SUICIDE FOR £2O
MAN'S AMAZING OFFER TO TEST SPIRITUALISM (Received Dec. 30, noon.) LONDON, Dec 29. "I am willing to commit suicide to test the truth of spiritualism," was the amazing declaration of a young man who walked into the office of the Sunday Chronicle. '' Don't think lam mad. My family is down and out, but £2O will save them. Pay me in cash, and I will throw myself from the Thames Embankment, and will then try to communicate from whatever existence I find myself in in order to test the claims of spiritualism," he said. The story of the starving family wits found' to be true, and the man was persuaded to give up his rash proposal.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17145, 30 December 1929, Page 7
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118SUICIDE FOR £20 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17145, 30 December 1929, Page 7
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