Murder or Suicide? single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1889... 1889 Murder or Suicide?
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Purportedly related by a Paris medical student; a New York traveller in Paris suffering from a terminal illness offers himself to three medical students for an experiment in electrocution rather than waste his body in suicide. The plan is accordingly carried out ... Effective non-melodramatic narrative - presents a sense of humanity amidst the grotesque reality. (PB)

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 25 no. 292 September 1889 Z1009695 1889 periodical issue 1889 pg. 29-30
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