SUICIDE ATTEMPT.
SAVED ON BRIDGE PARAPET.
MAN EXPRESSES REGRET.
The nnc-le;rged pensioner, Alfred Arthur Ericksen, aged 51, whose attempt to hurl himself from Grafton Bridge on Friday evening was frustrated by a pedestrian, who held him until a constable arrived, came up for sentence in tne Police Court this morning on a charge of attempted suicide..
n«l Ul !»I! BpeCtor FoX Baid that Ericksen ***• " n assurance that nothing of * gain * Er icksen '! „ r Mtated that his act was due to the liquor ho had consumed. A married 1 to take care of him "lift sorry f«, wha t I did, but I was 1 V, i J" n ' 4 y i?°^ r ■* nB ® B the time," Ei ick«<!n told the magistrate, Mr. C. R. Orr Walker. "Ft was all due to drink."
Convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within 12 months, Eiicksen was ordered to take out * prohibition order.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 30, 5 February 1937, Page 8
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