WHOLE FAMILY COMMITS SUICIDE.
PREFERRED DEATH TO BEGGING. [By Electric Telegraph l —Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Bucharest, May 9. " The entire Filipovici family, numbering ten, committed suicide on learning that the eldest son. by whom they were supported, had failed; in business. A family council decided to die rather than beg. The father, mother, grandmother, two growing daughters, and five sons stupefied themselves with beer, and went to sleep in a garret with two pans of charcoal. The youngest, aged twelve, left a letter explaining the reason.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11629, 10 May 1912, Page 4
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87WHOLE FAMILY COMMITS SUICIDE. Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11629, 10 May 1912, Page 4
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