READ THE PAPER WITH BULLET IN HIS HEAD

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 533, 10 December 1928, Page 13

READ THE PAPER WITH BULLET IN HIS HEAD

FATALISTIC RUSSIAN To put a bullet through his head, sit down on the bed, read a paper, and await death is the strange story of the enigmatical suicide of a Russian solicitor in Paris. Late at night, M. Leon Rabinowitch, entered an hotel in Passy and asked for a room. On being handed the usual form to fill in he declared that he was too tired for the moment to fill it in, but would do so in the morning. Next morning the porter knocked at the door of liis room to ask for the form. He found the solicitor on the carpet, his face covered with blood. M. Rabinowitch said that he had hurt himself in falling from his bed on to the corner of the chair, and got up and went back to bed. The porter rushed downstairs to inform the proprietor; on returning he found the solicitor quietly reading his paper. The proprietor pointed to a revolver on the floor, and the Russian indicated the paper he was reading. “Yes, I have committed suicide. Read this article and you will see the reason. Now leave me alone; I await death " A doctor was sent for. but M. Rabinowitch was dead when he arrived. The article referred to by M. Jtabino■vitch was about tuberculosis.