The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26
CAUGHT AFTER LENGTHY CHASE Paris Police Run Down Slayer. FOUND IN BELGIAN PRISON Was Serving Sentence For
 Desertion. Accused Man Claim. He Fired ia Self Defense--Mystery of All Paris
 Finally solved By off,


 Paris. Sept 25.--An Instance of the wonderful pertinacity with which the police follow up a diffit ult case has just been offered in what Is believed to be the definite solution of the affair known as the Mystery of the Rye du Mont -Thabor," whicn uns parallel to the Rue de Rivoli. intersecting the Rue de castiglone.
 At the end of last March a man nam ed Fleurot was found dead at his dwelling in that street. A revolver with six chambers, all empty. was iy- ing by his side, and Q blue handler chief tightly knotted round his neck seemed to show that his murderer had tried to stranEie him before dischsrg- Ing the weapon.
 Search on the premises revealed the significant fact that robbery did not appear to have been the motive of the crime. About s1o still lay In the open drawer of a desk What. however. the circumstances that Fleurot had been Invested of the suit Whisn ne was wearing. and that a blue vest and an old pair of trousers had been left be- hind by the murderers, who had evident ly gone off with the clothes. The re- iInQuished garments were carefully ex- amined and the trousers were found to contain buttons bearing the mark "Buenos Ayres." This did not appear to afford much of clue as there are are a number of people in Paris hall ing from the Argentins: but the police caught on and stuck to 1t.
 The clothes. buttons and all. were shown to hundreds of Parisian tailors, several of them stated in the most pos itiye manner that the style and the cut displayed clear traces of their being oi Belgian workmanship. Inquiries were made in Belgium. and after an exhaus' tive investigation 1t was ascertaineo that the cloth out of which the vest had been made had besn cnt from a piece manufactured at Yerviors. The tailor was discovered next, and he stat ed that he had made q precisely simt' lar gaFmant with the other of a bit oi cloth for the Prince de Chimay. The Prince was now applied to. and he dis tinctly remembered, as soon as he saw the vest. that after he had worn 1t fol some time he had given 1t to one oi his people who had lett him. and Bel gium for the purpose of opening French restaurant at Buenos Ayres This had happened seven years ago. Find Restaurant Keeper.
 The next step was to find the resta urant keeper. which was done without any particular difficulty. As soon a: he saw the vest he recognized 1t snt said he had given 1t. with some linen to a fellow countrymin at Bueno' Ayres. This man had been in very need, circumstances and he mad found som' occupation for him. but he had grow' homesick and had returned to Antwerp Since that date had heard nothing him. The Belgian police we're sooI starting on a search for this man whom they finally lit upon in prison he having been sentenced to two years incarceration for desel ton.
 An official of the French detectiV' department promptly started for th' place, and he put number cf ques lions to the prisoner. who Is alleged tf have admitted that he killed Flourot but to have given the followlns strange version in expianation:
 He Is alleged to have sailed fol Havre, not for Antwerp. and arrived tr Paris with trifiing sum that he had earned during the voyage. He wal wandering about in search of work when, as he was looking at sofnt photographs in the Rne de Rivoli, he was accosted by 2 stranger, who asked If he would care to copy some manu, script for him. The stranger described himself as a literary man. said thai his books were well known, and ended by offering him very fair remuneration