RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 101, 27 April 1872, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Before L. Broad, Esq., R.M. George Murcott was charged with attempting to commit suicide by hanging himself. William Murcott, a son of the prisoner, stated that he was at work on his father's farm on Thursday, when he was called by his sister, and on going into the house he found his father hanging from one of the joists by a rope that was twisted round his neck, his feet being two feet from the ground. A piece of scantling had been placed from one bed to the other so as to form a platform. He cut the rope, and his father fell and was insensible for some time. Later in the day he said he was in trouble about Mrs Marks who had been living with him, but left a week previously, taking away some of his money. Mary Ann Murcott said that on Thuursday morning about 10 o'clock she heard her father making a noise in his bedroom and on going to the door she found it locked. She then looked in at the window when she saw him hanging. She called her brother who went in and cut him down. Prisoner, after receiving the usual warning, was asked whether he had anything to say, when he stated that the evidence was all true, and that he had tried to do the deed. He was then committed for trial at the next sitting of the Supreme Court.