The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-26
ROTHSCHILD WILL IS MADE PUBLIC Legacies Amount to More Than
 $l,6OO,O00 RICH MAN IS FLEECED Merchant at Paris ls Deooyed Into Snare By Woman and Is Tor tured Until He Gives
 Up Large Sums.
RICH MAN IS FLEECED
BY PAUL VILLIERs,

1dflSi JaIudIy ao.-N5peeldl)-1uo VIII of the late Baroness Adolphe de Roths- child has just been published. The leg acies of this benevolent lady, following the example that has always been set by the great family to which she belonged, amount to a sum of over s1,600,0O0.
 Hardly anything in the way of charitable society has been forgotten; thus $1O0,OOO goes to the Society for Released Female Prisoners from St. Lazare prison, $2000O0 to the committee of the charitable employment fund, and $400, 600 to the com mittee of the Jewish benevolent fund.
 Other societies that are not forgotten and come in for substantial sums are the Shipwrecked Seamans' fund, La Poupon- niere society, which cares for the delicate children of poor people, placing them in a beautiful country home. the fund for, the blind, and almshouses and con- sumptiye hospital at Geneva, near where she had latterly lived.
 How rich merchant was tortured to eXtort money from him was related at the Marseilles Assize court when two men and woman were tried and sentenced to lifelong Imprisonment.
 Morteo, the victim, had fallen in love with Felicite Valetutti, and proposed that
 
 was willing, but induced him to accom- pany her when she went to say goodbye to her relatives.
 The "relatives' were really the woman's lover, Caesaric Passet, and her brother in-law, Besial, the three being leagued together in crime.
 When Morteo was once inside the house the two men seized, bound and gagged him, and he was kept prisoner for many weeks.
 Several times during his detention the unfortunate man was tortured into sign ing checks for large amounts. Before they would release him his captors de- manded a further check, and as he was obstinate they hung him head downward over fire. Then he was released, with only $4 in his pocket. The torturers were captured while attempting to escape into Italy.
 A very good joke has been brought off about NJ Plot, the distinguished senator who is always dinning into the ears of the French the necessity of keeping up and increasing the population-"M. Plot has introduced a law to encourage re- population" "Ah?" Yes, he wishes to change the inscriptions on the monuments into Liberte "Galite, Paternite.
 Not a small sensation has been caused in the theatrical world of Paris by the announcement that Mme. Sarah Bern hardt is going to Japan next year instead of resting at her seaside home at Belle Isle.
 The actress Is very anxious to play in Japan in all her best-known roles. The great success which was reaped in the French capital by the Japanese actress, Gada IQPnO made a innrPgS1nn Mime. Bernhardt, and her desire to visit Japan is to show the eastern world some- thing of what the west can do, as the east has just shown the west.
 Some interesting experiments in ascer taining the effects of colors on various diseases have been taking place at a hospital for mental maladies at Alexan- dria. Special rooms were furnished with blue, red or violent blinds, the walls being painted with the same respective colors.
 The following results were obtained: In blue room a person who was in a great state of nervous excitation became com pletey calm; in a red chamber patient stricken with melaneholia and suicidal ten dences became gay.
 !. This is contrary to the effect which the color red produces on certain animals which 1t drives to savagery: but its effect on man it appears is calming. In vio- let room maniac entirely recovered his calmness of mind.
 
 Sherlock Holmes, which is now running at the Antoine theatre, Paris, is one of the biggest successes the French stage has known for long time. The manager of the theatre, M. Maudru, has been giv- ing his reasons why this play is such a draw" in France.
 If iS chiefly that the Partisan public is saturated with the problem play which chiefly does duty for drama in France. While Sherlock Holmes is something new and is a dramatic story which does not torture the brain. The tables seem now to have turned and instead of it's being always French plays adapted for the Eng fish stage there are now quite a number of English plays being adapted to the French stage.