TO BEHEAD HIMSELF.
Finding It Impossible to rat off. his own head with an axe, Heinrich Barz, a suburban saloonkeeper. Is alive to-day after several attempts at suicide.
Having developed the mania that Frenchmen were chasing him in a big automobile, Barz went into a graveyard and, placing his head upon a headstone, he .tried to sever his neck with an axe. Failing, he pulled out his pocket knife, and endeavoured to slash his wrists, but his wife had been opening cans with the blade and doing bits of household carpentry with the knife, so it didn't cut properly.
As a last resort Barz drank a big bottle of poison, which, however, had been standing around the house for years and had lost its venom. But he became desperately ill and his groans attracted the police. Who arrested him and placed him in a hospital, where it is believed he will recover.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 239, 6 October 1923, Page 19
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