TRADEDY AVERTED
A CONTEMPLATED SUICIDE.
AUCKLAND, May 11.
.Late yesterday afternoon a young butcher intimated to his wife that he intended. to jump over the Grafton Bridge. She rushed to the Newton. Police. Station, and a temporary constable was given, a description of her husband! and dispatched hurriedly to the bridge. When near the ' bridge the constable accosted 1 a man who admitted his identity and his intension to jump over, and, he was promptly arrested. To-day the police gaid the man had beep unemployed for some time, and there had been domestic trouble. How-, eyer, the wife was prepared to take him . hack, and-everything mights then all right. ; ' **
The Magistrate convicted and discharged the accused on his consenting to stay at the Salvation Army Home for a week before he went home.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1932, Page 3
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133TRADEDY AVERTED Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1932, Page 3
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