15 APRIL 1871, Page 3

The story of Mary Folkard, the policeman's wife who tried

to commit suicide because she had no home, has been exploded. The City Police are certainly compelled to reside in the City, but the Corporation has provided for the difficulty by renting two blocks of building for them, and in these blocks twenty sets of rooms, " equal to officers' quarters in barracks," are now vacant. Fol- kard knew of this, but preferred occupying rooms in houses about to be pulled down in order to pay no rent. He had occupied such rooms four times till the roofs were taken off. It further appears that a large block of model lodging-houses in the City is very far from full. In short, the whole story was an excuse to account for an attempted suicide.