A STRANGE CASE OF SUICIDE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7802, 5 September 1903, Page 4

A STRANGE CASE OF SUICIDE.

FANTASTIC STORY, A most fantastic story is that of th< strange and slow suicide of the Baron Belt Oluyi, at Pesth. The Baron was supposed to be verj wealthy, and he had a wife and six chil dren. He lost his money, however, ii speculation, but this was not known. H( went to Paris, and insured his life for on< hundred thousand gulden, each in five com ponies. He returned to Pesth, and his habits began to change. He absented himself from homo for long periods every day. From the picture of health he began tc droop and pine away. In ten months h« died of what the doctors called galloping consumption. The insurance companies were, however, suspicious, and their detectives vnearthod a wonderful plot. This person was discovered to have hired a small room in a remote and mean portion of/the city. It was broken into, and found to be furnished 1 with a comfortable sofa, a table, two chairs, and two chests. In on« of these was found ajljpmfortable dressinggown, a pair of TurkiW trousers, a fez, an<3 a dozen long pipes. In the other there wat found about two hundred strong cigars and a half-pound of common smoking tobacco. From the wrappers found in the bottom oi the chest, it would app'ar that in less than eight months the nobleman had smoked about 3500 cigars and ibout 1001 bof tobacco, having deliberately poisoned himself. . / ■