DANGEROUS BEHAVIOUR.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. CHRISTCHURCH, January 6. Yesterday evening a strongly-built young man was noticed to be behaving in a peculiar manner-on the platform of the Lyttelton Railway Station, and was arrested. He went quietly to the police station, but when inside he threw himself on the floor, and struggled violently with the constable. He put his hand in his shirt and pulled out a revolver, which was wrapped up in a handkerchief, and succeeded in placing the muzzle, still covered with. the handkerchief, in his mouth. The constable pulled the revolver away, and with the assistance of another constable took it from the prisoner. The weapon was loaded in five chambers, and anparc-ntlv the man's life was saved by the handkerchief, a fold of which had become jammed under the hammer. After losing possession of the firearm, the man quietened down, and asked for a drink. He was placed in a cell, and was examined this morning for lunacy.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2913, 12 January 1910, Page 68
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