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MAN WHO COURTED DEATH. SEVEN TIMES UNSUCCESSFUL, 8Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COP V RIGHT . Received Nov. 10, 9.55 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 9. Tlie Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express says that Max Kleein, a tailor’s assistant, may be described as a man in a million, whom death refuses to claim, for be has made seven unsuccessful attempts at suicide. He first opened arteries, but was cured in hospital; then he tried drowning, but was rescued;, he fired a bullet at-.Jiis head, but missed his brain ; he jumped from the third storey of his residence, but was practically unhurt; lie tried to hang himself, but the rope broke ; be threw himself in front of a train which the driver stopped in time; finally lie swallowed a. pair of scissors, but a doctor successfully operated and removed them. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 November 1925, Page 5
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141TRIED IN VAIN. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 November 1925, Page 5
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