Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-20
Fed Copp Offers Aid.

Fed Copp Offers Aid.
Il am ready at ali hours of the day o.
night to see such persons he told .
Star reporter III they will consult me
and discuss their troubles think / can
cause change in some OF them
The probation officer thinks that de-
spondent persons would be saved IL they
only had some person to take an inter
est in them and lend them helping
hand. Get hold Of such q one when
he Is thinking OF taking his lfe." he
says, discuss his troubles with him.
point out to him that he is taking that
which he cannot give. and offer him
some hope for the future. In many in
stances IL will mean the saving of p
life.
1.-THE great trouble says the proba'
officer lis that many Respondent x>r
sons do not know which way to tu' nsr.
consolation. They think the whole 20,
Is against them. and that there T. vorid
I'm prolonging the struggle. ro nsa
But" he added. they are
There are persons who are mistaken
willing TO help them. All more thar
see me will find me ready who come IA
help them. at all times IN
Coroner Nevitt's
Coroner hewitt is 4 .Sonciusions.
cial who has come d ne one District ON
the corpses OF mos fectly in contact with
recent years. T. 4 OF the suicides during
there has been - fully appreciates that
the number OF an alarming increase In
idea where II such tragedies. He has no
From tim is going to stop.
deavored TO time the coroner has en-
pr %,,s determine tie. Just what
facts - Each time he has found that
The .peet all theories.
the re are many who have an idea that
ms srawberry season has tendency to
81 k' people respondent and cause them
{" LSake their lives. Others think the hot
FATHER is responsible. and still others
(clat cold weather prompts seif-murder
when the records gone over from
: year TO year.. the coroner says Iii rs
c soon seen that IL is an easy matter 10 up
: set all theories. So far as my observa-
e tons are concerned, 1 cannot determine
& the question.
d Many Feminine Suicides.
Records show that there has been A de-
d cided increase during recent years in the
g number of girls and women who have
n committed self-destruction. Domestic
troubles and love affairs usually prompt
8 their deeds While IL IL true that mars
have committed suicide TO escape prison.
! ii is stated. not many such cases have
. occurred in this city during recent years
81 Illness and financial embarrassment il
is thought, prompt the greater number OF
suicides.
Varied the means adopted By the
Respondent to end life. Carboiic acid is
and Illuminating gas are agencies In
many instances. Occasionally the de-
! spondent ones resort 10 the moose. Not
infrequently do they seek death In the
river
The figures of the coroner probabl, do
not shoH all suicides. Some suicides, II f.
admitted, are probably able to take life
In such manner that their act is At
tributed to accidental rather than 20 in
territorial killing, and such cases are re-
corded accidental
4 are fFt,f l.
incumbent upon the coroner TO give the
dead the benefit OF doubt.
Some of the appalling number Of sui
cides are attributed TO fast life In some
instances the use OF intoxicsnts has been
given in notes left by the unfortunates as
the cause. Several took occasion to adj
wise against the use OF intoxicants
Insane are also numbered among the
| suicides. 4 number ended their lives in
the Government Hospital for the Insane
One, seeming TO realize his condition.
wrote a request that his children refrain
from transmitting the trouble to another
generation.