Japanese Family’s Suicide Pact
Rec. 9 p.m. TOKIO, Sept. 236. An entire Japanese family of four brothers and five sisters took their own lives in an amazing picnic suicide pact last week following financial distress. The members of the family, whose ages ranged from 9 to 26 years, disappeared from their home in Osaka on September 18. leaving a note stating their intention to commit suicide in nearby hills. The mother was dead and the father was missing. A hiker yesterday found their bodies near a pine forest outside Osaka.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27196, 27 September 1949, Page 5
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