CHANGED HIS MIND
" DROWNED " MAN RINGS UP. r
BLENHEIM, Monday.
An attempt to commit suicide was made in extraordinary circumstances at White's Bay, near Blenheim, yesterday, and it had an extraordinaryending. . An elderly man, a retired railway servant, appeared very depressed, and a woman friend took him for a drive to the bay. On the return journey he said he felt unwell, and asked the woman to stop the car. He got out and said he intended to do away with himself and started off towards the sea, about half a mile away. The woman ran after him, hung on to him and endeavoured to dissuade him from his purpose, but he threw her off and rushed into the breakers and disappeared. At 10 o'clock this morning the supposed drowned man rang up the police and he is now in the lock-up little the worse for his experience except forbad bruises and a few cuts. Apparently, after he had been m 4 the water for half an hour or so, a huge wave washed him up on the beach, which was then in He wandered about for some time and after begging food at a house, where nothing was known of the supposed tragedy, he resumed his until he reached Taumarina, where he telephoned Police Sergeant Peterson.
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Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3184, 5 August 1930, Page 4
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