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Show EXILED EX-PRESIDENT DEAD Nord Alexis, Wl.o Wai Compelled to Abdicate and Flee From Haytl, Succumbs to Grim Reper. Kingston, Jamaica. Nord Alexis, ex-president of Hayti, died hire on May 1, after a brief illness. HIj health, however, had been considerably consider-ably broken by the experiences of the past eighteen months, after he was deposed and sent into exile. He has been here since the revolution of 1908, and possessed considerable property prop-erty in Kingston. A picturesque character was taken from office when Alexis wr.3 compelled compell-ed to abdicate and flee from Haytl on December 2, 1908. Port au Prince was then in the hands of the revolutionists, revolu-tionists, and General Antoine Simon, who afterward became president, was mraching up the peninsula with an army of 5,000 men. Alexis was variously estimated at from 80 to 100 years. He was a descendant de-scendant of one of the oldest families in Hayti. He took part in many wars. Nord Alexis became president of Hayti in 1902. His term was to have expired May 15, 1909, but his administration admin-istration was not conspicuously successful. suc-cessful. Prominent politicians grumbled grum-bled because he did not give them what they considered their fair share of the spoils, and his conduct in punishing pun-ishing some notorious looters of the national treasury excited widespread indignation, as it was regarded as a gross breach of precedent. Early in 1908 the movement against Alexis had gained great strength, and in March' a reign of terror was suddenly inaugurated in Port au Prince. The government seized many of the revolutionists and summarily put more than a score of them to death. The number of executions, according ac-cording to some reports, reached forty-eight. General Simon took up arms against the president. His march to the capital was a triumphant one. The people surrounded the palace, December Decem-ber 2, and took possesion of the city. At the last moment Alexis yielded to the pleas of those about him and decided de-cided to take refuge on board the French warship, Duguay Trouin. |