TIRED OF LIFE.
AN EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDE. [PEB PKES3 ASSOCIATION.—COP r SIGHT 1 ST. PETERSBURG, March 18. There is an epidemic of neurasthenic suicides in this city. Two sisters, Kollman, aged 16 and 20 years respectively and a friend Mddie. Lnurioz, heiress to £2,000,000, drank poison after playing Chopin’s Funeral March. They left letters stating that they were tired of life.
Fifteen other suicides, mostly girls, were recorded yesterday and on an earlier day there were 29, including 16 women and three children
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West Coast Times, 21 March 1910, Page 3
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83TIRED OF LIFE. West Coast Times, 21 March 1910, Page 3
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