SUICIDE EPIDEMIC
EXTRAORDINARY TYPE
DETERMINED ATTEMPTS
United l'rcas association— By Electric Teli* graph—Copyright. (Received 10th December, 2 p.m.) PAEIS, 9th December. There is an epidemic of suicides in the Eheims district, all of an extraordinary and determined type. Jules Jumeau purchased a revolver, but the shopkeeper was suspicious and sold him blank cartridges. His attempt at suicide failing, Jumeau rushed to a, military rifle range and implored tha soldiers to use him as a target. Meeting -with a refusal, Jumeau went to the Eheims Hospital, where he swallowed a phialof ether. He still remained' alive, so he hanged himself from a bedroom window, and this time was successful. i A Kussian threw himself into a well,' but a friend rescued him. The Russian, then struck himself a blow on the head with a pick axe. He was desperately hurt, but was able to make all certain by hanging himself from •' a tree. ■ A sixteen-year-old boy, on being reprimanded by his mother, plunged * knife into his heart. :
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 139, 10 December 1930, Page 12
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166SUICIDE EPIDEMIC Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 139, 10 December 1930, Page 12
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