The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-27 00:00:00

DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT POISONING.

At half-past seven on Wednesday evening, a Young man was
taken into a public-house in Oldhall-street, in a state of stu-
pidity. He told his companions (two girls of loose character),
that he had been taking laudanum with an intent to destroy
himself. Two phials were found in his pockets, which had con-
tained laudanum. He was conveyed to a surgeon's, an emetic
was administered, and afterwards stimulants; but the stupor
continuing, it was judged expedient to remove him to the
Northern Hospital. Mr. Blotter; the house surgeon, was in
immediate attendance, and, with the stomach pump, succeeded
in drawing off a large quantity of Auld, strongly impregnated
with opium. Powerful stimulants were then injected, and the
jugular vein opetited. So powerfully had the opium influenced
the system, that the most active means were obliged to be con-
tinued during the whole of the night; but we are happy to add
he is now considered out of danger. He has many respectable
friends in London, from whom ire estranged himself early in
life, and went to sea. The following letter was fonnd on his
person :
"I write to informe my friends that should find it to tell them
the reason that lam bent on my dettrueting. 1 ran away from
the Albree, of Boston► and brought my clothes up to Mrs.
lloyel, and she turned me out of her house, and would not give
me any thing to eat at all, and last night I came home and asked
her if she would give me a night lodging, after that litad been
out all day, and did not get ;i mouthful of any tning to est all
day, and then I had to walk the streets all night; but I stated
my case to a sailor, and he took me home and gave me sonic sup-
per last night. I have looked for ship and can not get any suc-
cess loiterer."

The next morning he Was safficientiv recovered to give an
account of himself, and we are obliged.to Mr. Blower for the
following facts :—lwas a sailor on board tile A Iftree, of Boston,
and returning to I,lverriool left Voyage; I held the situation of
mate. The captain, while iii LiCerpool, P.ut another man in
inv place, with which I felt offended, and ran away about a
fortnight ago. 1 took my clothes to. Mrs. Doyle's in a court
in Brookes-street (a house of ill fame.) From there I went to
another house close by, where. a suit of blue clothes were taken
from me; a day or two after I visited this house again, and
another suit was taken froM me: I tried to get a ship, but
could not obtain one, neither maid I get work. On Tuesday
Mrs. Doyle told me she could not keep me any longer without
money, neither would she give me the remainder of my clothes,
which are abhut three dozer! pieces. The next day, having
wandered about the streets ztll night. I conceived the idea of de-
stroying myself, and thought laudanum the cusist way. I pawned
one of my shirts from of my back, and bought two bottles at an
oil shop. I bought two pennyworth of laudanum at different
stiVps, mixed them together into one bottle, and procured a
third pennyworth. About five o'clock I took the three penny-
wOrt h, and finding it hart but little effect, I procured two penny-
worth more, which I took at seven o'clock. I then met with
two girls, and told them shat I hat! been doing.
The man still remains in (he hoipital, from which he will not
be id a fit state to be discharged for some des. In the mean
time, we hope the authorities will make some inquirieg as to the
detention of his clothes. Ile appears truly sensible of the awful
situation he placed himself ih in a moment of great distress,
aggravated to madness by hiS own self-upbraiding, for the act
of folly he had committed when he enteral the lodging-house,
from Which he had been so cruelly ejected;