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SUICIDE EPIDEMIC IN ST PETERSBURG.
NEURASTHENIC FEMALES. [Press Association — Coptright. J St Petersburg, March 18. There is an epidemic of neurasthenic suicides in this city. Two sisters named Kollman, aged 16 and 20, and a friend, Mdlle. Lauriex, heiress to £2,000,000, drank poison after playing: Chopin's "Marche Funebre," and left letters stating that they wore tired of life. . Fifteen other suicides, mostly of girls, were recorded yesterday, and on an earlier day there were 29, including 16 women and threei children. /
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Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12748, 21 March 1910, Page 2
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81SUICIDE EPIDEMIC IN ST PETERSBURG. Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12748, 21 March 1910, Page 2
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