The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-08-20 00:00:00

SEIZURE OF ARMS IN PARIS.

Under the liPading "seizure of Acme," the Figaro
gives a e foll.kwitiK details :

"About three o'clock on Friday afternoon a Irian was
passing along the Rue Fitssontare, sppitm.ily bending under
tldi weight of It /WI remblleg is hat.box, which he corried by
the h thole. Peters-by noticed his movements with some
curieslty. A pelice . dicer cc pro Ole& asked him what be
carried, and on his hesitath g to reply took him by the col-
lar. But the man, who was young and vigorous shook him-
self tree by a sudden movement, and, dropping his loud,
made his escape A baker. towever, threw himself upon
him, and notwithstaneirg his resltta,e and a her-rade bite
on the cheek which tee Lost ive gave him, succeeeecl li tore-
ii g his hold ti) the arrive' of the I,IiCA, who took hint to
the station on the Boulevard B rine Nouvelle, to which the
suspicious box had already been removed. I his was opened
in the presence of its hearer, and found to contain 12
dangers, 12 revolvers, am! 1:00 Cartridge. On being
gMaitioned, the prisoner stated that tile name was
Larguten that he was 23 yi ars i f sce, and lived at Belle-
ville. Dinars the interrogatory M. Foriquetol, a peace
officer, remarked th,t an ludividnal who had slid furtively
into the Oathc was tiking down the more of the can wit,
had been arrested, tie wee at oeci ached who he was, and
what he did there. • You are takieg toe name it this man'
the ellicer sail; 'you are a journalist 7 11 ,0, t shall march
you back between lone soldiele to the office of the lOW-
palwr.' As he refused to answer, M. Fouiputol ante orders
for his arrest, and it thed itepetieed that he wall a islet de
charnbre who hail been cut of situatian for three months ;
that was all that could be extracted froni him. Ile was reilt
with the first prisaner to gaol, and meanwhile, upon • report
that other arms were conceeled in the 'awe neighbourhood, I
a toed search was instituted iti a few minutes afterwar's.
in a caurtyard in the Rite d'Argent, a second case of arms
was found, .d at the moment that it was being carried off
a man said that the bon had been brought out of the house
where he lived 3?, Rue d'Ahoukir, and there might be others
there still. And, in fact, M. Fouiptetol discovered before
long, in a room In this bons.% belonging to a lodger who was
&Pent, a third boa, tilled, like the two others, with daggers
and revolvers. These revolvers are of Belgian mannfacture,
, and seem to have been made el' 1111pOrtlitiOli. They are cis-
barrelled and of the same calibre as the pietols with which
the cavalry are armed. As to the daggers, in a strorg hand
these would form a most terrible weapon, and it is easy to
see that they have be, n made by clever and retell workmen
The blade, which is trio, gular and about a foot in length, is
rue with the hanille, which is round, unpolished, and made
swift. • hollow, so as to give it a b.tier gresp The top Is
pierced with a hole intended for the reception of a etrong
cord to he rolled armed the wriat. Without other coin-
meutary upon this seizure of arms, which shows too well that
ear most implacable and meat dreadful, enemies are flOt
those with whom our soldiers are lighting, we shall ainteut
ounelves with reproducing the cynical mower given by the
mall wto a-as stopped and made prisoner—. We know wet
that the National Oin.rds will not dare to cross bsyoriets
with us. With this deuce we will nettle them (now) leur
(crone leur opire !')'•