“Plunged in Front of an ‘L’ Train,” May 18, 1896.

“Plunged in Front of an ‘L’ Train,” May 18, 1896.

Stone, Benjamin, d. 1896.

Suicide.

Newspaper clippings.

As this newspaper article reports, nineteen year old Benjamin Stone of New York, afflicted with headaches, threw himself in front of a train and committed suicide. The article is part of a five-volume collection of newspaper accounts of several hundred cases of suicide from 1892 to 1896.

Article from unidentified New York newspaper reporting death of Benjamin Stone by suicide.

Scrapbooks on suicide, 1892-1896.

1896-05-18.

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1 document

English

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34.Hs.112.

From the Collections of the Boston Medical Library.