LIFE SAVED BY FLYING TACKLE
Screaming, “I won’t go to jail. I am going to commit suicide,” a young man tried to dive from a seventh floor window in Martin PL, Sydney. • The man had been sentenced in a special Federal Court to six months’ hard labour for forging documents to travel to Japan to see his Japanese wife. When sentenced he struggled violently with the police, . wrenched himself free and ran to the window. As he was about to clamber on the windowsill a detective brought him down with a flying tackle. After a struggle in which chairs were upset and papers scattered he was pinned to the floor and handcuffed.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 76, 2 August 1948, Page 5
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112LIFE SAVED BY FLYING TACKLE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 76, 2 August 1948, Page 5
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