INSOMNIA SUFFERER
HEARTY ANOTHER GRAFTON / TRAGEDY [Peb Uxksd Pries Association.] i AUCKLAND, December 21. At 9 o’clock this morning an elderly man walking on Grafton bridge, where there have been several suicides recently, saw a young man .with his feet over tho parapet, apparently about to jump into tho gully. Ho caught hold of him by one foot, and with the assistance of two other men dragged him to a more certain foothold, - j In the Police Court Albert Lloyd Addison, aged 21 and single, was charged with attempted suicide. Tho police stated that ho was a timber mill machinist, who was out of work, and who had been recently in hospital for insomia. Ho was remanded for medical obser-, ration. ' \
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Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 7
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121INSOMNIA SUFFERER Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 7
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