SUICIDE ARRANGED
A story of how a father ordered his fourteen-year-old daughter, to jump off a bridge into the River Main at Frankfort, after writing a letter announcing her intended "suicide," has been revealed through tho girl being admitted to hospital with pneumonia; She had saved herself by swimming, but was nearly unconscious when she reached the bank. The police have confirmed in every detail the account-she whispered to the doctor. She had been declared by her parents and other relatives to bo undisciplined. It was,1 therefore, decided that she should "commit suicide." Under her father's influence she wrote a farewell letter saying, "I am a bad girl, but I do not wish my parents to suffer any more. So I have jumped into the river." At 11 p.m. the father led her through the streets to the Deutschherren Bridge. Lifting her on to the'parapet, he said, "I hope you will be stronger in death than in life. Do not scream." To this leave-taking he added'practical instructions as to how she should jump in order not to come to tho surface before her lungs had filled with water. Despite her piteous cries, he forced the girl to carry out his plan, and finally she leapt from tho high bridge, and sank in the water. But struggling to tho surface, she swam to the bank and lay exhausted until found. The father has been arrested.
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Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 16
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234SUICIDE ARRANGED Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 16
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