The Lincoln County herald., 1872-10-16
The Bridge Of SighS.
An American Lady Leaps From Waterloo
Bridgc-Messagc from the Dead.
ICorrespondence Boston Globe. !

LONDON, ScpteUO lU, lOi-.
I recollcct t. have been particularly
struck wit a passage in magazine arti
Gle once read, which drew u vivid pic
turs OF the suffering Ut man who with
"A sick vile and three children found
himself destitute, or u most so, in the
big world Of London The writer. who
am under the impression was James
Parton, made this remark and this is
the passage TO which reier--"ro be "a
poor stranger in America is to be in IL
pursatpry that Is provided with practi
cable door into aradise to be such q
person in London is to be 10 he'll witt /.
out visible outlet" The truth Of this
statement has come the more vividy y
home to me since reading the account VI
the inquest held upon the body Of Miss
Alice Blanche Oswald, who committed
suicide last Thursday by throwing herself
off Waterloo Bridge into tho Thames
There is nothing particularly out of the
ordinary run of London things in a
woman pitching herself into the Thames,
or, for the matter Of that, in a man do
ing so, either. There are no end to
bridges baudy, some with low, inviting
parapets, others Offering more or less
facilities, and nothing is easier than to
get on the top Of one and let youiselt
drop flnp into the boiling. bubling, rush
ing, muddy Thames. Tho death, they
say, on the whole, is an easy one, aud on
a hot night in summer the change from
the .reskins, f.tid atmosphere Of heat
and dirt, poverty and tribulations, must
be for moment pleasant and especially y
if boat is handy to ford the chance
of being rescued just in the nick of time,
to be hauled up before the magistrate,
to be committed to the care If the chap
lain Of a penitentiary, and finally to be
released with handsome donation in the
shape of subscriptions from the charlta
BILE public who have meanwhile read the
acc, uut of "altcmpted suicide in the
newspapers. here is nothing, repeat,
altogether out of the ordinary run Of
things in such an event happening in
London. have read whole books fu !
Of accounts of suicides, and of attempted
suicides from Waterloo Bridge alone. aud
it seems to me that shake the ceases" up
n bag, you'd would not be able to tell
"tother from which," The old, old
stories, First u woman, then man.
Unfortunate, poverty, wre,chedness, hun
ger, death. But here We have tragedy
that evidently does not belong to Hood :
class; neither does it seem to come
within the category of suicides com
mitted through absolute starvation; nor
through crime least alone; nor drink,
nor yet through disappointed love. NO,
it is only the case Of poor stranger
IN London in the shell without u visible
outlet" who throws herself into the
arms of hell's associate, Death, to help
her ou, from her difficulty Mrs Il iza
Castle, l7s High street. Shadwell," calle,
in and examined. | desire, by the way,
to beg that those who read this will pay
particular attention to the foregoing
address Well. Mrs Eliza castle called
in and was examined by the worthy cor
oner let. see chat she has to soy She
good soman, hasn't grsa, deal TO ssy
Ste sivsly idDsG6ss che Aedy u >hs1 ~