Show A SERMON ON SCANDAL A Woman Hears One and as a Consequence Endeavors to Cut Out Her Tongue fapecialto THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch Ncvr YORK Dec 30 While suffering from temporary insanity caused partly by a prostrated illness but particularly by religious craze Mrs Cathrino Thorpe aged forty years living in the eastern district dis-trict of Brooklyn made a determined effort ef-fort to kill herself The weapons she used were a pearl handled penknife and a pair of heavy scissors She failed in the attempt so far as immediate results aro concerned but the attending physician entertains grave fears that her efforts may eventually prove successful Shenow lies at homo in a critical condition with her left breast and throat cut while her tongue is torn into shreds A small piece of the tongue is missing sho having cut it off in her frantic attempt at selfdestruction Mrs Thorpe became ill somo time ago Before that she had been a regular church attendant and some days before she was obliged to take to her bed she heard an impressive im-pressive sermon on Scandal She has not an enemy in tho world so her husband says and all her neighbors speak well of her Nevertheless sho appearently thought thai she must at one time have said something derogatory to her neighbors neigh-bors Tnis idea hastened by illness made her as it would seem determined to cut her tongue so that it could offend no one again nor give cause for scandal The fact that after cutting her throat and stabbing herself she tried deliberately with a pair of scissors to cut off her tongue would tend to corroborate this idea |