ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1932, Page 4

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

RAILWAYMAN CHARGED. (By Telegraph —Per press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, January 12. Found sitting in the firebox of a locomotive, with bis left wrist cut, a railwayman, aged fi3, whose name was suppressed, appeared before Mr E. 1). Mosley. S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, to-day and was convicted and discharged on a charge of attempting to commit suicide on January 9. It was stated by Senior-Sergeant J. Fox that accused had been with the Railway Depratment for lfi years, as a fireman and an engine-driver. On January 9he was missed lrom the yard at Liu wood and was found siting in a fire-box which had not been used for some time, with his wrist severed. He was unconscious from the loss of blood. Accused bad been very depressed lately, the fact that bis eiurm-.. ■ "'l run over a little girl and killed her, and that be iiad neen reprimanded because his train was late on one occasion seemed to have preyed on his mind. He had also been working late hours preparing for his wedding, which was to have taken place this month, and this also seemed to have affected him. Counsel said accused had no recollection of the accident, and had been worrying a great deal.