The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-17
REPORTED DIVINE
 SARAH IS ID WE'D
Great French Actress Re-
 gards It as a Joke
CURE IS ARRESTED
Town of Igornay Is Very Indignant Over the Matter--Hotel Clerk Is Accused of EmbezzIement. Due De Clutches Is Writer
By PAUL VILL1ERs

Paris, December 1s-(spseia1. )==Paris
 has been very much interested not to say amused at the report that Mime.
 Sarah Bernhardt has decided to again
 venture on the troubled sea of fnatri-
 mony with NJ. Telligen, who could well
 be her grandson, as her new mate.
 | So remarkable a woman is the Divine
 Sarah that the report was not regarded as so incredible as it might have been
 as to any other woman. At first the great tragedienne was inclined to be indignant, but later the humor of the report ap- pealed to her, and the other day when l
 saw her during her rehearsal of Victor
 Hugo's 'Lucretia Borgia,' she paused long enough to say:
 q am mother, grandmother and a great grandmother. My son Maurice is
 A. The report that I am going to marry
 him is simply comical, simply comical. If it were not so comical 1t would be
 shameful"
 Her secretary added: Mime. Sarah
 Bernhardt Is engaged, yes, busiIy engaged with the preparations for Lucretia Bor- 1 gia.' She is welded, indeed, to her art, | to her great theatrical ideals; but as
 for all the gossip about the real forth
 coming marriage, which would set up all Paris agog, it must not even be thought | of."
 l AS for M. Maurice Bernhardt he was
 astonished. but he managed to say, "The
 report is so decidedly absurd that 1t is not worth the denial"
 The little town of Igornay, in the south east of France, is widely indignant at | the arrest of their beloved cure, the Abbe | Laroue, on a charge of murder. The ar- | rest follows within six weeks of the vio- l lent death of an old man named Dessor- | tenne, who had acted as bellringer to | the cure, and whose remains were found | within a few feet of the altar, where he | had been clubbed to death.
 The cure was arrested on suspicion but was at once set at liberty again. For SeV eral weeks no development occurred in the mystery, typical village murder | after Balzac's heart, in which the po
 lice knew they need not look beyond the outskirts of Igornay for the criminal. yet | were unable to lay hands upon him. It might have been a village conspiracy, for | old Desserteune was hated by all, by man and child alike.
 1 The case has now taken a remarkable turn, as the result of an alleged confess sion, thrice repeated, 1t is said, by a so l der named Jean Leroux, of the Twenty ninth regiment, who made statement in- | culpatng the cure of the parish and member of the choir, named Grillot. 1 According to the soldier, Grillot asked | him to come to the church just before 6
 o'clock in the evening to stun" the old | bellringer, who was reported to have saved a good deal of money. Leoux ex-
 pressed some hesitation, when the choris- | ter said, Tt will be all right; the Abbe | Laroue will be there" Thereupon he
 agreed to go.
 "The sacrsty door was open, and the
 cure was waiting for us inside,' said Le-
 roux. "Ie had everything prepared and | there was a barricade of chairs at the door. Handing a club to me, the cure | said, Remain in the cemetery and watch | for the old boy coming. If he is not
 alone, let us know I hid myself behind | a tombstone, and saw the bellringer com- | ing up the path slowly and going into the | church by the side door, A few seconds
 afterward I heard a cry from the interior | of the church and then all was still. A | hand brusquely shut the door that the | old man had left open. About a quarter of an hour afterward Grillot came out and said, It is all over; let us clear out
 I asked about the cure, and Grillot said, He is in the church. He has something to do.
 Asked why the cure had remained ip
 the church, the soldier replied why, to ring the Angelus, so that nobody would
 suspect anything. As a matter of fact, while we walked away from the church
 we heard it sound in the ordinary tranquil fashion" The Abbe Laroue and the chor- ister, Grillot, have now been rearrested. It is said that the cure. who dealt in horses, owed the belringer a consider able sum of money.