ATTEMPTED SUICIDES
(Per Press Association.) / AUCKLAND, S atimday. W t m. Windsor, a. restaurant-keeper, qxiariolled with his wife last nights and attempted to hang bims P Tf m ■the cellar with two silk handkerchiefs. His wife, suspecting his design, found him hanging, and held him up until he was cut down. He was then unconscious, and had to fie restored by means of artificial respiration. Windsor pleaded guilt y to a charge of attempted suicide, and Was ordered to come up for sentence if called upon. A griohijbition order was issued against him.
... n WANGANUI, Saturday a At the Magistrate’s Court, an el■deriy man named McLaughlin! was charged with attempted suicide fiy cutting his throat at Mar ton. The accused was in tho bah it o£ ifrin-luiira? chlerouyne and painkiller, and had been treated at the hospital for the effects of drugs. After being discharged ho resorted to them again, and while in a state of hallucination, severed his windpipe with a knife, i hough be jhatt recovered suifficiehtly to leave the hospital, he was still under the effects of drugs, and wai sentenced to one ‘nionth’s impristonment.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1372, 6 February 1905, Page 2
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188ATTEMPTED SUICIDES Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1372, 6 February 1905, Page 2
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