The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-09-21
MONSTER DEMONSTRATION OVER
GIRL MURDERER'S ESCAPE
FROM GUILLOTlNE.
DEATH SENTENCE COMMITTED
French Capital Is Passing Through
Crime Wave Similar to That
Which Has Recently Passed
Over New York.

Paris, Sept. 16.-The increasing in
dignation of the masses against the
escape from the guillotine OF Solell-
liant. known as the "monstrOus vio-
lator and murderer" whose sentence
to death for the %atrocious murder OF
a 12-year-old girl was cummuted last
week by President Fallieres to life
imprisonment, was expressed Sunday
in a series of the most curious public
manifestations that have occurred in
France in a long time.
The demonstration, despite the fact
that several arrests were made, was
almost entirely an orderly one. .Iany
women participated. 1t was organized
not 50 much against Soleillant as to
express the voice of the populace
against the wave of u~nspeakable
crimes committed on little girls which
lately has increased to an alarming
degree and which it is feared the com
mutation of sentence of Soleillant will
only stimulate.
Several Thousand in Demonstration.
Several thousand persons we're en-
gagged in demonstration at various
points of the city, and especially large
was the crowd in the Place st. Am
broise. near which lived little Marthe
Erberding. the victim of SOleillant.
The rage of the women of this district
has been great since President Fal-
Heres showed clemency to SOfaillant.
They assembled Sunday afternoon
with their husbands and others of
their sympathizers and were aug
mented in numbers by crowds of curl
Gus persons. Their orderly cries for
Justice were quickly changed to cries
of death to Soleillant," and down
with Fallieres." AS the procession,
led by a woman who carried a little
girl on her shoulder with the purpose
of indicating the object of the mani
| festation, moved toward the Place De
La RepubliQue, the streets were
| choked by a vast mon and the police
| reserves were called out to dispense it.
| The parade, however, assembled again
| and several of the more violent dem
| onstrators were arrested.
Other Parades Are Organized.
Meantime other parades had been
organized in different quarters Oh the
| city, one in the Place Vendome, at
the ministry Of justice. This also
was led by a woman with a babe
on her shoulders. The crowd shout
ed death to viOlators.'
At nightfall this parade was dis
persed by the police who feared that
with darkness disorder would break
out. Smaller professions rNaversed
the Grand boulevards of the city.
The newspapers of Paris are devot-
ing great space to the Soleillant case.
Many of them loudly condemn the
failure of the president to permit the
law to take it's course, and all Of them
agree that the communication of the
sentence signifies the passing forever
of the guillotine from France. Some
of the journals express the opinion
that the escape of Soleillant from the
guillotine only places a premium on
crime.
Corporal Punishment Recommended.
The entire question of crime Will be
taken up at the approaching session
of parliament, especially as Paris and
other large cities are becoming
alarmingly infested with another type
of criminal known as 1.-The apache"
who in the secluded sections almost
daily MAIN and rob and sometimes
murder their victims. Their weapon
always is the knife, and gathering in
bands. they often wantonly stab pc
destrians and frequently policemen
merely for the sake of stabbing. M.
Touhy, director of the Paris police,
declared that his force was entirely in
sufficient to cope with the situation.
He recommended the adoption of cor
poral punishment for law-breakers as
an offset to comfortable and inviting
prisons.