The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-15
PUBLIC OFFICIAL
 KILLS HIMSELF
Because He Thought He Com
 mitted Dishonest Act
CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS
DOyen Is Being Given at Paris Hail-Murders Mother
 for Second Marriage

Paris. January 14-(Special)-One of the most remarkable suicides in the his- tory of this city occurred here recently when a public official killed himself be- couse he had done an official act which he considered dishonest. It recalls the suicide of Javert. the French detective. the creation of Victor Hugo in Les Mis- erables."
 A few days ago people passing over the St. Cloud bridge heard a man say, Fare well. my friends; farewell forever" and then saw him leap into the river. The suicide left hat. an umbrella, a watch and letter. which read: My poor darl- ing-I died victim of tho hatred of men towards each othen and of their ambition. Forgive me. I suffer terribly. All my last kisses are for you"
 The writer's identity was established. He was an official. who had been for a quarter of century at the Marie Of Boulogne-sur-S Seine. The cause of his despair Is attributed to the fact that he committed certain Irregularities in a recent election. A fuss had been made over the affair, for which he had persist ently denied all responsibility. but on the day when he threw himself into the river he had confessed to the mayor that he had made a mistake while reckoning up the votes, and, by way of balancing 1t, had put some electors down as having voted who had not done so. The mayor says that the irregularity was not of a serious character. But it prayed on the mans mind and drove him to death by his own hand.
 Dr. Doyen, who is certainly the most enterprising, and thought by many to be the most skillful, surgeon in France, Is giving series of lectures at a hall of the Societies Savantes on the cure of tuber- culosis. He declares he has found the cure for that dreadful malady, and has organized a dispensary near the Porte Maillot, where all those suffering from tuberculosis and having a card from the benevolent society of the city can be treated free of charge. pr. Doyen has been treating the sick with his method since 1907. His aid, Dr. Conill, in his clinic. has distributed 5000 tubes of in- 1ectible liquid to 300 doctors of foreign countries and the provinces, and they
 
 received 513 favorable reports. The amel- ioration Is generally very rapid, the sick take on flesh, the local parts affected and the general state get better. The treat ment is inoffensive. The general statistics declared by Dr. Doyen in his lecture are the following: In the first degree there are 60 per cent; 35 per cent of the cases have improved. Tn pulmonary tubercu- losis in the second degree 25 per cent were cured in six months, and there was in 60 per cent of cases. Tu- berculoss in the third degree, per cent of the cases were cured in six months and 60 per cent improved. In his gratui- tous dispensary. pr. Doyen proposes to in few months time the cure of the generality of acute infectious and chronic diseases and in a notable to lessen human mortality.
 An extraordinary trial was commenced at Mates. An alleged brigand is held &C., for robberies, thefts, assaults and murders in a number of departments stretching from the Riviera to Mates. He has already been sentenced to death by a court martial for shooting fellow sol- dier for deserting the army and attempt ing to kill a publican, and to hard labor for life by he assize court of Nice at the outset of his chequered career.
 The trial of a man who murdered his mother because she married again was held here recently.
 Gaston Rache de Roo is & man of 3o He is one of four children of the mother whom he killed. He killed her because she had married an Hungarian banker, M. Hajos, who had been an intimate friend of the family for many years, and his mothers banker. The marriage took place four days before the murder.
 Madame De Roo was a rich woman She had fortune which not only suf- feed for her own needs and those of her children while they were young, but when they grew up she provided for them law ishly. Gaston admitted that he had re- ceived R12.000 from his mother in the course of the last few years. Madame De Roo made the bankers acquaintance in 1902. He was widower and had three daughters. The young Roos--two young men and two girls-became great friends of the Hajos family. and it was not un- til M. Hajos and Madame De Roo, widow CT and widow, determined that they would marry that there was any dissen- sion in the De Roo family. At first only the elder brother and the two sisters both of whom are married-raised an ob- jection. Madame De Roo said that she would sacrifice herself for them, and M. Hajos went away from Paris. He came back again, however. and after more dis cussion between the mother and :ier chill dren Madame De Roo and the man she loved parted once more. But Madame De Roo could not bear the parting. She sent for him again, and he suggested then that as she was rich she should make her entire fortune over to her sons and daughters and should marry him against their wishes. Madame De Roo re- fused to give away her fortune. as she did not think 1t fair or just, but she and NJ Hajos were married secretly on April 9. On April 13 the mother told her son Gaston that she had become Madame Hajos.
 He refused at first to believe it. He went out, dined out, and before he re- turned home made inquiries which con flrmed his mothers story of her marriage. And a few moments afterwards Gaston Nache De Roo drew a revolver from his pocket and shot his mother dead.
 De Roo is a brown-haired, dark-eyed little man. As the judge told the story of the crime he stood in the dock and cried. From time to time he murmured: "T loved my mother; I was mad: ask for pity; I shall suffer all my life for what I have done"
 The prosecution tried to prove that Roo killed his mother for sordid reasons. The witnesses were then heard and one of them was the sister of Gaston. She was opposed to the marriage. She said: 'If mother had married man of her own age and circumstances we should have said nothing. She did not breathe a word of 1t to us on the day of her marriage. though we lunched together" The jury returned a verdict of guilty" with ex- tenuating circumstances. and the prison-