STRANGE SUICIDES

Evening Star, Issue 19520, 30 March 1927, Page 5

STRANGE SUICIDES

♦ A SEQUENCE OF CASES LONDON INVESTIGATIONS. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 28. Though scores of suicides are investigated bv the London coroners daily, seldom "is there such a sequence of strange cases as was revealed to-day. Annio Rapley, aged 43, stood m front of a mirror and deliberately inflicted a wound encircling her neck. She made three or four attempts. The doctors and the coroner agreed that they had not met with a similar case, adding that it was probably unique among suicides.

Coincidentally a similar case was investigated by another court, tho victim being a middle-aged man, who also cut his throat in front of a mirror.

Charles Brown, aged 33, after listening in to a broadcast of the Grand National, hurled himself over a 150 ft cliff. Ho had backed a losing horse for 3s. “Amazing,” said the coroner, who discovered that Brown was happy and quite financial. Louisa Privett, aged 76. visited a war memorial on the eleventh anniversary of her son’s death. She then tied a flatiron to her feet and jumped Into the Thames.

An attempt to commit suicide was made by Winifred Borehain, aged 24, a typist, who hanged herself benind the office door because she was leaving and feared she would not obtain such a happy situation. She was discovered, and is expected to recover.