TWO SUICIDES IN CEMETERY.
A REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE. (BT CABLE—PKESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLB ASSOCIATION.) (Received November 11th, 8.20 p.m.) NEW YORK. November 11. At Plainfield, New Jersey, within an hour, yesterday, two elderly, lonely men, whoso wives had died, committed suicide near their graves in the local cemetery, where the body of one of them, Samuel Sabocher, aged 58, whose wife had been dead for three years, was found a few feet from the headstone. He used a shotgun. The superintendent of the cemetery, on comiug back after making arrangements to send the body to the morgue, came upon Albert Randolph, aged 60, who had come to visit the grave of his wife, who had died two years ago. He told the latter nothing of the first man's suicide, but shortly afterwards was summoned bv an employee who hnd found Randolph dead as n result of a bullet through the brain from an old-fashioned pistol.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19156, 12 November 1927, Page 17
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156TWO SUICIDES IN CEMETERY. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19156, 12 November 1927, Page 17
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