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THAMES – ATTEMPTED SUICIDE – Mary Ann Homer, a middle-aged, married woman, was charge with attempting to commit suicide by jumping into the Regent’s Canal. – James Richards plunged into 10ft. of water and rescued her. – The prisoner was remanded.
Elizabeth Stride, a young woman, was charged with attempting to destroy herself by taking poison. Prisoner said that she entered a public-house with a sea-faring man, with whom she shared some beer, into which, she asserted, he must have put something. Mr. Sanders discharged her.
