TWO WOULD BE SUICIDES.
Wellington, September 3. A young man named Jacob Hansen, employed at the Wellington Meat Preserving and Refrigerating Company, attempted to commit suicide by hanging himself from a steam pipe in the factory. When cut down he was nearly strangled. He has been in a despondent state for a day or two. He was remanded to the Asylum for examination. Oamaru, September 3. A hairdresser named Robert Gower attempted to poison himself with oxalic acid yesterday. A doctor was quickly called in as soon as Gower'B condition was ascertained, and with the aid of a stomach pump all danger was removed.
"Self-deception will probably cease at the first blast of the archangel's trumpet : but what human heart will part with it till then? The circumstances under which a human being could not excuse or delude or justify himself have never yet occurred in the huge annals of crime."— lt is Never Too JLate to Mend,
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 66, 6 September 1884, Page 3
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158TWO WOULD BE SUICIDES. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 66, 6 September 1884, Page 3
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