ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1923, Page 6

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

RESCUE BY WIFE. (Special to “Star.”/ CTIRiSTCH URCH, June 22. Hugh Findlay, forty-three, bottle dealer of Tuam Street, was charged before Air. Wyvern Wilson, S.AI., with attempted suicide on June 12. Sub-Inspector Simpson said that accused had a disagreement with his wife and went out to the chaff house, where his* wife found him suspended by a rope. She cut him down and he seemed to be none the worse for the experience. He was drunk when the police arrived. Accused said that his business toon him into hotels but he had thrown up thru part of it and taken out a prohibition order against himself. The drink made him very contentious. The Magistrate said “I don’t suppose you enjoyed the experience of hanging by the neck for a little time hut it was better probably than hanging for a long time, and no doubt it works a reformation. You have had your lesson. Your good lady fortunately came in time and cut yon down. It’s silly to try to cut off some thirty years of your life because your wife gave you a rating for coming homo drunk. Looking at it by and large it was a very silly thing. I on should leave off the drink and be a better man. You’ll be discharged, but you must take out a prohibition order against yourself.”