The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-09-13 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

NARROW ESCAPE OF A YOUNG LADY. 1 At Marsden Rock, a picturesque resort on the , nerth-east coast between Sunderland and Shields, a ybung lady, a schoolmistress on Tyneside, who had got separated from her companions, had a war. row escape from drowning the other evening. She appears to have gone into one of the coves which skirt the seashore, and ths tids being flowing at the time retreat was impossible. Her friends in the meantime missed her, and commenced a long and fruitless search. Coastguardsman Taggart, stationed at Marsden, was subsequently apprised of her strange disappearance, when he immediately proceeded to the spot and commenced to search for what all expected Ipust be her lifeless body. It now being high yater, the coastguardsman was lowered over the cliff by mains of a rope at the spot where the young lady was last seen, but his efforts vein unrewarded. Other places in close proximity were subsequently searched but not the slightest clue could be found, and being now thoroughly wet to the skin, Taggart was hauled on to the top of the cliff again. Shortly afterwards the tide had culticient!). fallen for the searchers to get down to the ' bench, when one of the 'tar* found the young standing, but unconscious, at the far end of cove which Taggart had first searched. She lia; had a miraculous escape from death, the water hasint reached nearly up to her face. With all sse'd she was carried to the Marsden Hotel, where rest.ratives were applied with such success that the peals; lady was able to travel by a late train ts Suth Shields to her home. Coastguardsman Tag. gait was more than once struck by loose stones falling uponliim while being lowered ever the cliff.  ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A FADdLY.  The inhabitants in the neighbourhood of Balancroad, Homerton, were on Tuesday afternoon alarmed by terrible cries proceeding from No. 28 in that road. Police-constable Creed was summoned to Ow house, and Samuel Stockham, the occupant, was given into his custody for throwing his child, Amy Elizabeth, aged 1 year and 9 months, on the fire. Police-sergeant Cuddy subsequently visited the house, and found that the occurrentv was of a far more serious character than at first sup. posed. The wife of the prisoner (Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Stockham) had been stabbed in the left breast, and on infant, aged two days, the child of Mr. Stockliam, was suffering from a wound on the aide of the head, which appeared to be of a very serious charact.r. Mrs. Stockharn informed the officer Vast her husband had thrown the child Amy on the tire in the bedroom. He had also inflicted the wound upon her by stabbing her with a table knife, and he snatched the youngest child out of the bed and threw it violently on the floor. Her husband, who was in a very exalted state, went into the back bedroom and attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself. He procured a piece of clothes-line, and, making a loop at one end, placed it round the handle of the door, drawing the cord over the top of the door. These preparations were witnessed by his wife with the utmost consternation, but she was in such a weak state that she could not get out of the house to raise an alarm. Her husband meanwhile had completed his preparations, and had actually suspended himself by the rope before help arrived. Stockbam was charged on Wednesday at Worship. street police-court, and remanded.