ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1252, 13 December 1882, Page 2

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Patba, this day. A man named Lambert, a fireman, attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a carving knife. He had been drinking. The wound is not likely to provo fatal,

Auckland, this day, James Crowley, of Howiok, for murder, was committed for trial. Yesterday afternoon a man named Robert Hardy, aged 50. was brought to the Hospital in a cab by Archord, a publican, and a woman who stated she was Hardy's wife. Hardy was in a slate of unconsciousness, and much contused about the face, It was at once seen that he was (lying, He took two convulsive fits, and expired half-anhour after his admission. Arohord and Mm Hardy stayed a few minutes. An examination of the body after death shewed a cut on the right temple j also an abrasion near the cut. There is also a cut under the right eye, and a bruise adjacent to lobe of left car, abrased as new as that on side of temple. The left temple is contused in appearance, as if from blows, and the nose is also mirkll. There is a patch of disfiguration on the back, as if from a bluw or bruise Arohord told the hospital nurse that deceased had been fighting, and had stood severe " punishment." Mrs Hardy was in a state of excitement and little could be. got out of her, She was understood to say that Hardy'was drunk and went to strike a man but missed his blow and fell down. He had been drinking ever since. He took to his bed on Saturday and yesterday began to have fitß. Enquiries subsequently made at Archord's Hotel where deceased had been staying elicited statements that clashed with those given at the Hospital inquest this afternoon, Hardy said he was in comfortable circumstances and intended opening an hotel here.