The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-20 00:00:00

THAMES.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A POLICE STATION.—Jane Dun-
bar, a very noisy and dissipated young woman, fast going
to destruction, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with
assaulting several persons, and attempting to commit self-
destruction.

The prisoner was intoxicated and disorderly, and rolling
about the streets in the neighbourhood of the Commercial-
road, and some children were following her, and laughing
and hooting at her eccentricities. She lost her temper and
made an attack, not upon those who were amusing them-
selves at her expense, but on children she met in front of
her. She seized a boy, named Walter Henry Bray, of No.
10, Dean-street, knocked him down, and dragged him along
by the heir of his head. His mother interposed, and the priso-
ner abused her and used very foul language, and struck her
with her fist on the face. Theprisoner then knocked down
a little boy, whose mouth bled copiously. The prisoner
was then seized and consigned to the custody of the police.
She made an attempt to hang herself in the cell, and was
found nearly dead, with several strings .torn from her dross
round her neck, and the constables at the King David-lane
station had much trouble to save her.
A policeman, 334 K, said he knew the prisoner well.
She had one month's imprisonment for assaulting him a
short time ago.
Police-sergeant Sutherland, 46 K, stated that the pri-
soner was a most disorderly prostitute, and had repeatedly
been in custody.
The prisoner—l am very fond of a drop, sir, and of
course when I am in that way I don't know what I do.
Mr. Paget said the prisoner was a very bad woman, and
that he could not permit respectable persons and their
children to be struck with impunity by incorrigible prosti-
tutes. Ho sentenced the prisoner to one month's imprison-
ment for the assault on Mrs. Bray, and one month for the
assault on her boy, the sentences to be consecutive, and
with hard labour.
ANOTHER PRISONER ATTEMPTING TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—
Georgina Clark, a middle-aged woman, was charged with
assaulting and wounding a German mechanic with•whom
she has been cohabiting, and who, though seriously injured,
would not give evidence against her. She was then
charged with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing

a quantity of sugar of lead.
A police-constable, 60 11, said the prisoner was very bad
when she was brought to the station-house, and she had a
small piece of white paper in her hand, which contained
the remains of sugar of lead which she had swallowed.
Mr. John Scott Signora, surgeon, of No. 34, Leman-
street, said ho was at the station-house on business when
the prisoner was brought there, and he ascertained that
she had swallowed sulphate of zinc, which was very much
like sugar of lead. Sulphate of zinc was a poison, but it
was very nearly its own antidote, and acted as an emetic.
It was used generally in making a lotion for the eyes. The
I 'prisoner was nearly recovered.
Mr. Paget remanded the prisoner for a week.

WESTMINSTER.
ROYALTY IN TROUBLE.—A man of stout stature, who
gave the name of King George, a labourer, was charged
before Mr. Arnold with violently assaulting two police-
constables. _

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It appeared that about two o'clock this morning as
police-constable B 206 was on duty in the King's-road he
heard a great disturbance. The constable went to the
spot, where he found the prisoner, who was under the
influence of liquor, and who was threatening to fight any
one. The constable endeavoured to quiet him, but
he became more violent, and struck the constable in
the chest. He was then seized hold of by the con-
stable. The prisoner promised that if the officer would
let him go to the station-house without laying hold of him
he would go quietly. The constable did so, when the pri-
soner gave him a violent blow, which seriously hurt him.
The constable then knocked him down with his staff. The
prisoner upon being again taken into custody made a simi-
lar promise, and again broke it, but was eventually locked
up. On his way to the station-house he made a most de-
termined resistance.
He was sent for 14 days to the House of Correction, and
held to bail in his own recognisances to keep the peace for
three months.