ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
THEFT CHARGE PREYS ON MAORI’S MIND
James Williams, a Maori, employed as gardener at the hospital, pleaded guilty at the Police Court this morning to a charge of attempted suicide. Chief-Detective Hammond said that Williams had. been asked by the police to give information regarding a theft that had taken place at his lodgings. He was not suspected of the theft. Shortly after, the Maori had been discovered in his room with the gas turned on and a note left to his landlady thanking God he was not a thief. He was taken to the hospital, where he had remained for some time suffering from gas poisoning. Mr. Seymour, of the Methodist Maori Mission, remarked on the high esteem in which Williams was held at the hospital. “The Maori mind,” he said, “is remarkably sensitive. Williams was worried about the theft charge.” “He is pretty thin-skinned if he does that sort of thing when a policeman speaks to him,” said Mr. Hammond. Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., convicted and discharged him. an order being made for the payment of £ 3 4s hospital expenses.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 401, 9 July 1928, Page 13
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185ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 401, 9 July 1928, Page 13
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