SUICIDES IN RUSSIA
AX EXTRAORDINARY EPIDEMIC, By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright St. Petersburg, March 18. There is an epidemic of neurasthenic suicides in this city. Two sisters named Rollmann, aged sixteen and twenty years, and 'a friend, Mdlle. Lauriez. an heiress to £2,000,000 sterling, drank poison after playing Chopin'* funeral march. They left letters stating they were tired of Hie. Fifteen other suicides, mostly girls, were recorded yesterday, and' on an earlier day there were twenty-nine, including sixteen women and il ree children.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 344, 21 March 1910, Page 5
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81SUICIDES IN RUSSIA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 344, 21 March 1910, Page 5
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