The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1884-07-26 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

THE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY TARING POISON. , yOthal OA. sw, Frederick-street. appeared 'to A -William Gibson, a young man of no settled ; sammions at the instance of Taoman Knight. residence, MRS brought Ilp, On remand, churged 1 15, Grace-street, watchinan in the .rvice of with having attempted to commit suicide by : the Galvanized Iron Compute. The charge taking poison. It may be reniembered from a ! against the defendant wits that of hevieg report of the case in our last Saturday's issue, ; damaged an iron pipe to the value of Is. 6,1. by that the prisoner came into the shop of Mr. ! deliberately breaking it with a se:rm.-CoinCrawford, chemist, Argyle-street, asking for a ; plainant said that when he aeciesedahe depacket of rat poison, for which he signed the i fondant of breaking the pipe, he aud about a register kept of the sales of poisons, and after- , score of his conipaniens comeaericed to pelt, wards swallowed half of the contents of the ! complainant with stones.--Mr. Wale, manage]: packet. Dr. Ricketts was sent for, and lof the works, spokeof gangs of boys frequentlY endeavoured to get the man to take BR emetic, i going across the company s nue} and, behavieg but finding liiin obstinate he had him con- i In the lawless way named, the watchman beieg veyed to the Borough Hospital, where the I powerless to prevent theee-Tae iteueh .._ stomach pump was applied with success. posed- a penalty of is. and coots in itildith 43 “3 When the prisoner was brought up a week I la. 6,1. for the damage, the altensative racing ago he behaved in a strange fashion, being five days' imprisonment. apparently oblivious of ahuost everything HAD LANGUAGE TO A NEICHEouR.-Auce, about him. A week of imprisonment had. I Rhodes, 264,Conway-strees, charged Margaret however, thoroughly rationalized a.nd sobered Powers, 266, Conway-street, with haAng used him. He ascribed his attempt to commit i abusive and threatening language to her suicide to drink, and now expressed himself I Complainant said that defendant nietlies •)11. heartily sorry.--The Magistrates cautioned I the street and, accusing her olhavieg knee! ‘..1 him and allowed him to go unpunished, at , down and hur t her elefendanteD child, 7ir'li the same time informing him that if a„„ °Mill I family threatened to cut her teeitd.--leaee. brought up he would be scut to the Sessions. ! dant eloquently defoud ned hereela, de y nig' ' .1 EMBEZZLEMENT BY A Caevessia-Benjanun , language and the threat. Ala shaa'a .' ulitti..:l t. de Lacey, a young man of no settledresidence, I wax, that she theetuted complain at of k ' 3,•`-; .--was chargea with embezzling about E. 3, the I down her rtti - 1 c 1 - ' -Thi .41 .."-n... i e re. an eattneg er *ten, and money of Mr. Samuel Williams, cabinet i told her that elle would be curd . fi tit maker, Argyle-street. The prisoner was me child's heade-Evideu • IV.° *u co has sapport of this ployed by prosecutor as a canvasser Mr evdnes statement WWI, IRMO • lint the in ist . for the removal of furniture, but he had no nee a diff • ' the ug4- 4llattak. (Meat view of :case elec.. (-hillauthority to collect account,. On the 18th ilnnt 2s, 6d. and costs. March last the prisoner received, on behalf of CHAROE or