EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES.
RUSSIAN WOMEN- TIRED OF LIFE. United Press Association— Copyright ST. PETERSBURG, March 18. There is an epidemic of neurasthenic suicides in this city. Two sisters named Kollmann, aged 16 and 20, and’ a friend, Landy Louriez, heiress to £2,000,000, drank poison after playing Chopin’s funeral march. They left letters stating they were tired of life. Fifteen other suicides, mostly of girls, were recorded yesterday, and on a previous day there were 29, including 16 women and three children.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2765, 21 March 1910, Page 5
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81EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2765, 21 March 1910, Page 5
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