OUT OF WORK.
LAW CLERK'S RASH ACT. BY TELKSIIAPfI PRESS ASSOCIATION. WELLINGTON, September 4 A law clerk, named Fredk. Watson, 25 years of age, with a wife and children in Dannevirke, was found about midday to-day in a state uf collapse in some scrub near Talavera Terrace, Wellington. A soda water bottle near him contained a solution of match heads, and he is supposed to have drank of this. Constable Leckie, who found him, gave him an emetic, but this did not act. Dr. Boyd, who was summoned, used the stomach pump successfully, and Watson was then removed to the Hospital. He said he wastired of life. He was out of work, and could not eern enough to support his wife and children. , It is understood that Watson was recently treated for insomnia.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9184, 5 September 1908, Page 5
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133OUT OF WORK. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9184, 5 September 1908, Page 5
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