Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1913 — BUFFALO KILLS CAMERA MAN [ARTICLE]

BUFFALO KILLS CAMERA MAN

French Court Sustains Widow's Claim for Compensation for Loss of Husband. Parts.—An important point of law was settled this week when the widow of Paul Flere, a photographer for cinematograph pictures, sued for compensation, her husband having been killed in Central Africa while taking pictures of big game shooting. Flere was sent to Africa a year ago, joined a German mission and went out shooting with Lieut. Graetz. While he was operating the camera Graetz was charged by a wounded buffalo, whereupon Flere left the apparatus and went to the rescue of the officer, again wounding the buffalo, which then trampled him to death. The widow was awarded an annual income of $124 for herself and $216 for her three children.