SPECTACULAR SUICIDE
AN ACCOUNTANT’S END [ Australian Press Assn. J NICE, Oct. 1. Intending to leave nothing to chance Casasco, an accountant suffering from a persecution mania, placed bottles of petrol in every nook and cranny in his apartment, including cupboards and sprinkled trains of sulphur therefrom to a bath, which he also filled with petrol. He then drank a bottlo of champagne, entered the bath and set fire to it. He instantly became a human torch of which only a handful of charred bones remained when the firemen finally mastered the flames.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 235, 3 October 1929, Page 7
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92SPECTACULAR SUICIDE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 235, 3 October 1929, Page 7
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