A Suicidal Mania among Girls

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 68, 10 November 1883, Page 3

A Suicidal Mania among Girls

— _-^. " '.At; tlie Westminster Police. , Court recently y (we quote from a London paper of 24th 'August), a 'young woman, aged 19 named .Nellie Douglas, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. A constable caiightthe accused at midnight as she was about to tli row herself into the Thames rover -the" railway road bridge at Pimlico,. Mr , f- . Duerdm Dutton, . who appeared for the prisoner, said that this was a very sad case. Prisoner until a few months ago, held a respectable situation as' a 'barmaid on the Great Western line,' but;" unfortunately' she became , acquainted with a man that ruined her. ' She had; .been afraid, to go. home to. her friend's, and receiving a letter stating that her mother was serious. ly ill at r Cheltenham,' she was upset aad \ao\. too much drink. The knagistrate'intimated 'that ""he would send the -prisoner 'home' to 1 Cheltenham if ,:her, /story' i was .- corroborated. Tha same. day-. Georgina ' Graham, aged 21 .. year". ' w ,»* • charged - with attempting suicide near Lambeth Bridge. A 'labourer saw 'the accused on. the foreshore apparently with the intention •f throwing herself into the, river. She handed a latter to the witness to post, but he, suspecting her purpose, seized Hold' of herl' ' In • the ' letter; which was i addressed lo'amale'friend, the prisoner declared that her body would be, fouad in the river. The magistrate remanded her for a week.;* Mr Langham held: ■an inquest recentlyat St. Martin's Vestry Hall oa the'body of Alice Sarah Auber, aged. twenty-one years, a barmaid, lately residing at « 4, Park street, Limehi*u.«e. «ho iiram s found drowned in" the Thames.' It was stated that une had been^mtt'eh distressed in. -consequence of being' out ofa situation. <'A verdict of temporary insanity was returned. Ait enquiry*' was held at" Woolwich'ori'Friday concerning the 'suicide' of Hannah Evans, aged 19." It seemed 'the deceased -had. 'been much • affected by malicious stories circulated affecting her character, and in the end swallowed some - phosphorous paste. A verdict' of temporary insanity was- returned.