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The Murderer Threatened (L’assassin Menacé)
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What did you say? I said: Fantômas. . . . But what is it? Nobody . . . And yet, yes, it is somebody! And what does the somebody do? Spreads terror!
—Allain and Souvestre's Fantômas1(p1)
On February 24, 1912, 40-year-old Regina Magritte, mother of 14-year-old René Magritte (1898-1967), drowned herself in the Sambre river in Châtelet, Belgium.2(p8) She found the key to her locked bedroom in the early morning hours, walked to the bridge over the river near their home, and jumped to her death. Prone to depression, she had made previous suicide attempts, leading her husband to lock her into her bedroom at night with their youngest son Paul sharing the room with her. When Paul found her missing that morning, he alerted the family, who traced her footprints as far as the bridge. Seventeen days later, on March 12, her body was discovered about 1 km down the river from the bridge near a slag . . . [Full Text of this Article]
James C. Harris, MD
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