The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-09

became a necessity. Pierre did not
know he loved until he became jealous.
He searched her out and learned why
it was that she preferred the student
to himself. The student had money
and was able to give her handsome
room and handsome clothes to wear in
it. Pierre instantly promised her the
| same, and she went back with him. In
! order TO keep his promise he was forced
| to steal more persistently than he had
ever stolen before, and thus run greater
risks, but he enjoyed it; it was in his
blood. By and by, though, he got
! caught and went to prison. When he
was released the girl was again with
the student. Now that he had been
arrested and imprisoned once, he knew
that he was less likely to escape detec-
ton in the future. He could not give
the girl so many things, and. therefore,
she would not second time return to
him.
Then the blood which had come from
Pierres unknown father-aroused by
that sentiment OF which jealousy was
.bred-began to pulse and beat. The
quarrel with her lover was brief. A
knife cut it short, and cut the lovers
life short at the same time. And the
knife was Pierre's.
The pretext on which Pierre's enemy
was induced to go into the Rue de Ven
ice and to stop before and finally enter
into the black doorway was simple
one, as was also the means of murder
i.1, foa of 1n A,l
him there alone. Pierre's greedy fin
gers, tightening with the rigidity Of
steel about the throat of the victim,
would have been sufficient, had not the
student managed to emit one long,
strange, gurgling, penetrating cry. It.
was the cry which, FIRST, brought out
the knife, and, second, the police. But
when the gendarmes came the student
was dead, and TIE blood which Pierre
dancing through his veins, having
been for the first time satisfied. Il
The gendarmes of Paris are not am
bilious to make single-handed captures.
So three"of them, each armed with his
short, sharp sword, were concerned in
the capture of Pierre. They bore him
off-almost carried him-to the police
station, but not before his knife had
pricked an unpleasant hole in one of
them. All the way to the station they
tried to force him to confess. It should
be understood that in France the Amer
lean method is reversed-a prisoner is
considered guilty until he proves him
self innocent. This has had one effect
at least. 1t has put many men who
were not guilty into French prisons be-
cause they could not prove that they
were innocent, and has made the eau
tious Partisan careful to avoid even
the appearance of evil. For it has even
made it almost as bad TO be suspected
of a crime as it Is to have actually COM
mitted it. But Pierre was guilty.
He still carried the fatal blood upon
his clutcbing fingers when he was
locked up for the night in the little po-
lice station cell. At eight in the morn
ing the great ''Voiture de Prison. drew
up at the door, and he, with few
others, manacled, was put into it. In
this prison van he was not permitted to |
sit on long seat, where he might con- |
verse with other prisoners, as are Amer
leans who have been arrested, but was !
placed in a little cupboard, just big |
enough for him TO stand IN uuconlfort- |
ably. This cupboard was carefully |
locked, and after the other passengers |
had been similarly placed the outer i
door of the carriage was locked also. |
These Paris prison vans accommodate !
twenty prisoners each, and a narrow |
aisle runs between the rows of cup |
boards The driver can look through a |
little window, which is just back of his |
head, and see the doors of each pris- |
oners closet, and frequently there is
another man. who sits at the other end |
Of the passage on seat supported by |
the outer door. Pierre, through this |
system, had a most thoroughly secluded |
journey.
The ''Voiture de Prison rumbled !.
away from the police station with a
hollow roar, which deafened Pierre and |
made it impossible for him to think. |
He was half stupeiied by the jolting |
and the STIFFNESS of his little coop by |
the time the van had ratified along the |
quai to the Place ST. Michael, turned |
thence across the bridge which crosses /
this arm OF the Seine. and finally, hav-
ing travelled some brief and very i'll |
paved streets on the island where the |
Palais de Justice and the police build /
ings stand, stopped in great court
yard, watched everywhere by repub-
liean guards in their ugly uniforms and
hoo y-;r,or ay,pYy,,orTS rifyac
The particular doorway before which
the prison van stopped was the entrance
to the depot" 1t is at the depot
that all the prisoners OF Paris are re-
ceived from the police. Pierre was re-
leased from his coop in the van and
marched between two rows of repub-
hcan guards into the bare reception
room It precisely nine o'clock. There
were many with him, and they had |
come from all parts of Paris, charged
with al sorts of crimes. 4 number OF |
officials stood behind long, high desks
OF plain boards, and before them the
prisoners passed in single file, answer
irg questions with lies or truth. as the
case might be: protesting innocence 20
deaf ears; some few confessing guilt in
the extremity Of their fright The Of
ielaiS did not fail to listen to the con-
LESSONS of guilt
In the melancholy file OF which Pierre
formed part were old sinners and
young sinners. Girls with faces from
which night of confinement in the
poice station cells had stolen a part OF
the paint were there. charged with