EAGER FOR DEATH
French Suicide Epidemic SOME AMAZING CASES Paris. December 9. There is an epidemic of suicides iu the Rheims district, all of an extraordinary and determined type. Jules Jumeau purchased a revolver, but the shopkeeper was suspicious and sold him blank cartridges. His attempt at suicide failing, Jumeau rushed to a military rifle range and implored the soldiers to use him as a target. Meeting with a refusal, Jumeau went to the Rheims Hospital, where be swallowed a phial of ether. He still remained alive, so he hauged himself from a bedroom window, and this time was successful. A Russian threw himself Into a well, but a friend rescued him. The Russian then struck himself a blow on the head with a pick-axe. He was desperately hurt, but was able to make all certain by hanging himself from a tree.
A sixteen-year-old boy, on being reprimanded by his mother, plunged a knife into his heart.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 66, 11 December 1930, Page 11
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