RACE AGAINST DEATH
DEPRESSED YOUTH TAKES POISON BY Telegraph.—Press association. Gisborne, September 10. A young man, aged 18, staggered into a shop yesterday afternoon and announced that be had taken poison. The astonished shopkeeper piomptly communicated with the police, who took a taxi and made a race against death to the hospital. The man said he had taken cyanide, and completely collapsed, but prompt attention produced a rapid recovery. The action was due to depression following influenza- His parents reside at Was- -
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 297, 11 September 1926, Page 8
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82RACE AGAINST DEATH Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 297, 11 September 1926, Page 8
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