STRANGE SUICIDE
CANADIAN HERMIT FARMER FIRST DIGS OWN GRAVE VANCOUVER. Sept. 14 Mr. Oscar Housseau. a hermit farmer near Fort William, Ontario, lived alone and died alone. - Mr. Housseau toiled for years to build and furnish a house, then he put a torch to it. While it burned he dug a grave 50ft. away, under an old pine tree, tossed aside the* shovel, put on his best clothe?, climbed into the grave and swallowed a dose of jpoison.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21292, 20 September 1932, Page 9
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78STRANGE SUICIDE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21292, 20 September 1932, Page 9
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