REMARKABLE SUICIDE
A workman, named Andreas Rcncso, a native of Better, who returned from America some tune ago suffering from an incurable disease, has committed s “ ,c 's o an exraordinary manner Maddened by his continued pain lie procured a dynamite cartidge, placed it in his mouth, and started the fuse Just before the explosion occurred the mans wife rushed into the room and tore the cartridge from his mouth, with the result that it exploded, and blew off one of her arms. Her husband, deter mined to put an end to his life, closed with her, locked, her m an adjacent room, and blew his head to pieces with a second dynamite cartridge, before the police, attracted to the house bv tho report of the first explosion, could force an entrance. The wife lies in hospital News* ° ritical concliti on—‘ Central
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Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 7
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142REMARKABLE SUICIDE Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 7
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