The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-30
WILL REPRODUCE
 SCENE OF MURDER Weird Ceremony At The Palais
 de Justice TO FORCE CONFESSION Church Thieves Are Again Active In Paris-Advocates and Baliffs Inst- tute Peculiar Strike-Courts
 Are Deserted by Them.
By PAUL VllLIERS.


 Paris, August 2s.-A weird ceremony took place the other day at the Palais de Justice in connection with the recent murder of the banker Reme Courtois, one of the servants, confessed to his participation in the crime, stating that he and the butler, Renard, entered the bankers room and stabbed him to death Renard denies this, and the examining magistrate has been unable to wiring a confession from him, although he has tried to do so by every means in his power. With a view to frightening Re- nard into confession by enacting his crime before him, the murder was recon stituted in the Palias de Justice today before cinematograph. The room was arranged as much like the bankers bed room as possible. Courtois stripped and a detective also stripped and imperson- ated Renard. A second detective in the bed impersonated the unfortunate bank CT.
 The two men fell upon the banker with such savagery that his body was thrown on the ground and rolled into the position in which it was found after the murder. The cinematograph will repro duce the murder very realistically. It is intended to give special performance of the crime as it appears upon the film before Renard and the examining magis- trate in the hope that the surprise and horror of it will make the Wretched man confess.
 The church thieves, undeterred by the fate which befell Thomas the connoisseur of shrines, are again active. They have made a big haul in the church of Saint Viance, parish situated a few miles from Brive. They have stolen a very beautiful shrine in Limoges enamel. Its worth is put at 12,OO1. The theft was com mitted under mysterious circumstances. There was no confusion in the church. The thieves succeeded in forcing the lock Once in possession of the shrine they left the church, closing the door after them. The tabernacle in the church of Coursan in the Ande was put to sack during yesterdays storm. The thieves gained access to the steeple and reaching the roof lowered themselves into the sac ristry by rope. Forcing the tabernacle they made off with several chalices and other treasures. It is believed that the thieves in this case are of Spanish na- tionality.
 Dispatches from Guiana tell of an or iginal strike which has broken out at Cayenne. It is a strike of advocates and bailiffs. The courts are deserted. Judi cial business is at standstill- Since June 2 no cases have been heard at the civil and commercial court, No bailiffs, advocates. and solicitors have turned up there The strike occurred owing to the firm stand taken by the president of the court, M. Delprat, who, on beginning his duties made up his mind to curtai with in legal limits, the expenses of minister ial officials, who, it seems, did not he's itate to demand from ltigants $40 and $6O, instead of $1O, which amount is con- sidered ample. It will remain for the minister of the colonies to end the strike or at any rate make an attempt to end it.
 The Assize Court at Rennes has just | sentenced woman, named Dubois. to eight years imprisonment for no fewer | than five acts of infanticide In the space | of five years. Ten years ago the woman l entered the service of M. Lorant. cul- tivator at Croix-Brisee, and subsequent | ly became his mistress.
 child was born every year, but the woman had always concealed the fact 1 that she was about to become mother. | The two first children were still born. | Five others were strangled with the con- sent of Lorant Last March the neigh | bors informed the authorities what was taking place and Lorant and the woman were asked to explain, the rumors con- corning them. When the cultivator saw l the gendarmes approaching he rushed | from his house, and flung himself on the railway. His mutilated body was subse- quently discovered.
 The events at Vigneauz and Villeneuve | Saint George have afforded an oppor tunity to the Anarchists and antl-mii tarists in various parts of the country | to organize demonstrations against the | government. There has been living | scene at Amiens, where large crowd | marched through the town singing the | International and other revolutionary | songs. After a meeting at the Labour | exchange they proceeded to a newspaper | office and smashed the windows. Next | they demonstrated before the residence of the general commanding the troops in the district. They were dispersed by the police, who arrested ten of the \ x lead CTS. During the disturbance A police commissary and a police inspect6> were pelted with stones and wounded. \A