A TRAGIC DEATH.
ELDERLY COUPLE, COMMIT SUICIDE. Press Assn—By telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 15, 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 14. Dr Benson, aged 73, and his wife, 67, swallowed poison at the breakfast table in a Philadelphia hotel, and died immediately. They were disappointed owing to failure to win a prize of forty thousand pounds offered by the French Academy of Medicine for a cure for tuberculosis.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 62, 15 March 1910, Page 5
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66A TRAGIC DEATH. Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 62, 15 March 1910, Page 5
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