PATIENT’S GRIM DREAM
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE ASLEEP That a patient tried to hang himself during a dream was the remarkable explantaion given to the Lincoln magistrates by Tom Burnett, 55, a well-known local dentist, who was charged with attempted suicide. Hearing a strange noise m a ward at Lincoln County Hospital, Nurse Dorothy Lawson switched on the lights, and was horrified to see Burnett hanging by a window cord. She immediately cut him down and sent for a doctor. Burnett was to have undergone an ey operation on the following day, ana feared he might become blind. informed the magistrates that he wen to sleep about midnight, had a ternDi dream, and know no more until n recovered in the ward. He told tn nurse he was paralysed, and then discovered that he was strapped to » ( bed. “I am sorry this has i he added, “and if you gave me £l> OU „ could not tell you how it happenedThe magistrates warmly congrai lated the nurse, and, sympathising wi Burnett, bound him ove for 12 mont
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 12
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174PATIENT’S GRIM DREAM Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 92, 9 July 1927, Page 12
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