Transcribed by Emily Smith. Geo. Carlisle Patriot Friday, August 13th, 1880 CRIME THROUGH JEALOUSY.—At Norfolk Assizes, on Friday, a young man, a carpenter, named MARTIN, was charged with attempting to murder Mary Ann SPURDON. The two had been sweethearts, but she determined to break off the connection. At their last interview, he asked her to kiss him. She declined, and he put his arm round her neck, puller her head back, and cut her throat with a knife. After the commission of the act the prisoner ran and jumped into the river. Later on he gave himself into custody, and said he had cut his sweetheart's throat. He took the officer to the place, and gave him a knife with which he said he did the deed. The prisoner said that he had had it on his mind for months past to cut the girl's throat. He had courted her four years, and lately she had taken up with another man, who had assaulted him on two occasions. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude. -- Emily Smith