A CAMBRIDGE SENSATION.
CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. CAMBRIDGE, June 7. Jerome Furlong, the city lamplighter, has been arrested on a charge of attempted suicide and of wounding James M'Lennan, his brother-in-law. Accused, a young man, came from Auckland, where ho had made an attempt on his life. It appears that a girl at Cambridge had refused to walk our with Furlong, -who declared thai lio wou'd poon settle the matter. He procc-dod to hn brothor-in law s houvo wiKro Lc aci7od a razor and tried lo cut )n^ tlirc-d M'LcnH'in in attempt iru' to <!i=jin) th" man, w?l harllv rut .ibou' Fi'iTo'C v. - .it I rut raptun (1 and ticl in i <1m r \<y the iK-igh-bem^, v>s.o haiukJ him o\ei to the polioa.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 35
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124A CAMBRIDGE SENSATION. Otago Witness, Issue 2779, 19 June 1907, Page 35
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