SAVED DESPITE HIMSELF.
A CONSTABLE'S PROMPTITUDE.
Telegraph.—Press Association
DUNEDIN, May 7
Christopher Robinson, aged 28, carrier, when on the point of arrest by Constable Harvey at Warepa yesterday on a charge of forging a £40 cheque, swallowed the contents of a bottle of poison.
The constable hastily bundled the man into a trap, drove at a mad gallop to the nearest farmhouse (a mile distant), forced emetics upon the prisoner, and kept this going till a doctor arrived.
The doctor said that the prompt action of the constable had saved the man's life.
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Northern Advocate, 7 May 1914, Page 7
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