Fifty Years of Fleet Street Being the Life And Recollections of Sir John R Rob
Fifty Years of Fleet Street Being the Life And Recollections of Sir John R Rob
Frederick Moy Thomas
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Morton went, and he and the husband sat in the sick-room for some time to- gether. The visitor then said good -night and, passing through the dining-room, went out towards the staircase. Bower in a fit of frenzy seized a carving-knife off the table and made towards the door, his mother, who was present, vainly trying p 210 FIFTY YEARS OF FLEET STREET CH. to restrain him by catching hold of his coat, which tore in her hand. Morton had just crossed the antechamber and gone down the first few step...s of the stairs when he was overtaken by Bower, who struck him with the knife near the left ear, killing him instantaneously. In the confusion the murderer fled, and managed to escape to England. A few days afterwards, however, he returned and gave himself up. At the Paris assizes a merciful jury brought in a verdict of acquittal, as usually happens in France in such cases. Among journalists on other papers in the 'fifties one of the most remarkable was James Grant, who for many years edited the Morning Advertiser, and gained for that paper the nickname of " Gin and Gospel.
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