The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-05-29
Sherlock Holmes and All Others are
B outdone for cock-sureness in the
Gathering Of
Evidence.
MEMOIRS OF DUCHESS
Notes, Letters Etc. Lett by Titled
Lady Have Been Put Into
Very Interesting Book
Form.
[By William Philip simms, Paris cor.

LILY VNiAiiuiA hilIP Oillmo, dtlS CUT
respondent Of the United Press.]
PARIS, May 29.-Sherlock Holmes
and all that galaxy of dead-eye detec-
tives have been entirely outdone for.
cock-sureness in arresting culprits and
gathering evidence against them. The
new hero is the motion picture ra-
chine, Detective Cinema" as the
French call him. And thereby hangs
an awful row.
During the Champagne riots in the
Marine and the Aube districts, several
Paris firms of motion pictures sent
operators down there for news pic
lures These films are vying with
the daily newspapers here for telling
the news, and when a startling event
happens in the afternoon, the boule-
ward motion picture theatres the next
day show. it in all its details. Paris
newspapers usually are day later
than this. The Champagne riots"
made a good story" and the cinema
! tograph editors" went t,r it strong.
1t happens that the police were
eager to make arrests Of many engag-
ed in the riots, especially these who
took the lead and set fire to or plum
dered champagne cellars and ware
houses. Evidence was hard to get to-
gether,s that Is evidence that was in
disputable, for in crowds of 10000 or
10000 people 1t was hard to say that
this man and that man did the dirty
work.
But when the motion pictures began
brilliant idea struck the police. They
visited several performances, taking
with them a few old inhabitants VINO
were personally acquainted with all
the folks in the surrounding country.
AS the show roceeded, first one,
then another of the men would ex-
claim:
"oh look. There's Pierre Durana
setting fire to the warehouse"
See there! Paul Vouvrier is burst
ing open hogsheads of wine!"
And there's Eugene Marcelle.
Thomas Toutee. Georges Lapeuze,
Alphonse Ganay, CASTOR Roger, etc,
battering down the doors of the Bub-
bly, Wine company"
The police wrote down these
names and later made wholesale ar
rests. The motion picture films will
be introduced in COURT as evidence at
the trials of these unhappy people,
this being the first time in history a
criminal proceeding had for an eye
. witness" motion-picture machine.
Opinion is greatly divided as tc
the worth of this new detective
Chief Hamard, of the Paris detective
bureau, declares even this evidence
, Is not conclusive, though he regards
it as very important. While a single
picture might be snapped showing 6
perfectly innocent man In an attitude
utterly condemnatory, series of pic
lures would not permit of this At the
, same time even motion pictures may
. be faxed
Many a time have seen photo
graphic tricks of the kind exposed,
: the chief smiled. Alleged detectives
: go to husband and say: Sir you,
| wife is false to YOU 'Never!' says the
husband Certainly replies the hold
: up man, and here's the picture which
proves it.. He produces photograph
seemingly genuine, of the man;
, wife emerging from the house, hold
! ing the arm Of male escort. The
: trickster has simply substituted OF
, the negative the face of the woman
| who posed for the picture, dressed
T like the mans wife dressed.
] The General confederation of La
r Dor has taken the matter much u
heart and declares that in the futur,
motion picture men will not be tol
Grated near a crowd composed o
their members I'VE refuse to be hel,
responsible for what might happen |,
molten picture machine or the maj
behind it." labor leader here il
quoted as saying.
. Lastly the motion-picture mel
themselves are in despair. They Sc,
that from now on it will be we'll nigl
impossible to get pictures of strik
scenes, rioting of any sort, since !
: will be as much as the life of the OF
orator is worth to attempt to TAX
k them
d The Duchess de Dino, who after
It wards became the Duchess de Talley
d rand ct de sagan, who died in 1867
| left quantity of material in tn
" shape of notes, letters, ETC., whic
k her grand daughter, the Princes
J. Radzivill, cousin Of Boni de Caste
g lane and sister of the Due de Tally
l. rand present husband of the forme
y Miss Anna Gould, has just been pu
g into book form.
n Some of the Duchess memoirs ca'
It ry sting, now aimed at some Ems
S lish nobleman or woman. now at
French person. From 1881 to tn