COULD NOT SLEEP.
MAN WHO DRANK DRUG. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ALLEGED. A middle-aged man in hospital, recovering from tho effects of taking a dos© of rat poison left his bed last night and found a bottle of drug. He drank it, but it was harmless. When the man appeared at the Magistrate’s Court this morning on °a charge of attempting to commit suicide on May 20, lie said he tooii the drug last night because he had not slept for three nights. Senior-Sergeant Lewin said that the accused had occupied a room with another man in a city private hotel. About eight o’clock on the morning of May 20, the accused was found rolling m pain on his bed. It was said that he had taken rat poison. When his
room-fellow went over to him, he tried to get possession of a razor. . The accused: I took tHe poison, but I did not mean to kill myself Accused was remanded to appear ne*Saturday, in the meantime remaining under medical supervision.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17545, 23 May 1925, Page 1
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