A WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11644, 4 May 1901, Page 5

A WOMAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

Ajout a-truarter to nine o'clock last night a Woman, apparently about 38 years of age, cane to Dr. W. H. Goldie's residence, Sy-monds-street. She was in a very excited state, and said she was suffering from worry. After some talk with her for a-quartcr of an hour, in which she said she wanted to die quietly, without her friends knowing auythijg about it, she at last confessed to having swillowed a whole box of matches. She j would not tell her name at first, but at last stated that she was the wife of Mr. Symon. Dr. Goldio, under pretenca of giving her a sleeping draught, us she said she was sleepy, gave her an emetic. In about lialf-n-minuto she commenced to vomit violently, and did so for half-un-heur, bringing up he. food and a bluish compound like dissolved match- ' heads. The woman seemed to be suffering from severe mental depression, and was weep- I ing bitterly. .Dr. Goldie communicated with the police, ancc she was taken to the hospital. She expressed a great dread oi," being take* there over the Cemetery Bridge. Dr. j Goldie considem that the emetic did iU work i efficiently, and that the phosphorus had not I tim» to become absorbed in the tissues., On inquiring at the hospital last night the wo- ! mat: was said to be in the same state as on admission, and there did not appeal any . danger of the case proving fatal.