LOOKING FOB SYMPATHY

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1770, 7 June 1913, Page 6

LOOKING FOB SYMPATHY

YOTJNG MAN'S STRANGE DEVICE. Melbourne, May 2G. Hazelton Sullivan', the young man who shot himself in the arm and thigh to soften the heart of tho Victorian Government, is now extremely sorry. Ho has been suffering excruciating agony and he says that ho would never have turned his revolver upon himself if he had known how much agony a bullet in tlit le£ .means. Sullivan is a bright, active, ambitious man, and has been trying to buy a Malice block on timo payment. ' He saved <£72 in tho Murray district, but tho payment due for his land was .£l2O. Ha was at his wits' ends for money to meet this bill, as ho feared to be turned off tho land. By some extraordinary freak of thought he decidod that if ho could make a sensation by getting thepublic to believe that ho had been shot and robbed, the Government would say, "We will hold up this account for another Tear." Sullivan held to his story until three detectives put on the third degree in the hospital ward; and then he collapsed. He said that all the story about the masked men and the fighting and robbery was a farce. —Sydney "Sun.."