A ROMANTIC CAREER
THE CYNICISM OF FATE. FINAL REFUGE IN SUICIDE, Press Association —By Telegraph—Copynght. LONDON, June 12. (Received June 13, at 5.5 p.m.) The Daily Chronicle’s Paris correspondent states that the suicide of Armand de Berdussin in an obscure hotel revives memories of his meteoric triumphs before the war. De Berdussin came from Lyons, where he was a humble employee in the silk trade. By operations with other people’s money he soon amassed a fortune of 30,000,000 francs. He set his heart on placing Prance at the head of the aviation world, and devoted huge sums to purchasing aeroplane patents and giving them to the nation. He was at the height of his fame in 1913, when he 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.
He sank lower and was on the verge of starvation when he idiot himself. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19198, 14 June 1924, Page 9
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