Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-29

EXCITEMENT FOR ACTRESSES
Poison in Wine, Warning Letters and
Other Strenuous Happenings.
UNwELcoME GUESTS IN BOX
Rue BOtSaris Crime Stirs the Gay
French Capital from Center to
Circumferencc-PO Move
Very slowly.
BY PAUL vILLIERS.

very SLOWLY.
BY PAUL VILLIERS
PARIS, May 2S.-(special Dispatch to The
Bee )-Actresses are having rather an ex-
citing time of it in Paris in these days of
the comet One has been the victim of at
tempts to poison her, another had several
terrifying warning letters, and a third
spent one evening of apprehension because
of the presence of a private box of four
ferocious Apaches.
Nine Marguerite Care wife Of the
director of the Opera Comique after re-
hearsing a new part went to her dressing
room TO take glass of wine, inviting her
dresser and stage manager to join her.
No sooner had Nine Care taken a sip
OF the wine than she felt burning sensa-
ton. She at once declared that there was
something the matter with the wine. The
dresser, to reassure her, took a sip, but
was i'll for the rest of tho evening, while
the stage manager Jared as badly.
As the bottle had been opened the day
before and the contents were then perfectly
good, 1t was evident that 1t had been tam
pered with in the interval The matter
was placed in the hands of the police at
once and it is stated that the presence of
Sulphonate has been detected.
For days past Nine Carrie has been re-
ceiving anonymous and threatening let
ters
Strangely enough Mile. Yvonne de Bray,
an artist at the Renaissance, has also been
receiving letters similar in character to
those sent to Nine Carrie and containing
mysterious hints to her to be on her guard
against the flowers she is offered the
| oh in, bar ufoa t.,
the wings and steps down which she might
fall. The letters have been handed to the
police.
EVIL Looking Men.
Mile, Lanthelme, who is playing a prin-
| cipal part in LIE Costand des Epinettes, s.
at the Vaudeville, had an alarming ex-
perience the other evening. The story OF
the play is that of young man who turned
Apache in lieu of something better to do
One of the first Jobs" assigned to him
was to remove a young woman who held
in her possession compromising papers
| The young man falls in love with his
victim and saves her from another Apache
who would be before him in the deed. 1t is
intended as a skit upon the Apache.
| Therefore, when four evil-looking men
occupied the box on the stage on the even
| ing referred to, a little tremer of appre-
| hension went through the players. Had
! the Faubourg Nonamartre sent a blood
thirsty deputation to take vengeance?
Mile. Lanthelme went through her part
very nervously, one hand every now and
then furtively reaching for her beautiful
| black pearls which hung about her neck as
though she were afraid they might vanish
The management, who was shocked al
its guests. invited them to leave, but they
sturdily refused. Then it was discovered
that they had obtained the seats from a
gentleman who, disguised at not receiving
his money back for a box he could moi
occupy at the last minute, had given away
the tickets to the worst types" he hat
encountered on the boulevards.
The affecting part of the story is thai
the suspects next morning sent Mile
I4anthelme a pot of geraniums, together
with expressions Of their devotion and as
surances that her possessions would never
be touched by the fraternity.
There are many points in the sensationa
Rue Botzaris which appeal TO Parisians
! Not that 1t is more unnatural than many {
similar crime, but because the details lenC
themselves to any amount of descriptiv,
amplificatlons. Whilst the~spolice wer
searching for the presumed murderer
|
was ample time to enter into the history o
this unfortunate girl, who. at the age o
IS years had already long career on tn
Paris trottoirs behind her. She makes
casual acquaintance with a man who ha,
already spoken to three of her friends II
a similar walk of life They see her dis
appear gaily in his company down tn
| street and that was the last they saw o
4 Elisa Vandamme until her mutilated hea
was found In the vacant lot of the Ru
Botzaris. Her hands were found in
drain some time later, and then wha
seemed to be her ears and other parts O
the body, scattered. as 1t were at hau
hazard by the fiend who was cutting up he
corpse. and finally some children playin
on another vacant lot were found to b
using dried-up human leg as a bat in
game OF ball, The leg was to all ar
pearance, after q careful examination b
specialists of the morgue, set down as be
ing that Of the murdered girl.
Works Calmly Along.
The crime haunts the Imagination OF re,
! or would-be criminals. who write to III
I detective department claiming that the
r perpetrated 1t, as IL II were something
which they could glory. During this tim
. the only man who knew anything about II
/ girls death and how it occurred we
: quietly pedalling every day through n
streets OF Paris on a delivery trycicl
carrying clothes and well earning his 4 ,
5 francs day by more real hard Iabc
than he had even been compelled to do
the convict station at Gupiana
The newspapers were full of details abo,
> the Rue Botzaris mystery and when !
: could spare sou he would buy one ar
read it quietly by himself He had serv,
= his term OF five years. but another n,
as ticket-of-leave man was too much r
him.
!, He had apparently taken every precal
= ton to remove all traces OF the crime. 4
the police found the room scrupulous
clean and tidy. but he had omitted TO 2
rid Of the key Of the girl Vandamme
e room. 1t was this that convicted him.