A REJECTED LOVER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18079, 2 May 1922, Page 6

A REJECTED LOVER.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

UNCONSCIOUS IN STREET. [BZ TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORaESPOKDENT.I ■ PALMERSTON NORTH, Mond&y. A young man, whose name was ordered to be suppressed, was charged in the Court this morning s with attempting to commit suicide by taking poison. Tho young man's statement was that hs had both love and financial worries and intended to leave them all.

According to the statement of the polica the accused was found lying on the footpath in Princess Street in a a unconscious

condition Medical aid was summoned, and he was found to be suffering from the effects of poisoning. He was removed to the hospital and made a good recovery, with the result that this morning he had been discharged from the institution.

It appeared that the accused had been keeping company with a young woman living in Palmerston North and she had refused his further attentions. It was only on Saturday that he had returned from two months' sojourn at Trentham. He was in iho employ of the Defence Department, and Last night he went to the young women's residence, but found that she was out. He remained in the vicinity until sKj returned, but he did not speak to ber as she entered the house- Instead he entered the grounds attached to the house, and noticing a light in tho young woman's room approached the window, tapped on the pane, and showing a bottle of poison told her that he was going to poison himself by drinking the contents. Without any further ado he left the grounds.

A little later tho young woman heard groans and becoming alarmed she went outside the gate. There she found the accused lying on the footpath in an unconscious condition. It transpired that he had carried out his threat. The senior sergeant explained that the accused, who wa« a returned soldier, suffered somewhat from sheli-shock. After regaining consciousness at the hospitalv.he had made further threats to commit suicide. In reply to tho Bench tho» accused gave an assurance that he would not repeat the act li permitted ho Would rejoin his old regiment, tho 42nd Foot, stationed at Edinburgh Castle, to which he belonged before the war. He had seen activa service with the New Zealauders. Tho accused was convicted and discharged upon paying the costs of his treatment at the hospital.