Suicide of Man Who Studied Oriental Religion 30 Months' Penal Servitude, £80,000 Fine Hamburg, Jan. 7. gulations."
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A variation of the one-time Hindu custom of suttee (the suicide by a widow on the funeral pyre of her husband) may have been responsible for the death of a professor of Orienial studies, 54-years-old Kenneth James Saunders, of Blackwater-road, Eastbourne, states the "Daily Mail.
Saunders was found burned to death in a lonely hut in Paradise Wood, near Beachy Head, clad in his underclothes, with a con of paraffin at his side, and the suggestion that he may have died in this way was made at the inquest by the coroner, Dr.
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