A STRANGE STORY
DEPERDUSSIN'S CAREER
CROOKED FORM OF PATRIOTISM.
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(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) _ ~ LONDON, 12th June. -Ihe Daily Chronicle's" Paris correspondent says the suicide of Armand Deperdussin, in an obscure hotel, revives memories of his meteoric triumph before the war. He came to Paris trom Lyons, where he was a humble silk 'trade employee, and by operations with other people's money soon amassed a fortune of thirty million francs. He set his heart on placing Trance ahead of the world in aviation, and devoted huge sums to purchasing aeroplane patents and giving them to the nation. At the height of his fame in 1913 ho was convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to five years' imprisonment, but was released under the First Offenders Act in view of his services to aviation. But he was a broken man His" wife divorced him, and he sank lower' and lower, and was on the ver^e of starvation when he shot himself. °
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 7
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161A STRANGE STORY Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 7
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