The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle. — 1867-12-14 (Stourbridge, West Midlands, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE IN LYONS. covered w mittens. hd old lady who had lived ilk uonifort and luxury, and that WY The Saint Public of Lyons has the following strange was Nift.'Pritc&fde mother. le the right of thili Portrait story : .bistW:agiliaradtio,l7,,Ll:S.de ttfcli,;.l.l'4l'd..sl4tg,,tu'hair'ip,r,Ge"iii7auczrhia/E.Eti A mother, two daughters, and a male relative, redone this until Nov. Is, Ifse7: since then mind must have been filled with other things lion dates. In a cupboard g'aPtne. sat le 'hautlioeurti I'll nineteenies tj ief'e r ,na.en;L:.rllledabrtlibleirn2 aUdin:e:,7, I f "'sc.e thenkt there was found an uncooked knuckle.tone. from which the one of the waiters with a letter to an ecclesiastic flesh had been diligently gnawed. The little mine-girl's belonging to one of the communities of the city. On precocity in knowledge of household affairs was shown by the ll the answer day her remarking that the bone would make broth for mother now there was a tire. In the front room npetairs wan an old of her box, in which • number of odds and ends, all of them being family hail gone to the rny'Ai'ighenshseh ewtehnre, etatilwitrriet7adn dAfter arien: some things with which children had plays!. There were two cries were heard from the principal staircase, and upon books -one a little story book, entitled "The Bow in the the people of the hotel hastening to the spot they ci.md," and the other • well-thumbed copyindistroctilde " edition of "Old Mother Hubbard." Infantile halide e time found the young woman in dreadful agony •, she said had torn this book in two, and, as they are rather apt to do, she had mellowed sulphuric acid, hut, before dying, had made many marks upoil pictures and letter-pres,. •wished to see the priest, whom she had already visited on Saturday, the front room of the house .as made mm- during the day. A doctor was brought, but the cot.. /enable. Mrs. Pritchard lay on • good lied, with plenty of rosive liquid had done its fatal work, and she slum , covering. She had more than oue none to attend to her after expired. She is odd to have been in a situation want,. Amebae bed in the earn: rooru contained the little daughter Ada, the nurse of bell, She had recovered from which renders her death doubly calamitous. her deliriuni, and sat in the bed, playing with a sixpenny box of toys which somebody had given her. She is a bright. eyed intelligent child, and has wonderful winning ways • about her. She talked of mother and baby, and still Insists that, when food is given to her, part must be reserved for baby. Mrs. Pritchard is still too ill to talk much. She does not yet know of her husband's death, although his body is • "laid out" on share board supported lie trestles, in the next room. Since she has found friends she has asked once or twice for George. A friend knelt by her bedside to pray with her. She waited a little, sad then asked how it was that George did not come in t prayers '• as he used." There is one phase of this story which it is difficult to tell. When Mr. Ellis firet entered the back kitchen the smell was not so wholesome as it might have been. Days had passed before any one of the seven persons housed there had left the room for any purpose Their wretchedness had become so extrenie as to make them insensible of their want of cleanliness Vermin and filth were there, and it is due to Mr. Ellis and his wife, and theiraasociate, the Rev Henry Lance, M say that their charity was not stayed bin sense of disgust It has been decided that George Henry Pritchard, who has so painfully measured the distance between £3,000 and starvation, ellen not at the end lie in a pauper's grave.  . .  1