A RASH ACT.
A YOUNG MAORI SEEKS TO TAKE HIS LIFE.
There was a sensational occurrence at Awapuni yesterday afternoon, when the well-known golf player Wi Haora attempted to oornmit suicide by cutting his throat He lived in a two-roomed oottage. He had been depressed ond eccentric for a week past, and while his wife was washing olothes outside the house yesterday afternoon she heard a noise which onused her to rush into the house. There she had the terrible sight of her husband being oovered with blood, his throat badly gashed aDd an open razor near by. The alarm was at once given. John Bua ran off to summon a dootor and inform the polioe, aod when on the way he R'most ran into Constable O’Hara, who happened to have tsksn a stroll out to witness the ceremony on the Wa'kanae. Constable 0 Hara speedily reaohed the house, as also did Mr Finley, and they did the best they oonld for the sufferer until medical help arrived. Wi struggled hard" to get free, and pleaded with thoso holding hm to let him finish what ho bad attempted, so that bo could die. Drs Collins and Schumacher soon arrived, and traobeotomy was performed, after which the patient was convoyed to tho hospital, his condition being critical,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1820, 28 July 1906, Page 2
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216A RASH ACT. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1820, 28 July 1906, Page 2
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