DISTRICT COURT.

Manawatu Times, Volume V, Issue 178, 7 December 1881, Page 3

DISTRICT COURT.

[Before his Honor .''Judge Hardcastleij! ; , .■",.'„ ATTEMPT ILD'StnCIDE. William Pawson. was placo-1 m the dock eha!r^e<J with having on the 20th of Oc*b ber; made an attempt t ideattoj himssV, br himself. m The prisoner pleaded * Guilty, 1 * and Mr. Hawkins . ap; eared, m mitigation c£ fen, tence -■: Counsel sta f ed that' some yea'rt ago accused met with an accident t&r ugh \nlug thrown frqm-hia horse on h^, heatf, »nd ever since he hart, >.,hen, iin'-ir the influence •f the smallest amount of drink, been«uV ject.toact mao erratic manner; On tUe right of ihe occurrence Which forms the charge a?»iOTt him. he returned home, and after a few wojtfs with his wtfe he rushed out of the back door m an excited manner, and seizing the dothon line wbi<&. happened to-be within his rer? h, ha* it wound round bis throat when he was-d's-•otera^ ~ Front that time until the present be had been, out on bail, and attended to hia basinets m a fit and prop** manner. JJnder the circumstanctss, then, coanse 1 trusted the Court would look upon the offence as a venial one, and inflict the very li^itest,, if ,anj. punishment. His Honor said that •nnriderine tho priioner had beenat liberty from a few days •übsequently. i» the c«immi««ion of the nf■;fe^ ?- nd b »|imade no attempt at repe:tihon,he would be biymdover m his own recognisances of £25 to come up for sentence when called upon. Ag ibis wa» all the criminal business, the 1?' 7 were discharged; V