A YOUTHFUL SUICIDE.
[By Telearaph—Press Association.] DUNEDIN, Last Night. A rather uncommon type of boy, belonging to a respectable family,' appeared at the Juvenile Court on a charge of attempted suicide. It appears he had been disobeying his parents' instructions to seek work, and persisted in staying at the house reading. Yesterday the mother took a book from him, whereupon the boy smashed a window with an axe. He went into the garden, and then took a rope and climbed a tree, and set out to hang himself. The neighbours prevented him. In the evening his father thrashed' the boy, who, after getting loose, went to the tree where the rope had been left, and put his head in the loop and dropped. His mother found him at . a 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 ne.-rk. He was committed to the Industrial School.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10183, 8 March 1911, Page 6
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162A YOUTHFUL SUICIDE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10183, 8 March 1911, Page 6
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