ATTFMPTED SUICIDE AT CAMBRIDGE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2919, 31 March 1891, Page 2

ATTFMPTED SUICIDE AT CAMBRIDGE.

\ Viis.: i,.:i 11: nif'i William lluine eii- • i<; i V 'r.:: 1t ■■ |>uf. an end !<> hi< n.i •! mice at on Cni'il Friday nvnniii2, by <wallowin'_; about thirty wa.<: v.vta mutch s. Hi: h app n.-riMy about L':' y> us of a;?-', and became to unbridiM) about three weeks frmii l'ani"ll, u her..' iie Irnl linen a prominent memb,-r of tli«; Silv.ilimi Army. | i-; ;i h a I:, ■r by tradi-. a::d it. i- itod h«* v .is tiiinkii::/ "1 tfoiii,; in:" partnership with Mr John Hell, win) c.:iii •• 1.11 U...t lvi-ini'.-s i:i (.'• until iii^ 11 ; however, lie ii.i-l o:i!y been i;, I;],: Ihuii about a till! nitfllt - during which h>! had been ii regular attendant at l!:-: ;S ■ 1 .iLi.• 11 loi-utin.:- --when Ad.iut.uit. ill lb.' Ainiy arrived. A <-•'mrtinarl.i il w.i he'd, and Hiuiie was LXpi-lled (l i'i>. th-J lank? in!' nil.: oil l "l' --upI) i>e i offence, committed in I'ainell. This is supplied ti) hive pieved mi his mind and caused him tu attempt his lift:, illthough there are many who say lie lin'l lent iimiiuy mi security that lit! was dissati-died with, and that nude him despondent. Ha wan v/itli Mr l'o Minis, tliu late captain of tin.- Cambridge Ariny, who now keeps a fancy tjoods stori) anil hair-dressing est ibliiihmeul in Duke-street, and about r».:>o p.m. I'll ( i'Hid Flid.iv ' • oiling Mrs l)e IJlois went into tho hair-dressing room and saw Hume sitting on a chair looking very bad, anil with a box of matches in his hand. Unsaid ho h'd .swallowed a number of marches, and Mrs IJo Illois quickly called her husband, who at once .sent for Dr. (Jushney. Fortunately the doctor was at hand, and lie administered an antidoto and afturward.l an unietic, which Lnived Hume's lite ; for though ho afterwards snlVeied considerable pain, the doctor piuuounced him out ul danger on Saturday moniin;:. I jut now anothtir difficulty presented itself ; tho patient said tie did not v.ish to live, and ho refused to take either medicine or fond. The be-t wav out (if this dilemma was clearly to solid the man to the hospital, and accordingly Constable Hrenti.it) procured a buggy and conveyed him to Hamilton. Tho drive evidently c iused him to take a better view of life, as when lie arriied at the hospital lie promised Dr. Koimv to take whatever was ordered. We are told the young mm 1.subject to til.-;, and is sometimes very stranjju in his inanni:r. He ceitainly must have peculiar ideas, even uf suicide, ur lie would not have swallowed matches when there were three razors lying oil a table in front of liiui. When he lias recovered, both mentally and physically, lie will be retnrnod to Cambridge, and will lie brought up before the magistrates ; but what to do with this class of offenders is a puzzle. The judges don't like them sent to theSiipreme Court, and the magistrates don't- like to take the responsibility of dealing with them. ...