PERSECUTION MANIA’S END
SETS FIRE TO PETROL-FILLED BATH ONLY CHARRED BONES LEFT > Australian and N.Z. Cable. NICE, October 1. Intending to leave nothing toe chance Casasco, an accountant, suffering from the persecution mania, placed bottles of petrol in every nook and cranny in his apartment, including the cupboards and drawers, and sprinkled trains of sulphur therefrom to the bath, which he also filed with petrol. He then drank a bottle of champagne, entered the bath and set fire to it. He instantly became a humau torch, of which only a handful of charred bones remained when, the firemen finally mastered the flames.
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Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXVI, Issue 7910, 3 October 1929, Page 2
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