ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 13, 15 January 1877, Page 4

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

I man . l^!ned v^oin.a8 I^|jini was recently charged at Cobden with Saving attempted to commit suicide by taking laudanum, but was discharged oq the ground that at the time he was under the influence of drink. The strange folIjawing letter addressed by him to the Editor of the G. It, Argus, on the mornifrg of the attempt, was produced inevideooe against him : — "T. Heslin, Biuooerton, in bis usual composed aod proper sences, wants to let the populace know the cause of his hatred to this world. world ehouTd be strenihened Tenfold on account of ciy Family, which, every body v who , koo ws ; . thaoi, proapuoqesj beyond the c0mm0n... .. | "SefßOD^iy,---! must Justify ray, wifo so far as to aay, in my last Teaiament, ahe htts been BSrictly ( %onesfwiih- me>uar tiil^after sire wsa'a' Grahdmoitiir.' T , *, R j •-' Her- d|y iation from tba^ cigbt v|alh has been eauae^.by : f&filjyjnakej in the shape, pi, a _,mftn~^o^eph .^rlerrpwho ; . Works'nbw "a|. (he Kumara, ' J^e.p^rsists" in bis addresses, aUboagh' i he knows it haa^c^used -Family disturbance for aopaa 1 " No«f, lam going.to commit flaioide> The: very. name lis'abhorreat to ma ; aod the thoughts of leayjng my.cbildrarii O! ! I, cannot coramft this to pspeii I * ( I*'6ope tfi'ere is not a man who wilf cal} me a^fool or coward for oomaittiQg a)ucb an act ; for a fool, those who knows OiewUl decide pand/ ifpr^a act lam about tQ^cpEooiU is a stranger tp the name. i paper iswntten fos;^abHcatfon iii the Geey J2iybb Abguß, and I hopg the finder will scad it there, aa I know i^ will get^iistice'to the letter. «■ •■ ; • j ''Adieu to\ earth, adieu to, mirih j! ,; j r adieu you fields where % used to r un ; I > Three timea adiea, I say to ,you, '■■. \ 'my life,' tijy eouij'Maggie Robertspiju; : :■• '.. : . ' "1" : '■'"Thos^Hesljn, '■"" r -.•> o.i "Brunn'ertoa. Jany, lat, 1877.? ■■■■ ! c