ORDERED OWN COFFIN.
WOMAN SHOOTS HERSELF. ASKS FRIENDS TO PAY FOR FUNERAL. By Tel eg rapli -- Pre- aA a soc iati on Copy r- i ght Australian aud N.Z. Cable Association. (Received Juno 15. 10.40 a m.' PARIS. June 14. Alary Crompton, aged thirty-six, an American who suffered from neurasthenia, last week ordered her own coffin. Last night, after driving in a taxicab for several hours, she brdcred the driver to go to the Bois cb- Boulogne. The chauffeur there heard shots and found the woman dead. She had shot herself in the breast several times. A letter in her pocket asked her relatives in Chicago to pay for the funeral, giving the undertaker's address.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17564, 15 June 1925, Page 1
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115ORDERED OWN COFFIN. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17564, 15 June 1925, Page 1
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