ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY HANGING.
It Harry Ekland, a native of Sweden, was charged before Mr B. W. -ty** S.M., this morning with having **" .tempted to commit .suicide on Th—r_" 1 day night by hanging himself wit- • rope. The facts stated by Sub-lnSr** | tor Black were that Ekland was a boai* j er with a Mrs Mary Allen, of »***[ street. About 9.30 o'clock on Thursday ' J night Mrs Allen heard an nnusual aoiss in the oettar. She immediately «*«• j investigations, and it was fortunate *« Ekland that she west at ow* »*• I the cellar, for her boarder by tbe neck to a rope «•» of the beams. Mrs Allen j_g_'tlg. 1 down, and when Ekland xe*e*«*a &* jflciently, which was on the »fj* B *£* j morning, Constable Nash arrastat *•» Ekland informed the officer «w egSj would try to do it againif grvaa ■_»»■ -,', % opportunity. -•" - ■'- The magistrate came to the **__■? sion that Ekland required to ** ,***^ eally examined, and the aecasad naa'ancUd tor t__e jarjasa lsc j*._Wsp ; ,- ; *|
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Auckland Star, Issue XXXVI, 21 October 1905, Page 4
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