The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-02
DE MORES AVENGED.
UnceasinE LnbOrs of the Marquis
Heroic Widow Result In Nineteen
Convictions.
From the New York World.

hcEotc "Auo" Result IN Nthetceh
Convictions.
From the New York World.
Tunis, July 29.-The trial of the as
sassins of the Marquis de Mores, al
Susa, near here, resulted to-day in the
condemning to death of Ell Kheir and
the sentencing of HANNA Chiekh to
twenty years Imprisonment. Seven
teen others accused of the assassina-
tion were sentenced in default, six
to be put to death and eleven to hard
labor
The Public Prosecutor, in closing his
speech, reviewed the allegations,
brought in behalf of Madame de
Mores, that local functionaries had
been implicated and declared that the
evidence submitted to that effect had
failed to prove any collision. The
court, in pronouncing its verdict. add
ed to the proof of the allegation that
the murder was committed by individ-
uals other than those arranged.
That the Marquis de Mores' death
has been in a measure avenged is due
entirely to the perseverance of his wild
ow, who was New York girl,
the daughter of Louis Won Hoffman,
the banker, of No. SO Wall street. The
Marquis was almost as well known in
this city as in Paris.
The wonderful devotion of the Mar
qulse de Mores has won the admira-
ton of the people of two continents.
Her Investigations, which revealed evil
dence alleged to implicate the French
government in the death of her hus-
band, have covered six years of tire
less activity. Even the friends of
french ofhcials who are accused speak
of her with the utmost respect. A
close friend of Col. Rebillet. a former
attache, against whom the charges
are chiefly directed, said of Madame
de Mores
We must pardon everything, even
error, even injustice, from the grief of
those who weep. | do not know
Madame de Mores but | know that a
love stronger than death watches over
her husbands grave. We must bow re-
spectfully before such uncomfortable
hdellty, which neither time nor space
mas discouraged, and which conse-
crates itself without reserve and with
cut truce to the worship of his
memory"
In the spring of 1896 De Mores was
commissioned to lead an expedition in
70 the Soudan. With party of eight
RNHAAO0 1Ol warn into Al
RIGA. Among his escort were
Touregs. who set upon him
in lonely spot. The MARQUIS made
a gallant fight and stood them off for
three hours. Then they attacked him
from the rear, and he fell with twenty
bullets in his body
NINE. de Mores was well-nigh crazed
by her husbands death. She took I'M
the bringing of his murderers to ius-
tipp 6 her mis-
M. Jules Delahaye, former deputy
70 the scene, and he succeeded I'm
bringing back her husbands body His
funeral in Paris was a public event.
Nine de Mores went into retirement
to devote all her energies to her mis-
sion. During all the years she labored.
she planned and watched every move
OF the search for the assassins. Every
scrap OF evidence was submitted to
her. The investigation is alleged to
nave brought to light evidence that the
French government instigated the muir
der in order to get rid of the MARQUIS
who was believed to hold secrets in the
Dreyfus case menacing high officials.
In the face of almost insurmountable
obstacles Nine. de Mores has relent-
lessly demanded justice from the ma
ton in whose cause her husband sac
| rificed his life.
The young couple went to Dakota I'm
March, 1884, where the Marquis pur-
| chased $4,000 acres of land in the
Bad Lands" and established a town
which he named after his wife Me-
dora. The erection of big slaughter
houses was begun, and, backed by the
wealth of his father-in-law and other
Eastern capitalists whom he had in
terested, he planend to ship dressed
beef to the East, expecting 10 save
| enough money in the difference in
fright to enable him to underbid the
Beef Trust.
The cattlemen were enraged when
the Marquis built fence around his
big ranch They ridiculed his English
style of riding and his eccentricities.
As a member of the Montana Stock
Growers Association he felt called up
on to prosecute the cattle and horse
thieves, and in consequence his life
was threatened.
He was shot at eighteen times. and
on June rs, 1883. the thieves surrounded
his house. and one of them, William
Luffey, was killed De Mores was ar
rested and charged with murder. The
jury acquitted him on the first ballot.
The cattle enterprise. was unsuccess-
full, and the Marquis and his wife re-
turned to Paris, where he came into
notoriety by several duels and as
BoulanEist. He had spent upward Of