The victim, a resident here for the past 30 years and scion of a pati in French fan ily from the south-west of France, it was established was for many years a legal adviser to the late Mayor Fu Siao-en, satellite of Mr. Wang Ching-wei who also met his death at the hands of assassins, "The callous murder, which shocked nt_made a profound impression here, occurred tty before 9 a.m, and on the very threshold of the egal chambers, of the jurist an the second floor of the Si, Aune Building, 25-41 Rue dit onsiilat_ opposite the French Cot fe-General and within hailing istence of the Quai de France, The tircumstanees of the crime were! obscure, there being no aeluat witnesses to the shooting. tion of the crime by the police licited that the victim ad left his car after driving from hiis home vat 86 Rue Massenet. He ingual journal in French and Rng= ish devoted among other topies to art and curios, "For many years he has correspondent here for a Paris evening paper and was a prolific writer, being the author of several works' in French, both fection and dealing with political subjects, Ulis elevation from the position of lawyer' in. Paris to a judge of the French tribunal in Indo-China was spectacular, Coming tw Shanghai i 1910, he engaged in the practice of Jaw' here until. the outbreak of the World War which found him "on Leave in France, After Joining the army and being on active service and serving his country with dis-Linetion, being the recipient of the Croix de Guerre and the French military medal, he returned Shanghai in 1918, and resumed his Offices Seated Baron a'Auxion de Rulfe was believed {o have. been followed to the St. Anne Building where he had kept his chambers for more than ten years.
the Tift operated to the third and above -M. -d'Auxion de Rumté "ascended the stairs by foot and way fired at from the back "three times before he had reached the first floor Janding. He collapsed on the stairs, one, of his feet being caught in the stair railing. In this posture he was found by officers of the French police who anyed on the scene soon after.
'The assailants dashed out_of the building and escaped along Rue La-guerre, towards Nantao. A resident Of the building told the "North-China Daily' News" yesterday that she heard three shots fired in quick succession and saw a crowd of Chinese gathered fon Rue Laguerre in which direction, she was told, the assassins made their escape. On being told that the lawyer had been shot she rushed to his} Side and heard him remark: "I have been shot three times. I don't know All three shots, it was. later, took effect the Wielim sustaining three wounds in the nape of hit neck, Mortally wounded, he was conveyed in an emergency ambulance to the Marie Hospital, dying before his arrival of the institution, Tu response to an alarm detectives und. officers of the French police went tothe scene of the crime, Where they conducted a searching wesligation. Although {hey obtain.
clear description of the apparel of the assassins, they were unable formation that could ion the identity of robbery was not the mo-
Wielding a fiery pen, his artletes and books were the subject of con= siderable comment both here and abroad and earned for him the ulation of a firebrand, He was president of the French Club' and Cercle Francais, og well as president of the Volunteers (French) of the Great War (China Branch) and received the coveted military medal from no less a person than Admiral Eater News of the assassination came as a great shock {0 the entire French community "here, being outrivalled only by the murder some time ago fof M. Edouard d'Hooghe, legal ade viser to the French Consulate and French Municipal Council, who was also the victim of terrorist activities ME, d'Auxion de Ruffé leaves. behind {0 mourn his death a widow, by a second marriage contracted two years ago; a daughter, Countess dit Bus de Warnaffe. and" four' grand children who are at present vacation Ing in Tsingtao, The count it will bbe recalled, was made a prisoner of war in. Belgium after the German Following the murder yesterday morning visitors to the chambers of the victim found the door locked and sealed with the seal of the French Consulate-General. A "keen scholar, d'Auxion de Tute during. his I time retained as his favourite motto the old Arabian proverb, "Les Chiens Aboient, la Caravane Passe", which callers will long remember og one the most prominently. displayed. nscriptions in his outer office.
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