The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-08
LIQUOR QUESTION
 LIVE IN FRANCE Promises To Become Dominant
 Issue in Republic METHODS OF THE POLICE Extraordinary story Comes From French Frontier, Where Woman Was Murdered and Left To
 Her Fate ny Neishbors
METHODS OF THE POLICE
BY PAUL vILLIERs

BY PAUL VILLIERs
 Paris. January 7.-(Special) 1.-The liquor question promises to become
 dominant issue in this country. It is
 likely before long the government will draft a drastic measure to reduce the
 number of drinking places which are increasing at an alarming rate Premief
 Rriand has intimated his intentions,
 both in the legislature. in interviews
 and in private He recently said France was in danger of drinking itself to death.
 An extraordinary story of rural police | methods comes from Pontcarre, little
 summer resort situated near the Forest
 of Aamainvilliers, where a tramp mur- dered an old woman who kept small inn. Hearing the old woman's screams,
 her neighbor. instead of giving the
 alarm, went off to fetch her husband in
 a village mile away, leaving the wom-
 an to her fate. The husband thought
 he had better tell the local watchman,
 and went off to the latter's house. In
 his turn the watchman decided he must
 inform the mayor, who was working at
 Edourd de Rothchild's chateau, in the neighborhood. At once the mayor
 set out for the scene, accompanied by the watchman, commercial traveller, who happened to be In the village, and 2. shopkeeper. Through the windows
 W the murdered woman's inn they could
 see the murderer rif1ing the rooms, but
 the mayor refused to act until the car da
 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 20 minutes did the watchman de- eide to take action, crying, Open in the
 name of the law" and beating on the
 door. But the murderer opened a back window and escaped easily into the
 back depths of the. forest. So far nc
 has not been captured.
 The Seventeenth brigade of the city
 police got up 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 dlsused fortresses the
 two dogs halted before gap recently
 torn through wooden palings. They ex-
 amined the spot. aNd then returned to
 the police, showing signs that soms- thing was amiss. Two officers returned to the gap, and decided to go through Leo and Prince went with them The policeman had not gone many steps
 when surprised by revolver fusilade. Satisfied that they had to do with out
 laws the officers slipped the !eashes of
 the two dogs. The firing went on for
 a few seconds, but 1t did not stop the two dogs. which tleaped for the fence and made toward one of the men who was shooting. This nan almost suc- ceded in getting away. but after a
 chase the police seized uim.
 Another man, who was held by the police dog Prince, was also arrested
 Prince seized him with ferocity, and al-
 though the policeman who had him in
 charge generally hau absolute mastery
 over the dog, he could not make him let
 go the mans wrist which he had seized
 in his strong jaws.
 The policeman was a. loss to un- derstand this, but on looking around he discovered that Leo was lying dead
 Leo had been shot by the Apache who
 was first captured. His comrade Prince had mistaken the thiefs identity, and grappled with the other man. At the
 police station Is was found that only one of the men was an Apache. The oth- or was a night waterman who had
 used his revolver because he mistook the police for thieves.
 In the cathedral of St. Denis there IS room which contains the hearts of some French monarchs.
 The name of each sovereign is en- graved on the pedestals. There was no pedestal reserved for the heart of Louis XIII, but in the middle of one of the rows pedestal rather larger than the others bore the initial "N," without a crown. The casket was in gold. M.
 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 at the autopsy.
 sFrom Lonpian comes the story of an awful tragedy, a double murder. The
 suicide of the assassin and the suicide
 of a man whose wife and daughter had
 been murdered. Jean Chanel, a. pros-
 porous farmer who had lost his wife
 four months ago, made a deed of gift by which he made over everything on 1t to his niece, Mime. Aussenac, who was in return to support her uncle and to give him pocket money. Arrangements of this kind are quite usual in this coun- try. Mme Aussenac. with her husband and two daughters, went to live at the farm,
 and did all in their power to console the old man. By French law a deed of gift Is irreyocable. He found out that if his niece and her daughters died he would become their heir. He would be the owner of his farm again.
 One night recently he tried to Kill them by putting poison in their soup; prompt medical aid baked the poison plot but did not alter Chanefs design to commit murder. The head of the house was off on business trip at the time. It was night when M. Aussenac returned. All was dark in the farm house, and the door was locked. M Aussenac banged at 1t. and listened. At first he heard nothing; then he heard his younger daughters vouice call to him. He could not get in at the ground floor. but the shutters were not closed upstairs. He was an active man, and climbed up the side of the house, and
 got into his daughters bed room. On the floor was Mime. Aussenac Her head was terribly battered. On the
 bed lay the elder daughter, with. her throat cut, and on the other bed dhs child of lay moaning. M The old man. who was 76 years old
 had gone out for a walk, returned an hour before his fneice's husband had re- turned home. The rest of the story Is told by the little grandniece who sur vived the murderer's blows. He quar- relied with Mme Aussenac. "He tried to put something in my medicine" sald the child. and mother would not let him. Then he got angry, and said mother had robbed him of his home. r. l.. 5 I-~ ~-f fG~.~