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Show DEATH SAVKS TIJIAL. BRITISH OFFICER COULD NOT SURVIVE DISGRACE. General MacDonsId of the British Army, Who Was to bt Courtmar-tlsled. Courtmar-tlsled. Suicides at a Hotel In Paris. Major (ieneral Hector MnrDotinld. commanding the Ilrltlsh fences In Ceylon, Cey-lon, and one of the fun-meat (ifllcers In tho Ilrltlsh army, acnlnst whom rhargea based on Immornl arts wers filed some time go, committed suicide at tho Ileglnn hotel In Paris Wednesday. Wednes-day. Ho shot himself In Ihn right temple tem-ple shortly after noon, and expired a few minutes Inter. The general was alone In his small chamber at Ihe time of thn tragedy. Sir Hector MncDonnld arrived In Paris lust Friday evening from London, Lon-don, on his way back to Ceylon, where It was understood that an immediate rourtmartlttl would be held to clear up ' the rhnrges mode ngnlnst him. Tho ' tragic end nf "Fighting Mac," who. as the son of a Highlander, rose from a i position of a dtaper'a assistant to be ' sn bnnnred genernl In tho army, hat I caused great surprise and doop Burrow In London. The nature of the offenses with which hn was charged had not I been generally known, but had been rornmon gossip In mllltnry circles, and allhnugh In thn army aud among hla lllgbhii'ler comrades especially, thorn I Is keen grief, the feeling Is that It was heller to die thus than faro dishonor. Sir llei-toi- .MaclHinnld's great chsnrn i rims when, as a aergennt, during the Afghan campaign In 1x7!) and 1KH0, with a small force, he. by a furious bayonet charge, cleared nut a bndy of Afghans who were lying tn ambush for Ixird Kuhertn. Fur thla fent Ixiril Itnb-erta Itnb-erta offered him the choice of the Victoria rrnaa or a commlaslon. Ha rhoae tho latter. His greatest military achievement w-us lending tlm black 3oiidoncso brigade in the Omdurman ;anipa!gn against the Khalifa. |