The Dewsbury Chronicle, and West Riding Advertiser. — 1895-06-05 (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDES BY WOMEN. In Parliament-street he came to a stop at a pillarx. My heart beran to beat with excitement At Bow-street Police-court, on Saturday, Maud Stanley, 23, a stylishly-dressed young woman, waen I saw him post a letter. Then he turned, was charged with being drunk and attempting to and to my delight, for I was sick of tramping commit suicide. Police - constable 273 E de- tle streets, went straight home again. As I posed that about 1.15 that morning he saw the s noked my pipe before turning in, I begaa to prisoner mount the parapet of Waterlgo Bridge, t link that I had found out something. My first and he ran and caught hold of her aS she was about to throw herself into the river. She was theory, that the man in the train had anything very drunk and struggled to get away from to do with the subject of the advertisement, witness, saying she wanted to drown herself.— was wild enough. But here was something that Assistant-gaoler Bush said the prisoner had boo me out. He had taken a walk at one several times been charged at that court as a a. in. to post a letter. The only motive that I drunk and disorderly person.—Mr. Lushington sentenced her to one month's imprisonment for c3uld suggest for his going so far to do this was being drunk and disorderly. that he wished it to be posted in the S. W. disMary McKay, aged 40, a married woman, ct. living at Battersea, was charged, on remand, on The next morning, when the servant came to Saturday, at the South NVestern Police-court, call me, I asked her about the lodger. She at with attempting to commit suicide by throw- lonce recognised my description of him, and ing herself into the Long Pond, Clapham Common. Her husband said she was subject to fits, said he was "the parlours," but that was all she and the doctor at Holloway Prison certified her knew, as she had only just come to the house to be insane—Mr. Cluer ordered her to be taken herself, and had never heard his name. I should, to the infirmary. —A working-man came forward however, I thought, have DO difficulty in finding and asked the magistrate to grant him his ut more about him, and, if I intended to go on expenses. It was he who rescued the prisoner from the water, and his clothes were soaked. with the inquiry, the best thing to do was to He had been nut of work for three weeks.—Mr. obtain information from the people who had Cluer consulted the chief clerk as to the advis- published the advertisement. ability of giving the man relief from the poor The address at The Cedars was not given, and box, when the assistant gaoler stated that. the the man to call on was evidently Mr. John Bax, man came to the court at the first hearing to give evidence, but he was drunk and not in a solicitor, of the Adelphi-terrace. As I waited condition to give evidence—Applicant: Why, I in the latter gentleman's clerks' office, I began had two glasses of brandy which they gave me to think that to a lawyer my theory would not because I was wet. I was not drunk.—Mr. Cluer seem a very convincing one. There was very said that since the man did not give evidence he little to connect my fellow lodger at Gowercould not be paid. The man left the court grumbling. street with the advertisement, and I imagined the expression the lawyer's face would wear when I told him my story. Little did I think as I followed the clerk into the inner room that I was going to be greatly embarrassed by finding a connection between my fellow lodger and the advertisement. The solicitor was sitting at a table writing, and when I entered he got up and turned round to