The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-12-28

From the London Telegraph.
 Paris, December 27.-There is no abate- ment of public interest in the abduction case planned and carried out by the lat ter-day Lochinvar. NJ. Maurice Marcile, who spirited away in his auto-car Mile Cordelia le Play. Attention is all the more, aroused owing to the young lady's family connection and to the position of her father, the doctor and ex-senator. Mile. le Play is the niece of Mime. Flour ems, wife of an ex-minister Tor foreign affairs and of Mime. Paul Leroy-Beau- lieu who were with her mother, the daughters of Michel Chevalier, the. cele- brated political economist. It is now no secret that her father, Dr. le Play went back on his promise to Mime. Marcile, the abductor's mother because he aimed at more brilliant match for his daugh- ter. pr. le Play did not want the young surgeon, who was still studying, for his son-in-law The ex-senator had already married one of his daughters into great financial family-that of the Peeeires- and for his other child who has been taken away from him. he had hoped to find also wealthy husband The ex-sen- ator fs himself the owner of consid- erahle fortune. Young Maurice Marcile has some expectations of inheriting prop erty, but his means and his prospects were considered vague by the father or the young lady who has been abducted.
 In the meantime the doctor was de- termined to have the abductor punished, and he has been spurrlng the police and the judiciary officials to energy in the matter An examining magistrate has had before him the persons who witness ed the abduction scene in the Avenue de Villars last Friday afternoon. The con- cierge told him that she looked for police men in vain, and the English governcss was able to- produce the abductors soft hat. which she pulled off his head as he was carrying off the young lady. All the witnesses seem to have agreed that Mile le PlR struggled energetically while she was being put into the autocar Should this be proved, M. Maurice Marcile is lia- ble to severe punishment; but his friends declare that there will be no necessity for this. and they are sanguine that all will come right in the end and that the sensational case will terminate in the good od-fashioned style of romance by marriage The young surgeon is repre- sented by counsel before the examining magistrate. and the advocate is making a strong point of the fact that nobody heard Mile le Play crying out for help as she was being hurried along in the autocar. She had to traverse with her lover considerable part of Paris yet nobody heard or saw her making appeals for assistance The autocar, driven by its stoker returned to Mime. Bob Wal ter's motor establishment In the Avenue de la Grande Armee on Friday night. It follows, therefore, that NJ. Marcile and Mile. le Play entered a train at some sta ton If the young lady were being taken away against her will she could have ap- pealed to the station master of to the gendarhes, who in suburban and country districts are on duty In such places. Yet nothing of the sort seems to have been doAe. This is the gist of Maitre Coulon's Arguments, which weaken the evidence of the witnesses who speak of resTt- ance, which have only been assumed lY the young lady in order to keep up ap- pearances
 The lawyers hints about an understand ing between the young lady and her lover receive corroboration from Mime Bob Walter, the ex-music hall celebrity, who now keeps an automobile establishment near the Porte Maillot and who supplied the motorcar and the stoker to the dar- ing abductor Mime. Bob Walter made the acquaintance of NJ. Marcile at the Salpetriere Hospital. where she went to give an entertainment in her music hall days. She states that the whole affair was prearranged between the lover and his lady. They were both deeply enamor- ed of each other, and Mile. Cordella le Play was nearly heart broken over her fathers refusal to allow her to wed the man of her choice. Marcile, on his side, was plunged into state of the deepest dejection and Mime. Bob Walter affirms that the lovers had resolved to commit suicide and to die together had not bet ter counsels which were given to them prevailed. As to the direction taken by the fugitives, Mime. Bob Walter, who Is evidently on the inner track of the whole affair, confirms what was stated yester- day to the effect that the pair went to London and not to Brussels. The motor- car. containing the lovers, went like lightning out of Paris for a distance of 124 miles to large city. There the lovers rested and next started for London. They only remained for a brief period in the British capital. and then started for a city in the south of Europe, which may be Rome or Naples, Seville or Malaga. They are accompanied in their flight by a young man, who is not the son of min ister, as somebody stated, but the son of a tradesman. Mime. Bob Walter, known now in business as Mime. Dupre, ana Tn L1e dilndlS ol dQlOllODlllSll dS d svitesse" woman, as she has made a record, has also other interesting things to relate about the abduction, which she hffirms was carefully rehearsed.
 She states that on November 25 last M. Marcile accompanied by two friends, called at her establishment and asked if he could hire the motorcar with which she made her Deauville record. She re- piled in the affirmative remarking that he wanted to go very fast. Marcile re- piled that he meant to fly like the wind for 200 Kilometres or Q24 miles) out of Paris The car was hired and then sev- eral rehearsals took place. A cyclist was engaged to watch the exits and entrances from and to the house of Dr. le Play This watcher ran to and fro informing M. Marcile, who had engaged a room near Mime. Bob Walters place, of the young lady's movements. By degrees tn, ex-music hall celebrity got to know everything, and her man kept the motor ear ready night and day awaiting th' seupreme event. On Wednesday last tn, 'stokers were rung up by M. Marcile, wht told them to send round the car, as h' wanted to 20 to the opera. The le Playi