Jeu Foong-yoong, a cotton broker, committed suicide at 9 o'clock yesterday morning by throwing himself from the fourth floor landing of the service staircase in the Wayfoong House, 220 Szechuen Road. He struck the ground floor, 70 feet below, head first. He was pronounced dead when admitted to St. Luke's Hospital No 1, where he was taken in a Fire Brigade ambulance, Detectives investigating the suicide found that the late cotton broker apparently had neither financial nor domestic troubles but that he was subject to fits of depression.
A short time before daybreak yesterday, a Chinese youth attempted to end his life by jumping into the Whengpoo River from No. 6 pontoon. off The, Bund. He was fished out of the cold water and conveyed to Lester Chinese Hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance. His condition was not considered serious.
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