Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1893 — LE CARON THE SPY. [ARTICLE]

LE CARON THE SPY.

He la Dying Through Fear of Assasslna- • tlon. A London cable to the New York World of the 17th says: Major Le Caron, the celebrated British spy, is lying critically ill at his home in a suburb of London. His health has been broken for some time, principally by the constant state of terror in which he |iad lived, fearing assassination. He has dyed his mustache and hair a fair tint—-they were raven black—and this made him look so strange that he fancied it would lead to his detection by enemies. This fear has preyed on his mind. He lives in a small house and is under unremitting police supervision. For two months he has not ventured out otdoors. The most remarkable feature of the case is that by the purest accident the doctor who is attending him is a younger brother of Thomas Burke, the Under Secretary for Ireland who was assassinated, with Lord Frederick Cavendish, by the Invincibles. Dr. Burke happened to practice in the neighborhood and he was called in by the police as a person who could be trusted with the secret of Le Caron's identity.