The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1906-07-04 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

FRIGHTEN HIS WIFE."  STORY OF A BOTTLE OF POISON.  .i• and in some respects a very ly IVAS told in the Birkenhead ~urt on Monday, in a Walter James Studdart, is .4 young man, of 134. Parkplaced in the dock charged ,t.Lng' to commit suicide by takorou-. Tap facts were rather ciTed. partly OwiIII to the fact ,onpf', wife was in a nervous 'CA, condition—as a matter of whikt giving her evihad to he carried out of court. t.'d that on Sunday morning To Studdart's expreslothcr•' because she did not ct hcr husband's breakfast, callod hr. In the afternoon h.. down again." %bout 4.45 nancd John (dray, who  hon:e. ,aw the prisoner "mixin a cup," and when he asked 1:0 he oas going to do, he said ng to try an experiment." Gray him what the experiment was, t .aftheiontly ,nspieious to take r notice. Hnlf-an-bonr later Irt earn,. downdair3, and. natio; rrnell of phostphoron,. and not hti,hand in the room, she be•ed, and went upstair, to anon,. and found the floor locked. flray. who tried to force the a.,uld not yield, so he smashed id got through the opening.  on the bed, and his Int, h., had taken poison, sent Policeman. and tried to force husband's throat to St.ndriart was, however, wife', evidence in court,  a 1..." and his teeth marked her „Idly in the effort to force it. ror rottirn•fl he saw a bottle f roni under the pillow of the wa, to Ind to he half-full of a id—the phosphorous mixture. hraring that the police had F'l t off. and kept away for At sao on Monday morniii thin 3rrested him at hia the yot to the bridewall he d a few words with my wife. It d,,nk. I myself am a teetoI 'al. lays tor three months." Itr„ Studdart said she '•' hlshand .ent their little child Pa,ke' of matches—two dozen !hiiitn all. Asked if he was it i w.,s, and she was too. • ,b"•ng asked what he had to ..!" "3' Just thi, I have been months past through akin:. drink. and since I have .0 lii ls.en tantalised. That's .i.o:tom of it, and (he added "u'lenlY• now you can do what K•,!-I me." In answer to the ".."'l. he did it simply to frighten 0 did not drink any of the phos. mixed the stuff to he said. "and turn her ,he drink." lie further said, in the Bench. that he went off beid not want to he locked up. Mrs. Sturldart, who was in ...hos, fell hack in a swoon, but I by Sergektit Allen and carried  re-ealled, said the prisearrested was not taken to the ecAnse there was no sign of his any poison. Pedro Parker stated that when ran off he went to Liverpool, nvi home during the night. sir.. of Liverpool, prisoner's ernof him as a most reliable and -"one of the best men we have aid. Re knew prisoner had had Ilbie at home. rer to the Chairman and the sener said his wife's drinking KOinr on constantly for the Jest months . • •  oadeat Parker said there was no ease aro,* from the filthy drinkof the wife, combined with her ' and leading the man a miser lirman bold the prisoner there DO eridence against him, onkl be discharged. but he bad foolish thing. and there migbt serious consequences. Addressife, the Chairman riTonlily. adgive up her drinkzes.a= ked the Polito Comet • olk to look tot, the caw  Mug