ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
MAN LIES ACROSS RAILS. Something in the nature of a sensation was caused at Marton Junction on Wednesday morning, by a man named David Murray, sixty years of age, making a determined and an almost successful attempt to commit suicide. In the station yardg during shunting operations a man was .seen by Guard Martelli lying across the rails. Just as a string of waggons approached the spot where the man was lying Porter Veal saw him, and rushed to rescue him. He succeeded just in time, but so near were the waggons that Murray's ear was partly torn off before he oould be extricated from his precarious situation. Murray was handed over to the police. Dr Warren attended to his lacerated ear, and twelve stitchea were put in. When searched, Murray was found to possess a seven-chambered revolver fully loaded, and he intimated his intention of again trying to do away with himself.
He was brought before the Magistrate's Oourt and charged with attempted suicide. He was remanded for eight days. Murray was a complete stranger to Marton, having arrived there on Tuesday night. He has friends residing in "VVhangarei.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume xxv, Issue 10713, 29 August 1913, Page 5
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192ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. Wairarapa Age, Volume xxv, Issue 10713, 29 August 1913, Page 5
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