The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—June 22.

MANSION-HOUSE. Isabella M'lntyre, a
poorly-clad girl of 19: was•broUght before the Lord
MY or, charged wi!h attempting to commit suicide.
She had been observed wandering, with a dis-
consolate air, without bonnet, upon London bridge,
and Once mounted the seat in one of the recesses, as
if with intention of jumping over ; but immediatdy
after she again ga down on to the pavement, and
took her way towards the end of the bridge, having
reached which she ran rapilly down the steps and
plunged into the water. As she did so, she was
seen by a waterman close by, who immediately
jumped in after her, and pulled her out, just as she
was about to sink at a spot where, from the dEpth
of the water arid the rapidity of the current, itbeing
then wady high tide, if she hal sunk she would
in all probability have risen no more. Upon being
taken to the station-house she avowed her inten-
tion to destroy herself, saying it was not the fir.t
attempt she bad made, but that scinething seemed
al ways to prevent her from succeeding in her object.
Af er her clothes_ were taken off by the fem.tle
searcher that they might be dried, a small packet
of oxalic acid was found in her pocket, and upon
being questioned as to how it came into her posses-
sion and why she had it, she said she bad bought
it at a chemist's upon the pretence of wanting it to
clean straw-hats, and bad taken one-half of it think-
ing it would kill her, but been disappointed to find
that it had little effect upon her, and that. it was
in consequ: nee of .that failure she had jumped into
the Thames.

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From inquiries made by the police it appeared
that although she was a steady girl she was of an
unhappy temper, and had quitted a good situation,
as a domestic servant, wi' bout any sufficient cans-.
The Lord Mayor announced his determination t•
punish all such attempts in future, when they
came before him, and in default of bail for good
behaviour, committed the prisoner for a month,
with a recommendation to the chaplain's care at
Holloway.

CLE :.<KENWEL L.—Henry Edward Tottem, a
respectably-dreFsed man, about 30 years of age,
dcsciibed as a confidential clerk, was chat ged with
embezzling several sums of money belonging to his
employer, Mr. John Jay, the contractor, of the
City Basin, C;ty-road.
The prisoner had a salary of 2/. 10s. par week.
It was the practice of the prosecutor`to have the
C A short time since, when the books were
whole
to. of ke. AovfesresbLdgeibf mt
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awe rtti:
given out, the prisoner into med one of the clerks
that he would find some mistakes in the books,
and asked him not to take any notice of them. He
said he would not take any notice to the other
clerks, but further he could not promise. Upon
going over the nooks it was ascertained that there
were several defalcations, and some of them ap-
peared to have been elected in this manner :—lf
one cf the workmen had only one day's work to
charge it was entered in the book as such, and the
amount put .down in a separate clown. In two
or three instances the figure "one" had been al-
tered to " four," and the prisoner had pocketed
the extra money. There were now several charges
again-t the prisoner, and the books had nor, been
gone over for the whole of the period that the pri-
soner had been employed. The proQeoutor, as the
person was in the receipt of a go.:d salary, consi-
dered it a very bad case ' • and as the figures had
been altered there was at present no opportunity
of telling what was the amount of the prisoner's
defalcwions.

Mr. Lewis, who appeared for the defendant, hav-
ing consulted with the prosecu'or and Mr.
wVal-
lance, his solicitor, said his client would plt ad guilty
tora toe 's
to
commencep ow e r vi power--viz., t
~
the terminaion of the other.
to the charge of larceny, and would take a sentence
ttowoths
eixfullextenitin opt Tang n
months'

Mr. Corrie said if it was a case in which the pro-
secutor would be satisfied will his judgment, be
would deal with it. The prisoner had lost his
character and his situation. He should send him
to the Hotße of 0-rrection with hard labour for
six calendar months.

THE SUICIDE AT THE dIUSEg3I OF
PRAGTIOIL GEOLOGY.—INQUEST.

Yesterday Mr. Laugham, deputy coroner for
Westminster, held an inquest at the .b )ard loom of
the workhouse of St. James's, Poland-street, on
the body of Henry Matthew Witt, aged 28, who
was found dead in a closet of the institution, as
already related in this paper.
Mr. Edward Best, as,istant to the geological
survey of Great Britain, was called, and said—l
have known the deceased for three years intimately.
He was a single man. Last saw him on Friday
afternoon at five, when I left him, as I was going
to post a letter. Had noticed he was suffering
from extreme excitability of late ; so much so that
I went home to sleep with him one night. He Lad"
a fear that a them cal work he was engaged on
would not please his friends. He seemed' to fear
tie would fail in his task, and lose the confidence of
his fiends. He used to think he had not money
enough, though he was not in indigent circum-
stances.

Mr. J. Gould, ofl, Cranford-villa, Oakley-square,
Chelsea, a manufacturing ch*•wist, and cousin
of the deceased,
.said—l attribute the deceased's
act to over study. He hal told me he feared he
should fail in completing the task he had under-
taken. He had undertaken to re-edit " Ure's Dic-
tionary of Chemistry." I had looked over the proof
sheets, and was of opinion that the deceased was
capable of doing it. He spoke about his money
affairs. His friends were all well off, and it was
Al fancy. He was to be paid for the work as he
did it.

Dr. Wilson, 16, Great Rider-street, deposed to
the deceased's symptom; which were those of a
person who had taken some strong narcotic poison.
A phial was handed to him, and it contained a
small quantity of nicotine, or essential oil of tobacco
—a speedy and deadly poison.
Dr. Hofmann, Plofrssor of Chemistry to the
Government school of Mines, said—The deceased
was my assistant, and a man of considerable ability
and great. promise I had observed the deceased
desp,,nding, but attribut. dit to ill heidth. I con-
sid, red him sane Ihavemadean examination of the
contents of the bottle, itlis nicotine, and is found in
tobacco and snuff. A small quantity would produce
death. A dog of moderate size would be killed with
one drop. Never heard the deceased say anything
about taking away his life. I spoke to him of his
prospects, and he told me they were very good.
Mr,ll. Hunt, keeper of the records at the Mu-
seum, proved that deceased bad been in a despond-
ing state for some time, owing to the idea that he
could not complete the work he was engaged on,
and about money matters.
Other evidence having been given, all confirma-
tory of the above,
The jury returned a verdict that the deceased
destroyed himself while labouring under inslnity.