The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-31 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 31.

HANNAH SAUNDERS.

A suourixo story is told in this morning's
papers under the heading " Death in a Police
" Hasawr Sat :roam, aged 55, whose
husband is a cab proprietor, so took to heart the
baring to leave a house in which she had lived
happily as wife and mother for sixteen years that
her mind became affected, and she threw herself
into the Regent's Canal between 8 and 9 o'clock
on Saturday evening. The splash made by her
body falling in the water was heard by a police-
man, who procured drags, and brought her out
some seven minutes after immersion. This is the
only act of mercy the poor creature met with.
From the time of her rescue to that of her death
circumstances seem to have been so piled up
against her that she went out of the world as much
a victim as if she had been deliberately
sacrificed to the demons of Inhumanity and
Routine. Carried to a tavern and stripped to
her chemise, the doctor sent for seems according
to the evidence to have limited his attentions to
the remark, " She's all right now for removal ;"
then, " with her chemise quite wet she was
" placed on a stretcher," and tarried to the police-
station. " The people at the tavern did not find
• her any clothes, but a fruiterer, seeing her
" lying on the stretcher in her wet chemise,
" covered her with a sack, which ho lent for the
" purpoee." The policeman giving evidence adds,
with apparent emphasis, that, " the reason why
" he bad sent for a stretcher was that she was
" naked for a time Wore it arrived." The
shivering wretch was taken in this plight
to the station, where she was duly entered as a
" charge," and was put into a cell twenty-five
minutes later. Dry clothes were sent for to the
workhouse, and a female searcher requested her
to take off her dripping garments and put on
those provided. This Ilasieari MAUNDER.) would
have probably been glad to do, but that she
se( rued quite stupid," as it was assumed,
" from drink and from going into the water."
It dots not scam to have occurred to these
kindly officials that a half-drowned woman
required something more than formal offers
of dry garments, or a half-scolding request
that she would, like poor Mrs. Dombey, " make
"an effort " not to die. She had neither nourish-
ment nor stimulants given her, and though she
murex' herself sufficiently at 4.30 a.m. to give her
husband's address, he does not sewn to have been
informed of Ler situation and whereabouts until
after midday on Sunday. He then offered bail in
vain. A female friend, who was allowed to

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see her in the cell, found her

bitterly of the cold, and with her shoeless
feet resting on its damp Rem ♦ oafs
was brought to the door, anal the polies
entreated to allow the them dying woman
to be put into a warm bed. This was against
regulations, and was refused, and though the poor
wretch herself declared that " she had not been
" sensible until she woke in the dark cell," and
the wife of a boot-closer who was confined with
her for drunkenness deposed to begging for an
old coat with which to cover the dying woman,
nothing was done until she fell off the bard
bench with a groan—dead. The jury censure the
police for not calling in a divisional surgeon, a
husband and a child have lost their dearest earthly
ft tend, newspaper readers experience a disagreeable
.hock as they read the narrative, H•NNLEII3AI7NDERa
is buried, and so the matter ends. We sincerely
ti ust not quite. Appeals and memorials have often
been made to the Home-ofilee on far more trivial
matters than this : and in the interests of human-
ity, and for the sake of example, we trust a rigid
official inquiry will be instituted into the conduct
of the pollee.