UNCOMMON TYPE OF BOY.
ATTEMPTS TO HANG HIMSELF. [PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN, March 7. Rather an uncommon type of boy belonging to a respectable family in the city, appeared’ in the Juvenile Court, charged with attempting to commit suicide. It appeared that the youngster had been disobeying his parents’ instructions to seek work. He persisted in staying about the- house reading. Yesterday his mother took a book from him, whereupon the boy smashed a window with an axe. He went into the garden and pulled up some cabbages. Then he took a rope, climbed a tree, and set to work to hang himself. Neighbours prevented him from doing so. In the evening the father thrashed the boy, who, after getting loose, went to the tree, where the rope had been left in position, put his head through the loop and dropped. Elis mother found him at a critical- moment and held him up until help came. To-day the boy, who is 14 years of age, a]ipeared with a livid mark around his neck, tie was committed to the industrial school.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3163, 8 March 1911, Page 9
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180UNCOMMON TYPE OF BOY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3163, 8 March 1911, Page 9
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