AN EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES.
EXTRAORDINARY DETAILS. ' • ST. PETERSBURG, March 18. There has been an epidemic of neurastheniac suicides in St. Petersburg • i Two sisters, named Kolmann, aged sixteen and twenty respectively, and a friend named Mademoiselle Laureiz, who is heiress to two million pounds sterling, drank poison after playing Chopin s "Funeral MarcL" Letters left by the girls stated that they were tired of life. Fifteen other cases of suicide, mostly of girls, occurred yesterday, and on an earlier day there were twenty-nine, including those of sixteen women and three children.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9999, 21 March 1910, Page 5
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91AN EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9999, 21 March 1910, Page 5
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