Widnes Examiner. — 1884-08-23 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

STRUGGLE WITH A PRISONER AT NEWTON POLICE STATION.—At the Warrington County Petty Sessions, on Wednesday, Joseph Walsh, who on the 9th inst committed a I violent assault upon Edward Spencer, a constable stationed I in Newton district, at the police station in that place, was brought up on remand to take his trial for the offence.—The ' particulars of the assault have been previously narrated IMr Jenkins, solicitor, Warrington. now prosecuted on behalf of the police, and the prisoner, who was also charged with I being drunk and disorderly at Newton on tbe 9th hut, was I undefended.—Mr Jenkins described how the prisoner was I apprehended on the minor charge of drunkenness by P.O !Spencer, and taken to Newton Police Station in custody. Whilst be was searching him at the station the prisoner' struck him in the face with his clenched flat, whereupon the I constable closed with him, and the two struggled for a considerable time. The constable was thrown and then drew' his Ye for protection, and struck the prisoner with it. Spencer was then so violently assaulted that he was rendered insensible, and remembered nothing mere Whilst lying on the floor insensible he received a violent kick on the head —Evidence was then called, aad it was shown that the constable's life was in jeopardy wten assistance arrived from outside, and he was rescued.—Prisoner was fined 5s and costs for beiag drunk and disorderly, and 40s and costs for the assault, or a month. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A Woafew.—& determined attempt at suicide took place near Warrington on Tuesday, when a woman named Mary Wilson, of Water-street, HarDurhey, near Manchester, a widow, 63 years of age, attempted to drown herself in the river Mersey near Arpley. The woman was seen by John Coyne, Bostock-street, and Thomas Calmer, Wilderspool-road, as she was walking on the Lancashire side of the river, to look round one or two times, and then deliberately jump into the water. Mr Cap. nor at once got a boat ready, and Coyne and a man named Ward went to her assistance and succeeded in getting her into the bast. She was conveyed to the Workhouse in a critical state.--Yesterday morning the woman was brought before the borough magistrates and charged with attempting to commit suicide.—Mr Calmer stated that he saw the prisoner walking upon the Lancashire side of the river on the morning in question. It was raining heavily at the time, and witness thought it strange to see her walking there. 'Prisoner turned round three or four times, apparently to see if any one was watching her, and then', having unfastened her shawl, she sat down on the river bank. and "worked " herself into the water with her hands. When her legs were immersed she raised herself into the water, Witness sent two men named Ward and Coyne to her assistance with a boat and sent for a constable. The woman was rescued and taken to the police station. There was net great depth of water in the river —Mr Hunt (Chief Cow stable) said that the prisoner called herself a factory hand. She had met with some trouble of late, and came to Warrington. Having no means of subsistence and being tired of life, she walked into the river. She had been in the Workhouse since the occurrence.—Prisoner now said that she was very sorry for what she had done. At the time she committed the act she had had nothing to eat for two days. She was trying to get to Liverpool, where, she thought, she maid earn her living by washing ani doily, other work, in eating houses.—rhe Bench ordered the poor woman ,to be handed over to the Workhouse authorities.  ,