CURIOUS ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 99, 24 September 1874, Page 3

CURIOUS ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

A curious attempt at suicide was made on Monday morning, says the Australasian. A seafaring man named Henry Ludwick, who had been stopping for some time past at the Carriers' Arms Hotel, King-street, West Melbourne, on Sunday secretly abstracted from a case a bottle of whiskey, took it to his room, knocked the neck off, and drank nearly the whole of the contents. While suffering from the effects of the drink he tried to go downstairs, but fell and hurt his leg. He was told by the landlady that he would have to quit the place and go to his friends, who were better able to keep him than the hotel keeper. At about half-past six next morning blood was observed dropping from the ceiling of the room under his, and the landlord found that Ludwick was bleeding from a wound in the right arm, which he had evidently himself inflicted with a razor. He had previously tied a handkerchief round his arm. The wound cut across the prominent vein on the inside of the elbow, and Dr Burke, who was called in and stopped the bleeding, said that Ludwick appeared to have some surgical knowledge, from the manner in which he had made the cut. Ludwick was given in charge of the Hotham police, and remanded to gaol for seven days for medical treatment. The wound does not appear likely to result seriously. Ludwick, who is sixty-four years old, has been master of a ship, but of late has been without money, It is supposed that depression of spirits, following as a reaction after the excessive drinking, caused him to attempt suicide.