Shanghai, Feb, 15.
Poverty claimed another victim early yesterday morning when the common law husband of Xenia Erontievna Pollakova awoke 10 find her hanging in the alcove of their Aittle room of the Naigal Wata Kaisha. mills quarters at 881 Gordon Road.
The police were nolifled of the suicide at about 830 am. when they received a telephone all from the General Hospital, to which the woman had been taken in ans SFB. ambulance. was learned that the husband of the sulelde, employed by the firm as a chauffeur, wont to bed at about 11.20 pam, on Thursday, while his wile remained reading. At about 630 am, yesterday, he awoke and saw that his wife was not in bed. Looking around, he saw her hanging the alcove of their room. She had committed suicide by using a belt from her dress.
'The suicide left a brief a note, saying that she was tired of riving and that shy had decided to end her life. It was' believed, however, that she had been driven to suicide by poverty.
She was about 35 years of age and had lived at the mill quarters for the past two years.
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