DEATH IN A BOUQUET.
As many as fifteen suicides in » single day have lately been reported in St. Petersburg. Many of these occur in public in ths most dramatic circumstances. . A few weeks ago a student shot himself in a box ;k the Imperial Opera, during one of the concluding scenes of "The Queen of Spades." He was the sole occupant of the box, and during the performance was seen to smell repeatedly at a beautiful bouquet of flowers which lie had with him. I'i this bouquet was concealed a revolver, and at the last he lifted the flowers to his face and pulled the hidden trigger, dropping buck dead in the box amid a scene of confusion and terror. Lieu tenant-'Jolonel K«* valevsky shot himself in one of the rooms of a fashionable restaurant, and at a skating ■ rink, where the skaters ''included a lai'g o number of children, one of the performers in ho orchestra drew a revolver during an interval and took his life in full view oi - .|i everybody. Ift' M ' * '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13745, 9 May 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)
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