Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-06-22
A DEAD WoHiN,S ARMS.

| In furnished lod ging house OF lie Phliveau
/ the two arms of a woman were found. The
occupied by "a STUDENT The only clew to
| their Identification was the peculiar cloth in
which they were wrapped, and wal ca had
evidently formed part Of a shirt II is Won
derfully easy to discover crime and the ccimi-
nal. detective, alluding TO this, once said
to me: Depend upon II, sir, all criminals are
sort of cunning which seems Intricate, but Is
| only Recommendations" Certainly here
was crime which seemed likely to babe the
| step of it was traced. There were some
chances that the arms belonged to a medical
student tthe section OF the shoulder had evi-
to play practical joke. He could hive got
ten the subject only from some hospital.
The history ofevery body at the hospitals was
came from no subject" While this invest
CATION was going on, inquiries were made In
another direction, what woman was missed
/ twelve mysterious diSappearanceS in Paris.
| The police are extremely Skeptical in conSil-
disappear. it's to go with men debtors disap-
! pear TO avoid creditors ;0therS disappear from
pure love of adventure; others to silence
scandal: crime has rarely any share in the
events. Every missing woman Was traced,
| one only excepted. Nine. Gillet WAC Were
her associates? She was intimate with shoe
maker. He was arrested. The evidence was
strong against him; clothing exactly like thlE
! in which the body was wrapped was found in
his possession. What was the motive which
! led him to assassinate her! Money? VIII re
cOntided her business transactions was 40
pealed TO for Information. He was genera
police at once discovered something SuSDi-
ciOus in the manner in which he gave informa-
ton. He Was arrested. His lodgings Were
searched. The other part OF the shirt, from
which was torn the portion which was found
with the arms. lay in his wardrobe. The Id
ging house keeper Of Rue Poliveau recognized
l. a. I'LL
chamber in her house. In face of the evil
dence, what could he do but make full con-
fession? He said the remainder of the boIy
was in a trunk at Anglers. There it was
found. He, with the cowardice and perhdy
of all criminals, revealed the name of mis- ac-
cOmplice,-a medical student, whose acquaint-
| he had long been intimate. The medical
| student had the nerve to deliver public lee
ture in Paris three weeks after the eri"ie, and
while The newspapers were filed with the ac-
ton of the police The general agent and
collector said he wanted some money To make
q sure. stroke on the Stock Exchange: He
which she possessed her whole fOrtuae. Sac
refused. He resolved to murder her AID get
the money He invited her to his room on
| business As she came in he felled her with
a crowbar The medical student plunged his
bistour into her heart and spine. She died
without struggle, without consciousness Of
student are both OF good families. The
former is a son of a weii-tO-dO timber mer
| chant near Anglers. The latter is the only
child of an excellent painter who was lon.
Professor of Drawing in the Anglers college
His mother is daughter, or sister, or sister
in-law to some of the most eminent physicians
of Anglers and its ntighbOrh0Od. The way tie
medical Students parents heard Of his guilt is
heartrending. They live in a small but
charming cottage about mile from Anglers.
While wedding his iiower-garden the father
saw the letter-carrier and went to the gate 10
meet him. The letter carrier said: Il have
today nothing for you but your newspaper"
The mother Joined the father. She asked,
No letter. They had been expecting a let
ter from their son. They walked together TO
wards the house. The husband read his ne VS.
paper. Read me everything about crimes"
said the mother. Like most women she takes
the deepest interest in crime and in criminal
trials; they are stories which have the spice OF
deeply interesting.-the Mystery of Rue
POliveau.' 1t is not yet known whether or no
it is an assas as IN Then he read all the
gave. Day after day they eagerly read the
newspaper: They took the deepest interest
downstairs later than. usual She saw her
husband Outstretched in his armchair mo-
tiOnless, pale as death. The newspaper was at
arms round her husbani. good Re ave H'
> She exclaimed, what is the natter He
trembled convulsively, spread his hands be-
fore him as IL to repel some hOrrid phantom,
and gasped: Don't-don't read the news
paper-I beg it of you. She did read; and
having read she fell on her knees, and, con
yuSye eG fssRg he her SroW wdea seemed as
God, We have lived too long, Father and
mother had read the secret of the Mystery
of Rue POliveau." The assassin was their
son, their only child.
Impressions OF American Free
Schools.
| In New-YOrk, as in Boston, the efficiency of
the whole system largely depends on the 81
perinendent and his assistants, The work
OF these gentleman seemed TO me- TO be
far less m' chanical than that of either her
Malesty's Inspectors or of the School Board In
SpectOrS in England. 1t is not their principal
duty to examine and report - they are en-
powered and required to promote the etlicinn-
cy of The schools. If Supervisor in 'ston
or an assistant Superintendent in New York,
or the Superintendent in either city, thinks
that there might be some Improvement in the
existing methods Of teaching reading, he is
able to get his improved method tried in one
of the schools, and he watches the results If
and to give special character to the discipline
ana teaching OF whole school, he is able, with
ASCERTAIN how the experiment will work.
When was in New-YOrk 1 visited prim lry
school in which one of the Assistant Superin-
tendents had made an experiment in order to
discover whether it was not possible to secure
far greater prOmptneSs and accuracy in the
intellectual activity of the children than is
principal teacher, a lady who gave me the i'm
presSio ion that she possessed unusual abb ity
and VigOr, entered heartily into his scheme
her assistants were equally Jealous. The re.
suits, whatever their merit, were certainly AS
tOniShing. The intellectual drill of the child.
ern was absolutely perfect. There was some
thing almost preternatural in the readiness
with which they answered every question that
was put to them. They exploded as soon as
they were touched; and the answers were al
ways as definite and exact as if they had ceen
revised by committee of lawyers or mathe-
maticianS. watched several classes at work
in different ectS-reading, spelling, atith-
metic and geOgraphy-and what struck me as
most extraordinary was the fact that every
child i'll every class was equally keen. equa ly
clear, equally exact, equally alert. My frie I'd
the Assistant superintendent, who went
through the school with me, was little diSap-
pointed when expressed the fear that in the
long run, the children might suffer from the
extreme tension to which their minds were
subjected. The mistress, who was naturally
very proud of the results she had achieved,
was equally disappointed. l argued that the
atmosphere of the school was so electric and so
stimulating that the children seemed to me
to have lost the characteristics of childhood.
The lady replied, They are New-YOrk child
rem this is the way We live in New York"
rejOined that had seen nothing like it i'm Chi
cagO, and that supposed that Chicago was as
''alive" as New York. 1t happened to be the
first school had seen in New York, or
might have told her that in the schools of New
York itself had seen no extraordinary activ-
| itV elsewhere To mako NV Daaoa nd uot of