The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-06-16 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

IVI4III-n as well ag men. The Anagterdinn lc, Club exhibits .1.1 paintings of skating rates, and ,i,einicr.s it the imph namtg with r.-hich they prepale the x.Il. nt cours.s on which their championship Tact s are lit  SINGULAR CASE 4F ATTEMPTED sUICIDE.  On Satin,' iy, hefor- Mr. Fenwiek. at North Lmiloa Felice COM% Lydia Ship,. iid, of Manor Park, Essex, a respectably-dress. d marriPil woman, was charged witli a:tempting to commit suicide by throwing her. relf into the River Lea.—Thomas Rayner, a wood turner, of flame-street, Islington, stated that on Fr:day evening !wand a companion, Henry Summerfield. had been rowing on the Lea, and were goii.gi round the back water to bathe when they saw an object bobbing up and down in the water. At the same moment they saw a man divesting himself of his clothing and shouting for help. Witness rowed up and found the prisoner in the water. They polled her into the boat in an exhausted condition, and soon afterwar 's handed her over to the police. When asked if she had fallen over the bridge, she replied, "No. I jumped in, because I wished to commit auicide." The Witness added that it was very deep water at the spot, but the clothing of the prisoner buoyed her up. The constable who had charge of the case produced two bottles of chlorodyne whit% he found in the dress pocket of the accused, as well as a letter in which she hail asserted her suicidal intentions. The husband of the accused said he could not account for the act of his wife. They had lived comfortably together for 24 years. The only explanation he could give was that on the previous day, in a jocular way, he had told her she had the appearance of having been drinking. She replied, No will never disgrace you that way." A medical gentleman who had en in attendance upon the accused, attributed the act impulse, and said the husband would look after it she was discharged.—Mr. Fenwick allowed the accused to go away with her husband, and said she ought to thank the young man who hail saved her.  An action was brought by a carman in the City of London Court on Saturday to recover damages for personal injuries sustained through the negligence of the servants of the defendants, the London and India Docks Joint Committee, Leadenhall-street. Plaintitrii case was that in crossing a road at the South-Went India Dock he was thrown violently to the ground owing to the defective condition of the roadway. The defence was that there was no defect in the road, and that plaintiff did not exercise ordinary care. The jury found for the plaintiff lot Eti Ss. and costs.  ! The boy Rains, who some days ago was charged ' with being concerned with a younger brother and • child of five ix stealing a horse and cart, was again before Mr. Shell at Westminster Police-court, on Saturday, when it tilt, spired that, in company with another boy, he had escaped from the work• house in Buckingham Palace-road, to which he had been temporarily. sent. Ho was ordered to he further remanded, when the young incorrigible remarked to a polio, man that since he had been taken back to tin workhouse he had not had a fair chance, as his "togs" had been taken from him to keep him in bed. Messrs. Henry and Co. have added to their Victoria Library for Gentlewomen a volume by Mrs. Talbot Coke, on "The Gentlewoman at Home." It is extremely well written, and is prefaced with an excellent portrait of the author. Messrs. Henry and Co. will publish shortly • volume by Mr. R. C. Lehmann, entitled "The Pillsbury Election and other Papers from Pesch," which includes, besides the title story, "Modern Types," "Among the Amateurs," fie. Twenty-eight ' illustrations have been specially drawn for the book by Mr. Hai Hune;