The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-11-24
SAD TRAGEDY COMES
TO LIGHT IN PARIS.
Newspaper Notified That 1t
Would Occur But Was Too
Late to Prevent Its Occur
renCe-PariS News.
f9y Raoul De Saint Rene.)


the numbers of petitions that have
been reaching him for months past
from the juries Of France praying for
the retention of the death penalty on
the statute book of the country.
He has lust addressed a letter to
the First President Of the Paris court
Of appeal asking that magistrate to
feassure the juries that their fear or
any recrudescence OF crime arising
from the non-carrying out of the death
penalty is unwarranted, and deprecat-
ing the sending of petitions.
The minister adds: 'Juries should
also remember that while they are
engaged on the business OF the ses.
sions they are ipsofacto magistrates
and are forbidden from criticizing the
manner Of carrying out the sentences
necessitated by their verdicts."
A sad tragedy has been brought to
the notice of the public by letter ad-
dressed to a Paris newspaper. The
Petit Journal. the favorite daily paper
of the working classes, received in
its usual budget on a Sunday morn
ing q letter which caused the greatest
sensation.
It is stated the writer, a workman
named Louvin. aged forty-two. with
a, wife and three children. living at
Auxy UIoret). saw no way out OF the
desperate straits in which he found
himself but suicide. He had there
fore determined to take his own life
and by the time the letter reached
the newspaper he would be dead.
He had written to recommend his
children TO the good mercy OF the
readers Of the newspaper. Louvin
wrote: Il cannot see my children die
of hunger. | have never begged and
cannot commence now. Therefore,
sir, l should be much obliged if YOU
would publish this letter. and hope
that through it some charitable people
will come forward and help my poor
little children"
The reason given by J4ouvin for his
act was that he had been uniustly dis
missed from his employ by his master
who only a month before had brought
him and his family from another part
Of the country to fill a post as fore
man.
1t was Sunday, and communications
were slow, but q representative of the
paper went down at once to the mans
home to try and prevent him from
committing the act he threatened. 1t
was too late-Louvin had hanged him.
self and the body WAS found in the
fields by his own boy of thirteen.
The suicides elder daughter is en-.
Gagged at confectionery shop in Par
IS, the proprietor of which said to the
newspaper reporter who brought the
news: "A man has no right TO kill
himself for a mere paltry money mat
ter. Louvin needed only to come to
Inc and / would readily have let him
have two or three francs. for l knew I
had had to deal with honest people.
Poor Louvin's act wiz doubtless
mean a sad little windfall to his fam.
lily. because the French people are
very generous in such cases. The
man told the newspaper he had just
spent his last SOU, and the sad part
Of the affair is that his daughter in
Paris was that very day or the NOR
row going to send her parents hun
ked francs which she had saved from
her earnings.
The secret passage through which
the lovers of Queen Marguerite de
Bourgogne--the infamous Princess
who has been immortalized by Alex
andre Dumas in one of his novels
passed to reach the Tour de Nesle has
been discovered by some Paris work
men who were making an excavation
in the Rue de Dauphine, some twenty
feet below the soil.
This quaint old underground pas.
sage which was known as the Dau.
phine Passage. connected the ancient
Parte Dauphine with the Tour de Mes
lie. which was historically famous as
p the scene of the love episodes of the
Queen.
Here she used to receive them. and
afterward. drugging them. she had
them thrown into the river. The exist.
ence of this passage which was found
to be 100 feet long and lined with
stone masonry. was unknown until
discovered by the workmen.
= =
There are no greater tyrants than
the Socialists" said the advocate OF
NJ Carmaud, French deputy. The
wife OF NJ Carnaud in 1904 obtained a
legal separation from him, with the
custody of the children. he being or.
dered by the court 10 pay her $50 a
month.
Since then the deputies have in.
creased their salaries and so Madame
CsrDaud applied 10 the Seine Tribunal
Cor an augmentation OF her alinaony.