A DETERMINED SUICIDE.

Evening Star, Issue 3248, 18 July 1873, Page 3

A DETERMINED SUICIDE.

The determined suicide of Mrs Lewis, at Newcastle, who killed her child and then cut her own throat, is described by the Newcastle Chronicle. The woman had had her throat sewn up, and was lying in her husband’s house, which was guarded by a police constable :—“Mr Lewis came into the front room from the kitchen, where he had been preparing beef-tea, aud on opening the door of the bedroom was horrified to see Mrs Lewis bleeding from the neck, having a pair of scissors in her baud. He, with Mrs Morgan, rushed to the bed, and wrenched, with some difficulty, the scissors out of the hand of his wife, and called Constable Daly into the room. It appears that she had contrived to reach a pair of scissors which had been used by the doctor, and were hanging on a nail near the bed, aud with her right band ran the sharp point of the scissors into her throat near the front, the scissors coming out on the left side of her throat—having pierced the jugular vein. The whole proceeding took place in less than one minute, and in four minutes from the time she ran the scissors into her throat, Mrs Lewis died.’’ She had previously called her husband and her son David to her bedside, and had kissed them.