30 APRIL 1870, Page 3

A strange suicide occurred on Wednesday. On the day before,

Miss Dundridge, daughter of Major Dundridge, Bengal Staff Corps, was travelling on the London and Brighton Railway, when she fell out at the door and was killed. The door ought to have been secured by a guard named J. W. Wright, who was .so affected by the accident, and so afraid of the imprisonment which he thought would follow, that he cut his throat. It is not proved that he had neglected anything, but the deduction from his act is that he ascribed fault to himself. Why should not the doors of railway carriages have a latch inside, like the outside latch on carriages on the Continent ? Locking the doors is an expedient for burning people alive.