The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1918-06-01 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

WOMAN'S TRAGIC. • I EXPERIENCE. .lEscMiraculous ape from Drowning.  .Alice Collinge.aOldham. Tat, charged, at the Bernath Police Court: en`lihursday— befOre Mr. Jas. Morris and: Aid. A. Goodwin—with attempting to-"etamait suicide by cutting her throat with 4 raiser on the 27th May. •  ' Daniel Holland, a Doric Board emploYee, said that at abocit 9,45 a.m.. on Cho 27th ult. he was walking down. the gangwilY of the floating roadway, When he. saw the prisoner standing under the boating bridge. Be called to her, hut. oval* td. the rush of water. she did not hear him, so, alter calling the police, he dropped down to. where-the woman was standing. .1n rtply AO his inquiry as to how long ate .had been there she said_ "Atl night, and 1-ain verY, yen ill.' •Iffs- noticed that hor tiPS 14etn blue, that she was wet throuipk:.from bead to foot, and that them was. some - blood on her bat. He got a ladchgr and assisted her On. to the roadway and .then handed her -over' to the 'pblioe. It Was then that he -first saw the wound on lfer throat. P.C. Carine said he was called by the last witness, ,to the woman. and be took her to the Borough Hospital, On the way be elicited' from ber• 'that she had been under the %floating bridge all night, and that she had cut her throat because she had had some trouble with her -'nusband. When be charged her the- followinp nicrning she said she bad nothing farther to say.  Lela &aid the accused was i•dmitted to the Borough Hobpital in a very rla7ed (ondition. There were two rut s in her throat. but else had neyer been in any danger. . _  • Mr.• .A. P. Cotton (for the prisoner). re-. ,terred.to the case as avery dfstressing one; Me said • that- Mrs. Collings. who was 4.5. Years of age, had been in a-bad State of -health for some yeara,.. in consequence of which zibe was, often , Yen, depressed'. Owing-to this depression, her husband had, 'followitir her doctor's scurgestion, taken her to New Brighton. -Re, 'being a very busy man, had been unable to stay there, but he promised to return on Thursday to stay for the Week-end. On 'flank Pell' day .hirs. Coinage had been out for- a 'walk, and had, unfortunately: been robbed of .215. which she bad ...out. into Per coat pocket. This incident increased her-. deprossion, and it was not until Saturday that she told her husband of it. He was naturally very•.iinnoyed by thaloss.of the •money, and spoke rather sharply to his wife about it, and throughout that day and the. next morning be treated- her in a cool Manner. -17ndisr ordinary. circumstances 'Mr. and Mrs., Qillhige were, to use the husband's own words, "Like lovers and sweethearts still." On Sunday afternoon Mr. Gollinge went out' for a walk. arranging with •his. wife, that she should meet hiin later. She Se€ out to do so, but could not find him. She ',then returned to the house where she was Owing, got theit husband's razor,. took the ear 'to .Seacombe.. and • wandered over the docks to Birkenhead. She found her way to Birkenhead Park, from there to tfamilton-square, and finally to the floating bridge. After that she did not remember anything until the followiiir morning. The miracle was, mid Mr. Cotton,- that the woman- had not been washed away when the tide carat. in. OP behalf of Mr. Collingo be wished to thank all the witnesses for* what they had done. Mr. Calhinge .promised a donati•mi to the Borough Hospital. . .Mr. Collinge..expressed .his ;belief that it was his cool attitude toWarda his wife with reference to the "loss of the tiOlieY that se distressed her. Be' wished to take :her back with him, and had allowed his daughter who was training for .teaohing, tOleaye her studies in Order that his wife might get all the care and attention necessary. _  --The umiristrOes thereupon dismissed the ease. t