The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-04
LAST CHAPTER OF
 COLIN MURDER
Condemned Man Begins Life
 Sentence in Penal Servitude
NEW TECHNICAL SCHOOL
An Institution of Practical Value That Is Claiming Much Public Inter- est in the French
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 | Paris. September 3.-(Special)-T last dramatic chapter in the sensational mur- der of Madame Gouin who was mys- | teriously killed and robbed about a year ago on railway train near Paris was enacted ths week when Michael Graby, the French soldier, who, with another soldier named Michael, committed the deed, was transported to New Caledonia | to enter upon life of penal servitude Michael was first sentenced to life im- prisonment in the French penal colony | in New Caledonia and Graby was sem fenced to death. After this dishonor- able diSrharge from the army President Fallieres signed a reprive and Graby's imprisonment.
 The sensational murder of Madame Gouin came shortly after the SteinheiI | case caused a furore through France At the outset there were no clues and the authorities admitted themselves baffled until passengers upon the train recalled that they had seen two French soldiers leave the train.
 The degradation of Graby and Michael before their regiment took place recently. It was a solemn scene
 One of he latest school fetes recently was the distribution of certificates of progress and capacity at the City of Paris Technical School for Girls It is strictly school for trades and house. keeping" and is in the Ruo Fondary. To enter 1t a girl must have gone through the whole primary course at a communal school. The age limits are from 13 to 15, and the pupil leaves at the end of the third year. The great houses of business show a keen interest in their work and generosity by sending materials for them to work upon. The competition among them to secure the services of graduates Is keen also.
 Some girls have entered on scholarships given by the city. Others pay fees. A great number as deserving pupils at primary schools, are received because they are poor and good girls. The di- rectress alone knows of the poverty of their families. All the girls take turns in the kitchen in preparing the mid day meal which Is for the whole school. They also take turns in helping the 'housekeepers" to tidy up. There are eight trades divisions, namely. modes, artificial flowers and feather mounting, childrens dresses, embroidery of tissues for wearing apparel and furniture, cor sets. ladies' vests and jackets, lingerie. clear starching and fine ironing. All the housekeepers practice plain sewing mending and alarming.
 From 1888 to 1908 the number of divorces in the French working population has more than doubled the marriages dis solved in the case of petitioners suing in former pauperies having risen from 2009 to 4204, and having still further in creased last year. The Temps has asked various experts how they remark for this remarkable social fact. The Secretary of the League for Individual Liberty be- lieves that the increase of divorce comes partly from growing selfishness on the part of husbands On the other hand women divorce either for immoral req sons or on the bestN moral grounds, in the latter case often because they can support themselves and their children without an idle husband to keep. Thus
 
 latter being rather on the decrease. At the same time, one cause of the increase of the divorce Is merely the increase of marriages. In the French working population couples living together with out being married are rarer than former ly. A lawyer especially interested in suits in forma pauperis says that it Is distressing fact that the great number of petitioners of divorce nowadays are young married people, sometimes three or four months bride and groom. At the first difficulties of welded life the husbands selfshness comes out, and he sighs for the freedom of his bachelor days. The girl-wife retorts that she also Is a slave now compared with what she was in her days of le-blessedness, and one now compared with what she was in her days of ingle-blessedness, and one more marriage goes to pieces.
 A judge holds that the possibility of suing in forma pauperis owing to a lax system, renders divorce easier in France to the poorer than to the well-to- do classes 'bourgeois'' divorce costs on an average of R100. A working class divorce costs nothing "One cannot imagine how many couples hay ing quarreled, have made 1t up, and now live happily just because a divorce would have cost 250O francs.' The French judges's evidence might have been pro- duced usefully before the English com mission. The workman plays a safe game What's the odds? He risks his happiness, true, but not his money, and so he peti- tions." AS for the reasons why so many people are looking for divorces and are granted as well as applied for, the same judge says that in France nowadays di- vorce by mutual consent exists de facto. though not de jure, owing to the ease of collision and the absence of penal ties against 1t.
 A tragic end of an unhappy love affair has occurred at an inn in the small French town of Roanne. Two young per sons arrived at the place some days ago and took a room in the inn. They were not seen again for more than "A hours and the proprietress of the inn finally became uneasy She went back to knock at the door and found that 1t was locked. and nobody answered from within.
 The proprietress informed the author ties of her suspicious and the door was forced open The young woman was lying in bed with her throat cut, and seemed to have been dead for some time. while the young man was still breathing. throat The bed was covered with blood.
 The young man Is not expected to sur he as well as the young woman have been ident flied.
 The ex-Empress Eugenia has arrived in Paris and put up at the Hotel Con- ,t.1. fha Ttti1