The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-04 00:00:00

THE SUICIDE IN JLilerLEB6 NE.

Yesterday Mr. Wakley resumed, at the Marylt.
bone workhouse, the inquest relative to the death of Mary
Anne B il, aged 21, and her infant female child, the
former having committed suicide by throwing herself from
a bridge in the Grove-end-road, Lieson-grove, in the Re-
gent's Canal, and the latter having been brought into the
world hy the Cesarisus operation.
A soldier baying proved that the deceased voluntarily
jumped into the canal,
Mr. Edward Head, surgeon, of the Park•road, said he
was the first medical man who saw deceased. About 10
o'clock he was called, and found her lying on the further
bunk of the CARO. having just been taken out of the water.
Mr. Allen and Mr. Fuller, two other medical men, fol-
lowed. They could not say if she was then dead, but they
requested the polke immediately ti convey her to the
Matylebone Baths sod Washbowl.s at the end of Lialon-
grove, so that deceased might have the advantage of a warm
bath, and they did so, and h • and Mr. Allen and Mr. Fuller
accompanied her. Arriving at the baths and waelihouses the
gas vc:s still lighted, hut the gates were closed. 'they knocked
and demanded ailersisaun ot tie superintendi IP, Mr. Foot,
but he refused to admit them, although told there was a
woman whose life depended on a hut bath immediately.
An altercation took place, and Mr. Atltn, iu the
heat of excitement at Mr. gout's apparent waist
of humanity, called him • scoundrel for not open-
ing the door. Mr. Allen repeated the knock,which Impiety
had the t ifect of causing the door to te opened. Even this
a bath Is.'s fur some time 'Onset' to the medical men by
the superintendent and his se ile,bot ultimately the deceased
woman was got into a hot hens, and after being there about
ten minutes witness and his profied. inal colleagues re-
solved on the Cie arian isteer..tion, t.) save the life of the
child of which she was pregnant, and it was at once acts
upon and the child taken awcy teem its mother. By this
time the water in the bath was found oveittewing, and
the medical men were standing up to their antes in
water; and it was their convietion that the cold water hail
been turned on purposely. When the child was removed
ba lips and arms were seen to move, and they called for is
hut bath far it, but it 11.11 again ri fused to Thera, and is
was -laced back again into the body of the intither until
one could be procured. It was refused several times. We
said tle.t the child was alive, and that if it dud we shculd
hold them reepeusible. Mrs. Foot t..en turned on hot
water, so hot that wittiest called out that she would weld
his hands, and she replied "a good job if it did." The
child wes ultimate ly got into • hot bath, but hot until it
was too late, although ariticial respiration was resorted to.
After all their drafts were useless they endeavoured to re-
trate their steps out of the baths and wash-houses, end the
gas being put out they asked for a light, and were told by
Mrs. Foot to find their way out as they had fauna their
way its. Mr. Head added that Foot, the superintendent,
cli.orgsd the medical melt and the police with being drunk.
lie could not say that had they had the but bath earlier
they nimbi have saved the woman's lite, hut his lowers
siren was that the child might have bet n saved.
Mr. 1) avid John Allen and Mr. Fader, the two other
surgeons in the main corroborated the evideace of Mr.

aild said they were kept at the doors tt a tuiutot s.
Mr. E. S. Foot, superin•endcat cf the baths, complained
that the surgeon treated him and his wife as the commonest
servants ; he swore that the turning ou of the cold water
was an accident.

Mr. Squires, surgeon, of Mary'stone Infirmary, deposed
that lie had made a peat MO) tem examination of the bothes.
The Cte-arian section bad been executed in a proper proles•
siunel manner. Tne death of the young woman was eau,ed
by suit cation, and not by the section. He had applied the
proper tests, and. lie believed that the child bad lived and
breath, d.
The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict to
the effect:—" That the deceased Mary Anne Barnard de
,troycd herself by drowning, but there was no evidence as
to her state of mind. That the deceased child was removed
from the mother, but whether the child lived after such re-
moval was not proved." The jury begged to add their high
approval of the conduct of the medical men, sod their regret
at the obstructions they received in the performance of their
duty at the St. Marylebone Baths and Washhouses.