TRAGEDY IN PARIS.
a jouhnausts wad deed. Fk'ul, ihy 30. Mr. David Henderson, a. well-known wealthy citizen of Now York, whilst Buffering from ncimtl'iienia (a condition of nervous deibility fiujipowd to be dependcnt upon imjiairiiK'iit of the functions of the spinal <'ord), [suddenly went mad at a Paris 'hotel, in tlie presence of his wife and three daughters, lie shot his eldest daugiiilerwilth a revolver and then commuted suicide. The late Jlr. Henderson was a journalist and theatrical (Manager, who wan! torn in Edinburgh. Scotland, in 1853. lie [began newspaper work in Scotland on the Courant, founded in Edinburgh by Daniel De Foe. In 1871 'lie 'went to Amerflca and Hiibsequently filled the chair of news editor on the SeoUiwh American. New York. He was on the staff of the New York Herald in 1875; foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. In 1883 lie edited the Chicago Daily Xi'wis, and in tihe following year built' the Chicago Opera House, the lirst steel-consitructcd, ,lire-|iroof, elec-tric-lighted theatre in America
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 106, 1 June 1909, Page 2
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167TRAGEDY IN PARIS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 106, 1 June 1909, Page 2
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