STABBED HIMSELF.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 156, 4 July 1931, Page 12

STABBED HIMSELF.

THEN WENT TO POLICE. DEPRESSED FARM LABOURER, REMANDED FOR OBSERVATION. Early this morning Taul Hamintoff, a Russian, aged 35, walked into the watch house at the central police station and asked Constable Hancox to lock him up. Hamintoff, who was almost in a state of collapse, said he had just tried to take his life. Pulling up his shirt, ho showed the constable a wound over his heart. It was bleeding. Hamintoff then produced from his pocket a bloodstained knife. He was placed in custody, and was immediately attended to by a doctor. Later, Hamintoff, who had to be assisted into the Police Court by two constables, was charged with attempted suicide. Detective-Sergeant Kelly said accused was a farm labourer, at present out of employment. He had £72 in his pockets when arrested. On Mr. Kelly's application, Hamintoff was, remanded until July 11 for medical observation. "He / ought to be sent back to Russia, where ho comes from," said the magistrate. A Salvation Army officer said Hamintoff had recently been staying at a private hotel in Auckland. He had been depressed and lonely. '