Toulon, 13 August. – The Government Commissioner has just dismissed proceedings against the sailor Legars, who slapped a quarter-master on a railway station platform.

The judicial investigation revealed that the quarter-master had made obscene propositions to Legars.

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Suicide in the street – This morning, at around half past nine, a well-dressed man thought to be in his fifties committed suicide on Rue Berton in Passy, shooting himself in the side of the head with a revolver.

No identity papers were found on him.

The lining in his hat shows the initials C.B. and the address of a shop in Buenos Aires.

La Presse, 14 August 1910