HEREDITARY SUICIDE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 180, 25 July 1901, Page 4

HEREDITARY SUICIDE.

Au extraordinary case of hereditary '9 Huicidal mania is reported from Paris. A skilled artisan in wrought iron work, has H been found by his wife hanging qmte dead from the ceiling in their dining sB room. The man left a letter saying that '9 he was forced to commit suicide because ;9 he had reached the age of thirty-five 19 years, at which his forefathers before j 9 him bad all taken their own Uvea. The 19 police inquiry had shown that the laltci? ;|9 part of the man’* statement is -correct. The suicidal mania runs in the family, J 9 arid irresistabiy gains possession of e;.oh .91 member as they attain their thirty-fifth ~.j9j birthdays. The man’s father and grind* C'|9 father, and lately his uncle, all died by their ownfaand when they reached that JH Since his last birthday deceased ; had been depressed; and told bis wife :|9j and his friends that what was preying 'IK upon bis mind was the uncontrollable ' : l9| force, which be was powerless to resist,' urging him to commit suicide durrag the iflßj year,—Telegraph, ;|9[