TABLETS IN BEER

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 43, 19 August 1930, Page 4

TABLETS IN BEER

MAN'S ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

By putting a hundred headache tabr lets in his beer a seaman, aged 33, .sought to end .his life. He admitted having attempted to commit suicide in the Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon to Mr. W. H. Woodward, S.M.

'' One hundred!" exclaimed the Magistrate when the. charge had beea read.

Sub-Inspector Bopdell said that tha accused haa had hard luck and bad boen drinking. He came to New Zealand by the Manuka, which was wrecked, and it had been his intention, to ship with the ill-fated Tahiti. After taking the tablets he was removed to hospital, where he remained *or throe "fn'answer to the Magistrate the subinspector said that the Hospital authorities had given a certificato that tho accused was in a fit condition for 19----'""Will you i'eel like'this againf" the Magistrate asked the accused. The accused: "No; it was just a mad fit." He said ho worked himself into a fit of depression because of his bad luck. , The Magistrate ajvised the accused to cheer up a bit, and to.go-to the Probation Officer if he ever folt depressed again. The accused was convicted ana ordered to come up for sentence withm six months, if called upon, and was a^ rected to pay the Hospital espouses and take out a prohibition, order .against himself. : " ' An order was made suppressing tn* accused's name.