ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Auckland, This day. A man named Frank Davidson attompteel suicide at North cote this morning. He was tired of life because be wa_ troubled with paralysis, and adopted a singular mode of self-destruction. He placed an iron pot in the ground, putin twenty pounds of powder, and, having heated a soldering iron, laid over the pot and struck the iron into the powder. A great oxplosion followed, and Davidson was found with his clothes on fire and terribly mutilated, rushing about looking for pistols, which he had previously loaded in ease the other effort failed. The neighbors took him to the hospital where ho lies in a dangerous state.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4112, 25 September 1884, Page 3
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111ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4112, 25 September 1884, Page 3
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