DOCTOR ARRIVES AS NEGRO COMING ROUND
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY GAS. (Per Press Association}. AUCKLAND, Last Night, A negro named Robert Harris, about 50 years of age, residing at Onehunga, was found with a gas tube in his month about ten o'clock this morning. Mrs. Harris informed a neighbour that her husband told her to go away for a while as he intended to do for himself. The police were immediately summed, and when Constable Jones and Mounted Constable Hiton arrived they found Harris lying on the kitchen floor with the gas tube in his mouth and hit body full of gas. Constable Jones sent for a doctor who arrived about 11 o'clock just as Harris was coming round, thanks to the efforts of Constable Hinton who took Harris outside in the open and applied artificial respiration with vigour. His efforts were successful after an hour’s desperate battle. Harris was taken to police station and charged with attempting to commit suicide.
He is a ship’s cook by occupation, and has been without work for soma time.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 6455, 12 November 1927, Page 9
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