AN UNCOMMON 60V.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 56, 7 March 1911, Page 8

AN UNCOMMON 60V.

TRIES TO HANG HIMSELF

[PKEBS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, March 7. A rather uncommon type of boy, to a respectable family in the city, appeared in the Juvenile

Court charged with attempting to commit suicide. Tt appeared ■ that the youngster Lad been disqbgyj.ng Ms parents 1 instructions to*' |£pk ■work. He persisted in staying aßout the house reading, and yesterday his 'mother took his. book from him,' whereupon the boy smashed the window with an axle and''want, into they garden' and pulled up the "cabbages. He, then took a rope, 'climbed a tree,' 'and set-to to hang' himself. The neighbours'prevented him,.;and in the evening the father thrashed the boy, who, after getting loose, went to the :+.ree where thei rope was still left in position and put his head in the • loop and dropped. His mother found him at a critical moment a.nd ■ "held him up tyt-help came. To-day the boy, who is fourteen years of age, appeared with v livid .mark round his neck. Ho was committed to the industrial school. " ■ i , .