The Sun. — 1846-09-16 (London, England)

GUILD HALL.—(T HIS DAY.) ATTE3IPTED SUICIDE.—James Ring, a labouring man, "nout the middle age and blind of an eye, was placed at tett!. bar before Mr. Alderman Gibbs, charged with at'4llting to commit suicide by hanging himself. It .ll:eared from the statements or several witnesses that Shut twelve o'clock last night the daughter of the prier' ran into a coffee-shop in Buckley-court, Ishelane. and gave an alarm that her father, th.°3e lodgings were in the same court, had cut his p;clat- The keeper of the coffee-shop (Mr. Thomas i„,t*l'Y), accompanied by one of his lodgers, hastened t-I.nlediately with the child to the spot, and found the tloner, not, indeed, with his throat cut, but with a Ittithllditerchief tied round his neck, with the proper run-11,;:g knot for strangulation by suspension, and other 1/o"tikerehiefs added, to give it the necessary length. *6 was in the act of finally adjusting this halter Nlr. Perry interfered. A policeman arrived t 1 afterwards, and the prisoner was given into custody. duct ueo called on by the magistrate to explain his conhe said that he had fur some time been saving a eo:l7nnocy to provide for the expenses of his wife's Oucement, which was expected shortly to take place, fibbed of unfortunately he got drunk last night and was seihue_,tl of all his money, and in consequence had deterfer"e,`-' to make away with himself. Ile was now sorry „toe attempt upon his life. es'-'1% Alderman Grnns desired him to be taken care of til Friday, to which day he remanded him. wjames Baxter, a bookbinder in Bridgewater•square, gtaat charged by police-constable No. 142 (City) with rrub,ing his (the prisoner's) wife in two laces. er:n,c policeman stated that, about five o'clock yesterday dens-11'aff, he saw a crowd collected in Bridgewater-garb, around a woman from whose head and neck the ar,4)nti was flowing profusely. Learning that the prit:r had stabbed his wife (the wounded woman) he him into custody. miMaurice Newman, No. 3, Store-street, Gower-street, sled that, shortly before the policeman came up to his gudtance, he was passing by the corner of Bridgewaterwool an ns, and saw the prisoner strike with his fist a see,ri,who was walking close behind him. The prihe t,,r"ari ran on, the woman running after him, when knit; lar,e'l sharply round and struck her twice with a neck: 471: in the side of the head, and again in the the priso witness rushed between them, and seizing Inischier 11,!1. by the wrists restrained him from further Wit "nta the policeman came to his assistance. neSS saw the knife distinctly. It was a clasp knife, CI," he saw the prisoner wipe it and put it in his pocket, L'en he was released from the witness's grasp. On t "'arching the pocket, however, a hole was found in it, anti which there could be no doubt the knife bad It was not found afterwards. he prisoner in his defence said, that he was proVe'ted by his wife's drunkenness and violence to strike lc", but that the wounes were inflicted with a street-door veY, which he had in his hand at the time. He posiZIY denied that he used a knife, or that he had one tit at the time. I.t was statied, however, that the surgeon who exinktned the woman, had no doubt that the injuries were eted with a knife. The prisoner was remanded till woman is perfectly able to attend.  -OW-STREE'r.—(