WANTED TO DIE
DRANK FOR COURAGE VAGRANT REMANDED Had it not b£en for a policeman, the body of Arthur Isaac Martin, aged 51, might have been found in the harbour this morning. Instead, he appeared at the Police Court, where he pleaded guilty to a charge of being idle and disorderly. Senior-Sergeant Edwards said that a constable at Devonport was told last night that a man was threatening to commit suicide. He found Martin, who said that* he had spent his last money on drink to pluck up courage to go to Devonport to throw.himself in the harbour. At the senior-sergeant’s suggestion Martin was remanded for a week, the Salvation Army authorities promising to care for him in the meantime.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 83, 29 June 1927, Page 18
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