Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1888-09-22 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

WITHOUT SUICIDAL INTENT.  Alma Susan Large, who is connected with the refreshment rooms at the Eastbourne Theatre Royal, has been charged on remand at Eastbourne with attempted suicide by taking certain powders, said to have been obtained at King'si College Hospital, London. The accused, who s a well-connected young widow, was found in a state- of coma after taking some of the powders to relieve neuralgia, and the police were informed of the affair. A surgeon was called in, and Mrs. Large regained consciousness. She was then prosecuted on a charge of attempted suicide, and remanded to allow medical evidence to be obtained from King's College Hospital. Dr. Carlton Jones now attended from London and stated that the powders were issued to Mrs. Large as a recent patient and were nonpoisonous, although too many might produce the comatose condition in which the defendant was found. Mrs. Large very earnestlyresented all idea of committing suicide, and pleaded pain and sleeplessness as her reason for taking the powders. The magistrates eventually discharged her.—A coroner's jury, at Fort Bovisand, Plymouth, has investigated the supposed suicide of Lieutenant Edmonds, 23, of the Northern Division of the Royal Artillery. He had been practising with a revolver on the seashore, and later in the day was discovered dead by a servant. Lieutenant Edmonds had a revolver and a pipe by his side. It was proved that the weapon needed repair, and the belief is that he was examining it, thinking all the chambers were discharged, when the weapon went off, wounding him in the region of the heart. A verdict of accidental death was returned.  An unusual ceremony has been performed in the pariah of Clee-with-Wellsby, near Grimsby. At the invitation of the Chairman of the Local Board, about 40 members and friends partook of luncheon at the Board offices, and afterwards they proceeded to the Clee Church, where they were joined by the Cleethorpe Local Board in a thanksgiving fer the stamping out of small-pox in the parish. A Palais des Enfants, or "Children's Palace," will be among the most remarkable of the attractions of the forthcoming Universal Exhibition of Paris. The edifice, which is to be devoted to the amusement of infancy, will be one of the largest on the grounds, and will contain everything appertaining to the education and bringing up of children, as well as all kinds of toys and games. A young man, named Frederick Hughes, a traveller's coachman, was in Dalyell-r3ad, Brixton, when the horse he was in charge of bolted. Hughes ran after the animal, and in grasping the reins fell down, and the wheels passing over his neck and face, caused instantaneous death. The smallest watch in America has just been received by a New York importer from Switzerland. It cost 2130 f. The face of the watch is 19-32nds of an inch in diametor, while the diameter of the case is about equal to that of a sixpence. The movement watch Is, the Efures upon its dial are very is the full.- jewelled gilt cylinder, Small OA the distinct BO that the thee can be told withouy difficulty. It is intended to introduce this style d watch for the use of ladies. clear and