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THE DAILY NEWS |
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Monday, 21st January 1867. |
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(Page 3, Col 6) |
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THE POLICE COURTS. |
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WANDSWORTH |
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John Gooderson, a foreman of sewers under the Wandsworth Board of Works, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his side with a table knife on the 12th inst. |
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Police-constable Ball, 270A, was called to 5, Elizabeth-villas, Battersea, where he found the prisoner sitting down holding a cloth to his side, which was bleeding. He was drunk and excited. He afterwards stated that he did it to frighten his wife. |
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The prisoner’s defence was that he had been in India, where he had a sun-stroke, and when he drank spirits of any kind they flew to his head and made him like a madman. |
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Mr. Dayman told him on that account that he ought to refrain from drinking spirits. He accepted one surety for his good behaviour. |