NEAR TRAGEDY
ANNIVERSARY OF WIFE’S DEATH
OLD MAN’S RESOLVE Press Association MARTON, Today. When William Thomas Boyce, aged 65, of no fixed address, was charged this morning with vagrancy the police stated that when accused was arrested he had in his possession a quantity of spirits of salts, which he intended to take. He had lost his wife 23 years ago in Queensland, and his plan was to retire to the rear of the shop in Main Street, swallow the salts and then die near the shop front at the exact hour of his wife’s death. Accused, who is down and out and is being cared for by a local clergyman, was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 744, 17 August 1929, Page 13
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121NEAR TRAGEDY Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 744, 17 August 1929, Page 13
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