The Sun. — 1845-06-07 (London, England)

LAMBETH. •  SenneTtow.—.Miss Mary Ann Salisbury, the daughter Of a Dissenting minister at Bath, was charged with attempting to commit suicide on the preceding night. Frederick Godfrey, a servant in the employment of the London and Westminster Steam 'boat Company deposed, that on the preceding night he observed the prisoner on the steps leading to the Company's pier, on the Surrey side of Westminster-bridge, and knowing that the boats had ceased to run for the sight, he asked her what or who she was waiting for? She replied nobody. There was something about her manner which induced him to watch her closely, and perceiving that she was approaching the water's edge he;followed her, and again asked her what she wanted? At this time she appeared to be praying, and did not reply to him for some moments, when she drew a letter from her bosom, and requested he would put it into the post-office. She then said that her lover had jumped off,London-bridge on Sunday or Monday night, and he hoped ' she would do the same. She then made towards the edge of the water, and was in the act of throwing herself in, when he (witness) caught hold of her clothes and held her until assistance came, and she was handed over to the care and charge of a policeman. The witness added, that after saving her, the prisoner told hisa he was very unkind for interfering with her, and asked him several times to let her do what she wanted, but she appeared in a state of distraction at the time. The witness, in answer to a question from the magistrate, further said that on the same ( Wednesday) night a young man had thrown himself off the London-bridge, and was picked up alive, as he heard, by one of the Watermen steamers. Police-constable Bovill, 140 D, deposed that on her way to the station-house the prisoner told him she was the daughter of a clergyman, at Bath, and had come away from there a fort-night ago with a young gentleman who had since deceived her. She also said she lodged at 2, Edward-street, Blackfriarsroad ; but he had since called there, and no such person as the prisoner was known there. The prisoner here said, the name of the street she now recollected was King Edward-street. Sergeant Arnold, L 8, said that after the charge had been taken the prisoner stated to him, that the young man with whom she had come from home had taken from her her valuable gold watch and rings, and had got from her all the money she possessed. The prisoner, who is not 21 years of age, and who was evidently deeply affected, made the following statement : —Her father, she said, kept a boot and shoe warehouse at Bath, and carried on a very extensive business, and was also minister of a Dissenting congregation there. For some rears past, Mr. A. Bertram, with whom she had been brought up from childhood, had paid his addresses to her, but for some reason or other her father had set his face against their marriage. A short time since Bertram was on a visit to his father, who resided in the Royal Tork-crescent, and assured her he had got a license for their marriage in London, and promised that if she accompanied hint there the ceremony should be at once performed. Believing his representations, and confiding in his honour, she consented to leave her father's house unknown to him or any part of her family. The time chosen for her leaving home was on the night of last Tuesday fortnight, and while her father, her mother, and the family were engaged in a prayer meeting at their own house, she isanaged to hand a small trunk containing a part of her wearing apparel to Bertram, and immediately after left herself and accompanied him, Bertram, by the railroad to Londor. They arrived in tosrn at an early hour on the following ( Wednesday) morning, when Bertram took her to a house opposite to Drurylane, which he said was his aunt's, and where he wished her to stop, but observing so much of what she conceived to be gross misconduct going on there, she refused to remain beyond that morning, and the following night she slept at the Bull and Mouth Inn. Mr.