AN ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.
YOUNG ALAN’S INSANE ACTS. . Christchurch, Last. Night. Two attempts at suicide were made yesterday by Frederick John Robson, aged 23 years, this morning. lie appeared before tlie Magistrate’s Court and was remanded. The first of Robson’s attempts on his life was in the afternoon, when he and his father were walking ah>ng Moorhouse Avenue. Without warning, the young man threw himself in fnmt of a moving tram car Imt was saved by tlie guard on the front of the ear. Father and son then went to a city boarding house, where the son, at dinner-time attempted to sab himself with a packing needle and also a butcher s knife. He was overpowered and removed to the police cells. The father stated that his son had been acting in a peculiar manner for the past twelve months and had developed suicdinl tendencies.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2642, 6 October 1923, Page 3
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145AN ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2642, 6 October 1923, Page 3
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