ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

NZ Truth, Issue 159, 4 July 1908, Page 6

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

The Case of Alice Small.

On Friday of last 'week Alice Small, a Chitstchurch ■•'■girl of 22, 'daughter of- a saddler residing :. at 19 Oranford-strc'et, St. Albans, and member of the firm' of Trist and Small, left her home . m an agony of mind unknown to her parents and took the express to. Dunedin. -No one' knoAvs AVliere she put m Friday night, but at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning she Avas 'found Avandering about the streets at Caversliam by a constable's tAvo sons, and was taken to the Waterloo Hotel. The girl was then m a pitiable frame of mind. .Sunday Avas "a bleak and miserable day, and at 2 p.m. Alf Wilson, Albert Tilly Short, Alex. Tanner and Charles Williams were attracted by the singular conduct of a girl who moved along on\ the edge of the surf of the-6cean Beach. 'Suddenly .she threAV up her hands, and uttering a scream dashed into the v/a ter. The young men folleAved, on the-spur< ofijthe moment, and rescued her from the breakers. ,It Avas then discovered that she had knotted her gloves together and bound them Avith

HER HANDKERCHIEF OVER HISR EYES. The i young Avoman, Avho Avas m a highly hysterical condition, Avas carried, to the Grand Pacific Hotel, Avhere Mrs Marshall, the landlady, dressed her m some warm, dry clothing. Charged on Monday m Dunedin jPqlice' Court :with attempting to commit suicide, it Avas elicited that she Avas willing to go back to ' her parents m Christchurch,.. and the girl Avas ordered to come up for sentence when called upon. Destruction of love's young, sweet dream, coupled with the after effects of influenza, are . the causes to which the desperate act is ascribed. ';