The Washington times., 1910-10-03
L'HOMME SANS FIGURE By

Copyright. The Frank A Munsey Co.

10 the present is the only one who
can give any information OF the trag-
edy, has given the following account:
Il was at the end Of the garden, ."
she says, when NJ. Polydore rushed
toward me. crying out. Louise, some
one has killed my mother. have
found her dead in my fathers studio.
Go Immediately 10 Nogent and fetch
Il was bewildered. I had only left
Madame Barrabas a half hour before,
and MademOiselle EVelyEe, who was
doing aer piano practice
I went 10 the studio, and my be-
wilderment became terror.
Where is AIademOiselle2 / cried.
M POlyydore replied:
g She is in her room. It is useless
TO terrify her. There is. time enough
for her TO know. GO-gO quickly.
And 1 ran like mad 10 NOgent. 1
passed Mother Care and Father Tape
Il rOeil and called out 10 them as l
passed. I did not stop
So the crime, IL il is a crime. was
committed between the hours OF 10 anu
1880. This is an incontestabie point.
Then the affair takes q strange turn,
which somewhat baffles the police.
The COmmtSSaire found Madame
Barrabas dead in her husbands studio
and her daughter in a swoon lying
on her bed, but the son, Polydore, had
disappeared, and although a search
in every direction was Immediately
been no clue to his whereabouts. As
TO the husband Of the victim, he also
has disappeared, and what renders
the mystery stir more impenetrable,
on his desk he left a letter addressed
to his brOtherin-law, Lawyer Mar
cadian, in which he states that he has
killed his wife by accident" and he
beSs the advocate to look after the
interests Of his two children Evelyne
and Polydore.
The field remains open to all by
pOtheSeS. and the contradictory state
ments have accumulated since the
opening of the inqueN with such
rapidity that one is reduced TO the
most extraordinary cOnjectureS-
According to the declaration OF
Madame Carrie and her neighbors, II
was they who broke the news to NJ.
BarrabaS as he was returning home
on his way from the Barne, where
he had been fishing for several hours.
This proves. then, that the sculptor
was not at home when the crime or
accident took place. So the letter
that he wrote TO Lawyer Marca dian is
incOmprehensible. What is the rea-
; son of his flight The daughter, who
regained consciousness after some
hours, affirmed that she knew moth
cept that her brother told her that
he had found her mother dead in the
studio. 1t appears that the shock
was so violent that she fell into the
measures aroused her.
The Government seals have been af-
!! fixed. and the inquest viii continue.
/ The chef de Ia Surete has sent two OF
his most efficient operatives to Bry-sur-
Marine.
Pub! That did not teach me much.
ii was so much Stuffing,
Nevertheless, heaved a sigh Of -e-
lief. Evelyn had had the presence OF
mind to remain silent. the perspicacity
to read between the lines of my letter
the plans which at the time l wrote Il
l myself had been incapable Of fOrmu
| lating.
turned the pages of the paper to thai
reserved for the latest news There
read;
Instead of clearing the mystery oil
y-Sur-Marne increases. Yesterday
! afternoon about O'clock NJ BarrabaS
drove up in his automobile TO his broth
/ in-laU's home, in the Rue Michel Ange
4 In the absence Of Lawyer Mareadian
I who had started for Bry, the servant
J who had heard of the tragedy. under tn,
/ influence of a natural stupefaction, Ie
I the sculptor enter the house, and rushed
: TO the CommisSaire to inform the polio,
/ OF the whereabouts Of the victims hus
I band When the man returned, aCcOmpa
l MED by the Sergent de Vile, the auto
/ mobile stood before the door, but NJ
Barrabas had escaped Another impor
| tant fact. Lawyer M5rcadian received
/ letter from his nephew Polydore stain;
/ that in view Of the terrible accident
which was not TO survive the victim o