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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 175, 5 August 1901, Page 3

The following paragraph from the Auckland Herald will no doubt b' of interest to Gisborne people : —On Friday evening, about five o’clock, in Greystreet, a woman named Mrs Lucy Buck, it is alleged, threatened to attempt suicide, and got hold of a razor and also a knife. Two men held her down until the police could arrive. On examining the woman no wound could be found, and she was taken to the lockup, on the charge of attempted suicide. It appears that she had laid. an information against her husband of failing to give her adequate support, he having left her with her child in a boarding-house. It seems that the husband, who is a seaman, had to leave Auckland to earn his bread at his calling, and was on one of the Union Company’s steamers. On the information. being laid he was taken off his steamer at Dunedin and remanded to Auckland. In the meantime Mrs Buck had withdrawn the charge, and man and wife were living together. The woman, who is said to be of a highly-strung, nervous nature, has, it is stated, through brooding over her domestic troubles, be* come bwdly responsible for her action*.