Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-15 | Page 4 | Committed Suicide When down to Their Last Franc

SUICIDE WHEN DOWN TO THEIR HEIR LAST FRANC Pathetic c Story of a French Pro Professor fessor and His Wife W fe Who Faced Starvation Special Cable to The i Paris May 14 Very y melancholy is the story of a professor and his wife who have committed suicide through sheer want and distress at their thir house in a neighboring township M Joseph Guilhem had been sec secretary secretarY secretary of o the Syndicate of Teacher Teachers s in the category of or free education and had been treasurer of the Labor Labo r Confederation at one time I I On removing from Paris to Malakoff he lie opened a boarding school obtain obtaining obtaining obtaining ing a few rew pupils chiefly foreigners by b advertisements In this business he was assisted by his wife who besides being an excellent housekeeper gave lessons in various subjects she being i as Is said a skilled musician and a avery avery very fair artist The lady was his I senior by ten years and they had I married rather late In life ife but they were devoted to each other and hav hay having having hayIng II ing a little capital of their own OViD they led a quiet and contented existence i until the list of their began 10 to o I dwindle Then anxiety as to their fu future future future ture gradually haunted them and when their last pupil had left and they had lost some of their capital as aswell aswell aswell well they found themselves face fac to face with ruin The couDIe struggled bravely on for a while and then the day came carne when the th poor professor proCessor counting his money ovet ove perceived that he did not own moro more than 40 in alL aIL SI M and Madame radame Guilhem discussed the prospect and they determined to todie todie todie die Thirty dollars out of forty were wing owing to several tradesmen and their bills were scrupulously paid This left 10 which the professor had bor borrowed borrowed rowed from the secretary of a syndi syndicate cate cato a little time before He accord m or 1 wrote to an official of the labor exchange who had always been kind to him saying that he pe and his dear Louise had decided on putting an end to their days and enclosing a 50 franc bank note which he asked him to give the lender This letter was posted on Sunday but did not reach Its destination until a late hour yes yesterday yesterday yesterday afternoon As soon as he re received received d it the official of the labor ex ox exchange exchange change sent one of his clerks In a mo motor motor motor tor cab in hot haste to Malakoff he himself being obliged to k ep an ap appointment appointment at the Hotel de Villa Ville On arriving at Malakoff the clerk proceeded to the police poUce station and r then accompanied aC by the commissary commissar went on to the house occupied by b the professor and his wife only to find they the were both dead They had shut themselves up In their bedroom with their cat and a couple of ot dogs do and had suffocated themselves with char charcoaL charcoaL charcoaL coaL The three animals were al aLso alo o lying lifeless two to on the bed and one on the floor near It On a table in the bedchamber was a letter addressed addre ed to the police commissary c explaining that M and Madame Guilhem had both committed suicide by b mutual consent o ent They The had bad destroyed all their papers but it is believed that the pro professor professor fessor lessor was born in jn 1857 1557 and that his hl wife had been previously married They The must have been dead several hours before this sad discovery was mad b