AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY.
BOY TRIES TO HANG HIMSELF. (By Telegrnph-Prosa Association.) Du'ncdin, March 7. A rather uncommon type of boy be longing to a respectable family in the city appeared in the Juvenile Court, charged wilh attempting to commit suicide. It appeared the youngster had bci'U disobeying his. parents' instructions to tcek work. He persisted in staying about the hou.'o reading. Yesterday his mutlier look a book from him, whereupon the bey smashed ;i window with an axe, went into the garden, and pulled up cabbages, then took a rope and climbed :i tree and set to hang himself, but neighbours prevented him. In the evening the father thrashed uio boy who, alter getting loose, went to llio tree where the rope had been lelt in position, put his head in the loop nnd dropped. His nioMier found him at a critical moment and held him up till help crmic. To-day Ihe boy. who is fourteen years of i\rp, appeared in Court. Uβ was committed to an industrial school.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1070, 8 March 1911, Page 4
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169AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1070, 8 March 1911, Page 4
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