The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-14
N. DE CHAMBRUN is DEAD.
STRICKEN WITH APoPLExY AND Al.
RESTED Nv THE STREET.

When re Recovered = Little He SAID thss
One OF tho Policemen Had Picked HE
Pockct-A Friend Rescued Him from
the station Housc-H,s wife Arrived
from France dust After His Death.
Charles Adolphe Pineton, MARQUIS dc Cham.
brun. and d'Amfreville died at his residence
in the Chelsea, 222 West Twenty third street,
yesterday morning after An illness OF nearly
three weeks.
On Aug 20 Lawyer George Norris OF Jersey
City called on the Marquis at his ONCE. Z Mas.
sau street. He found him In a fatlgued and
WORKOUT condition.
You are ILL.," said Mr.. Norris.
"Oh. no. l am only tired" said NJ. do Cham.
brun. e need a little rest shall be all right
In few moments"
Mr. Norris lett the offlce. and q couple Of
hours later met his friend on Broadway In the
custody OF two policemen. The Marquis ap.
peared to be in dazed condition. Mr.. Norris
stepped IN tbs officers and said:
This man Is not intoxicated; he IL Ill. He
Is my friend. Turn him over to my care and
I will tnke him home"
But the officers. Mr.. Norris said. refused to
do this, and told him to come wish them TO
the Church street station. This the lawyer
did. and on explaining the case to the Sergeant
in charge obtained the release Of tho French
gentleman.
Norris took the sick man homo and sent for
DR.. De Plasse OF 90 West Twenty. fourth street,
who found his patient to be suffering from
paralysis OF the right side. brought on BY cero.
bral hemorrhage
The physician telegraphed to WsshipgtsA
for the son. who arrived next day and whe
cabled to his her in Paris. Tho MarQuiss
set out Immediately for Liverpool.
On arriving there. in spite OF being provided
with letters from Minister Whitslaw Reid and
high French officials. she was unable, on se.
count Of the rush OF travel. to secure
passage on tho Gailia or any other
steamships then ready to sail for New
York. although she offered to nay
first class fare for . storage passage. She
was compelled to take the slow Ceph alonia for
Boston and arrived In this city thence By rail
At o'clock last night
II she had waited q few days In Liverpool she
might possibly have secured passage for New
York and arrived before the death Of her hus-
band. which occurred at IL o'clock yesterday
morning.
When the Marquis recovered consciousness
under treatment. after he had been brought
homo. he told his physician that while he
was being taken to tho station house In
a state OF sem-coma. one OF tho no
licemen who held him had taken $40
in bills from his vest pocket He could not
protest. and after his partial recovery he could
ofer no proof except his own statement.
He fingered with intervals OF consciousness
for three weeks. confined to his bed most of
the time. and often unconolous for hours.
DR.. De Plasss gives the cause OF death -
paralysis.
The Sergeant at tho desk Of the Church
street station early this morning said that ho
mi M ~ bA md hat
to tho books no such person Is the Marquis
had heen brought to the station.
ARRANGEMENTS for the funeral have not bssn
made. but in all probability the body will b
taken to France for interment
The Marquis de Chambrun was born on Aug.
10. 1881. on the family estate at Marvejols, in
tho Department OF Lozere France. his early
education was obtained at the Ecols dss
Chartres. and no took his degree Of IL. B.
st 'ss vnsfssis s s:s os =:
hsas 6 bs Of s De ths
II: .". sna:F =: =
Minister, OF Foreign Affairs as a special envoy
WITH President Lincoln. and USd"~ Was plsssas
@ond In ISL whsn the rspubiie was a. .ssS6 S
lisbed IN France. De Chamurun was made
ington. Among other. legal business no had
here was, representing, the interests Of
He was memhsr Of the Soclets des Cons dsS
Lettres and Of the Societe des LanRueS An
q the French Legion Of Honor; II 1885: al
President Theirs. he wrote L. Pouyoir Ell.
tfcntif." and in 1890 he published bis
Unis:" 1t was his labor on this last work says
DR.. Do Plasse. his family lhysicisn. which
brought on his last illness. His residence In
this country had almost converted him to 70.
publican opinions
In 1859 no married Madsmoiselle de- Coroslls,
the daughter OF a former French Minister 70
Home and eranddauehtsr Of Lafayette. By
her he had one daughter and three sons. the
eldest OF whom. the Comte dc Chambrun. WAS
associated with his father In his work at Wssh.
ington The rest VI tho family lived In Paris.