TRIPLE SUICIDE
OX BOARD DUTCH VESSEIi THREE SISTERS' vSAD END. Last Night, 9.15 o'clock.) SYDNEY, February 27.
Particulars have been: .received of a triple suicide aboard 1 the Dutch packet Yannoortl 'between Batavia and Singapore.
Three German sisters, named Dericks, who were amongst the passengers, disappeared.
Letters which were found in, the cabin, showed that they agreed to commit suicide. The eldest was to administer chloroform to the other two, and throw their bodies overboard, and jump into the sea herself.
- The empty chloroform bottle was discovered.
The women left their -personal belongings to the captain of the Yannooth.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 February 1913, Page 5
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99TRIPLE SUICIDE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 28 February 1913, Page 5
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