MARSLAND HILL MYSTERY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 63, 5 September 1911, Page 4

MARSLAND HILL MYSTERY

Till-: ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Upon admission to the hospital on Sunday evening- of the man who was reported in yesterday's issue as having been found on Sunday near Jiarslaiirt Hill, sull'ering from an apparently sellindicted wound, it was found that the jagged wound in the throat, made with a pocket-knife, was two or three days old. and that it had been plugged up with a piece of rag. lie was then, as already reported, in a precarious state, sull'ering from septic pneumonia.

Yesterday some information was elicited front him its to his identity, 'but owing to his extreme weakness this wis given with great difficulty, lie said hi* mime was Edward Jackson, and that his father lived at Napier. He himself emtio here from Whangarei about a fortnight ago, after having been in the northern town for about three weeks. Ho stated that he had not slept indoors for two or -three nights, but recently stayed for two nights in a boarding-house in Uus East End. Up till last night the police, had not been able to verify this story, and the 'Napier police had been tillable lo locate the Robert Jackson, the unfortunate man's father. ' His condition last evening was critical indeed, and his recovery was looked upon as hopeless.