A FLEET WEEK INCIDENT.
Auckland, September 2. A young girl, whose parents reside at Waihi, was in town during Fleet Week, and took her young brother out to see the sights. In the crowd she lost sight of him, and subsequently heard that he had been injured and taken to the hospital. The shock and sense of her failure to carry out the trust of her young relative preyed so much on her mind that when she got home she swallowed some match heads,, and had, as a result, to be taken herself to the hospital. When she was charged at Court with attempted suicide it was explained that she had but recently recovered from a severe attack of enteric fever, and as she appearedto have regained her mental {balance the girl was allowed to return 1 to the care of her relatives. i
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 432, 3 September 1908, Page 2
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144A FLEET WEEK INCIDENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 432, 3 September 1908, Page 2
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