ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 224, 15 June 1908, Page 2

ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

I' ;. » , ■ V. ANOTHER REVOLVER EPIjIjQ.DE!. , •• ft. young, man named Wm.' Prictbirt/ twenty five years of age, a recent arrival $ibm Dunodin, was admitted to the .Hospital early on Saturday, morning suffering 'revolver shots in the ■ head, aboijt two inchoa above the right eaiy.Prictor, who was: .boarding at No. 76 Tasman Street, purchased » a revolver .and a supply of cartridges from Mr/.Tisdall's; and on' 1 Friday night-vffeit ; down town and'had a few drinks; He then went to Fullerfs. ;He arrived home,'about mid«. nightyi soon after, which time Hho.cinmates of the house iwere wakened by somegiß calling out, "I have shoti myself ithrough th« head;"i On going to the door,)JPriotor wa( seen coming .round from , the back. (if tin house, and up the front steps, >-witlcdblondoozing from wounds over his right- earn-' H«went : into, his room, and the inmatesnof thi house" sent for Dr. Cameron, who atttade? !the wounded man, andVlressed liis injuriea Prictoi' was fully conscious, and istated" thai he h'ad been out of.work for some.time,VH« was ,a "native of Dunedin,. and. hadjcdoie. tt, Wellirigtoii. to'seek employment. »>His fathei and,'mother-,wer& 'at'-present onr,a.';visit to Scotland ; . ,1 : ,'\j. , 'A'_ revolver was .found on the lawn at; th( back;of-tho house,! two of the charnborp being exploded; - It is riot ahticipatedLthifc-i the wounds.;Will'prove fatal;": ! ,• .r >; da.-V •On inquiring at.the Hospital last-night we wero informed that Prictor was progressing satisfactorily arid was expected, to recover...