HASTY-TEMPERED WIFE.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AFTER A
QUARREL.
Mrs Vera Corlan, who left the Hospital this morning after receiving treatment for an overdose of ehlorodyne, was charged at the Police Court before Mr H. W. Brabant, S.M., with attempted suicide.
Mr T. (.'otter, on behalf of the accused, admitted the charge, and said his client was really sorry for the act. lie explained the facts of the affair. which were that Mr and Mrs Corlan lived in a Shortland-street boardinghouse, and on Sunday they quarrelled. Jn a lit of anger Mrs Corlau drank a bottle of chbrodyne, and had to be taken to the Llospitar. She assured him that there was no chance whatever of her repealing the attempt after what she had suffered. She was in a weak state at the time.
Sergeant Hendry, who prosecuted on beha/f of the police, agreed that the woman had committed the rash act in a moment of temper, and was not. averse to Mr Cotter's .suggestion that site be bound over in her husband's recognizances lo bo of good behaviour. His Worship, with a few words of caution to the licensed, accepted her husband's surely or £50 and discharged her.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 280, 24 November 1903, Page 5
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