer, murdered a widow named Margaret YEOMAN, aged 36 in her house, No. 139, Hollings-road, Bradford, and then destroyed himself. Both were found dead with their throats cut in the cellar kitchen of the house shortly after eight o'clock.

Mrs. YEOMAN had lodgers, and BAIRSTOW was one of them. The tragedy was discovered by a youth named MOORE going to the house. The other lodgers had gone to work long before. The woman was lying on her face with her head towards the coal cellar door. She had a clear cut wound on the neck, half severing it from the body, and the position of the body seemed to indicate that she was in the act of going into the cellar for coals, when BAIRSTOW had come up behind and drawn the table knife with which the deed was done across her throat. BAIRSTOW is said to have declared, in a quarrel he had some time ago with another ...(unreadable)... that he would murder his landlady.

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