Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1903-06-26 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

WOULD-DE SUICIDE REMANDED. jtone—Olaughlerb Agnes Shutticworth, of 9. itoseetreet, the Julio Lewis, labourer, Xi, ot If, . . next door reeighboor, manifestly tried to nminIleyshain, was brought up on the renumueo • . n a policy of "sitting on the fence," in her shame of attempting to commit suicide. tam I , The fits!st witness called was Elizabeth Tate, I "id"icc., They were very annoying neighwile of John Wiliam Tate, cabman, Hampton. hours. She hail heard rows. By Mr. Tilly: Slur had not beard defendant road, Heysham, who deposed that at 74141 o'clock . on •Wistriesday evening she found the prisoner illeoinghis wife, nor had Om I paul conintainloot 0 door. She took a ,hnt annoying her husband. Still she had hcard uarrelling, swollen sail • The Chairman: How did you know they were black, and he was unconscious. His hhiga'gkinngifeb' % ern rii°.uP"t lent wire off the ground. The dour was not , fl""T.felline . long enough far 111111 to hang hy, so he rained I Vi.ten`c. did not'seemf" comnfelteml bin non of the meaning, tint replied that tlmy were quarrelwith each other. his feet to foam, object. John Lewis, ,IRINI iliposed that 011 Wednesday, after tic came trout: The chairman, Saving tron4 earh other, and all that kinil of thing7flaitehterb tehoul, his father wrote a note, and he sharpened a knife at the slopotene lii. saiil he was P.C. Mcreu.. said defendant and his wife were going t0,1,1,-out momet, t,, death. him rut ecntinually quarrelling. The root of tbe ,li. wrist with the knife, end with the wound ' turbanee was 'he man's drinkimy propensities, huotitet he fietalted the ,sot.., it hAsh, A separation order MSS granted, defendant to with 111014 RAS put into an envelop... Wit- allow kin wife Ins. per week, she to have two lien, took the note to his mothir, who was at of the children. the isitiettet Hew, between five end et. Complainant Can I have half the furniture, and when he came hack his father was asleep ni'f on the sofa. The Clerk replied that they mos`, artange P.C. Johnson deposed to the arrest of pri- that them'clven. toner. Asked shy he had been trying to hang 1ain...0 if, lie cab!: "I am tired of this world, and I will finish mysilf and that (pointing to his witia bciore mottling." He threatened sevetal limes :afterwards that be would kill his wile. took taisoner to Heysham Police Station, and chaiged him. Prisoner replied: " I am sorry tor it," and tutning to his wife, who was huteeriut in the station, he said, "Thou sees what thou', driven me to." Prisoner had had drink, end wae excited. He bad la-en living In the neighbourhood ii years, and he and his wife had not lived happily together. Witno-et had been celled to the 11006 P reveral tiIIIPS. an.l whenever he Iran ealled ta the Lou... Mar .. one or the other had bad drink. But for the think they lived happily together. In June last year tile miaiiner SISII•hod lIIP turniture with an .xe, and on another occasion he ran his wife upetaits with a poker, atid she juniped through the WillflEW 10 DMNIDe. Although lie Icid then split open her he ml, she refused to take proceedings against him. Prisoner MAE 4,lllllitlPsi to the Qiiliter St. to be held next Monday.