FAMILY COMMITS SUICIDE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13413, 10 May 1912, Page 5

FAMILY COMMITS SUICIDE.

WOULD RATHER DIE THAN BEG

(Received May 10, 0.30 a.m.)

Bucharest, May 9

An entire Filipovka family of ten committed suicide on learning that the eldest son, by whom they were supported, had failed in business. The family held a council and decided rather to die than to beg for a living. The father, mother, grandmother, two growing daughters, and five sons stupified themselves with beer, and then went to sleep in a garret, leaving two pans of charcoal burning. The youngest, aged 12, left a letter explaining the reason for the sui-

cides