The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-11-06
PARIS NEWS NOTES
AND GOSSIP ITEMS
Aviator Accused of Homicide for the
First Time in History of French
Criminal Law.

Paris, Nov. 6.--The aviators, Legag-
neux and Martinez, went shooting on
board an aeroplane in the neighborhood
of Compiegne recently. Legagneux pi-
loted the biplane in dextrous circles and
ovals above the eoverts while Martinez
did the shooting,
The machine cannot remain in the
air and fly at less speed than par
fridge and, as Martinez is an expert
enced shot, he rarely missed birds whose
line of flight was that of the aeroplane
He also killed two hares, the apparatus
wheeling down Just above them The
difficult part of the sport was finding
the game after landing.
The public prosecutor at Rheims has
brought proceedings against ayiators for
the first time in French criminal law
for homicide through negligence, the de-
fendents being Count d'Hespel, who, in
alighting, struck down and killed a ma
ehinist. German Gardes and Aviator
Provost, who ran into soldier, Eugene
Potin, imprudently and earelessly, the
prosecuting attorney affirms.
Professor Bouchard's experiments with
radium have brought him to the coz
viction that when projected on nervous
centres radium produces paralysis and
rapid death. This has not been tried
on human beings, but upon mice enclosed
in healthy oxygenated receptaeles, Mice
under the radium ray died in from six
to eight hours. while so-called control
specimens kept under identical condi-
tons, except that the radium carnations
were absent, remained well.
Microscopic examination of the ami
NAL tissues after death showed no
change except a diminution of white
globules in the blood and congestion of
the blood in the lungs The bodies had
acquired such extraordinary radio-activ-
ity that three days after death they
made an impression on a Photographic
plate through several sheets of black
paper.
Madame Curie says that "if the ma
ture of the radations from radium are
little known the cause of spontaneous
rado-activity remains as mysterious,
and is always f1 us a subject of pro-
found establishment"
This radio-actiyity being communicat-
ed to almost everything adjacent to the
substance except lead the radium in
stitute that the French government or,
more properly the university of Paris,
is building for Madame Curie is being
lined completely with lead.
Doctor Henri Martin, grandson Of the
great historian, made an announcement
at the weekly meeting Of the Academy
of Sciences of exceptional Importance
to the study of prehistoric man. At
the foot Of hill in the department Of
the Charente the doctor dug up the skull
of man of the Quarternary epoch,
showing marked divergenees from the
four or five similar specimens already
extant, notably a very pronounced pro-
tuberanee at the base Of the forehead.
The teeth, which are very strong, are
worn right down to the crown, and lead
to the belief that their owner was herbi-
vorous Beside the skull were found a
few broken instruments and some other
bones all Of the same period, and the
digging is being continued with the
greatest care in the hope of being able
to unearth the complete skeleton.
A case of hydrophobia from the bite