SWALLOWED SAVINGS.
BANK NOTE SUICIDE. A man committed suicide in Lyons recently by swallowing all his savings. He was Jean Coiffier, aged 42, who owned a prosperous cafe in the Rue do la Vigilance. He first took an overdose of veronal which only plunged him into a deep slumber. When he awoke he took from his desk in his bedroom a bundle of five-franc, 100franc and 1000-franc notes, which he carefully tore to shreds, rolled into a ball and tried to swallow. The money stuck in his throat and he fell unconscious on the floor, but neighbours who heard the thud of his fall called the police and was taken to hospital. There a doctor extracted the shreds of bank notes from his throat, but too late to eave him. A post-mortem examination revealed a number of other torn bank notes in the throat. The man died of suffocation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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