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First suicide candidate was a convicted matricide, who indignantly refused President Pats's poison cup and was hanged. Second was Paul Voigemast, 24, a laborer convicted of raping and murdering a middle-aged schoolteacher. Thoughtful Paul Voigemast reserved decision, entered into a long correspondence with the faculty of Dorpat University on the subject of fast-working, pleasant poisons. Finally Paul Voigemast chose a cup of diluted potassium cyanide. Last week he was led to the death chamber, offered the cup. His hand took it steadily. Without expression, he drained it, shuddered, took in one long hissing breath, fell down...
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