WHILE IN POLICE GRIP.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 915, 7 September 1910, Page 4

WHILE IN POLICE GRIP.

;:;■ 'MAN ATTEMPTS HIS LIFE. '.■:;.■ (By Telegraph!— Special. Correspondent) '..'■' Palmerston," Septeffibpi. S." Somewhat of a sensation was caused in the Square : between eight and nine o'clock '.. this morning,, by a . man -. named : Ryan,:' about thirty years of/age, attempting to commit suicide, in the .immediate presence of ■ a' ; policeman. It. appears ;.that.'. l Eyau i '. .treat to the- Grand Hotel;-'last, night; turned into a bed without permission, and V slept there all : night. Early this morn, ing .he was/, accosted; by the porter, who ' .demanded that \he should pay . for. th« bed." ,Eyan replied that he. wished, to : sea~ the. proprietor, but, while ■'.; the • porter was looking for him, the man decamped. The police: were communicated . with,, and Constable Gow went ;out. to .look for the.man, and,' after-'a.time, Jound him , in the Square. The constable, who. was leading! his bicycle,;.proceeded ( to escort ; the 'man -back';; to the hotel,- and 'they were crossing : the railway ■ line":' when': Ryan, who had been walking with, hia ; hands behind suddenly whipped, out a razor; and'inflicted.a severe wound oh himself. The'.'constable;., at v once dropped hjs bicycle and grappled with :■■ the man, but, before he could him, Eyan-effected a second 1 wound. Dr. . jMartih was quickly • summoned, and; ; after'attending >to the '.'injuries,:, ordered the ■ man's removal to the, hospital, whither he"was : taken in• the. ambulance van!.'. He. is now in a' rather precarious'. condition. ■ -. 'It appears . that-about ■ six - weeks .ago he was .. arrested for drunkenness,/ and has been more or. less under-the. influence of drink"ever:,since. ■'■.. -.;.