A PATENT SUICIDE.
—o—ileferring to a patent suicide in Scotland, where a man named Dimcan blew himself to pieces with dvnamile, the New York Times says As a means of easy and successful suicide, Mr Duncan’s invention is .nearly faultless. It kills its man in the most thorough manner, and without leaving a particle ot waste. Those who use it inn no risk of spoiling carpets or of poisoning ponds, and inflict no gratuitous corpses upon innocent people, who have no desire for such gifts, and who grudge the funeral expenses which they entail. If the suicide is only careful to explode his dynamite in localities where there will be no danger of accidentally blowing up unwary spectators, it will be impossible to (ind any reasonable fault will him Thanks to Air Duncan, the suicide need no longer be an expensive nuisance, but he can quietly t ike his d\ namite into a vacant lot and distribute himself in the shape of ini palp ible and inoffensive dust over miles of surrounding country.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 778, 16 March 1877, Page 3
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299A PATENT SUICIDE. Dunstan Times, Issue 778, 16 March 1877, Page 3
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