LIFE SAVED
attempt to jump off ~ GRAFTON BRIDGE. Auckland, Oct. 1. Had it not been for a woman's presence of mind, Frank Charles Ashman, aged 22 would have leapt to death from Grafton Bridge last night. In the Magistrate’s Court to-day Ashman, who was shaking through drink, admitted that he attempted to commit suicide Sergeant Calwell told Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M.. that two nurses on their way to the hospital at 10.20 p.m. saw • man clamber to the parapet of the bridge, and he was about to leap over when one of the nurses rushed forward and held him. The other went in search of assistance. A young man came along, and the three of them held Ashman until he was handed ewer to the police. He was recently an inmate of the hospital, suffering from the effects of excessive drinking." said the sergeant, and he was only recently discharged. He took liquor yesterday and that probably •■plains his act." The Magistrate remanded accused to appear for sentence on Monday so that he would have time to recover from his drinking bout.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 3 October 1927, Page 5
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