Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-07-25
Affecting Suicide.

Ihe Cork Constitution gives the following
romantic and affecting account Of the snicde OF
| a solder IN the frenzy of love: "Some weeks
since private soldier of the 40th regiment, quar-.
tered IN the garrison, named Alfred Winstanley
an Englishman about % years of age. became
acquainted with young woman named Mary
Low, the daughter of a military pensioner. His
! proposal OF marriage was accepted, with the pro.
viso that he get leave to marry from his com.
handing officer. This he was reluctant TO ask.
tor some cause which remains unexplained, and
her parents, considering it imprudent to sanction
'he marriage OF their daughter under anv other
cona'uon, determined TO conclude the intimacy
between her and Nlnstanley by sending her on q
WISH 10 an uncle IN London On June 25 he got
leave TO remain out of barracks until IL O'Clock
and visited Lows house, where he remained nm.
I'll lO9. During this time, he learned that Mary
was to leave Cork next morning at O'Clock. bv
the AJAX steamer for London He returned 10
barracks within his leave and after REPORTING
| himself, scaled the walls and escaped. and arain
returned to Lows, and entreated to be admitted.
put was refused, though he threatened, if not, to
throw himself into the river Early The next
morning, he again endeavored to gain admittance
INTO Low S, but was refused, aud eventually left.
declaring he would destroy himself. He then
went into an adjacent house and borrowed a
breakfast cup. From this he proceeded to the
oil and color shop of Mr.. Denis Conner, in North
Main-st, where he asked for halfpnt of oil of
vltrlol, Tor, as he said, removing stains from his
croSS-behS.
Having got the vitriol in the cup, he hurried
along hyrls-quay to Levitt's-quay, where he
met Mary Low with her mother and sisters or
their way to the steamship. In a frenzied man.
ner he asked her ''if she would deceive him--if
she was about to leave him who was so fond of
her" She moved on, and he followed. and,
holding up the cup, said, "Mary, you know /
love you, and if you don't stop and marry me
this will end my existence. You know | can t
live without you, and this must put me out of
pain" Her mother then pushed her from him,
when he Immediately drank the vtriol, threw
the cup INTO the river, and leaped several feet
from the ground, screaming frightfully. At this
moment private soldier of the S4th Regiment
came up, when Winstanley, pointing after Mary
Low, said, "There--there she is she's the
cause of it; it is she's to blame" Acting con-
stable Edwards then came up and removed the
unfortunate man to the North Infirmary. where
he was at once attended by DR.. Popham and
Surgeon Gordon, who administered carbonate
OF magnesa and the usual antidotes, but the cor
roslve effects OF the poison were so immediate as
to render all efforts unavang. DR.. Harvety,
the surgeon Oh Inc 4Uth, subsequently saw him,
and continued, with DR.. Popham, to attend him
until his death, which took place at three O'Clock
yesterday morning, after indescribable suffering,
which he bore with patience. During Thurs
day, although writhing with pain, he asked of
every person who entered the ward in which
he lay, ''ls she coming? for if | get but one
glimpse OF her it will remove all my pain, and
shall die easy" Deceased had a medal and star
for several engagements in India, where he had
served with credit.