The Sun. — 1851-10-28 (London, England)

SOUTHWARK.  Susan Martin, the wife_ of a tradesman residing in Broad-wall, was charged with attempting to commit suicide.  A policeman stated that the prisoner was found on Saturday evening on the step of a door in the street, apparently in a dying state, and when questioned she admitted that she had taken poison. He therefore lost no time in conveying her to a surgeon in the neighbourhood, who pronounced that she had swallowed a quantity of laudanum, and the stomach-pump being brought into requisition she recovered from the effects of the dose she had taken. It appeared that she had procured the laudanum by purchasing small quantities at different chemists' shops, until she got enough, she supposed, to answer her purpose, and then swallowed the whole. The husband was then called, and the first thing he did was to produce a bundle of pawnbrokers' duthat she had nearly ruined him owing plicates, saying to her propensity for liquor. He was compelled to leave her some time ago, and allowed her it. a week to live upon, besides giving her furniture to furnish a room.  Mr. ATECSETT said that the husband of such a woman was to be pitied. He should remand her for a week, and in the meantime the husband would have an opportunity of consulting with his friends, and making some arrangement as to her future disposal in the event of her being discharged. In the course of the day Mrs. Johnson, a lady who has interested herself in a very benevolent manner on behalf of the two poor women named Suban, relative to whom an application was made a few days since, attended for the purpose of explaining some circumstances in allusion to their case, and to a letter which appeared in the newspapers from Lord Lansdowne on the subject. The applicant stated that, having seen the Marquis of Lansdowne's letter in the newspapers, she considerd it only an act of justice on the behalf of the two sisters Suban to attend before Mr. A'Beckett to explain some inaccuracies which appeared in the former report of their application at that court. She then proceeded to describe that the father of the two women did not live as butler in Lord Lansdowne's family, but served in that capacity to Dr. Taylor, of Kenmare, and that after their parents' death they lived in a cabin on his Lordship's estate in the county of Kerry ; that they inhabited the cabin up to the time of their quitting Ireland about two months ago, and that it was under the advice of Mr. Townsend, Lord Lansdowne's agent, that they left their native place, Kenmare, and embarked at Cork to come over to this country under the supposition that they would be enabled to make out a livelihood here; that Mr. Townsend paid their passage for them ; and that they had documents to prove that, and also a letter from the Rev. Mr. Godfrey, the rector of Kenmare, recommending them as decent, well-conduoted women, and entitled to the sympathy of the benevolent. She (the applicant) had made the most strict inquiries into the characters of both the sisters, and had ascertained beyond doubt that they were not impostors, but were the persons they represented themselves to be, and that their parents as well as themselves had lived for many years on the estate of the Marquis of Lansdowne, in the county of Kerry. The applicant added, that the two poor women had since left for Ireland, and that her object in making the present application was for the purpose of acquainting his Lordship of the real circumstances, and disabusing his mind as to the unfortunate women being impostors, such an imputation upon their characters being sufficient to dest:oy their future prospects in life if left uncontradicted. Mr. A'BECKETT said that Lord Lansdowne in his (the magistrate), , note had:contradicted the assertions as to a man named Suban ever having been in his service as butler, or of such a person ever living on his estates in the county of Cork; his Lordship disclaimed ever having possessed an estate in that county. H© from the manner of the two women when before him,