A WOMAN’S WAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 69, 20 November 1915, Page 6

A WOMAN’S WAY.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN COURT. United Press Association. (Received 12.40 p.m.) London, November 19. When judgment was given against Annesley Knealey, plaintiff, in an action against Smith’s, news agents, she took poison in the court, and was removed in an unconscious condition. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. “TRYING A WOMAN FOR HER LIFE!” ONLY AN OLD CAME. (Received 1.15 p.m.) London, November 19. Miss Annesley Kenealy, took action against Smith and Son for placing her novel on the library “black list,” thus characterising it as.immoral. Miss Kenealy, who is a handsome woman, conducted her own case. She wore a small hat. loose-fitting robe modelled on' Portia’s style, and delivered a» impassioned speech, defending the morality of her novels. “Poodle Woman” and “Thus Saith Mrs Grundy.”

When Justice Coleridge ruled she liacl no case, she stood np in the court and drank a small bottle of milky fluid, and shrieked: “My Lord, I told you yon were trying a woman for her life! I have taken enough poison to kill five.” Miss Kenealy collapsed, and there was great confusion in the Court* such as recalled the Whitakcr-W right poisoning incident in 1901. Doctors carried her to the. waitng room, where she recovered'consciousness in half art hour, and was afterwards taken to the hospital. In January, 1910, Miss Kenealy failed in an action against Lord Northed iffe for wrongful dismissal. A month after, she went to Carmelite House, and asked to see Lord Nprthclifl'e, and later she was found in the wait--ing room in a semi-conscious condition, having taken poison. She was --taken to fhe. hospital and recovered .rapidly.