Attempted Suicide.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 176, 28 January 1897, Page 2

Attempted Suicide.

o A PLUCKY RESCUE. Mrs Harriet Roche, widow of the late 9tationmaßter at Greytown, who died a few months ago, attempted suicide about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in Waiohine river, between Greytown and Carterton. She left Greytown on a carrier's waggon about 2 o'clock and proceeded to the bridge where she alighted. She was afterwards seen on the bridge by Mrs McGumness, the wife of a settler living near. Mrs McGuinness noticed her get on the parapet and then throw off her bonnet and drop her umbrella, after which Mrs Roche dropped berßelf down from the platform of the bridge into deep water (about 10 feet) into the Waiohine river ; the distance from the bridge to tbe water being about 12ft. Mrs McGuinness had called her son who ran on to the bridge, but before be bad «ot to where Mrs Roche had got through she had dropped off. lie immediately, at considerable risk dived after her, and caught her before she sank, her clothing, it is said, keeping her above water. McGuinness then, with the assistance of some other men who had been attracted to the spot by the cries of Mrs McGuinness, got Mrs Roche safely to the bank. She was taken to the house of Mrs McGuinness, and treated very kindly. She will not be moved for a couple of days. Dr Bey and Constable Eccleton have iust returned from the spot and Mrs Roche will be left in charge of an attendant until she is able to be re- j moved. Great praise is due to young McGuinness for his promptitude and pluck. The residence of the unfortunate woman wae burned down about a week since, and this, coming so soon after tbe death of her husband, seems to have left her in a very depressed state, and her manner has been very strange. There is no danger of her life, but tbe shock to her system has left her in a very weak state.— New Zealand Times.