OWN LIVES TAKEN
CASES IN FRANCE
DETERMINED TYPE OF SUICIDE MAN’S APPEAL TO SOLDIERS (United Tress Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) Paris, December 9. An epidemic of suicides occurred in the Rheims district, all being of an extraordinary and determined type. Jules Jumeau purchased a revolver, but the shopkeeper, becoming suspicious, sold blank cartridges, and his suicide failed. Jumeau then rushed to a military rifle range and implored the soldiers to use him as a target, but met with a refusal. Jumeau next went to the Rheims Hospital, and swallowed a phial of ether. He still remained alive so he hanged himself from a bedroom window. This time he was successful. Another case was that of a Russian, who threw himself into a well, but a friend rescued him. He then struck himself a blow on the head w’ith a pick axe, and was desperately hurt, but he was able to make all certain by hanging himself from a tree. A 16-year-old boy, on being reprimanded by his mother, plunged a knife into his heart.
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Southland Times, Issue 21265, 11 December 1930, Page 5
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