BECAME HUMAN TORCH
JTALI A N ’S DETERMIN ED S UIGI DE. By Talegraph —I'fess Assn. —Copyright, United Service. Nice, Oetobci I. Intending to leave nothing to chance, Qusasco, an accountant who was sufleiiug from persecution mama, placed bottles of petrol in every nook and cranny in his apartment, including the cupboards and drawers, and sprinkled trains of sulphur from them to the bath, which he also filled with petrol. lib then drank a bottle of champagne, entered the bath and instantly becamb a human torch, of which only a handful of charred bones remained when t>he firemen finally mastered the flames.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 October 1929, Page 9
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