ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES A BORDERLINE CASE. ACCUSED'S NAME SUPPRESSED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. In the Police Court a young marri eti man (name suppressed), who is the eon of a North Island clergyman, was charged with having attempted suicide and witk having obtained from George Walker at Auckland £38 by falsely representing that certain furniture was his property. It was shown that accused had suffered injury at birth and it was stated that the war had hurt his mentality. He had studied as a medical student, and had also been a teacher.
The magistrate sa-id this was praetic ally a borderline case.
Accused was ordered to come up for sentence within twelve months, a condition being that he entered a mental hospital as a voluntary patient.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 90, 17 April 1929, Page 11
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