STRANGE SUICIDE.
DUGOUT FOR DEATH CHAMBER. MONTH’S SPARE TIME. GERMAN BARBER’S PREPARATIONS. Received January 23, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 22. After pondering on suicide for weeks a barber at Kreleld laboriously constructed a dugout roofed with sandbags. He constructed a wooden stair way and rivetted the sides with sand bags. When he was satisfied that the dugout was air tight, he placed three pounds of carbide in a pail, fixed a drip-feed water can overhead and retired to a bunk in which he was asphyxiated. A letter left by the barber stated that the construction of the death chamber occupied a month’s spare time.
It was expressly designed for the suicide.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, 23 January 1928, Page 7
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114STRANGE SUICIDE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, 23 January 1928, Page 7
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