At the Children's Court at Westminster ihe other day, before Mr Horace Smith, a boy of fifteen from dotting Hill was charged with attempting suicide, /['he father, a naturalist, said that he found the boy struggling' on the floor with a thick rtrujg tied tightly round his neck. About i fortnight before he had tried to hang himself oehind a door. The witness had had a lot of trouble with the boy, who recently was found by the police at Tilbury with stolen property in his possession. The magistrate, in a kind and sympathetic way, questioned the boy as to what actuated him to behave as he did. The lad sullenly refrained from replies, and Mr Smith at length said: "Tell me, are'you afraid of your father?" "I am afraid of nobody," was the boy's answer, defiantly. Magistrate': < '"Why do you want to go out of the world—to another place?" The Boy (as before in defiant tones): "I don't know that there is another! place. I think not." Magistrate : "Is euch a boy in his right mind? I shall remand him to Brixton for the doctor's report." : Buy your tea from the importer, and sure the middleman's '."profit. Wardell Bros and Go. import their teas direcr.--EA<tot.]
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Evening Star, Issue 14316, 15 March 1910, Page 8
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Evening Star, Issue 14316, 15 March 1910, Page 8
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