The Sun. — 1842-05-25 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MARLBOROUGH-STREET.  A man of forlorn and exceedingly miserable aspect, whose name was entered in the police charge-sheet as Theykilns 11 il-• lions Curry, and who designated himself " a sehoolmas t er," was placed at the bar before Mr. Maltby, charged with having twice attempted to commit suicide. It appeared that about half-past eleven o'clock yesterday morning, the prisoner entered the tap.rcom of the George public-house, in Castlestreet, Leicester-square, in a very agitated state. The pot-boy and a customer were the only persons in the room. Of the former he solicited the loan of a knife, but the party refused, saying that he did not appear in a fit state of mind to be trusted with such a weapon. The pot-boy, however, gave him a small penknife, thinking he wanted to cut his shoe-string or some such matter. The prisoner immediately tore his neckerchief cif, and made a violent stab at the right side of his throat, but his arm was arrested by the pot-boy at the instant the point was just entering hiineck. The determined manner in which it was done plainly evinced the prisoner's intention to effect his purpose. The knife was wrested from his grasp with considerable difficulty, and he then ran out of the house, and crossing the street, entered a public-house, the Monmouth Head, directly opposite, where he retired to a dark part of the taproom, and attempted to strangle himself by tying his cravat tightly round his throat. When discovered, he was black in the face, and nearly insensible, and would, no doubt, in a very short time, have been a corpse. On being sufficiently recovered, he was given in charge to the police. Mr. MA LTEY interrogated the prisoner, and succeeded in eliciting from him the following particulars :—He was 31 years of age, and a native of Bungay, in Suffolk, where his father had for many years extensively practised as a medical man, and continued to do so until his death. He had a brother a surgeon, at present residing there, from whom he continued to receive occasional assistance. He was himself intended for the Church, and was educated at Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he obtained the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and left the University, as nearly as he could recollect, about 1834 or 1835. lie was shortly afterwards ordained by the Bisnop of Norwich, and in two years from that time was presented by the Rev. Mr. Watson, of Swaffham, with a living near Lynn, in Norfolk, which he ,(rave up, after retaining it about six months, to superintend a school in Monmouthshire. This speculation proved unsuccessful, and the last situation he held was as classical tutor at an academy kept by Mr. Norton, at Braintree, in Essex, which lie quitted about fifteen months ago, and had since subsisted by vending cheap publications about the streets. He had been living at lodging-houses of the commonest description in St. Giles's and Westminster, and had lately been in Westminster Hospital with a diseased leg, under Mr. White.  Mr. Mat.rinr said, that if the prisoner's account of himself was correct, it was truly lamentable that a person of his condition should be reduced to such a deplorable situation ; and the worthy Magistrate, therefore, directed Mr. Clements, the Chief Usher of the Court, to make inquiries as to the truth of the statement he had made. In the interim the prisoner was allowed to sit in the eharge.room, but lie was shortly afterwards seized with delirium tremens, or drunkard's madness, and although coffee, brandy, &c., were administered to him, he continued in a state of great suffering and mental excitement. The result of the officer's inquiry proving that the prisoner's account of himself, as far as could then be ascertained, was true, he having lodged at the place he mentioned, and had also been a patient in Westminster Hospital, and his name being found , in the University Calendar, as a member of Emanuel College, in 1831, Mr. Maltby directed that he should be received into St. Martin's Workhouse, until such time as his relatives could be apprised of his unfortunate condition.