Note 30 — Chapter VIII
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“No fewer than four persons were charged at Marylebone police-court this afternoon with attempted suicide.
“The first was a domestic servant, who was found lying in the road, having taken poison.
“The Rev. Mr. Shaw, of Dulwich, said she had been in his service sixteen months, but left a week ago to enter the service of the sister of a great friend of hers. The situation was a great disappointment to her, however, for ‘she was accustomed to be in rather refined service,’ and she complained that she was unable to wear any of her new frocks. The result was that she left, and her great friend had thrown her over; hence her position in the dock.
“Mr. Paul Taylor remanded her, saying he had never known a woman to attempt suicide for less adequate reasons.
“The other defendants were men. Two were remanded, and the third was discharged, as he denied that he wanted to kill himself—he bought the laudanum found on him for his teeth.”—Current Evening Paper.