Description:Maud Brotherton threw herself from Tower Hill Bridge into the Walsall Canal which was suggested to be a distance of sixty feet into a six foot deep canal.
Two girls on their way to work at Kynoch's saw her jump and summoned a boatman who fished her out. Her survival was thought to be due to the fact that her clothing acted as a parachute. She explained that 'she had been a trouble to her friends and that it would be better to get out of the world.' She was taken home to Westminster Road.
This newscutting is from the G.H. Osborne Collection.