AN EXCITING AFFAIR
ARRESTED MAN TRIES TO TAKE POISON. By Telegraph—i'lv-ss A-wocotinn Palmerston North, July 11, Wilhelm Julius Larson was arrested by Plain-clothes Constable Culloty to-day on a charge of failing to maintain his wife and family in the Auckland district. Ho attempted to take Ihe contents of - a bottle of poison on his way to the police station. Larsen swnUowed a little before Constable Culloty could prevent him, and iu the struggle the bottle was broken >und a- quantity of the liquid, burnt tho constable's left eye. However, he brought the man to tho police station. Dr. Burness administered an emetic to Larsen,w ho quickly recovered. It is thought that the constable will not suffer any permanent injury.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19160712.2.61
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2821, 12 July 1916, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
119AN EXCITING AFFAIR Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2821, 12 July 1916, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in