TIRED OF LIFE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13744, 5 September 1908, Page 2

TIRED OF LIFE.

WELLINGTON, Sefctr. 4. A law clerk named Frederick Watson, 25 years of age^ wisi a 7 , wife and children Datd^SßViik©;' h w4is found - about - mid -day t6-flay 'in;* a state of < collapse ' in some scrubs neap Talavera Terrace, Wellington. A soda- water bottle near him contained a solution of match heads,, and he is supposed to have drunk some or this. Constable Leckie, who found him, gave hint an emeticy-but this did not act. Dr. Boyd, who was sumnojmd, wsed the stomach pump successfully, and Watson was then removed to the hospital. . He said be was tired^of life. He was out of work, and could not earn enough to support his wife and children. It is understood thatjWatson was recently treated for insomnia. %