THE MACDONALD TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 76, 28 March 1903, Page 2

THE MACDONALD TRAGEDY.

- -♦ SYMPATHY or THK KRKNOH PBM3. I'KR I au-M AfltlutiUTlON. Klo.i.voil .;7, 5.4 1 ) pm. g March 26. I The cauu'd a profound Btt'iautim in Paris. All the ptpecs publish sympathetic article*. French travellers d«cUr« tbat rumor* curreDo in U .Kirabj suggest a different off.»nce t > E'lgliah surmises. Letters found oa th-i bjjy rigned by prominent real lo:i'a of '.Vylm • *i>rosrel sincere syimuthy. i'ho t'cs'do'itH of Ding vail, l)i4uDjunld's b ulitu-e, are aleo greatly distr> >sed.

HARROWING DBTAILB. NO OMJE TO THK <\AC3B OV TSI HASH ACT. Received 27, 5.40 p.m. London, March 26. At Lord Uoiieris' sugg stion, the Kin<; i-pa ially g ve ah audience to Sir Aovt r "lUcDouald, and advised him to demand a court cuarti •]. He lived very qui«tly it Pa-i?, lounging around the uotel, and lis efforts no' to attract attent on suggested the b?li<>f that he premeditated suicide, which the publici y j.;ivou t> Ihi charges arcslerated. II > appeared star! Kid at the content! of he F:tvis edition ff the New York Herald. The IV is newspaper Matin stat. s :h tt Sir IV. ctor Mac Donald buret into ua-s and pmdered deliberately, re-read the piper, :heu, apparently deciding on bis course of action, went to his bedr am and mmt have shot himself in t'r? temple with a revolver immediately, for, when a maid found hie body ai hour later, he bad been d j ad three q<urters of an hour. Received 27,7.45 p.m. London, March 36. Tt h*s been an op»n seere< among officers for s veral weeks that Sir Elector MacDoßjld was under a aloud. Hie ht&l h had been bid during his rtsidence in Oeylon, and he was much depressed during the voyage to England. The body will he brought to London, Received 27, 11.14 p.m. London, March 25. The late edition of the Evening Newt authoritatively denies that the King received Sir Hector MicDonald, who had only b*en a few honra in London when thu War Office ordered his immediate return to UeyloD, and arranged for Gentral Kelly, formerly at Pretoria, to tup ivite the trial and take command in Coylnn. Sir Hector Mac Donald tarried at Paris in the hope of fresh instruction! sparing him from retirement and loae of rank and pension. It is supposed he suicided on wading Sir West Kidgeway's speech.

rUNBRAL AT PARIS. R'csived 27,11.14 p.m. Paris, March 27. In accoi dance with the reln'i'ves* wishes, ih=) lute Bir Hector Mac Donald was buried at Paris, the funeral being of a private character. The British Oobny in Paris sent many wreaths. He shot himnlf behind the right ear, and the bullet penetrated the brain in an upward direction, severing a vein. Received 28, 0.12 e.m London, March 27. The War Office offered to defray Sir Hector MacDona'd's funeral expenses. his brother declares tint Sir Hcotor complained that the intrigue at Ceylon was due to j alousy over his promotion, and that he would never have left Oey'o-' if he had been guilty. The fact that he faced Lord Roberta demonstrates that he was a proud, sensitive man.

The French authorities displayed g<-<>at tact and good feeling. They <\ cided he d»ath should be announced first, n Lond id, and at their instance -hp fact 'hut i, was a case of suicide did not appear in the evening papers in Paris,