BREAKING THE SILENCE.
A cab-»vasher named William Walter Caffyn, of Swinbrook road, Kensington, ■was charged at AVfst London Police Court last month with attempting to commit suicide by hanging himself with a rope. Police-constable Batley said that the defendants little boy came to him in the street and said: "Come quickly; father is hanging himself." He went to tho houss and found that tho rope had boon taken off the man's neck. [ The boy told him that he saw his father : hanging from the bedpost. Defendant: 1 did not do it intentionally. I did it to frighten my wife. Sh<? had not spoken to mc for seven days, and I thought it would make her speak. The prisoner was discharged
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14162, 30 September 1911, Page 9
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