The New Hampshire Gazette

Assassination.--A dreadful crime has spread consternation in Berlin: it has made the greatest impression, as people think they recognize in it the same kind of delusion which placed in the hand of Sands the dagger of an assassin.

Dr. Neuman, physician to the Hospital La Charite, had just lain down in bed with his wife, when the latter seizing a kitchen knife, which she had concealed under the bed-clothes, stabbed him in the breast. The Doctor leaped out of bed, and called for help. His servant came; but, being terrified, lost all presence of mind, and ran away. Mrs. Neuman pursued her husband, and in spite of his resistance, wounded him in 17 places. One wound only is thought to be mortal. The guard at last mastered her fury.

She merely said to the magistrate who interrogated her, "What I have done it was my duty to do." This deliberate cruelty is the more astonishing because till this time, the woman had lived on very good terms with her husband, by whom she had several children. She earnestly desires that she may not be supposed to be mad; however, from the nature of her conversation, and the choice of her books, an opinion seems to be entertained, that this unhappy woman indulged in intricate speculations, which may have disordered her brain, after having depraved her moral character.