Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1904 — THEY CALL IT ACCIDENT [ARTICLE]

THEY CALL IT ACCIDENT

French Deputy Who Struck General Andre In the Chamber I» Found Dead by Asphyxiation. Baris, Dec. 8. —M. Syveton, nationalist deputy, whose action in striking War Minister Andre in the chamber of deputies Nov. 4 led to the minister’s resignation, was found dead, having been asphyxiated by gas. The circumstances of M. Syveston’s death were dramatic, following his sensational attack on General Andre in the chamber of deputies and liis committal for a trial, which was to open today. The first information of M. Syveton’s death reached the chamber when the reputies were anxiously looking for his arrival, this l>eing the day the chamber’s order expelling him expired. The authorities say his death was accidental. He might have'been given two years’ imprisonment for striking general Andre. Syveton’s room was heated by a ga» stove placed in the fireplace, there being a very small space around the top of the stove for the fumes to escape*. This small space "was closed by stuffing Into it The Intransigeant of the sain® morning.