SELF-MUTILATION
A SOLDIER'S RASH ACT. An amazing cnso of self-mutilation on the part of a soldier happened in the city on Holiday. Patrick Lally, a private in the Thirty-seventh Reinforcements, walked into Messrs. Briscoe and Co.'s warehouse with an axe (which it transpired ho had just purchased), kid Ms right hand on a packing-case, and calmly proceed to chop it. This was in view of Iho warehouse employees, who intervened, hut not before Lally had badly gashed two of his fingers. Upon being advised, the police nrriyed on the scene and tonk the soldier in charge. Subsequently he was handed over io 1 lie military police and rushed to the Victoria TVaTd of the Hospital. The authorities report that both the injured fingers may beisavcd, although it may be necessary to amputate w)e. Lally is aged about % years, and killed originally from Ireland. Ho discussed with (ho police what he bad done in a rational and collected manner. By his raeli act ho has committed a sciious broach of the military regulations.' ■
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 184, 24 April 1918, Page 4
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172SELF-MUTILATION Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 184, 24 April 1918, Page 4
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