Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-15
BURGLAR CAUGHT
BY BITING APPLE
By ARTHUR W. HAMouREAux-

Special Cahlegram to The Star.
PARIS, July 14-ln an alley at Bilain-
court suburb of Paris, an extraordinary
noise as of a whole crowd Of babies scream
ing at the top of their voices was heard
the other day by the nefghbors. The noise
came from an infants creche close by, In
which number of little children. mostly
under two years of age. were kept. They
were babies whose mothers were too poor
to rear them and had left them indefinitely
In charge Of the creche. AS the screaming
continued for several hours, some OF the
neighbors went to find out what was the
matter and discovered the place deserted.
except for FIFTEEN babies. who had evidently
been abandoned by the matron for many
hours. The creche had been kept up for
many years by priest, the Able Biagani,
and the children were looked after by an
elderly woman named Mile. Hamade, and
also by an infirm Old lady, aged eighty,
relative of the priest. Recently the matron
died suddenly from a sharp attack OF pneu-
monia. The priest received such Snock
on going to the creche and finding the mat
ron dead that he fell dead in the room. The
babies were then left in charge OF the IN
firm old lady, who was so frightened on the
day of the funeral that she fed, leaving the
unfortunate babies to themselves. 1t was
not till twenty-four hours later that the
plight of the poor little children was dis
covered
Sherlock Holmes Busy.
A clever capture of burglars worthy OF
Sherlock Holmes has been effected by
gendarme at Fismes in the department OF
the Marine The gendarme searched the house
which had been robbed for traces of the
burglars and found a basket containing ap-
pies, which he examined one by one. One
of the apples showed marks of teeth, evil
IDENTIFY unusually bad and deformed- Next
day the gendarme met two suspicious-look-
ing tramps on the road and. asking them
where they were going, offered each Of
them an apple. Before they had taken
more than a bite, however, the gendarme
snatched the apples from them and to his
delight found that one Of the apples showed
marks of teeth exactly corresponding to
those of the apple he had found in the
house which had been ra;ded. The men
were arrested and confessed that they
were the perpetrators of the burglary
NJ Alphonse BaZaine, son of the marshal
of the second empire, who was court-mar-
tailed for having capitulated at Metz and
was accused of treason, is now taking steps
for the clearing of his fathers character.
The marshars son is an officer in the Span
iSh army and at birth had sponsors
Queen Isabella and King Alfonso XII. M.
Alphonse Bazaine has communicated to an
advocate at Mines important documents,
the effort toward what is termed the re-
Mobilization of the marshal.
Mile. Rem, described as a dramatic art
ist and Miss Emerson, an American lady,
are engaged in a law suit at the Paris civil
tribunal which is declared to be pictur-
esque. Anyhow, 1t interests many. and the
result is awaited with a good deal of
eagerness, especially by the American lady,
who seems to have been badly treated by
the dramatic artist A few years ago Mile.
Rem was dwelling In the same fiat with
a wealthy American, who allowed her
81 600 a month. One day he sailed for New
York. and soon after landing wrote to Mile
Rem informing her that he was about to
marry and that, for the sake Of old times
and old friendship. he would make her a
present of SIS. 600. The gift appeared mad
eauate to the dramatic artist. who resolved
to go to New York to see her former ad-
mirer face to face and to demand from him
larger sum of money than that mention
ed in his letter of farewell Not knowing
English, Mile. Rem engaged Miss Emerson
to accompany her to New York as secre-
tary-companion and Interpreter.
Commission to Companion.
Miss Emerson was to receive 10 per cent
commission for her services should her
friend obtain more than $1,000 Both en-
barked at Havre In the liner Lorraine and
before the vessel entered New York the
legal representative of the dramatic artists
steamer. He sought out Mile. Rem, and, on
the part of his client offered her IS 600
She refused to negotiate, and the lawyer
next offered Miss Emerson $4,000 If she
would induce her companion TO accept the
sum which was proposed Later on Mile
Rem relaxed her conditions, agreed to
treat with the lawyer and received from
him draft on paris bank for $50 600
Mile. Rem and her companion then re-
turned to France. Once at home the dra-
matte artist forgot the contract with Miss
Emerson. The latter claimed more than
5000 as remuneration for services ex-
penses of travelling costs of translations
of letters and SD on. Mile Rem turned a
deaf ear to all demands, entreaties, threats
and expostulations There was nothing left
but to go to law, and Miss Emerson put her
case In the hands of a solicitor. The first
hearing of the case has just come off at the
civil tribunal of Paris.