The Express. — 1863-07-02 (London, England)

THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.)  ATTIMITID RUICIDE.—A SAD WORT. Charlotte Leach, aged 18 with a very fair face and long golden wavy hair and eyelashes, described as • prostitute sad married woman, was charged before Mr. Barker with attempting to commit suicide by taking • quantity of sugar of lead, at SL Pancras. Mary Ann Branch, the keeper of a low brothel at 11, Little 'Drummond-street, Signer's-town, said the defendant lad lodged with her • little over a month. She a • married woman, and her friends are highly respectable. On Monday last she went to Woolwich, and retuned with a soldier. On Tuesday when she got up she went out, and returned with • large quantity of roger of Led, which she mixed with some hot water and drank. The soldier gave an alarm, sod • surgeon was emit for, who having administered an emetic, advised her removal to the hospital. There the stomach pump was used. and • large quantity of sugar of lead removed from her. She had heard the prisoner since say that she was tired of her life, and that she was determined to destroy herself, u she had no one to live or care for. Po/ice-sergeant Parry, 47 8, said that he took the defendant into custody, and even after she had taken an emetic and been attended to at the hospital, she brought up more meson whilst at the police station. The defendant thee appeared is • low and desponding state, and 'teemed deeply to regret the act sbe was foolish enough to attempt to commit. After a night's reflection and whilst on the way to the police-court, she said that she would not Is foiled, and that she was determined to destroy her. self, and that though poison had failed she would be more successful nest time, for at the dead of night she would go to a lonesome spot, where no one could see or aid her, MI there jump into the water. She also said that her husband when she married him was an architect and marble carver, that she left him, and that he then sold his business, and is now in either the Sappers and Miners or the Royal Artillery. Her friends are highly respectable, and,lmentioning the name of her brother, she said that be in sow mayor of • country Mare, and in • large way of business.He believed from what he bad heard that her statement was true. The defendant, although she had eloped from her husband and leading • disreputable life, mixing as she did with some of the lowest prostitutes in Sower's-town, and residing at a notorious brothel, was generally well conducted, and a very quiet person. When she was first in custody she said she was very unhappy, and at the hospital it was stated that she had taken poison enough to kill • horse. The defendant, who seemed very downcast, said that she did not care what was done to her or what became of her. Mr. Barker said it would not be safe for bar to goat large at present, and therefore he should remand her to the House of Detention until Wednesday next. She would there see the chaplain, and he trusted that she would pay attention to tau advice and see the folly of her wicked act. By Wednesday next he hoped her friends would hear where she was and come forward and take her &war from her present bed associates.  The defendant, who bops to ery, teso then removed.