MAN’S AMAZING OFFER
SUICIDE TO TEST TRUTH OF SPIRITUALISM WANTED £2O FOR FAMILY United 1 ’ .1. By Telegraph—-Copyright Reed. 11.10 a.m. LONDON, Today. “I am willing to commit suicide to test the truth of spiritualism,” was the amazing declaration of a young man who walked into the oflice of the “Sunday Chronicle.” “I don’t think lam mad. My family is down and out. £2O will save them. Pay me in cash. I will throw myself from the Thames Embankment, and will then try to communicate from whatever existence I find myself, in order to test the claims of “spiritualism,” he said. The story of the starving family was found to be true, and the man was persuaded to give up his rash proposal.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 858, 30 December 1929, Page 9
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123MAN’S AMAZING OFFER Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 858, 30 December 1929, Page 9
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