The North-Eastern Weekly Gazette. — 1888-07-21 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

IN CLEVELAND.  DEATH PREFERABLE TO THE WORKHOUSE.  At the Guisborough Police Court on Tuesday I ' afterncon a young girl named Ann Brough (17),. ! was charged with attempting to commit suicide . at Skelton on the 14th inst.—Annie Ellen ! ! Tate, wife of 'William Tate, innkeeper, of ! Skelton Green, said prisoner came to her as a ! servant on the. 12th inst. She did not suit, and ! witness paid her off on the 14th, or two days ! after she came. When prisoner got her hat and ! jacket on, and was leaving the house, she said to witness, "I have taken some poison." That was about five o'clock. Witness did not believe what she said, and her husband put prisoner out of the house. Before that she had , asked prisoner to have some tea, but she replied I that she did not want any, as she would not be ! long in this world. After the prisoner left I witness found that a bottle half full of tincture of iodine had been emptied of its contents.—Miss Ellis, daughter of Mr Ellis, chemist, Skelton, said prisoner came to her father's shop shortly after seven o'clock on Saturday lest, and asked for three - pennyworth of laudanum. Wituese supplied her with , what she asked for. There were six I drachms of landanum. She cautioned prisoner oil making the purchase that it was poison, and she, said it was fcr "Mrs Tate or Waite," she could ' not swear which. Albert Brough, of Yeoman - street, Skelton, said prisoner was his daughter. He had not been in work for a bug time. On Saturday night last between seven and eight o'clock his daughter came borne, and in an wer to a question put to her she said she was going to le'altburn on an ,errand for her mistress, but she had got what she wanted at Mr Ellie's shop. She asked for something to drink, and he gave her a bettle of ginger ale, for which she gave him three.halfpence. She poured halt of the contents of the bottle into a pot and gave it to him, and then poured the remainder into another pot, which she teok into the back kitchen. Shortly afterwards she left the house. and he saw her again later in the evening, when he told her it was time to go to her place. She told him to "mind his own business," and he did not see her again until she was brought home be a very bad state by a young man. A younger daughter found the empty laudanum bottle produced in the kitchen. When his daughter was brought in something was given her to make her vomit, and it had the desired effect—Joseph Calvert said he was in Brought house on Saturday night, and left with the prisoner. After walking to. some distance prisoner complained of being unwell, but said she dared not go back home. He, however, took her home shortly before eleven o'clock, after having been out with her for two hours. Prisoner wanted him to go sway and leave her on the basilica, but he refused to do so.— Dr. Dunn deposed to being called to prisoner's parents' house, and saw that prisoner was suffering from the effects of poison. He administered an emetic, and had her walked about until morning. The bottle produced would hold an ounce of laudanum. and the six drachms supplied was certainly • fatal dose, but ! it would take several hours before it took 'effect. He was of opinion that if nothing had been done prisoner would have succumbed to the . effects of the poison.—The father, recalled, said ! he told his daughter on going to Mrs Trete' that , if she came beck biome she would have to go to the Workhouse. He was unable to keep himself, let alone a strong, healthy girl like her. She had been out of a situation for three months before going to Mrs Tate's, and as he had been out of employment for a long time, he wvianisoleannnocestzin ' a position to keep her any longer. He 1 nuerlhihnegr to say ' hpadrisonneerv.erwhtohrheaje ! to the charge, was committed to take her trial ' at the ensuing York Assisea—The father cried bitterly on leaving the Court. !  You have tried and were pleased with them. They stimulate the liver.. re.mi..te the bowels, and improve the complexion. CerWs Little Liver Pills. 01 alt Chemists, ls led. Illutsteurad pamphlet ,frpa, British Depot. 44 Hoorn viaduct. Las4ws. 

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