HE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1454, 12 January 1887, Page 2

HE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

This mor-ing's Uh.istcharoh p^pera re port that there is great esci ement m that oity m onseque icj of ha arrest of Mn Bowern of at Alb-na, a«fl Dr Charles J^mes lluaaeli. a wellknown medioa man Mia temper/moe lecturer, on a charge of 'laving procured abortion. A brief ■tbjtraoi. of tha feflfnir, it will bo rememr>'rrtd, w»s tfietf-nnhed to ih yeatecdiiv. •The Lyttelton Times ive F the following par l-vi.H,-* „t t»j« arri'S*. of the doct « :-- About 0 o'rwock yos'.eidsy morning Dei ct.v .s O Oounor and R. JNeill went to tha resideuce of Dp who had just fimshod his broakfsEt, ()a aeeiug ihem thd dootor oame to meet them at his front door, when Detective O'Connor informed him that they bad come to arrest him on » charge of having proourad abortion. Ho at onoe asked permission to be allowed" to go upstairs to arrange hia affairs, and to •nta a few letters to some friends, espeoi-i-'y to a ra-dioal gentleman whom he wi«hed to tske o'isrie of h a oaae?. The . dertiv^s made no obj ocior, and acorniianred Dc HmnM ap-Maim, wh-re he hsa a am^ll an gery. Tl^y re !n ,»inod with him wtule he bu^i d hsmn^lf m t;he noaan'-r he I,^l spokeu of, but fi-^ing that he was oooupyia? rathor am ,». ti ma> they began to p/fSB him to expedite mattera. He wai raaDiog to and fro, apparently greatly hurnod, when suddenly ha snatohed up a bjule of acouite aud swallowed its oontantß before he could he stopped. He -hen Miwd to eava the h u*e, telling fe^emthathe had t«Ven poiaon snd de<M*t a,; <hat o«wiihyd to die m hia own hnusu. Of c u«e. the de^otlvei lost no "•ne, but having handcuff <il him and plane him m 4 oab, hunlud him off to the U spit»i Him he wa<j a-, ouoa attended to by Dt-a S owart and Weateara, and the ater a.im nisiered hypodermic »Uy (by ij c : i under ih=» rkin) a dose of Rpomj^hi^. whioh Inatantaneouslf acted as au ometio, and eff dually ditcharged from thrt stomach every atom of the poiaon. This. treatment male the patent very wdak, and at tbe time that hia presence was rrq lired at tha RasU dent MHgistrat3'B Court ha waa too pros•rate for my thought of removing him to b 9 cote taioed There ia, howe/er, m danger no* of any fatal effeot resulting from hia desperate act.