John Lawson wrote on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 09:55 PM EST:
I dug out my copy of 'Abbott's New Card Games' (1963, Funk and Wagnalls)
and the suicide rule is stated thus:
'A piece that is immobilized does have one special move that it can make,
that of suicide. A player may use a turn to remove from the board one of
his own pieces that is immobilized.'