At Birmingham to-day, the Coroner's jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against John Patchett, cabinet brass worker, who on Friday night, in his house in St. Luke's Road, stabbed his wife in the neck with a pocket-knife, causing death within an hour. Both were addicted to drink and led an unhappy life, the wife having pawned almost everything in the house. (Yorkshire Evening Post, April, 1891)
should have pawned that knife.
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