ORDERED HER COFFIN
AMERICAN WO?JAN COMMITS SUICIDE IN TAXI-CAB
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT' (AUSTR Alii AN-NEW ZEALAND CARLE ASSN.’
PARIS, June 14
Mary Crompton, an American, who suffered from neurasthenia, last ■week ordered her own coffin. Last night, after driving in a taxi-cab tor several hours, she ordered the driver to go to the Bois de Boulogne, the chauffeur there heard shots and found the woman dead. She had. shot herself in the breast several times. A letter in her pocket asked her relatives in Chicago to pay for the tuneral, giving'the undertakers address.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 10039, 16 June 1925, Page 5
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