UNUSUAL SUICIDES
i BEER AND DYNAMITE UNHAPPY LOVERS ELECTROCUTE THEMSELVES. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, LONDON. May 30, (Received May 31, a t 9.20 a.m.) Two unique suicides on the 1 oii+inent are reported. A. workman at Munich, after drinking a gallon of beer, sat, on a box of dynamite and lit a. fuse. The body was shattered. A pocket book was found containing the note: “ I am about to beat the world s high jump.” , , Unhappy lovers at Trieste hound themselves together with a. wire near the junction of the high tension cables supplying the city’s electricity. They thev then connected the wire with the cables. There was a blinding flash the lovers were electrocuted. This caused a short circuit, which plunged Trieste in darkness. —Sydney 1 Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19263, 31 May 1926, Page 5
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