RAZOR AND CHLORODYNE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 127, 29 May 1913, Page 6

RAZOR AND CHLORODYNE.

WORRIES OF TWO YOUNG MEN DRAMA IK BRISBANE HOTEL. BRISBANE. May 22. Two young men—W. M. Maguire and Ernest William Atkins—engaged a room at the People's Palace laet night. Groans were heard this moru.'a" emanating from their room. On effecting an entrance. Atkins was found lying- on the bed, deeply gashed in the wrist -and arm, a razor by his eide. and the bedclothes saturated with Wood. Maguire wae suffering from the effects of c.hlorodyne. Four empty ehlorodyne bottlee were found in the room. Maguire war! conveyed to the watchhouEe, am! Atkins was removed to the hospital, and is not expected to recover. Inquiries show that Atkins came to Queensland from New Zealand. lie pnr--1 chased a farm at Gin Gin. on the North ■ Coast Jine, and took Maguire into partnership. The business prospered for a. \tVme, \>ut eventually Ihey -wpto bcee.t with financial difficulties. To :idd to their trouMcs. Atkins recently Tweived word of the dwith of Vis sweetheart in Xpw Zejiland. Thry purchased four bottJes of chforodyne yesterday. Mrith the evident object of ending j their !iree.