SUICIDE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.
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The Result ot Jealousy, HV TMLRIiRAI’II. I‘RKSS ASSOCIATION. XYkli.im.ton, This Dsy. A man named James Ridges, living at Mi Fields’ place at Waikanae, cut his throat with a razor at noon on Saturday and is dead. Previous to taking his own life, he attempted to cut the throat of a girl named Hannah White, an adopted child of Mr Field’s. She was badly cut about the moutli, and has beer, taken to Otaki for medical attendance. I.ATKR. Further particulars of ltidgea' suicide show that he was seen walking in the orchard in an agitated manner, and said he did not know what was the matter with him. A few minutes after the girl White went into the yard and the man rushed at her with a razor, ami gashed her lip uud cheek badly. She rushed away screaming, ami presently Ridges went into the kitchen with his throat cat and fell down, and got up and went to his room, where he wounded himself aguin and fell deud. The girl had a narrow escape, as the main artery was just missed. Ridges was of a uiorose character and particularly disagreeable at times, especially when under tho intluenee of liquor. Mils White is 15 or 111, and it is supposed the man was jealous uf her.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume V, Issue 515, 28 June 1897, Page 3
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