EFFECT OF WAR INJURIES.
ENGLISHMAN TAKES POISON. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. Suffering from a fit of depression, owing to his inability to obtain employment, a young Englishman who had been a member of the Royal Air Force, took a quantity of rat poison last week. To-day, accompanied by his pretty young wife, also English, he limped, into Court and pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to commit suicide. Senior Sergeant Sweeney said accused had been in Now Zealand about five years. He joined the Air Force when he was the merest boy and received promotion. Ho had a couple of crashes, which affected his spine. He suffered from continual headaches, which, combined with his inability to obtain work, left him depressed. It was while in one of these fits that he attempted to take his life. He was the son of wealthy parents in England, and they had been assisting him. The magistrate spoke kindly to accused and told him his worries, compared with those of some people, were only small ones. He was convicted and discharged.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 12
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