A REMARKABLE SUICIDE.
, YOUNG COUPLE DIE TOGETHER. BLOWN TO PIECES. Received Nov. 4, 12.15 a.m. Paris, Nov. 1. An extraordinary suicide is reported of a soldier who was accused of stealing bacon from an army store at Chateau Thiery. | He persuaded his wife to die with him. They collected 170 melignite cartridges, weighing 28 pounds, and exploded them. Portions of the bodies wore picked up half a mile away. The united age of | the pair was forty years.—Aus.-N,2. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1919, Page 5
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80A REMARKABLE SUICIDE. Taranaki Daily News, 4 November 1919, Page 5
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