The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-04-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE.—An inquest was held yesterday before Mr Curry, the borough coroner, on view of the body of Mary Roberts. The deceased, who was forty-five years of age, was the wife of a carter, and resided in King-street, Toxtethpark. She had a sister-in-law who died about two months ago, and had from that time been in low spirits, and subject to fits of abstraction. On Saturday morning, about halfpast eight o'clock, her husband left the house to go to his work, and returned about twelve o'clock to his dinner, when he found the door of the room in which they lodged to be fast. He knocked and kicked, but receiving no reply, be called some of the lodgers in the same house, who broke into the apartment. They found the deceased lying on her back in the bed, with her throat cut, and a table-knife lay on the floor near her. She was still alive, but much exhausted from loss of blood. Surgical assistance was immediately called, and tile wound, which had not reached the jugular or the windpipe, was sewed up. The great effusion of blood, however, from the minor veins of the neck that were dissevered, was such that she died at eight o'clock the same evening, of " venous hemorrhage."' The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased committed suicide, while labouring under temporary insanity. PICKING POCKETS BY AUTHORlTY.—Yesterday, at the police-court, two stout elderly females. Alice Jones and Mary Perry,—the latter with her face mucichiruised,-e-were placed at the bar, they having been taken into custodfqp Saturday night; but no charge was preferred against t em. It appeared that Alice Jones had been seen taking the money from the pockets of Mary Perry, while the latter was so much intoxicated that she lay on the ground, unable to help herself. Jones was apprehended for the supposed theft, and Perry was conveyed in a hand-barrow to bridewell for safety. Mr. Davenport explained the circumstances. Jones was a poulterer in St. John's Market, and Perry a friend of her's who hawked poultry for her about the town, and who being addicted to taking occasionally a drop too much; had given her a general authority to empty her pockets of all-tit coin they contained, whenever she found her "over the-line," lest some one else might get hold of it. Mrs. Jones had, on several occasions, acted upon this " right of search," and always with perfect satisfaction to Mrs. Perry. Both parties, on being questioned, stated that this was the fact, Perry adding that the money was always honestly accounted for by her friend. They were accordingly both discharged, and left the court in amicable companionship. GROSS ASSAULT BY A MAN ON HIS W1F1C,,.--At the Police Court, on Friday a man was brought before Mr. Rushton on a charge of grossly assaulting his wife. The complainant, a rather, interesting and well dressed female, with her face blacked with blows, who bad a child with her, said she had been married to the prisoner for about seven years, and that he was a seafaring man. He was father of the child. He did not support her, and was in the habit of abusing and striking her. He had violently beaten her on the day mentioned in the summons, and had inflicted the injuries on her face. She was also much bruised all over. She did not want him to maintain her, but to keep away from her, as she could make a moderate living in quiet, by keeping lodgers —The prisoner said the cotnplainant had a bad tongue, but did not adduce any particular instance of her using it in a provoking manner.+-Mr. Rushton said he had violently assaulted her, and tilt he must pay a fine of £5, or be imprisoned two months ; and,. moreover, find bail to keep theipeace, himself in £4O, antrttri.sureties in £2O each or be further imprisoned for thrc -months. M FIRST APPEARANCE OF . HOLE AT THE HAYMARu