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Tliough the frequent complaints of the recent increase of child suicide in Germany are not fully borne out j by statistics, there can be little doubt that in respect of this melancholy product of modern German civilisation the year 1912 will establish an evil record. For weeks past hardly a day has gone by without the chronicling of one or more cases of children taking their own lives. One of the most distressing instances occurred in Berlin on May 13. A lad of 14 systematically played truant, and th e authorities had 'given, instructions that he should he brought to school every morning by a policeman. Tliis was done for a few days, and then discontinued, in the hope that it- had produced the desired l result. On the morning of the 13th, however, the boy was again absent when lessons commenced, and a constable was despatched in search of him. But when file lad caught sight of his official escort he rushed into the next room, flung open the window, and hurled himself down to the ground from the height of four storeys. Though not killed outright, he received mortal injuries.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3577, 17 July 1912, Page 7
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195A DETERMINED TENANT Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3577, 17 July 1912, Page 7
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