Weekly News. — 1892-06-16 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

SINGULAR CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  On Saturday, before Mr. Fenwiek, at North Londe)* Police Court, Lydia Sims, 46, of Manor Park, Essex, a respectably-dressed married woman, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself into the River Lea.—Thomas Rayner, a wood turner, of Dame-street, Islington, stated that on Friday evening he and a companion, Henry Summer. field, had been rowing on the Lea, and were goiPer round the back water to bathe when they saw an object bobbing up and down in the water. At the same moment they saw a man divesting himself of his clothing and shouting for help. Witness rowed up and found the prisoner in the water. They pulled her into the boat in an exhausted condition, and soon afterwar 's harded her over to the police. When asked if she had fallen over the bridge, she replied, "No. I jumped in, because I wished to commit suicide." The witness added that it was very deep water at the spot, but the clothing of the prisoner buoyed her up. The constable who had charge of the case produced two bottles of chlorodyne which he found in the dress pocket of the accused, as well as a letter in which she had asserted her suicidal intentions. The husband of the accused said he could not account for the act of his wife. They had lived comfortably tocether for 24 years. The only ex; lanation he could give was that on the previous day, in a jocular way, ha had told her she had the appearance of having been drinking. She replied, "No; I will never disgrace you that way." A medical gentleman who had ben in attendance upon the accused, attributed the act to impulse, and said the husband would look after h; r it she was discharged.—Mr. Fenwick allowed the accused to go away with her husband, al,d said she ought to thank the young man who had saved her.  An action was brought by a carman in the City of London Court on Saturday to recover damages for p ,rsnnal injuries sustained through the negligence of the servants of the defendants, the London and India Docks Joint Committee, Lcadenhall-street. Plaintiff's case was that in crossing a road at the South-West India Dock he was thrown violently to the ground owing to the defective condition of the roadway. The defence was that there was no defect in the road, and that plaintiff did not exercise ordinary care. The jury found for the plaintiff for £6 ss. and costs.  The boy Rains, who some days ago was charged with being concerned with a younger brother and a child of five in stealing a horse and cart, was again before Mr. Shell at Westminster Police-court, on Saturday, when it transpired that, in company with another boy, he had escaped from the workhouse in Buckingham Palace-road, to which he had been temporarily sent. Be was ordered to be further remanded, when the young incorrigible remarked to a policeman that since he had been taken back to the workhouse he had not had a fair chance, as his "togs" had been taken from him to keep him in bed.  rfocial note—Nothing succeeds like a successor. A bee-sting in the hive is worth two in the hand. Verbal extremes—" Sigh words" and "i.e lastune."  "I passed your house yesterday, sir." "I hope you always will, was the response of Mr. Randolph.