Attempted suicide (1870)

Post date: Mar 19, 2013 5:8:48 PM

Extract from Maidstone Telegraph 9th July 1870

WATERINGBURY Attempted Suicide.

—At the Mailing Police Court, on Wednesday last, William Boorman, 59, butcher, Wateringbury, was brought up in custody charged with attempting to commit suicide, by cutting his throat. Prisoner, who was formerly in business for himself, but now resides with son, is much addicted to drink. Last Tuesday week, he went to Mereworth to get orders for meat, and returned home in a state of intoxication. He went upstairs to his bedroom, and shortly after his daughter-in law, who was sitting in a room below, saw blood trickling through tbe ceiling. A man named William Chapman, was instantly called in, and upon his going upstairs he found the prisoner lying on the bed insensible, and bleeding profusely from severe gash in the throat. Dr. Fry attended the man, sewed up the wound, and he so far recovered as to be able to be taken in a carriage to Mailing the following day, when he was remanded for a week. Prisoner, upon promising not to repeat the rash act, was discharged upon his own recognizance of £20 to come up for judgment when called upon.