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Born. To Mme Paul Gorgulov, relict of French President Paul Doumer's assassin (TIME, May 16, et seq.); a daughter; in Paris...
...days previous, offer him brandy & cigarets at dawn and finally for the ornate Garde Républicaine to salute the condemned as he walks from the police van to death. All these amenities were offered last week to Paul Gorgulov. Russian slayer of the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME...
Nearly all France believed Assassin Gorgulov to be mad. There was comment and there were shrugs because the Widow Doumer did not ask clemency. But there was no criticism. If the late President's widow had set her heart against a madman surely it was her right to do so. As his death day dawned Dr. Gorgulov kissed the Orthodox priest who administered last rites and said with a wry smile, "I am not afraid. I am neither Royalist nor Communist. I hope that my son, who is yet unborn, will not become a Communist. Tell my wife...
...dowry of his small, red-faced, fourth wife, she testified stanchly in his behalf last week. "He has always," she explained sobbing, "been so good to me! A few days before this -this-happened he took me to a movie. There was a newsreel in it of President Doumer and my husband applauded. I just can't imagine why he killed...
...defense Maitre Marcel Roger and Maitre Henri Geraud argued quietly that it was the sufferings of Russians under the Soviet regime which motivated Dr. Gorgulov to kill M. Doumer whom he held responsible for the existence today of trade & diplomatic relations between Russia and France...