SUICIDES.
. « ST. PETERSBURG'S RECORD. By Telegraph. — Preis Association.— Copyright. (Received April 2, 9.20 a.m.) ST. PETERSBURG, Ist April. In St. Petersburg during 1909, 932 males and 500 females committed suicide. The number included 58 boys and 77 girls of between eleven and seventeen years of age. On the 19th March a message from the Russian capital stated : — "There has been an epidemic of neurasthenic suicides in St. Petersburg. Two sisters named Kolmann, aged sixteen and twenty respectively, and a friend named Mademoiselle Lauriez, who is heiress to two million pounds sterling, drank poison after playing Chopin's '"Funeral March." Letters left by the girls stated that they were tired of life. Fifteen other cases of buicide, mostly of girls, occurred yesterday, and on an earlier day there were twenty-nine, including those of sixteen women and three children."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 5
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136SUICIDES. Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 77, 2 April 1910, Page 5
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