"CHAIN LETTER" PERIL
WIDOW'S SUICIDE IN LOND.ON
LONDON, 17th May.
"Chain letters," which have reappeared in England to a marked extent, are held responsible for the suicide of a 49-year-old London widow four days after receipt of one. .
This was the day on which she was to 'expect misfortune if she "broke the chain."
The Coroner condemned tho "ridiculous and purposeless idiocy of such letters."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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65"CHAIN LETTER" PERIL Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 116, 19 May 1930, Page 11
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