A BRIGHT BOY!
ATTEMPTS TO HANG HIMSELF. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Tuesday. A rather uncommon type of boy belonging to a respectable family in the city appeared at the Juvenile Courv charged with attempted suicide. He appears to have been disobeying his parents' instructions to seek work, ana persisted ih staying about the house reading. Yesterday his mother took a book from him, whereupon the boj smashed the window with an axe, went into the garden, and pulled up cabbages. He then took a rope, climbed a tree, and set to work to hang himself, but the neighbors prevented him. In the evening his father thrashed the boy, who, after getting loose, went to the tree where the rope was left in position and put his head in the loop and dropped. His mother found him at the critical moment, and held him up till help came. To-day the boy, who is fourteen years of age, appeared with a livid mark round his neck, and was committed to the industrial school.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 8 March 1911, Page 5
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171A BRIGHT BOY! Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 8 March 1911, Page 5
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