The Sun. — 1859-02-17 (London, England)

MANSION4IOUSE.--Alfred Algerson,journeyman baker, who had been remanded upon the charge of having attempted to commit suicide by jumping over the parapet of London-bridge, was again brought before the Lord Mayor. It will be recollected that after the charge had been proved against the prisoner on Saturday last, he made a long rambling, incoherent statement, to the effect that he had been induced to commit the rash act on account of mental distress, brought on by his having killed his father, by administering to him poison by direction of his mother, he not being aware at the time of the nature of the dose he so administered. The Lord Mayor said he did not believe there was the least foundation for the statement of the prisoner, but remanded him till yesterday, in order that the state of his mind might be ascertained. Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, now handed to the Lord Mayor the following certificate : " Gaol of Newgate, Feb. 16 1859. " In obedience to the instructions of the Lord Mayor, I have the honour to certify that I have daily carefully examined Alfred Algerson since his admission into this gaolon the 12th instant, as to the state of his mind. I have ascertained that just previous to the attempt at suicide he had been drinking hard, which doubtless led to the depression and derangement. under which he acted. On a former occasion he has attempted the same, but under the same pernicious influence. He states that he never had such a thought except when he had been drinking ; that he now regrets and is sorry for what he has done, and has expressed a resolution never to allow himself to be brought under the influence of intoxicating liquors in future. " As regards his statement that he had given something to his father when he was ill, which his mother said was poison, it appears to arise from some general observation of a drinking and abandoned woman, for he informs me that she drank very hard for four years before her death. He likewise states that the doctor from whom the medicine was obtained was found gnawed in his bed by rats. " These statements appear to me absurd and unfounded, and may be pure delusions. His conversation upon all other matters, manner, and conduct, since under my observation, have been quite correct, and have not exhibited any indications of derangement of mind. " J. R. GlssoN, F.R.C.S." The Lord Mayor—You see that the statement that the medical man has very kindly sent me says that your depression is brought on by drunkenness. That is generally the case. We cannot permit you to go at large to attempt each another attack upon your life, and therefore you must find a surety--.a good housekeeper—in £lO to keep the peace for one calendar month, and in default of your doing that you must go to prison ; but in sending you there it is in the earnest hope that there you may useful man. Isaac French, a young fellow belonging to South Shields, and who described himself as a clothier, was charged before the Lord Mayor with having fraudulently obtained goods of the value of £l2 from Messrs. Tallerman, wholesale clothiers, Houndsditch, by false pretences. Mr. Doyle, on behalf of the prosecution, said the prisoner carried on business in South Shields as a clothier; and in the month of October last, when Mr: Tallerman was in the north, he paid a visit to the prisoner, who gave him an order for clothing amounting to £l2 Os. 11d. Mr. Tallernm, strum by his youthful appearance, asked him if he was 21, and received for reply that he was nearly 24. The goods, ppon the faith of his representation, were transmitted to South Shielasi awl iu the ordinary