ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
John Cooper Furniss, a labourer, aged 23, pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's Court to-day to a charge of attempting to commit suicide. Sub-Inspector Harvey stated that the man cut a vein in his arm with a broken bottle. According to the doctor who examined him while he was on remand, he .was not mentally-defective, only a little weak; and ho was drunk at the time. Furniss was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, oil condition that he returned to his work in the country immediately. Ho was allowed a month in which to pay the expenses of the remand, amounting to £118s 6d, •
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 29 March 1926, Page 11
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110ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 29 March 1926, Page 11
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