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 visiting the place, to paint, had maintained a long and close intimacy with a young lad of excellent family, as his model. Gradually came gossip among the masculine population. One morning, occurred a sharp altercation between the painter and the lad. The topic'was not divulged in the course of the tragic sequel. But it was mentioned that an older brother of the angry youth elicited some facts that satisfied him. At any rate, next morning, while the artist was in bed and asleep in the house of his host,' not far away, the older brother of the boy suddenly drove to the door and asked to speak with the artist—at once. He suited the action to the word; ran up the staircase, dashed open the painter's door, and with an exclamation that was explicit, shot him dead. He was promptly arrested at Y— and held for trial. The motives of his crime were explained sufficiently, under reserves of a court-room. He was acquitted of the felony.

The years 1907, 1908 and 1909 were marked by notable criminal affairs before French juges d'instruction, or the assizes, in which homosexualism was a clear factor. Several murder-trials were strongly of such colour. In the group was the "Jobard Murder", in which the criminal, a young man, killed the youth with whom he had been sexually intimate, and also killed the lad's father in an accession of jealousy and of-fear of interruption to the intrigue, and in mania. More remarkable was the famous "Affaire Remy" at Paris, occurring in June, 1908, and before the courts, in January and June 1909. In this mysterious crime was questioned the relation to the murder of a retired banker named Remy, on the part of an elderly butler Renard, and a young valet named Courtois. Renard had been sexually intimate with one Léon E—, a young nephew of the murdered man; as also with the valet Courtois, and with others. He seemed to be a typical 'married homosexual,' in fact. He was found guilty,