The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-02-16 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MAP."  She was muoh agitated by this communication, and remarked to her motber-indaw on the following day: "If I thought I was going to have three I .4liould take little Reggie and jump into the canal, mid leaVe little Stanley with his Grannie." She laughed as she spoke, and it was not thought that she meant what she said. Upon entering his boils.: on Friday witness found the folcosing letter adelre-sed to him :- "My dear humband,—l can't do my duty to you or the ehildren, ao I am going to take Wiggle ad do away with mywdf. You will be far berm off without me. Take dear Made Stanley to his Grannie, and cell up and go but home. Don't fret about me, I am not worth troubling about. I Fin not lit to be a mother, or worthy to hare ouch a good hthiband. God bleat you both. Don't, tAer tell deer little Stanley what hi mother did, bit love him for my sake. Good-bye and God bees you. I owe for seven hundred of coal, and this to Mr. Round."  In reply to Mr. Baker. witnesa said his wife had been in delicate }wale:, since the birth cf the lat valid. She wan 27 years of age. The mother of the last witness deposed that on Friday morning her sou's wife, who seemed very strange, came to her house. She had her two chit. aren with her. Witness a-ked why she had come, and ,he replie t: "Stanley want* to see his Grannie After remaining a few minutes she went away with the youngeet. child in her arms, saying she was going to buy something for Harry's dinner." At ter time her son came and asked after his wife. She told him the key had been left with her, and that she thought it po.bible her daughter-in-law had gone to Sparkbrook to see her sister, who had just gnc., birth to tripiet*.—Til reply to Mr. Baker, watateis said she had been informed that the accused had two brother., who had csimanitted suicide. _  Mary Adelaide Simimons, wife of .John Simmon% 75, Vicarage Road, Aston, paid ehe had known the limdleys for three year.. They were a very loving couple, and lived happily together. She on one oemsion told witness. "If I thought there was anything the matter with me" (meaning if she wen enceinte) "I ,hold do away with myeelf and my children." Louie& Mary Martin, wife of Thomai Martin, Police congtable in the employ of the Birmingham Canal Company, said the aectiaed, who had a baby in her arms. pa.sed by her cottage on the towing path on Friday afternoon. A eouple of hams later the woman was brought to witness'a house by PC., Smith and Taylor and a boatman. Witness gme her dry elothe' g and aslced her if she had fallen init. the water. She reOect. "No; I got in because I was unhappy. I have left a little boy at borne, bless him. I don't know what my husband will  say." By the Foreman of the jury: A high wind wns blowing on Friday, and it would have been CUL:I3 possible for the accused to be swept by it into the water. By Mr. Baker : Accused Faid she didn't know what she wee doing at the time. elhe had been earrying a child +ince noon and seemed very tired and weak. Louisa Holmes 131, Briekfield Cotter. (rat Barr, deposed ti seeing the woman and valid in the water and calling the attention of some boatmen ti them. Surniel Wmver, boatman, 17, Cuckoo Read, Bir. minigham, gave evidence as to rescuing the accused. She ea.:led out to him when he was nearing her, "On. master, do :ook after my talyy first," and endeavoured to raise her left arm which was under the water. He extricated the child and said to her, "Lord, my good women, how did you get in here." Sire Henri Le (iris, King of Navarre, married as her as-wired, "I don't know; I must have fallen in." second husband Edmund, Duke of Lancaster, beer her She woe in a very exhausted condition. He en- of King Edward I. Anxious to show her zeal for the deavoured by artificial respiration to restore the faith, she erected on the east side of what is now child, but without success. Dr. Robertson said he had made a pcstinortem the street named the hlinories a religious house for examination. The deceased died from drowning. the residence of certain nuns devoted to the service Susannah Bradley, the accused, afas being of God, St. Mary, and St. Francis, who were cautioned by the Coroner, elected to give evidence. I expected to arrive and settle in the realm of England She said she had been very unhappy and the thought had prayed on her mind that she was not doing in the year 1293. The nuns were denominated her duty to her husband and children. Her hus. "Clares," from their foundress, St. Clare of Assisi, band, who was always kind, allowed her 20s. a week in Italy, who was a zealous disciple of St. Francis, to keep the house, but through her mismanagement They called themselves the "Sorores Minorca" (the this sum did not suffice. On Thureday when she "Lesser Sisters"), as the Franciscan monks called ,aid she, thought of drowning herself and her child themselves "Fratres Minores " ("Lesser Brothers ") ; she was only jesting, but she meant to do it on the following day. Before going to the canal she went and front them the name of the street Minories was to Witton Czmetery, to gee her mother's grave, derived. Where the little eighteenth-century church thinking this, wou7d comfort her. The gates were neer stands stood formerly the church of the Holy claed so the turned towards the canal and walked Trinity of the abbey of the nuns of St. Clare. along the towing-path. A sudden implies rano over her end she primped into the water. She then There have been many rumo.ns during the past realised what she was doing and tried to get out, • eighteen months of the appearance of Androe's failing in this she tried to Cave the baby, hut her balloon in northern districts, and some messages arms were tired and she could not lift the child on which were found to be mere inventions have caused to she path. Two brothers had committed enicide by drnviiing themselves. a temporary sensation through the world; but at Prieoner, when charged at the illation mid? "I last a terribly circumstantial account comes from felt I had to do it I have been neglecting my North Siberia that lends itself to the worst fears. home, and felt I was not doing what I ought to do It is to the effect that the Tuuguses, a tribe to me hit-hand and children."..-A verdict of "Wilful inhabiting the Tismur Peninsula, in Northern Siberia, =tele," wan mturned, and prigfner was comaniteeed to the A.sizes. hews ikenrxnad tha rhu,t ne pones (hat the. live