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
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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13413, 10 May 1912, Page 5
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97FAMILY COMMITS SUICIDE. Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13413, 10 May 1912, Page 5
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