HUSBAND’S SUTTEE.
PYRE OF WIFE’S CLOTHES
LONDON, Aug. 22. A particularly deliberate and tragic suicide is reported from Cette (Fiance). A Spaniard made a funeral pyre of furniture, on which he placed a trunk containing his dead wife’s clothes. After saturating himself and the pyre with kerosene he lay down on the top of the trunk, and set fire to the pyre with a match.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2477, 7 September 1922, Page 4
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65HUSBAND’S SUTTEE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2477, 7 September 1922, Page 4
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