The Newtown bee., 1879-03-25
A French Charley Ross Case,

| LII bu0 DOul0VdTu Mhl0Su0TD U young couple, somewhat new to Paris, had just taken the place of concierge and butler respectively. One afternoon as their little boy of four was playing in the passage or level with the street, by which all houses here are entered, 3 coupe stopped in front of the house and well dressed lady descended. The infant was attracted by the noise and ran out. The woman stopped and ion dled it and carried it to the carriage and drove off. The mother, in the narrow ground floor allotted to the con- cierge, saw nothing of this. A neighbours servant had seen it, but SUD- posed it was all right.
 Had this happened in America it would have been Charley Ross affair. " They manage these things better in France,' as Lawrence Sterne was fond of saying. The mother missed her in fant in due time. She went up and down the street in no great uneasiness, but finding no sign she grew alarmed. Her alarm became terror as the lights of the wide street began to burn in the early winter evening. By chance the servant who had seen the cab was en- countered. She told the story. The police were called in, and assured the terrified mother that she should soon have her infant. One day passed, and no infant; two days, then two weeks, and the mother was summoned to the station of the district. She was shown into private room, and there was her small boy in the arms of a strange lady. The mother made for the lad, but the lady pushed her away.
 What, said the dismayed mother, am not to have my child ?"
 The policeman spoke up: Madame Ia comptesse claims the child as her own."
 cit is faIse," said the mother s' it is my own. Come to me, Paul."
 The child made an effort, but was re- strained, and burst into sobs. The po- liceman interfered. He saw a much more practical way of deciding the question of maternity than Solomon in all his wisdom. He commanded the child to be left free to choose. The little boy ran with gurgle of delight to it's mother. |" Madame Ia comptesse will consider herself under arrest Gen surUe5llence) until further orders, and will not attempt to leave the country" {" How had the infant been found |? First every hack in the district was ex- amined as to its work on that particular afternoon, and in time this reduced the problem to which of dozen or more ladies had driven with children that day. Then the problem came down to lady living in modest quarter of the city, who had returned home with an infant, and had immediately left the place, and had not been seen since. Then the history of this parsonage was looked up. She was the Countess To- menin, an English woman, who had separated from her husband. Then the departures from Paris were traced, and so surely that within three days the train she had taken was kown; in an- other the point she had gotten off-Ca- lais, and crossed to Dover; then in England the work was slow, and prom ised to be hopeless, when, To, the bird re-alighted Sn the same bush, though not in the same cage. She had returned to Paris and taken quarters elsewhere. She was visited by the police, and vowed that the child was her own, and VOWS still that is, and the case is to be tried in the courts. The developments meanwhile about the countess illustrate not only the portentous espionage of the police on every man, woman and child in the capital, but reveal some ex- traordinary phases of Paris life. The woman, it seems, has mania for seizing children and putting them in asylums for infants, to be reared to certain creeds. So far as shown she is not mercenary in her madness. but simply bent on making monks of such promis- ing babes as she can seize.-Pd4is Let ter to Chicago Tunes.
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