New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-02
STORIES or DE. HEH/.


FRENCH PEOPLE DO NOT BELIEVE HE !
DYING.
Tho cable DISPATCHES which have reported '"'''
corne,iu, Herr +, diving may be verified at any mon'
I'm, they call 10 mind the fact that sur" I'Po'' no
hecn set anoat frequently during the last eight ''''
regarding that famous doctor , /,
.ftnr having hastily fed from PaTir 70 avoid h'
arrest on account Of his connection WIN INV '''
.caudols Herr went 10 London, where be heard 'i''
raron de Ecinach his former fehn ana "''"o'''''
ia .ouolf I'm suIcidc an escape from proa"cuu"1'
crnoIus pretended 10 be very sick, ana b" went u"
reside n Boirncmouth. II was said al mat ni"''
and incc,s sanity repeated aftcrward, that 10 N"""
dizziness and was merely playing one oi Ms '''"'' "
GLOW Of throwing obstacles In III" way OF his 'Ai"
ion which was lcnicnty pressed by the fr'hch nov
eminent. ,
The death OF Cornelius foreslado~cd as imminent
fax the cable dispatches, would occur Just at inc
,,.,, ,,eu If f. rumOrcd In Paris that the pro,cch
lion against him may be- abandoned. some news i"T'
hay. gone 80 far ~ 10 state that The "0Vcrh"''"'
will declare that the final sentence Of the court 81
Cossation which set al liberty Mcsars. Charlie az
Ics,cps Fontanc aud Encl. applies also 10 Herr
whose In,dccds in the Panama affair have been covered
.ouolIv by The statute Of limitation. II IS Oh account
of all tnec rumor that the public has refused since
last October % believe in tho sinterty Of Dr. Herr
sickness and in that Of tue medical reports a. wei
as OF the diplomatic efforts toward his ex'radi'ioh
Tho Cnmedv Of I,ourncmouthr has been byword
with the public. and stcreOtyped heading In many
laris newspapers
The public was prepared, on the contrary, 10 w
leve that Cornelius able to succeed In any trick
or deceit he chose play upon his advcrsarlcs, even
TO convincing them that he at DEATHS door, Wi'h
he was in perfect health Iii, reputation as a sue
cc,sful adIcn,urer had made his name IA legend III
France inasmuch nothing precise was known
about his dcbuts" or beeinnings. Many BIOGRAPHIES
Of him have been published especially allcr the ptnh
ing out o, the banana scandals made him SUI more
prominent: and they disagree about the place O NJ
birth. Worms Cologne, the colleges ana unlNer7i
ties VIII he obtained tried 20 obtain ms degrees
ana even about hi marriage. For instance som
important Paris papers and especially lie JonTinl,
ASSERTED, after "A searching investigation. that 'U
ncus Herr living in poverty studying medicine
in France in 176GG1. He took then a. ms common
law wife 4 girl from Normandy, Resale Lehobh'cI
who was working at Paris drcssnaking sn"p anu
whose mother Is still living near Chcrboufg "h'lc
she by the Partisan Journalists. Shc re-
II her son that during three years she sent smaI'
OF money 10 her daughter. VINO couiu not "
Imported by Cornelius. When he enlisted as No
uhtrcr surgeon In the Army OF the Lore. Nv
abandoned his wife. who died soon after. Wmen hcI
relatives heard. sixteen years later. o. mniuh'nl.
to the sccd mother Of Resale. II was refused AT
1rs Cornelius saying that he had never Known W. ui
nrl hut letters from him were pr0dhccn Nv ~,
brother. lie took them 10 General Boulanger uhuc'
whom be had served In the army and the UeneT,',
who was then in all his glory; prevnieo upon , an an
annual pension Of 1000 francs. which Is sun pau
10 Rosali's mother This is one OF the nanS so.,
witch have been circulated abOut the famous uuN'"
turer, represented to be dying at Bournemou'h'