The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-28
Paris, france, Defendant in
Action by Author of Met
ropoIitan Railway.
CLAIMS PLAN WAS HIS.
THE FIGARO HAS BEEN CON-
MENTING UPON THE ALL NIGHT
POLICE COURTS WHICH HAVE
BEEN OPENED.
(By Raoul de Saint Rene.


Paris, July 27.-The city of Paris Is
being sued for the round little sum oil
one million dollars, and the case i
coming on in the courts in a few days
The plaintiff is a gentleman, Buisson
des Lezes. councillor general of the
Haute vienne, who claims that he Is
the author of the plan of the Metro
politan railway which runs under Par
is.
In 1889 plans and contracts were ask
ed by the city for the building OF TINS
railway, and the plaintiff claims that
his plan was adopted. Nothing fur
Their took place, however, till 1880,
when for economical reasons, the Mu-
nicipal Council abandoned the idea Oh
giving the concession to private In
dividual and decided to build the rail-
way themselves.
M. Buisson alleges that. although
they did this, the plan they used was
his plan, and he therefore claims COM
pensation.
Mr.. Theodore Tilton, the American
poet, who died in Paris on May %. art
or long residence in this country,
and whose body has been temporarily
placed in a vault in the Montparanasse
cemetery, has just been buried at Bar
bizon, the delightful artists village on
the edge of the forest of Fontainebleau.
which was a great favorite OF Mr. Til
ton. and where he often spent his sum-
mers.
The service was read by the Rev.
Isaac Van Wrinkle. of st. Luke's chap
ell, Paris, and among those present,
were Mr.. Dewey. Miss Kate Fuller,
Mrs. Dana and M. and Nine. Mullet,
the son and daughter-in-law of the fam
Gus painter OF 1.-THE Angelus,' who
first brought the village of Barbizon
into worldwide artistic repute.
The Figaro has been commenting
upon the all night police courts which
have been opened in the states. 1t
considers that the age is becoming
much too squeamish and sentimental,
and that we pamper our criminals to
an undua- degree. ~
To open a police court at night to
try drunken man the leading French
paper considers is going bit too far.
1t also adds in humorous aside that
probably the drunken man who is TAX
en- up ut half past three a. m, sum-
marily Idged. and set free at and
turned into the cold night would prob
ably be anything but pleased.
An astounding revenge on burglars
has just been effected by bomb
at Lyons. This gentle
man. named Beuss living in one of
the quiet suburbs, had for some time
suffered considerably from the visits |
of thieves.
Burglars had entered the house nc
fewer than three times in as many |
months. He determined that they |
should not do SO again and escape |
with their lives. He manufactured a
of small bombs of a special |
kind Every night he placed these in
the drawers and cash box in such a |
position that on anybody trying to |
force the locks the Internal machines /
would explode and seriously inJure |
them. The terrible reckoning was not /
long in coming.
A few nights after he had first in
vented the diabolic scheme the bomb
maker was awakened in the middle of
the night by a terrible explosion,
which alarmed the whole neighbor-
hood This was followed by another,
and Mr.. Beuss, who lives a short dis
lance from his factory, began to
think that the whole building would
be blown up. He did not go there I'M
1
found that his scheme had been only
too successful. One burglar was ~
ing dead by the safe, which he had
open. with his head blown
nearly off; another burglar was lying
beside with frightful injuries and in a
faint from loss of blood.