SUICIDE OF A FAMILY THROUGH DEPRESSION OF TRADE.
Two terrible catastrophes, brought about by the depression of trade, startled Berlin recently. A highly respected merchant, the proprietor of a wholesale business, which had gradually fallen oil, conceived, on becoming aware of the impossibility of meeting Ids liabilities, the idea of putting an end to himself and family, who apparently without any opposition, resigned themselves to their fate. lie calmly made the nocessarv preparations, brought strychnine, and then repaired with his wife, sistor-iu law, and cousin to a wood near Berlin, where they jointly committed suicide. Almost on the very hour of their death, another merchant, equally reduced in circumstances, attempted Ids own life and those of his wife and sou by asphyxiation. Ho and his consort were restored to their senses, but the infant child succumbed to the effects of the gas. The miserable parent has been arraigned on a charge of murder.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 896, 20 June 1879, Page 3
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