Chinese Attempts Suicide by Opium
NOVEL BUT USELESS SAILOR IN COURT Homesick, and finding the life of a sailor drab and miserable after the movement, and colour of Singapore. Ling Ah Kwee, a member of the crew of the oiler Oliva, now in port, decided to end his unhappy existence. The way he went about it was as novel as it was ineffectual, according to the story related this morning in the Police Court by Senior-Sergeant McCarthy. By smoking enormous quantities of opium—from one to li ounces—Kwee hoped to dream liis life away one night and so to forget his troubles. However, said the ship’s captain, it only kept him awake. Kwee who not wanted back on the ship on account of his suicidal tendencies. The ship’s agent solved the difficulty by arranging for the little man’s deportation. He was remanded to appear to-morrow for sentence on the charge of attempted suicide.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 9
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152Chinese Attempts Suicide by Opium Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 309, 21 March 1928, Page 9
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