Flying Tackle Prevents Man's Suicide
Received Friday, 8.45 p.m. SYDNEY, July 9. Screaming "I won't go to gaol— I am .going to commit suicide, ' ' a young man tried to dive from a seventh floor window in Martin. Place, Sydney, today. The man had been sentenced in special Federal Court to six montlis' hard labour for forging documents to travel to Japan to see his Japanese wife. When sentenced he struggled violently with the police, wrenched himself fr.ee and ran to the window. As he was about to clailiber on -the window sill, a detective brought jiim down with a* flying tackle. After a struggle in which chairs were upset and papers seattered, he was pinned to the floor and handeuffed. /
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 July 1948, Page 3
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