New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-26
ANOTHER iiTSTERY OF PARIS.
What People Thought and said Ii Wn.,
and What the Police Found II Really
Correspondence New Yorn World


PARIS. November Tile mysteries of
Paris are endless. If any day you 90 to
pere la Chaise and quit Boulevard Noltaire
Boulevard du Prince Eugene for Rue
Rtmpon you Will see a mansion which was
probably built III the eighteenth century for
/ The retreat 81 some Wea thy farmer general
OF the taxes while enjoying the honeymoon
OF his last amour before Custom had stalled
her novelty. There WAS more than IA conrt.
was garden in front OF i. and Il larger
garden stood behind it. There are still
great many market gardens in the north
northeastern quarter Of Paris. which is
, farther from the heart ard brain of this
capital than Versailles or 81. Grlinain or
even Nantes. the fdrthcst of our suburban
homes. Solitary Is the mansion was it an
peared still more solitary from its want of
animation. The door never opened. Tie
shutters remained closed: the gardens were.
overrun by weeds. All those things would
have attracted little attention.
There Is many deserted house in Paris
whose very sight at summers noontide
would fretz" yuur marrow, So dark are the
walls. SO moss grown are the doors and
shutters. 50 de>olate, SO llourntul i the
look OF everything about it. You might
disbelleve IN ghosts, aud still be unable to
shake of belief that there ghosts told mas
ters and the guests of auI,! lang syne) re.
vlved departed hours. holding Ieyrl from
midnight TO cock crOw, and witches kent
unhallowed Satuluali;.. There are SO MANY
OF these deserted. haunted houses in Paris.
Tie >onhre cloud Wlieh rested on the house
III Rue Kampon Lad remained uunotlced.
except for the change which came over il m
nlght-and il this change bad been well
as-trtalned. certain 1t would have remained
JinchalIenged: bat some people Sworc lights
had been seen flashing through the inter
stices Of tie shutters, sparks had been
tying out OF the chmneys, and the roar of
-tibdued voices (aoi>y despite every pre-
CAUTION because they We're numerous had
been heard.
Then watch was set, ard neitle. siylts |
nor sounds met watchers eyes or ears |
AGAIN people saw and heard all those |
things. Women crossed themselves when |
ever the unhal}Dwtu house was thoucIt ON. |
men talked OF 1t with bated breath. and
looked at II only askance. Some said il |
was La loar dc Nesle. Girls We're de
coyed into II, ravisled, and murdered |
when lust cooled Others were sure :, |
gang OF couLtciteltels prepared there fac
>ImIles OF bank notes. These sllrruises
soon reached the police. Investigation was
made in the cautious tentative method
always adopted in doubtful circumstances.
The police had good reason to be cautions.
TOR II Is not enough to detect crime: Grim
mails should be arrested To give notice of
Investigations Oh foot would put to flight
all the birds of prey. The Ell gina seemed
nsolvable.
The expertest policemen were ordered to
examine the premises Nothing could be
discovered. The neishboring houses were
examined from top to bottom. Nothing.
Walls were sounded, still nothing Never
1heless. occasionally gleam of light flashed
through some crevice in a shutter, a spark
upwards from a chimney. revealing life
within the bleak house. The police We're
reinforced. The house was surrounded.
: klrmlshtrs were thrown ont beyond this
circle Of policemen. At last a skrmisher.
some 80 yards from the house reported
that he had seen people who moved eau
uous Y and rapidly about midnight disap-
pear IN blind alley as if the earth had
swallowed them. This alley was examined.
Ia II the police discovered a subterranean
passage. They entered it. 1t was so low
hey could only advance in single file, and
bent double They were Obliged at some
places to go on all-fours. After going this
way about ~ yards they found further
progress checked by Il ,talvart wrought
ron door, which .ieered all their
"iorts They returned and entered
A house whose blank walls had a small
window on the fourth story which over
ooked the garden of the bleak house. Tho
oohce procured rope, entered this house
ana securing TIE rope inside the house and
ossihS me olher END INTO the garden. they
.reit down the rope one by one TLa;r j., |
'estlgation of the house showed avo,,~ j
md window plated with wrought iron TLa
Commissioner OF police remembered ono Of
rs Polcenen was once blacksmith Ua
'rdered this brawny fellow to get the laroes,
ledge hammer he could procure. When he
eturned, he swung tue immense hammer
yer ms head and brought it on the door ,,
.len iGfce which Sllintered the wood.
sang bang came to other blows land u.s. =;
hunderclaps. The door was omen, The !
olce swarmed in. Twas great gambling j.,
ouse. Many gamblers, terrified by ths 4
ouhds of the hammer, lay fainting on the
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