New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-10
SUJCIDE ENDS A VARIED LIFE.
AN ARDENT POLITICAL SUPPORTER OF BOC-
LANCER SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THIS CITY.
TWICE IMPRISONED BY THE FRENCH GOVERN
MENT, HENRY VINCENT COMES TO AMERICA
LIVING IN wRETCHEDNEss-HIs
crpA<GE UAIItCINATIONs.

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LIVING IN wRETCHEDNEss-HIs
STRANGE HALLuCINATioNs
A once bright and promising career was Drought
Yesterday to an unhappy end when Henry vincent
q Frenchman forty five years old, once hfo"h III
Paris and London as one OF the most accoihpnshe'
journalists Of his time, shot himself In ms dinsy
room on the fourth floor of No. 81 Narick-st.
Vincents fall in life dates from MS connection
with General Boulanger. In the days when that
ACCOMPLISHED adventurer fosted himself on 'he
people of that country as the Savior OF FRANCE NJ
Vincent edited la Patrie,' the Bonaparust organ,
which at that time was the chiel supporter VI
Boulanger When the Boulanger pubpie co'ispseh,
GA Patre' died with It, With the suicide OF
poulanoer Vincent's last hope vanished He gave
vov TO drink and then. ruined In pocket. reputa-
tion and mind loitered about the restaurants Oh
Paris until fourteen months ago, when ne resolved
TO try his fortunes in this country. NEat ne u'u
while here is matter for considerable DOUBT. he
police describe him "for police reasons as rope
maker though 1t Is not known that ne ever hau
the slightest connection with anything like trade
He contributed articles on America to certain
F,ench PAPERS and the people in the house say
that he was never absolutely pennlieSs' ne was
well known I'm the liquor stores around the neigh-
borhood where the loafers called him DOC, PROB
ably because something about the man, despite
his dirty attire suggested that he had seen better
days.
Late on Wednesday night he went to his room
and was then on the verge of delirium. Five
o'clock had just struck yesterday morning "hen
Alfred Moore and Thomas Collins. sleeping In the
next ROOM heard a pistol shot. InstinctiVely
they ran to Vincent's and pushed at the
door Then a heavy object fell forward. 1t was
Vincent dead with bullet in his heart
The first work OF the police was to take charge
of the 81 So the English sovereign and the letters
on the body of the dead man. One OF these, from
Nine Louise Thoury, No. 81 Rue Lamartine,
Paris spoke Of his wife and four daughters. His
wife. now in Europe, is sister Of the Rev. Father
John Crimmns, of ST. Francis College, NO. 'S9
Buter-st., Brooklyn, and relative OF John ~; ara
MINIS declined TO talk on the case. John ~ CIlni-
minis had met Vincent In Paris, and had seen MIN
since he came to this county, SIt knT%
awaiting removal .. ,,.,. c.,
Henry Vincent was a remarkable man in many
ways He man OF scholarly attanfHents anu
was graduate OF the University vi ooroo""e'
For nine years he was chiefly instrumental,
through his newspaper, In electing the nVe eepuies
off year when he lost two of them. When bouianger
fed to Belgium Mr.. Vincent again published sew
arrested for the second time and thrown into
prison in Paris. The Government then DECLARED MS
property confscated. But Vincents friends got up
a petition for his release, and President Carnot
While in prison he had contracted brain fever
from exposure and broodng over the loss OF MS
property and for nearly two years afterward he
was subject to periodical attacks OF insanity For
the following nine years his insanity took the form
Nav went into ,ne advertising business with
oscar ]. GUIDE. No. 90 Hudson-st Here he did
we'll and seemed conentsd ana happy he wa5
he took his life