ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY MEANS OF LEECHES.
Abandonkd by her lover, a woman of 30, living on the Boulevard de la Villette, resolved to commit suicide, and she has cried to do so in a horrible manner, the Paris correspondent of the Telegraph says. Having purchased fifty leeches in the shops of different chemists, she returned homo, undresed herself, aud put the blood-suckers all over her body. Some time afterwards, a friend, entering the woman's room, found her lying unconscious on her bed. The woman's recovery is considers d doubtful.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3139, 27 August 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)
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89ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY MEANS OF LEECHES. Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3139, 27 August 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)
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