Determined Attempt at Suicide.
(Per Press Association.) Auckland, April 21. A prisoner named Edward Hall, sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment at the last criminal sessions of the Supreme Court on a charge of stealing a horse, made a desperate attempt yesterday to commit suicide. While being taken oat for exercise at Fort Cantley, he dashed down the hill and through trees, and threw himself or fell with tremendous force against some iron piping supporting the chimney of an engine used for drawing up the big guns. The chimney and stay were carried away, and the prisoner fell some 15ft on to the rocks. Picking himself up again, he made for the water, and flung himself into the sea. Two men in a boat, seeing the whole occurrence, went to the rescue^ and after a desperate struggle with tho prisoner, who was determined to drown himself, they succeeded in getting him into the boat and taking him ashoue, Tho prisoner has developed molancholi^ siuco bis incarceration through brooding over his wife aud family.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 246, 22 April 1897, Page 2
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172Determined Attempt at Suicide. Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 246, 22 April 1897, Page 2
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