The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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A singular charge

--Novel Case.--Ellen Gay, a woman who was rescued from a suicide's grave, in New York city, last week, by Capt. Helme, of the Eighth Precinct police, appeared before Justice Quackenbush on Friday last, and made a rather singular charge against an elderly man, named Thos. Stone. The complainant in her affidavit states that, being deserted by her husband, and being in ill health, she resolved upon committing suicide; that she arranged with an undertaker for her interment, and, procuring a quantity of poison, attempted to carry out her design, but through the timely interference of Capt. Helme and others, her life was saved; that Thomas Stone, with a felonious intent, stimulated her to commit suicide, and said that if deponent would draw $1,600 which she had in the Savings Bank, he would pay the expenses of her funeral, and if by any accident she did not succeed in the attempt he would hand her back the money; that at the time said Stone knew she was melancholy and almost crazed, and suffered her to attempt her life without interference. Upon being restored she made several attempts to see Stone, but he always eluded her; and on one occasion, when she did succeed in seeing him, he repudiated her and her money. The magistrate issued a warrant for the arrest of Stone, and upon his appearing in court he held him to bail in the sum of $3,000 to answer. Mr. Benjamin G. Clark, one of the proprietors of the Merchants' Hotel, went security for the prisoner.