TIRED OF LIFE.
WELLINGTON, September 4. A law clerk named Frederick Watson, 25 years of age, with a wife and children in Dannevirke, was found about midday to-day in a state of collapse in some scrub near Talavera Terrace, Wellington. A soda water bottle near him contained a solution of match heads, and he is supposed to have drunk of this. •
Constable Leckie, who found him, gave him an emetic, but this did not act.
I>r. ■ Boyd, who was summoned, used the stomach pump successfully, and Watson was then removed to the hospital. He said he was tired of life He was out of work, and could not'earn enough to support his wife and children It is understood that Watson was recently treated for insomnia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 5 September 1908, Page 5
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