GOING OUT TO DIE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19843, 18 May 1927, Page 3

GOING OUT TO DIE

LAUGHTER AND SUICIDE THREE YOUNG BERLIN GIRLS. Three young Berlin girls, Dora Weber, her sister Charlotte, with their great friend Frieda Schoeffow, left the office of a picture postcard, firm in Charlottenberg after work was over one evening. As they wont, one of them turned and said to their colleagues, “Good-bye; we arc going out to

die together!” She laughed gaily, and everybody else laughed at what appeared to be a silly jest. Next morning the three girls did not come to the office, anri; their colleagues began to wonder whether the remark about them was, after all. in jest. The parents reported that the three had not been home, and there was gloom in the office, for Dora. Charlotte and Frieda were such willing workers and cheerful company that everybody loved thorn. On tho following afternoon three little handbags, three- hats and three pairs of stockings were found, on the shore of Alucddclsce, a lake at the out-

skirts of Berlin; and late at light the body of Dora, who was Ihe oldest of the three girls and 21, was found in the. water 200 yards from the place whore the bags, hats and stockings had been left. Her parents had already received a letter from Charlotte. • ’•-» was 19 in which she said she had. decß.. d to tnkc her life, and Frieda, who was .17, had sent a similar letter to her parents. Dora di<l not write, and. neither parents nor friends appear to have a e.lue to their reasons for making away with themselves.