ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 30, 4 February 1905, Page 5

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

A WIFE'S PBAISEWORTHY ACT.

William Windsor, a young man, who was charged this morning before Mr S. E. McCarthy, S.M., with having attempted to commit suicide, owed his life to the promptitude and good judgment of his wife. Windsor, who is the propriftGr of the Coromandel Oyster Saloon, Grny-street. admitted the facts a3 stated by Sub-Inspector Black. He went home at 11.20 o'clock last night, and had a few woTds with his wife, who complained about his neglect of business. During the altercation he left his wife and went into the cellar. As he was away for an unusually long time, Mrs Windsor followed him, and found that he was trying to hang himself from a beam, having made a noose by knotting two silk handkerchiefs together. Mrs Windsor could not cut her husband down instantly, but recognising that seconds were precious she held him up so that the weight of his body could not come on his neck. She screamed for assistance, and it arrived quickly, Windsor being cut down in an unconscious state. He had to be revived by means of artificial respiration. Sub-Inspector Black surmised that the accused's drinVing h: bits were responsible for the trouble, and the magistrate, convicting him of the charge and ordering hini to come up for sentence if called upon, also issued a prohibition order. Windsor was warned that if the police heard that he was drinking again he -would be brought up for sentence. (By Telegraph.—Prpes Association.) WANGANUI, this day. At the Magistrate's Court to-day an elderly man named McLauchlin wss charged with attempted suicide by cutting his throat with a knife at Marten on December 30. The accused had been iin the habit of drinking chlorodyne and ! painkiller, and had been treated in the (hospital for the effects of the drugs. After being discharged he resorted to the same, and whi'e in a state of hallucination severed his windpipe with a knife. Though he recovered sufficiently to leave the hospital, he was still under the effects of the drugs, and was sentenced to .a. ir.Qiitb'ji immisoTaneak-