The Archive · 1934

CAMERAMAN DIES IN

Paris, Oct. 14.

Edmond Descombes, the cameraman who took the film of the attack on King Alexander I and M. Louis Barthou on October 9, at Marseilles, yesterday died in the American Hospital at Newly.

Arriving from Marseilles M. Des-combes seemed to be in perfect health, but yesterday, while, working at the studio of the big company where he was employed, he suddenly was taken ill. The doctor who was summoned sent'him immediately to the hospital but he died on the way there. was 32 years old.—

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