The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-13

tiste lyrique. It was case or love at first sight, and the next day the "Ba- ron was presented by her to her par ents. A lightning engagement follow ed, during which time the Baron de San Marinto" lived in the house of his ruture father and mother-in-law as their son. short time before the wedding was to take place their fn- tended son-in-law suddenly disappear ed, together with a sum of $s.ooo which he had stolen from the safe. The good people then learned that the self-styled baron had only the right to be called Juao, or Jack, Campos and had left Portugal after embedding from his employer to the extent of $1.40o.
 It was not long before they were aware that he was living in great style at Trouville. on the money which he had appropriated. Their daughter. the disappointed bride, accompanied by
 her elder sister. followed him to Trou- vile to compel him to disgorge what was left. He consented to do so, and went to Havre with the sister of his one-time fiance, to whom he gave the greater part of the money. But in the train, on his way back, there was a murderous scene. The young woman said that while she was dozing he put | a revolver to her head and fired sev- | eral shots. falling to kill her only by | a miracle. As it was. however,she lost | one eye. He next tried to strangle her. | but the blood that flowed from her wounds made his fingers so slippery l that he could not hold her. and she | screamed for help. The young man was captured on the following day, and has just been tried at Rouen. According to him he was exasperated by the remarks of the young woman. 1 The jury delivered a verdict of | guilty, with extenuating circumstances, | ha T3ar In vua
 sentenced to seven years at hard labor. l The Murderer's Finger Prints. Finger prints have played an import
 ant part in elucidating the mystery of
 a crime committed at Neuilly-Plais l ance, near Paris, on Sunday night last. | For once the system of Bertillon has given prompt and brilliant results. and the finger prints left on champagne i bottle and on wineglass have led to the immediate Identification of two all legged murderers. Last Sunday night widow, Mrne Agnes Mois, was mur- dered in her own house. She was 70 years, of age, and curiously enough
 had constant fear of being attacked by burglars. Her husband died two years ago, and since then she was so afraid of robbers that she never left her house after dark. Last Sunday she
 went out for the first time with some little nieces to a local fair, and re- turned alone about 10 o'clock at
 night. She asked one of her neighbors
 to accompany her through her garden into the house to make sure that no burglars had entered 1t during her ab- sence. Two young women accompanied
 her, and after looking through the rooms on the ground floor, where they
 saw nothing, they retired, and left the
 old lady At that very time two burg
 lars were in the kitchen. They waited 1 until Mime. Mois was alone. and then when she came to the kitchen to look for an egg. as she did every night, they bounced upon her, strang1ed her,
 and stabbed her to death. They only
 discovered about $15 in her possession. 1 However, they made up for their dis- appointment by ransacking her larder, l where they found several bottles of champagne, which they emptied.
 Photograph is Taken.
 When the crime was discovered on Monday morning M. Bertillon was at once sent, for, and took photographs of
 all the finger prints on the bottles and glasses. The prints were perfectly I distinct but, of course, the. question
 was to find the men who had left them. An old couple living close by had a lne'er-do- we'll son, who was wanted by
 the police for a sum of $40 which he
 had stolen from one of his cousins. This young man, who only occasional ly worked as plumber, and lived most
 of the time nobody knew how, was ar
 rested. He occupied room In low
 class inn with chum of his. and when T the puffce came to arrest him, his room companion gave a sigh of relief on
 hearing that the plumber was arrested
 for having FQpbed spfyly his cousin. M. Bertillon later on had the happy in 'tspirat tfcn. of conparfhg Sic marks which bpagne bottle wIth the fingers of the plumber, and was ystrueka a once by
 their close resemblance. He immedi-
 ately informed the police, the plumb- II CTS finger prints on glass were pho-
 tographed for comparison, and they
 were found identical with those found H on the champagne bottle. At the same time his room companion was arrest
 ed, and his finger prints were also pho-
 tographed by M. Bertillon. They cor
 responded exactly to those found on
 the glasses in the murdered woman's
 house. When the two prisoners were
 told they were suspected of the mur-
 der of Madame Mois. they turned pale, 1 but denied. the charge. The police
 have, h4weyer,s obtained further evil
 dence against them, and among other } things the two men are known to 1 have spent the night of Sunday at
 Neuilly Plaisance, and can give no sat- I isfactory explanation of their presence
 in that district. Finally. burglars
 dark lantern of clumsy make had been
 left by the murderers in the house where the crime was committed. and \ the police have, 1t Is believed, found | proof that the lantern Is the work of I the plumber. who had roughly soldered II the pieces together But if 1t had not
 been for the finger prints. 1t is proba- II ble that the police would not SC soon
 have come on the track of the crimi- Il nals.
 Madame Sarah Bernhardt and M l Henry Bataille had come to terms over I Faust" by the latter, which the for mer was to bring out. As occasionally
 happens in the theatrical world. af ter having completely agreed. they
 eventually fell out with the same thor Fl oughness, and each sued the other for breach of contract. claiming damages. The courts have just decided that the contracts appeared to have been equal | ly broken on both sides, but that the one fact which stood out was Madame | Sarah Bernhardt's having spent money
 on dresses and scenery for M Batafl- II les "Faust," and the author accord ingly will have to pay the actress back II $2, ,o00 which she laid out on his play, \ while she must return his manuscript | A Truth We'll Stated.
 1 Wash in Rton Post.