Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1905 — Emile Arton Found Dead. [ARTICLE]

Emile Arton Found Dead.

Faris, July 18. —Emile Arton, one of the principal figures in the old Panama canal scandal, was found dead in his apartments under circumstances indicating suicide. Arton was sentenced in 1896 to eight years' imprisonment for complicity with Baron de Reinacb and Dr. Cornelius Herz in the frauds of the Panama Canal company.