Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1878-03-09 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDES FROM CLIFTON BRIDOR. —Fresh charges of attempted suicide from the Suspension bridge won brought before the Bristol magistrates. The accnsed was a young man giving the name of William John Janie. Price, residing at 15, Claremont-street, Stapleton-road. At an early hour on Tuesday morning he attempted to pass on to the Suspension-bridge from the Clifton-side, but, his manner being very strange, the night toll-collector questioned him. He then admitted that he was tired of hie existence, and he only wished to go over the bridge in order to throw himself off. He was perfectly sober when be made this statement, and he r-pented it emphatically several times. The toll collector detained him until a policeman passed and tnen gave him into custody. Os the way to the station the prieoner said he should EXTRAORDINARY GOOSE EO year ClEL—AbOlit the I renew the attempt at the first opportunity. On the 1867, when I was an assistant collector in the application of Superintendent Thatcher, the pri• Tinnevelly district of Southern had long he India, I was living , . goner was rewarded for his friends to be cam- with a friend who had two geese, or rather n. goose muniested with.—The next prisoner brought up was and and a gander. The goose had never laid an egg Selina Williams, a girl of jaded appearance, who as esince reached maturity, my friend was charged, on remand, with climbing the rails naturally supposed that the delay was due to some of the footpath of the Suspension-bridge with constitutional defect. At Met, however, his patience intent to throw herself over on Thursday last, was rewarded, but not exactly in the way that one y The prisoner was seen in the act of mounting the would have expected. The goose did indeed lay, , rails by Emery, one of the bridge officials, who ran but what it laid was not an egg in the ordinar a forward and seized her. She stated that she was about sense, but a something in the form of a goo* to commit suicide and begged to be left alone. Emery and only resembling an egg in having then gave her into custody. On the way to the station white shell. The resemblance to the form she handed to the constable a packet of poison, of a goon mudded in there being a body, if I may so which she gated she had purchased for the purpose call it, of the usual shape, with a neck proportionitely of destroying herself with. Mies Signs, the matron of long, and terinmating in something resembling a head Southwell-etreet Home, Bristol, informed the magi.and beak. The egg was not materially injured, which trates that the prisoner had been received into the waa much to be wondered at considering its shape, home no less than four times; she had also been an but at the point where the body of a goose usually inmate of the Refuge and a similar institution in terminates in a tail there wan a certain softness and London. The ladies connected with the homes had semi transparency. This appearance was also noticeon more than one occasion obtained her situations, able about the places where the ryes would be, and , and receive her. She was further sort of beak; and at the extremity of the latter where the head terminated, as I have eaid, in a but she had always left them. Aboet a fortnight ago , aaret, a little of the albumen found means of escape. I walked to Bristol, and shortly afterwards was brought , she was sent into a two years' home rt Bath, but, I h shell was perfectly smooth at the place where after remaining there three days, she left. She then the legs, had there been any, should have appeared. The neck was not in a line with the I before the Court on the present charge. She had no curved upwards from the breast in the usual way. body, but stated that her mistress at the , friends who could take care of her. The prisoner Soon after this the same goose presented my friend j het situatioa she held would come forward remanded for s week to see if this would be done, with another extraordinary egg, hut not in no interestAN