Suicide Leaves a Legacy.
TO CHILDREN OF SUICIDES.
Paris, July lfi Edouard Nizot, who committed suicide under such curious circumstances a few weeks ago, left his native town a legacy of £15,000 wherewith to support children whose parents have committed suicide and left them penniless. “ I make this bequest,” he says, in his will, “in order to facilitate things for those desirous of leaving life, but prevented by the thought of their dependents’ destitution.” Nizot, although everybody testified that ho was perfectly sound mentally, hanged himself by means of a clockwork arrangement which cut the rope after he had been suspended for three minutes, and at the same time started an electric bell which called a servant. He. was revived with great troublo, and after lying five days in hospital was put in prison, where he wrote a pamphlet entitled “ Impressions of a Man Hanged.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 201, 31 August 1901, Page 1
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