Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-08
BRIAN TO CURB
LIQUOR TRAFFIC
Premier Expresses Fear that the
French National May Drink
Itself to Death.
WILL DRAFT A DRASTIC MEASURE
Opera BOuffe Procedure by Eye Wit
nesses of Tragedy.
MURDERER EASILY GETS AWAY
Rural Police Methods Shown Up as
Utterly Foolish.
FUNERAL OF A FAITHFUL DOG
Hearts of Long Dead Rulers Kept I'm
Caskcts In the Cathedral OF st.
Denis, Having IA Special
Room.
WILL DRAFT A DRASTIC MEASURE
Opera Bouffe Procedure by Eye Wit
nesses of Tragedy.
MURDERER EASILY GETS AWAY
Rural Police Methods Shown Up as
Utterly Foolish.
FUNERAL OF A FAITHFUL DOC
RY PAIL vII.I.IERs.

BA PAUL NAlAlAAEtNo.
PARIS, Jan. Especial to The Bee.) The
liquor question promises to become dom
inant issue in this country. It is likely
before long the government will draft
drastic measure to reduce the number OF
drinking places, which are increasing at an
alarming rate Premier BRAND has init
mated his intentions both in the Legislature,
in interviews and in private He recently
said France was in danger of drinking
itself to death.
Peasants Move slowly.
An extraordinary story Of rural police
methods comes from Pontcarre, little
summer resort situated near the Forest of
Armainvilliers, where a tramp murdered an
old woman who kept a small inn. Hearing
the old womans screams, her neghbors,
instead of giving the alarm, went off to
fetch her husband in a village a mile away,
leaving the woman to her fate. The hus-
band thought he had better tell the local
Waterman and went off to the latters
house In his turn the Waterman decided
he must inform the mayor who was work.
ing at Edourd de Rothschilds chateau, In
the neighborhood At once the mayor set
out for the scene, accompanied by the
Waterman, commercial traveller who hap
pened to be in the village and shopkeeper
Through the windows of the murdered
woman's inn they could see the murderer
rifling the rooms, but the mayor refused to
act until the gendarmes arrived When the
tramp came downstairs the party saw him
stepping over his victim, who lay dead
Only after the guardians of public order
had watched the violation of the law for
twenty minutes did the Waterman decide
to take action, crying: open in the name
of the law" and beating on the door. But
the murderer opened back window and
escaped easily into the black depths of the
forest. So far he has not been captured.
Funeral for Police Dog.
The Seventeenth brigade of the city po-
lice got up a funeral for the police dog,
Leo, shot dead by an Apache Leo, who
was the pet of the brigade. was working
with his comrade and friend, the mastiff,
! Prince on the Notifications late at night,
scouting with a cyclist police patrol Just
under the massive stonework of the dis
used fortresses the two dogs halted before
| a gap recently torn through wooden PAL
ings. They examined the spot, and then re-
turned to the police, showing signs that
something was amiss Two officers re-
] turned to the gap and decided 10 go
through Leo and Prince went with them.
The policemen had not gone many steps
when surprised by revolver fusillade.
Satisfied that they had to do with out
laws, the officers slipped the leashes OF
the two dogs. The firing went on for
| few seconds but It did not stop the two
dogs which leaped for the fence and made
towards one of the men who was shooting.
| This man almost succeeded in getting
away, but after a chase the police seized
him.
Another man who was held by the police
dog, Prince. was also arrested. Prince
seized him with ferocity, and although the
policeman who had him in charge gem
orally had absolute mastery over the dog,
he could not make him let go Of the mans
wrist, which he had seized in his strong
jaws.
The policeman was at loss to under
stand this, but on looking around he dis
covered that Leo was lying dead. Leo had
| been shot by the Apache, who was first
captured. His comrade. Prince. had mis-
taken the thiefs identity, and grapped
with the other man. At the police stat on
II was found that only one of the men was
an Apache The other was night watch
man, who had used his revolver because
he mistook the police for thieves.
Hearts at Dead Kings.
In the cathedral of st. Denis there is
room which contains the hearts OF some
French monarchs. The name OF each SOW
eregn is engraved on the pedestals There
was no pedestal reserved for the heart
OF Louis XVII but in the middle of one Of
the rows a pedestal rather larger than the
others bore the initial IN" without a
crown. The casket was in gold. NJ. Boissy
d'Anglas suggests, with some support from
other authorities, that this is the heart Of
Napoleon, placed there by one OF those
who served him at st. Helena, and having
been taken from the body, after the
autopsy.