The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-19
ANOTHER MURDER
 EXC|TES PARIS Clever Criminals Seem to Be
 At Work A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER Workingman Suddenly Goes Mad From the Heat, Enters Shed and Starts Locomotive-Has Struggle
 With Engineer.
A DESPERATE ENCOUNTER
BY PAUL VILLlERS.

Paris, July B.-Paris is still excited at the latest mysterious murder which, fol- lowing so closely upon the Steinheil and Remy tragedies, has caused the theory to be put forward that gang of desperate and clever criminals is at work in the city.
 Strength is lent to this belief by the resemblance between the murders and by the fact that the perpetrators have in each case succeeded in utterly baffing the police
 The latest victim was a Mme. de Saul vezon of "A Rue de Bondy near Place de Ia Republique. She carried on the bus- ness of her late husband, who died ten years ago as a traveller in precious stones, especially in diamonds and fre- quently kept a number of gems in safe in her fiat.
 Mime. de Sauvezon, who was about 50 years old, lived alone A scrubwoman came in twice a week and did the clean ing. She was a woman of extremely reg ular habits, went out every morning at 10 1 o'clock to visit her clients returned at | noon, received customers up to 6 o'clock, went for a short walk, returned to dine, and was generally not seen again until next morning.
 Two days before her body was found Mime. de Sauvezon was seen by the scrub woman returning home at noon. The next day man called at her house with | satchel, rang the bell several times, but being unable to get an answer left the satchel with the concierge and went away During the remainder of the day the concierge was on the lookout for Mime. de Sauvezon in order to give her the satchel but 1t was not until tne fol- towing morning that her suspicious be- came aroused and locksmith was sent for to open the door of the apartment. NJ Vallin, the cashier who is employed in an office on the same floor, entered the apartment with the concierge, and the two nearly stumbled over the body of the unfortunate widow, which lay near the door and presented a terrible sight. The poor woman had been strangled with thin cord which was still around Ter neck, tightly pressed into the flesh Her legs were tied together at the ankles and a bruise on the temple showed that her assailants had evidently stunned her with a blow, bound her legs to prevent her struggling and then leisurely stran- gled her.
 A number of empty jewel cases were ly ing about, but others mostly containing articles of lesser value were untouched. Beyond this no disorder was visible in the ! apartment.
 l M. Hamard, the chief of the detective
 
 of his most expert men, but could only l assure themselves that the assassins had left not the slightest clue behind They could find no trace of struggle. Their only theory is that Mime. de Sauvezon was attacked by bogus customer while showing her diamonds
 desperate fight between madman ! and railroad engineer took place at St. ElnIlr Na A workingman suddenly went mad from the heat and going into shed where a locomotive was standing, opened the throttle and started the engine. The engi- neer, who was standing near by, just had | time to climb into the cab and seize the madman By the time he had overcome 1 the man and rendered him insensible by blow on the head the engine was rush ing towards an oncoming express at 70 miles an hour.
 The engineer reversed the engine and succeeded in averting what would have been most terrible collision, fighting the madman who had recovered consciousness while speeding the engine backwards in front of the express.
 A servant girl who for seven years had carried the dead body of her child around with her in trunk has just been arrest cd at Asnieres, near this city.
 A few days ago a lady's maid named Marie Gugan who was without a posi- ton, took a room in the lodging house at Asnieres. She brought with her mys- terious trunk, about which she seemed very particular.
 While she was out another lodger out Of curiosity, opened the trunk and look Ing inside. discovered rolled up in paper and napkins the skeletons of two small babies. The landlord informed the police Of the discovery and the girl was arrested. She confessed that they were the remains of two children she had had seven years ! ago The first one was born in 1901 and was still-born.
 Fearing that the police would accuse Der of having killed the baby she placed it in the bottom of her trunk The next year she gave birth to another child, strangled 1t and put it with the other. She had carried them about with her to the different places where she had been employed without anyone finding 1t out. -e~--------