The Sun. — 1846-09-16 (London, England)

ALL.—(TH IS DAY.) SBICIDE.—Jantes Ring, a labouring man, 14t b 44' middle age and blind of au eye, was placed at 1tt0,,, before Mr. Alderman Gibbs, charged with ats)Zbg to commit suicide by hanging himself'. It :uotiet"tell from the statements or several witnesses that Niel. 'we've o'clock last night the daughter of the priZ 11,44214 into a coffee-shop in Buckley-court, knosa-'l3, + and gave an alarm that her father, p t,ti lodgings were in the same court, had cut his Art • The keeper of the coffee-shop (Mr. Thomas itttnn., acceinpanied by one of his lodgers, hastened tri3eetlifttely with the to the spot, and found the telillter.indeed, with his throat cut, but with a tilig kerchief tied round his neck, with the proper run/teek'bot for strangulation by suspension, and other et vrehiefs added, to give it the necessary length. the act of finally adjusting this halter ttain,r. Perry interfered. A policeman arrived Zee "'rwarda and the prisoner was given into custody. I,mtetehettlled oi; by the magistrate to explain his con,ltti:l7 Mid that he had for some time been saving a b'llfiee-nielleY to provide for the expenses of his wife's eut, which was expected shortly to take place, ,ulieedet unfortunately he got drunk last night and was of all his money, and in consequence had deter.olittrhettted tAoateateamke away with himself. Ile was now sorry pt upon his life. 4141V;;,1derman GIBBS desired him to be taken care of jet,; :e, to which day. he remanded him. eh' Baxter, a bookbinder, in Bridgewater-square, .wthlifh-erged by police-constable No. 142 (City) with -g his (theprisoner's) wife in two places. eP Iceman stated that, about five o'clock yesterday 018,4; saw a crowd collected in Bridgewater-garLeod Jund a woman from whose head and neck the e-ne, '.1.115 flowing profusely. Learning that the prineV. nut stabbed his wife (the wounded woman) he Ilittthini into custody. Itetedliriee Newman, No. 3, Store-street, Gower-street, Ilealttatbeat, shortly before the policeman came up to his thirdenti„ e, be was passing by the corner of Bridgewater',.„e4nd sew the prisoner strike with his fist a )17er eb;urr:e.as walking close behind him. The prik:iseturnea cm, the woman running after him,. h_ en heck. The on in the round and struck her twice with a Tee tae side of the head, and again in the ih he Witthem, and seizing teiesePhr.iseeer by ritehses rushed between wrists restrained him from further Witnesszef until the policeman came to his assistance.. /41d Saw the knife distinctly. It was a clasp knife, r;e Sail, the prisoner wipe it and put it in his pocket, „kate;:ehe was released from the witness's grasp. On Prt„.""L?g the pocket, however, a hole was found in it, 411°e:dirk which there could be no doubt the knife had It was not found afterwards. prisoner in his defence said, that he was proStets" by his wife's drunkenness and violence to strike 143:014 that the wounc:s were knflictedwith a street-door 44 he had in his hand at the'time. He posi-. kbo..Y denied that he used a knife, or that be had, one • It i't et the time. Sie,!as statied, however, that the surgeon who ex-49i,;" the woman, had no doubt that the injuries were the with a knife. The prisoner was remanded till °Merl is perfectly able to attend. ~t11()NV--