[ London Times ]
This newspaper, most correctly known simply as The Times, began publication in 1785 and continues to this day.
The edition of September 24, 1835 carried the following report of a coroner's inquest over the suicide of a young woman. Several witnesses testified to the young woman's unusually low spirits following the end of a relationship; one witness reports on the circumstances of her suicide by drowning:
George Heath deposed, that on Monday evening, about 8 o'clock, he was near the Regent's Canal-bridge, and heard two children cry out that a person jumped over the bridge. He in consequence ran to the bridge and saw the body of the deceased in the canal. A Newfoundland dog instantly jumped into the water, and would have dragged the body on shore had not her bonnet string, which the animal held by, broken. The drags were instantly procured, and the body was got out in about a quarter of an hour. It was instantly conveyed to the workhouse, where a medical gentleman attended, and every means to restore animation were resorted to, but without effect.