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Show Los Angeles Police Have Suicide Cure LOS ANGELES, May 20 (By the Associated Press) A "suicide cure." devised by the Los Angeles police department, has proved its efflcai in the few cases where opportunity has been afforded to apply It It consists of a demonstration o the person who desires to end his life that no matter bow dreary and unbearable existence seems to him, there are others who face greater troubles without een the thought of resorting to self-destruction. The most recent exposition of the value of the "cure" was in the case of a young woman who had quarreled v ilh her fiance. She decided life was no longer wortli the living She wrote a note to her mother that she was on the waj to a beach resort to dro'sn herself. To reach the resort she had to pass through Los Angeles. Her mother notified the poll) o! her city and they notified the Los Angeles police The resuli was the latter met the train which the voung woman thought was taking her to death The policewoman to whom the young woman wa turned over said little directly bearing upon the latter'6 case, bat immediately started upon a personally conducted " lour of iho city and counn jails and the homes for unfortunate young women The would be suicide was shown sir) mothers who bad no husbands; girl wives who had been deserted by their husbands; girl wives seeking divorces from their husbands; girls and women charged with various felonies, Including murder. The point was soon driven home. "I see what a fool I was," said the young woman taking the tour "I can never thank you sufficiently. I am going right home to mother .Mid be a good girl " |