Answer:
He gets shot..
It was the second attempt to kill him, after a gang failed to "blow him up"
He was shot by an assassin who also shot his wife two times in the head and once in the chest..

He "fell ill" in 1912 and died in 1913 (Culler, 1986, p. 24)
Culler, J. D. (1986). Ferdinand de Saussure. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press

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