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WOMAN WRITER’S SUICIDE A PROMINENT AMERICAN * (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, August 19. (Received August 20, at 9.30 p.m.)
A message from Pasadena, California, states that one of the country’s foremost women writers and lecturers, Mr* Charlotte Perkins Gilman, aged 75, committed suicide. The police have revealed that Mrs Gilman, who was suffering from cancer, used chloroform. She left a note justifying suicide in her case. The note read: ‘No grief, pain or misfortune is an excuse for cutting off one’s life while any pow'er of service remains, but when all usefulness is over and when one is assured of unavoidable and evident death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22655, 21 August 1935, Page 9
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