ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11739, 22 August 1901, Page 3

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Yesterday afternoon, at "the Police Court, a young woman, Lucy Buck, who attempted to commit suicide on Wednesday, the 14-th. inst., by administering poison to herself, i was again placed in the dock to answer thoi* charge. The woman, as on the '• previous occasion, admitted the act. Mr. Earl, who appeared for the accused, asked the Bonch. not to inflict any punishment, and intimated that the father of the woman, residing in- j Dunedin, who, he xuiderstood, had sufficient moans, had consented to take his daughter home again, and the woman, he said, - had ; expressed a strong desire to be allowed to go., _ He was confident that the woman' was not in her proper frame of mind, and would . not make another attempt on her life, and ho would therefore ask His Worship to dis- * charge the accused. Sister Howard, of the ; Door of Hope, was present, and stated that if the woman was released she would willingly keep her under strict surveillance until the steamer was ready to leave for Dunedin, and that she would also provide the necessary arrangements on the steamer for her care during the passage. His Worship agreed to this, and convicted the accused, and ordered her to come up for .sentence when called upon. The Kev. W. E. Gillam spoke in highly complimentary terms of the promptitude with which Constable Ramsay had acted on the night the act , was at-: - tempted, and said that it was due entirely '* to his efforts that the woman's life was - saved.