FIT OF DEPRESSION
MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
EFFECTS OF DBINKING BOUT. [Per Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 13. A story told to a constable in Manners Straet at 2.30 a.m. on June 3 was upset in the Court to-day, when Henry Hewitt, ar middle-aged man, pleaded guilty to attempting suicide. With his throat cut Hewitt told the constable that, while sleeping off the effects of a drinking bout on Oriental Bay Beach, someone attacked him, causing the injury. Senior-Sergeant Landor told the Court that Hewitt had certainly been drinking, but had cut his throat in a fit of depression. Accused was ordered to come up for sentence when called upon and to pay costs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19866, 14 June 1927, Page 7
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