committed suicide by hanging (see Voltaire, “Traité sur le tolérance,” etc., in _Nouv. Philos. Histor._, 1772, xxxii., p. 30). He hung himself to a door. No sign of violence. The city hangman said it was impossible for a man to commit suicide in that way. The father was accused and convicted of homicide. Tardieu shows that the act was a suicide.