BEEN SWINGING THE LEAD
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE MADE.
DOCTOR USES STOMACH BUM?.
try Telegraph.—Pres* Association. Christchurch, December 22. Arthur Francis Munton, aged 20, a labourer, walked' into the public' hospital on Saturday night and informed the house surgeon that he was going to
commit ’suicide. First s he cut his wrist with a knife while /he doctor’s back was turned; When this was not. successful he took a drink from a bottle in the surgery marked “75 per cent, alco-
hol.” A stomach pump apd emetic brought him back to normal. Munton, an Australian, was charged in the Magistrate’s Coqrt • this morning with attempted suicide. The magis-
trate, • Mr. Mosley, in sentencing -accused to six months’ hard labour,'said: have a bad record, I amalraid. To use a colloquialism, you have .been swinging the lead.” i '
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1930, Page 10
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