Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-17
FANCY Of JUDGE
LEADS TO TROUBLE
French JuriSt Arrested While Rid
ing Along Roadway Wear
ing Old Clothes
PRAYER FIGURES IN DIVORCE
Woman Addresses Plea to st. Ex-
terminus Asking That Two
Persons Be Arrested
PRAYER FIGURES IN DIVORCE

PARIS, April 16.-A good story Is
told of an assize court judge in a pro-
vincial town, where an important MUIR
der case is being tried just now. The
president of the assize court had the
misadventure of being, so to speak,
collared by gendarmes on the high
road, led like a prisoner to the gen.
darmerie, and questioned there until
his identity was fully established. The
distinguished magistrate Is no lover OF
fine clothes, and as soon as he has
divested himself of the gorgeous red
robes of the asslze court he likes to
appear In an old coat. The shabbieT
his clothes are the better he seems to
like them. The other day he left his
valise at railway station and was
proceeding on a bicycle to a small
town, where he was to preside at a
trial OF course, anything was good
put on his ver-' Oldest coat for the
Journey over dusty country road.
Two gendarmes were on the lookout
for an Individual who had a weakness
for the property Of others. He had
been described to them as tall, thin,
with gray hair, short mustache and
badly dressed. When the cyclist came
in sight the gendarmes exchanged a
knowing glance This was their man
into the road and barred his way.
"You are our prisoner!" they said.
There was nothing for the judge to
do but to allow himself to be escorted
to the nearest town. He the presl-
dent of the assize court, indeed! 1--WE
shall seel" muttered the gendarmes.
At the gendarmerie, however. the
Judge was able to prove his identity
in spite of his old clothes. 1t was
then the turn for the gendarmes to
feel ridiculous. But he accepted their
apologies with good nature, and no
bodv would have known the story II
he had not told 1t himself to his
friends as an adventure that had
greatly amused him.
PRAYER FIGURES IN DIVORCE
Grounds for divorce are numerous
under French law. A new one mas
has been brought forward by a petit
tioning husband, who produced in court
a COPY of written prayer discovered
among papers belonging to the re-
spondent, his wife. The prayer is ad-
dressed to saint whose name Is not
very familiar. but who seems to nave
been we'll known to the woman. SAINT
Exterminus The saint was not sought
to exterminate anyone, but what the
woman asked him to do was bad
enough.
"Great Saint Exterminus, I beseech
YOU to torment the soul and the mind
of Madame X, residing in Paris
through the five natural senses be
she tormented and obsessed with tne
yearning to leave her husband. Amen
Great Saint Exterminus, implore you
to torment the spirit of the husband
of Madame x. through the five natural
senses. Torment him so that he may
be unable to live without me. Sleep
ing let him dream only of me. waxing
let him love only me. Let him leave
his wife and bring him to me, o great
Saint Exterminus. Amen.
"Great Saint Exterminus, I beseech
you to torment my husbands spirit
through the five natural senses. Let
him be possessed by only one idea-to
give me a handsome allowance. Great
and most powerful Saint Exterminus,
l beseech you to unite me to the man
| love. Amen"
The civil court will take a week to
decide whether the wife's prayer to
Saint Exterminus is technically a
grave injury" such as to justify a
legal divorce being granted to her hus-
band.
"It is my baby you are judging"
sobbed a young mother, as she held
her child in her arms in Paris court,
where she was being tried for having
attempted to stab the father. The
Judge steeled his heart as best he
could against her tender appeals, but
this task was made more severe by the
pathetic eloquence of the woman's
counsel, Mile. Miropolska, who pleaded
for the mother. What was a mere
man, though a judge, to do in such
Here, take my baby and nurse it
while go to prison." she screamed
and offered to place it in the judge s
arms. It took lot of persuasion from
the Judge, the public prosecutor, and
the lady counsel to make the mother
understand that she would not have to
go to prison as long as she kept the
peace.
CLEVER RUSE FAILS
Paul and Angelo were very fond Of
each other, but Paul happened to be
arrested on some rather serious charge,
and was taken between two gendarmes
to the Palais de Justice. There he sud-
denly made his escape by butting the
breath out of one gendarmes ana
knocking the other out with blow of
his fist The police. after searching
for him in various places, concluded
that he might be hiding in Angeles
room. The young woman had, on the
other hand, taken her precautions.
The police called. She Indignantly
told them that she never received
man in her room. She had company,
indeed, but that was q young lady who
had come on a short. visit. The po-