PATHETIC SUICIDES
TWO LONELY MEN NEAR GRAVES OF WIVES. Preei Aijociation—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 11. At Plainfield, New Jersey, within an hour, yesterday two elderly, lonely men, whoso wives had died ; committed suicide near their graves in the local cemetery, where the body of one of them, Samuel Saboucher, aged 58, whose wife had been dead three years, was found a few feet from the headstone. He used a shotgun. The superintendent of the cemetery, on coming hack after making arrangements to send the body to the morgue, came upon Albert Randolph, aged 60, who had come to visit the grave of his wife, _ who died two years ago. The superintendent told the latter nothing of the first suicide, but shortly afterwards was summoned by employees, who had found Randolph dead as the result of a bullet through his brain from an old-fashioned pistol.
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Evening Star, Issue 19712, 12 November 1927, Page 5
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