YOUNG MAN CHARGED.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS. DANNEVIRKE, April 18! A charge of attempting to commit suicide yesterday was faced by a young man who appeared in the Magistrate’s Court, Dannevirke, before Mr R. M. Watson, S.M.. to-day. Sergeant H. Dyer said the police in Carterton had received a note from defendant to the effect that he intended to commit suicide and that a young woman in Dannevirke would tell the police where to find his body. He was found in Dannevirke groaning and obviously in pain, and was removed to the hospital suffering from the effects of swallowing eyewash. He had volunteered for overseas service and had been rejected, had been the recipient of a white feather, and had been jilted bv a. girl. The Magistrate convicted and discharged defendant, telling him to leave the district.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 120, 19 April 1940, Page 5
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