SENSATION ON A TROOP TRAIN.
SOLDIER ATTEMPT SUICIDE Palmerston N., June 16. A sensational incident occurred on the special troop train from Auckland to Wellington when Archibald Thomas, belonging to the Thames, and a member of the Auckland Reinforcements, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Shortly after the train left Ohingaiti, another trooper asked Thomas for a match, but instead ot producing a match-box, he pulled out a razor and slashed his throat in a most determined manner, inflicting a severe wound. He was immediaetly seized. A doctor boarded the train at Hunterville, and accompanied the injured man to the Palmerston Hospital,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1412, 17 June 1915, Page 2
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107SENSATION ON A TROOP TRAIN. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1412, 17 June 1915, Page 2
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