Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1888-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A GIRL  IN CLEVELAND.  DEATH PREFERABLE TO THE WORKHOUSE.  At the Guiaborou,eh Police Court on Tuesday afterncon • young girl named Ann 13rough (17), was charged with attempt/lig to commit seaside at Skelton on the 14th inet.—Ainue Ellen Tate, wife of William Tate, innkeeper, of Skelton Green, said prisoner came to her as a 1 servant on the 12th inst. She did not snit, and witness raid her off on the 14th, or two days 1 after she came. When planner got her hat sad jacket on, and was leaving the house, she raid to witness, " 1 hese taken come poison." That was about Eve o'clock. Witness did not believe what she said, and her husband pet prisoner out of the house. Before that she had asked prisoner to have some tea, but she replied that she did not want any, as she would not be long in this world. After the prisoner left , witness found that a bottle half full of 1 tincture of iodine had been emptied of its contents.—Miss Ellie, daughter of Mr lithe, chemist, 1 Skelton, said prisoner came to her father's shop 1 shortly after seven o'clock on Saturday last, and asked for three - pennyworth of laudarrum. Witness supplied her with what she asked for. There wore six drachms of laudanum. She cautioned prisoner on making the purchase that it was poison, and she said it fcr Mrs Tate or Waite," she could not swear whlch. Albert Brengel, of Yeoman - street, Skelton, said prisoner was his daughter. Ile had not been in work for a long time. On Saturday night last between seven and eight o'clock lons dang.hter came home, and in answer to a question put to her she said she was going to fialtburn on an errand for her mistress, but she had got what she wanted at Mr Ellis's shop. She asked for something to , drink, and he gave her a bottle of ginger ale, for 1 which she gave him three_halfpence. She poured I half of the contents of the bottle into a pot and !gave it to him, and then poured the retnairrier into another pet, which she took I into the back kitchen. Shortly afterwards she left the house, and he saw her again later in the evening, when he told her it was time to go to her place. She told 'him to "mind his own business,' and be did not see her again until she was loroierht home in a very had state by a young man. A younger daughter found the empty laudanum bottle produced in the kitchen. When his daughter was brought in something was given her to make her roma, and it had the desired elfeJoseph Calvert said he was in lhough's house on Satarday night, and left with the prisoner. After walking to. gighersoree distance prisoner complained of being unwell, but sped she dared not go back home. I He, however, took ber home shortly before eleven ' o'clock, after having been out witt her for two hears. Prisoner wanted him to go sway and leave her on the banks, but he refused to do Ha— lle Dunn dep‘sed to being called to primmest parents' house, and saw that prisoner was suffering front the effects of poison. He &doggietered an emetic, and had her walked about until morning. The bottle prodimed would hold an ' ounce of laudanum, and the six drachms sop. plied was certainly a fatal does, but It would take several hours before it took effect. He was of opinion that if nothing had been done prisoner would have succumbed to the effects of toe poisoa—The father, recalled, said he told his daughter on going to Mrs Tate's that if she came back home she would have to ge to the Workhouse. He was unable to keep himself, let alone a strong, healthy girl like her. She had been out of a situation for three months before going to Mrs Tate's, and es he had been out of employment for a long time, he was not in _p,m4in to keep her any longer. He bad never threatened her with violence.— Prisoner, who had nothing te say in *rawer to the charge, was committed to take her trial at the ensiling York Assizes..—The father cried bitterly on leaving the Court.