ATTEMPT AT SUICHDE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 925, 19 March 1930, Page 1

ATTEMPT AT SUICHDE

CAUSED BY EXCESSIVE DRINKING SECOND APPEARANCE Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. A plea of guilty was entered by William Bate, a seaman, aged 40. when charged before Mr. E. Page. S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with attempting to commit suicide at'Petone on March 8. Sub-Inspector Lander said accuse*! was found with everything ready to attempt to commit suicide by hanging, lie was very violent when taken into custody and was in a very depressed state. He had btien drinking and it was understood that ho was also subject to some financial worry. Ac - cused had not been in a fit state to appear before the court before, bur during the time he had been on remand he had made a good recovery. He had been before the court on a similar charge a little over a year ag-. when he was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within 12 months and during that time Ihe behaved himself very' well. I “Apparently excessive drinkir.g put I him in the state he was in when he ! attempted to commit suicide,” conj eluded the sub-inspector. I Bate was .admitted to probation for two years. He is to take out a prohibition order for that period.