ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
' A STORY UPSET
A story told to a constable in Manners street, at 2.30 o'clock on tho morning of 3rd June, was upset in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, wliei Henry Hewitt, a middle-aged r_ n, pleaded guilty to having attemptod to commit suicide. Wifh his throat cut, and bandaged with a handkerchief, Hewitt, who gave his name as James Brady, told the constable that while ho was sleeping off tho effects of a drinking bout on the beach at Oriental Bay someone attacked him, causing the injury. He was taken to the Hospital. The correct circumstancos were revealed when Senior-Sergeant Lander gave his version of the lair yesterday. Tho Sergeant said that Hewitt had certainly been drinking, and that ho had cut his own throat while in a fit of depression. Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., convicted tho accused, and ordered him to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months. He also directed him to pay £4 10s hospital expenses and 5s (3d taxi hire in such sums as tho Probation Officer (Mr. T. P. Mills) thought fit.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 14
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183ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 14
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