ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
MAX CUTS HIS TiriiOAT. Somewhere between ""fiver and six o'clock yesterday morning , a middleaged man named Edward llydotf Cobitru, employed by Mr. H. T, Joll a?-.a driver on one of his meat-hawking carts, attempted to commit suicide at his homo in Leach street. He roue very cai'ty, earlier than his wont, ,but told his wilo she need not bother to get up just yet, as he would not be ready for breakfast for a long time yet. A noise some little while later startled her, but on going out to the kitchen she was unable to see her husband. .She found the door of the •waslihousc locked, and looked in, to see her husband lying on the floor in a pool of blood, and a blood-stained raw lying near. She called one of her sons, find when assistance had been procured., the man was removed to the public hospital, where, though suffering from great loss of blood, it is believed lie will recover. Coburn has been worrying a good deal lately, it is said, and left a letter showing an, intention to commit .suicide, but assigning no reason for the act. Coburn has u wife and seven children.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 82, 27 September 1911, Page 4
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200ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 82, 27 September 1911, Page 4
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