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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 253, 15 March 1913, Page 2 (Supplement)

MAN CUTS HIS EYES OUT

ASHAMED TO SEE HIS FRIENDS. San Francisco, March 2. A horrible case of self-maltreatment is reported from Los Angeles. Because he feared to look his friends in the face again, and, as he said, had not the nerve to commit suicide, a man of 46 years of age, named A. J. Heinn, who was detained on suspicion in the city gaol, slashed his eyeballs from their sockets with a penknife while he lay in his cell.

He committed tlie act at half-past twelve yesterday morning, and his condition was not discovered until daylight, when a warder opened the door, and found Heinn lying on the blood-stained blankets and suffering great agony.

The • man claimed that he was connected with a well-known family. According to the police he had been drinking heavily for some time. His wife secured a divorce from him about two years ago. After Heinn had been treated at the hospital he said: "I wanted to punish myself. T never wanted to sec my friends again, and after I cut my eyes out T felt at peace with the world for the first time for years."

The campaign for the abolition of Sunday trading and for a compulsory one-day rest, which is being carried on in Ormany by the Commercial Union of Women Employees and other women's societies, and which was recently the subject matter of a petition to the Reichstag, has now spread to Norway; The Norwegian campaigners 'started the fight by holding a large demonstration at Chritsiaiia, at which it was decided to organise meetings throughout the country, enlist the services of municipalities, and bombard Parliament with petitions until it should introduce satisfactory legislation 'concerning the abolition of Sunday trading, excepting that which is absolutely necessary.