DETERMINED SUICIDES
A FRENCH EPIDEMIC I’AItLS, Dec. 9. There has been an epidemic of suicides in the Rheims district all of an extraordinary determined typeJules Jumeau purchased a revolver but the shopkeeper became suspicious and sold blank cartridges. The suicide failed and Jumeau rushed to a military rifle range and implored the soldiers to use him as a target. Meeting a refusal, Jumeau went to Rheims Hospital and swallowed a phail of ether. Ho was still alive, so he hanged himself from a bedroom window and this time was successful.
Another, a Russian, threw himself in to a well, but a friend rescued him. He then struck himself a blow on the hear with a package. He was desperately hurt, but was able to make all certain by hanging himself from a tree. . A sixtcen-year-old boy, reprimanded by his mother, plunged a knife into his heart.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 446, 11 December 1930, Page 7
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