SUICIDE AS A CULT.
RUSSIAN CLUB PROCEEDINGS By Telegraph.Pro** Ansociailon.—Copyright. St. Petersburg, March 3. The newspapers describe the meetings of a suicide club called " The Friends of Death," a club with an extensive membership of old and young and of both sexes. Nine of the members proposed a dramatic death. It was suggested that they dine together in a fashionable restaurant and drink cyanide of potassium from champagne glasses.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14933, 5 March 1912, Page 7
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