RESCUE BY NURSES
death leap averted jgjUTON BRIDGE STRUGGLE drink-shaken man HAD »t n °t been f° r a woman’s presence of mind, Frank Charles Aiihman, aged 22, would hive leapt to death from Grafton Bridge last night. At the Pclice Court to-day. Ashman, -ho was staking through drink, ad-jji-ad that he attempted to commit "grrgeant Calwell told the magismtf Mr. F. K. Hunt, that two nurses m their way to the hospital at 10.20 St night saw a man clamber to the wu-npet of the bridge, and he was ijjut tc leap over when one of the nurses rushed forward and held him. flia o'her went in search of assistuc( a young man came along, and til thres cf them held Ashman until D,ras landed over to the police. »H* was recently an inmate at the hospital suffering from the elfeett of excessive drinking,’" w id the sergeant, “and he was only recently discharged. “He took liquor yesterday, and that probably explains his act.” The magistrate remanded accused toappetr for sentence on Monday, so that he would have time to recover Iron his drinking bout.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 1
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