AGED PROFESSOR’S SUICIDE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1016, 29 October 1912, Page 4

AGED PROFESSOR’S SUICIDE.

TAKES NOTES OF HIS CONDITION.

Professor Louis Charles Robin, the enthusiast for the co-education of the sexes, who committed suicide in Paris on September 3rd, killed himself with extraordinary calmness and deliberation. He was 75 years of age, and since he underwent a serious operation five years ago, be had had bad health. He held the opinion that any man who became incapable of useful work should “disappear,” and to carry out his belief he obtained poison.

After taking a small quantity, he sat down and made notes of bis condition. One entry, made at xi o’clock, was to the effect that bis effort was “unsuccessful.” and that he must take a larger dose, which he expected would be fatal. Professor Robin was usually an early riser, but as he had not appeared by 10 o’clock that morning, his son went to his bedroom and found him almost at the point of death. He pointed to a bottle, and was just able to say that be had taken some of the contents. He died soon afterwards.