THE CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 974, 20 December 1882, Page 2

THE CASE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

At the Ijesident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, before Dr Croft and R. C. Tennent Esqs., Thomas Lambeth was charged wjth attempting his own life on the IBth inst. Prisoner pleaded, guilty. Emma Wilson called, staled that she was a hoarding-house keeper residing in Patea. She knew prisoner. He had been lodging with her about two months—ever since he had left the s.s, Clyde. Prisoner had been drinking for about eight days before be attempted suicide. . Witness recollected the 13th inst. Prisoner was in lier house that day. Ho was in a very excited stale of mind occasioned by drink. Witness saw him draw a knife across his throat but did not see blood. She saw him sharpen the knife. Witness could not say what Louse prisoner got (he drink in—she thought ho had been going round to the whole of them. Witness had never kept any liquor, in her bouse for the prisoner. Prisoner was very sick on the night of the 12th inst when he told witness he had ■ got some work which he was going to on the following morning. Witness would know the knife again which prisoner bad, (knife produced). Prisoner had nothing to siy. The Bench, deciding the evidence already heard to be sufficient, the statements of throe oilier witnesses were not taken. Prisoner was then bound over to keep the peace towards himself, for a period of six months, in his own recognisance of £SO. Sergeant Uonovan made an application that the Bench should issue an order, prohibiting the publicans in Ihe licensing districts of Oloin, Waverlcy and Patea, from supplying prisoner with liquor, ou the grounds that he, being such an excitable person,-it was positively dangerous for him to be at large while under the influence of drink. The order was accordingly made.