SUICIDE WAVE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 6, 29 March 1927, Page 13

SUICIDE WAVE

CORONERS BUSY SOME QUEER LONDON CASES By Cable. — Press Association.—Copyright Recd - 12.15 p.m. LONDON, Moil. Though scores of suicides are inesti{;a t e( j by the London coroners ai *y. seldom has there been such a sequence of strange cases as those revealed to-day. Annie Rapley, aged 43, stood in front r a mirror and deliberately inflicted wound encircling her neck. She ade three or four attempts before ae succeeded. Doctors and coroners are agreed that they have not met a similar case. t , ln another court it was stated that he victim, a middle-aged man, cut ni » throat in front of a mirror. Charles Brown, aged 33, after lis-ening-in to a broadcast account of he Grand National, immediately hurled himself over a 150 ft. cliff. He ling a k° rse f°r three shilThis is amazing.” said the coroner, discovered that Brown was hapPny situated and quite financial. Louisa Privett, aged 76, visited a War memorial on the 11th anniversary uf her son’s death. She then tied a hat iron to her feet and jumped into the Thames. Two suicide attempts were made, une by Winifred Boreham, aged 24, a ft?* B*’ 8 *’ hanged herself behind an °ince door because she was leaving a ud feared that she would not obtain a happy situation again. She as discovered, and is expected to recover. The other attempt was that of a Tench Rugby player, who shot himseu because his team lost.—A. and