PITIABLE CASE
WOMAN THROWS HERSELF OVER WHARF
(Special to the Times.) AUCKLAND, March 11. Crying ’T want to go! I want to rr Q I” a middle-aged woman flung herself off the Surl'dale wharf last evening, and was rescued only alter a struggle. . , A crowd of pieme,leers weyo just boarding tbe Wainuku .to return to Auckland, when the woman broke through, and leapt into the water. A young seaman belonging to the vessel jumped in and after a struggle managed to make a line fast to her waist. ■ Still screaming that she did not want to he saved, the woman was hoisted to tho Avliarf, and thence taken aboard tho boat. By the.time Auckland was readied she had recovered and was taken home by friends,
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 10843, 12 March 1929, Page 5
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