The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-05-04 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ON ARREST.  At Bow-street, London, Felicit6 haute, twentysix, said to be a French music-hall artist, has been brought before Sir John Bridge for extradition, charged with feloniously receiving .£1,400 worth of bonds, stolen from a Madame Colin in France. The prisoner came from France to England with li son of the lady whri lost the bonds, and stayed u ith him at Southampton. When arrested then the stolen bonds were found in a tied-room occupied by the pris .ner and her male companion. She was charged at Bow-street, but liberat,d, as the Freud) Government had made no formal demand for her extradition. Next afternoon she was re-arrested by Detective-instx•ctor Sexton at St. Paul's Hotel, Fitzroy-street. The inspector said to her: "1 ant going to re-arrest you on a warrant just issued by order of the Secretary of State.' She replied : "Shame ! I will kill myself rather than go back to Holloway." She Ulm rtn.iied past the inspector, and seizing a knife from a table, raised it as if to stab herself. Inspector Sexton seized her hand, and a violent straggle ensued, which ended by the prisoner falling to the ground in a dead faint. At Bow-street the prisorwr 4aid : "I did wt know that he (young Colin) stole the money from his mother, or I would not have gone away with him. I will knock out an brains sooner than go back to Holloway." By order of the divisional surgeon she was sent to the wtikhouse infirmary for the night—The prkoner now protested her lon nine, saving young C. tin (pmsecutrix's son) told her that Madame Colin was not his mother, but only his nurse, and that it was his owt, monev. She would rot run away again. All she wanted was to be allowed to remain with her friends until she was sent to France. Tlie prisoner was committed for extradition.  Information has been reeeivetl at Southampton of the moo,. err of the tasty of anotioT passenger of the Stella off fileppe. It has been identified as tha: of Joshua ',Amore. • ` ,' •-. The steamer Kamilla, hohse:i-e; to Sir Christopher ru„„.,, left Newport (Monmouth). laden with for Borintala. Int M:lrCii 7,0( h. And yakking has 1111.11 bean] .)f her bine, As the Veviliel is greatly .r-due, grave fears are entortained for hit safoy. John Saunders, of Itortheau•l. Glantorganshire. the claimant to an American fortune amounting to f. or millions at, rlie who lost his wife recently, has Leen found dead in bed. Ile never succeeded in oltainieg a cent of tint fabulous wealth to which he assertc., he was entitled. • A man named Kauffman has just been arrested at Nt'w York charged with preparing counterfeit Engbib shillings. Kauffman was in the habit of going at road every summer to purchase furs, and it is supposed that he expected to be able to get rid of his false coins on lijs travels.  A funeral which elicited consineraoie interest took place on Saturday at Plumstead, Kent. The deceased was Mr. Christopher Mark Allen, who in Captain Sir Edward ltelcher's expedition in seandi of Sir John Franklin was a seaman on board H.M. Pioneer.  The holy nf a boy, ahout nine pars of age. I.eF. been fonn4l in tile Thatunis at Dagenham. The I cell in the watur about three week.