Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1879-09-06 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

BOUE.  W;•,-tuito-rder Pollee-court, London, mt. Ilderday; Joseph Yeller& a poi:ally-clad, attenuated young 01.1, meat charged with attemptin r; to coin.. mit suicide by drowning in the river Thames at Alillbank. It appeared from the evidence of a constable that on he a; ternm in if Wednesday the prisoner VIVI seen fl ating down the Thames, on • fast ebb tide, lietiveen Vauxhall and Lambeth Bridges. Off the Millha,,k Penitentiary he was taken out of the water by a y ang man who was passing. Archibald Wi liana Watson, milk carrier, living at Battersea, said hew a driving along the Grosvenor-road on the day it question. Observing a lot of policemen running along the bank, he got ont of his cart, when he sow the prisoner in the Water, floating on a very strong ebb-tide, about twenty-five yards from the shore. He went in as far as his waist, hut finding hi cloth.** too heavy, returned, took If his things, and swain in after the iltiSohtit. With some diffi •ulty he managed to lay hold of him by the hair, soid twain with him to th• shore. Prisoner was insensible, and was taken t• the hospital. Under the prisoner was found the following, in an envelope address. d to Bliss A. kl'Vittie, 9, Linstelvt.street, Kit burn-riae : . _ .  ou-t t,, thie cold world, foreaken, forlorn, No kind Mend to cheer me or shield me from harm; No loving heart whiepere a matting Hope on. Not. dark world frowns coldly and cries out "Work on. toot in my body, my strength, and my soul, ?fly mind is quite gone from the weight thet It bore, My onee loving heart in an arared as to quench The mint of God through life'e bitumen.. The sun has ne'er shone on the path that I've trod, So it's nought but the RR me life all over egain. Note, kind friends. I've been M. as black as could be, But I hope you'll think kindly as you can of me. God help ate If I take the life that won given To work here on earth. do Nis pleasure in bravest. Alas, there's 110 hope for, the impelese insane: J. V bids you famwell ell, nude and again. I'm deepening. ditaressed. and afflicted in mind, Sick sad dejected, what hope 'en I find ? There's no hope I can hod, and no kind friend to cheer, So Death come and welcome, the sooner the better. "The last of Joreph Vallard, Aug. 27, '79 born' 12.3. '59." On the back was the addreva of the mother of the "late lamented" Joseph Vallard, and the addresses f his brothers and "dearest friends," with a request that Miss M‘Vittie should have the linen found on his bsdy. In answer to Mr. D'Eyncourt, prisoner said he had formerly been in the 3rd Battalion of the 60,h Rifles, and had been invalided. He did not know what for. He had no father, and his mother was an impatient at the Consumption Hospital. He was now suffering from chronic indigestion and liver complaint. and WBB scarcely ahle to stand. If fact, they had sent him from the hospital too soon. He had tried to commit suicide because he was starving, for wherever he sought work they told him he was not fit for it, on the face of his discharge. He wait educated at Sherborne Workhouse, in D•rsetabire. Mr. D'Eyncourt remanded the prisoner. He asked Watson whether he had incurred any risk or saved' life before. Watson said yes; he had saved On. life—that of a friend—before. In this ease the tide was hard to stem, and the prisoner tried tn clutch him, but he prevented him, or they might both have gone. He 'seriously hurt his knee-cap in landing the prisoner. Mr. D'Eyneourt said witness; was a brave fellow, and gave him .62 from thn poor-box.