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Show GIRL IS HALTED BY "SUICIDE CURE" Plan Devised by Police Proves? Successful in Case of Woman Wom-an Seeking Death. Los Angeles, Calif, A "suicide cure," devised by the Los Angeles police po-lice department, hus proved Its eltl-cacy eltl-cacy In the few cases where opportunity oppor-tunity has been afforded to apply it. It consists of a demonstration to the person who desires to end his life that no matter how dreary nd unbearable un-bearable existence seems to him, there are others who face greater troubles without even the thought of resorting to self-destruction. The most recent exposition of the value of the) "cure" was in the case of a young wotnaa who had quarreled with her nance. She decided life was no longer worth the living. She I I . . obi m. Was ihown Women Charged With Murder. wrote a note to her mother that slw was on the way to a beach resort to drown herself. To tenth the resort she had to pass through Los Angeles. Her mother notified the police cf her city and they notified the Los Anvl: police. The result was the latter met the train which the young woman thought was taking her to death. The policewoman to whom . the young woman was turned over said little directly bearing uimn the latter's case, hut Immediately started upon a "personally conducted" tour of the city and county JulU and the homes for unfortunate young women. The would-be would-be suicide was shown gtrl . mothers who had 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. mur-der. The point was soon driven home. ti "I see what a fof! I was," said the young woman taking the tour. "I can never thnnk you sufficiently. I am going right home to mother and be a good girl." |