GENERAL CABLES.
DIED IN OBSCURITY.' SY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 12. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that the suicide of Armand de Berdussin in an obscure hotel revives memories of his meteoric triumphs before the war. He came from Lyons, where he was a humble employee in the silk trade, hut by operations with other people’s money he soon amassed a fortune of 30,000,000 francs. He set his heart on placing Franco at the head of the aviation world, and devoted huge sums to the purchasing of aeroplane patents, which he gave to the nation He was at the height of his fame in 1913, when he was convicted of embezzlement and was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, but he was released under the First Offenders Act, in view of his services to aviation, hut he wa.s a broken man. His wife divorced him lie sank, lower and lower til'? he! - was on the verge of starvation, when be shot himself.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 June 1924, Page 7
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