The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-17
bERNHARDT DENIES
ENGAGEMENT RuMOR
"Wedded to Art Alone" Says
Remarkable Woman in
Refuting Report.
FRANCE HAS SENSATION
Popular Priest Charged With
Murder on Statement of
an Accomplice.
BY PAUL VuLIERS.


PARIS Dec. i6.-PaHs has been very
much interested. not TO say amused. at
the report that Nine Sarah B4rnlares
has declined TO again venture on tns
troubled sea OF matrimory with NJ Tel
iieen. who could as well be her grandson
as her new mate
So remarkable n woman is the divine
Sarah that the report VAS not regarded
as 10 any other woman. At first the
great tragedIenne wso inclined to be IN
dIEnant. but later the humor OF tho
report appealed TO her. and the othe-
day when saw her during her re-
hesrsal of Victor Hugo's 'Lucretia
borsia: she DSused long enough to say:
great grandmother. AfY son. Maurice. is
IL. The report that am going 20 marry
is simply comical. slmpl,' comcsl. If II
ful."
Her secretary added: Nine. Sarah
Bernhardt is engaged yes. busily engaged
with the preparations for 'Lucretia
Borgia. She is welded. Indeed 10 har
art. to her great theatrical ideals. but
as for all the gossip about the real forth,
coming marriage. which would set all
Paris agog, ii must not even be thought
As for NJ. Maurice Bernhsrdt, he vas
asionished, but Inc managed to say: The
report IS go decidedly absurd that II is
not worth the denial
Priest Charged With Murder.
The little town OF Igcrnay IN toe
southeast OF France. Is widely indignant
at the arrest OF their beloved cure. tho
Abbo Laroue, on a charge OF murder.
The arrest follows within six weeks OF
tho violent death of an OLD man named
Dessertenne who had acted as beil-rlnxer
found within a few feet of the altar.
where he had been dubbed to death.
The cure was arrested on suspicion.
but Was at once set at liberty again. For
several weeks development occurred
in the mystery-a typical village murder
after Saizac's heart. Ia which the po-
outskirts Of Jgornay for the criminal. yet
were unable 10 lay hands on him. It
might have beon n village conspiracy,
for old Dessarteune was hated By all,
by man and child alike.
The case has now taken a remarkable
turn, rs the result OF an alleged confess
sion thrice repeated, il Is said. by n
soldier named Jean LerouN OF the Twen-
ment inculparing the cure OF the par
ism and a member 90 the choir named
G-illot. According 10 the soldier. Grill
lot asked him to come TO the church
just before o'clock In the evening TO
stun the old bellrlnger. who was re-
ported TO have saved a good deal OF
money. LerouX expressed some hcsits-
ton, when the chorister said ''It Will be
ThereUpon he agreed 10 go.
Cure Owed Money.
The sacristy door was open and the
cure was waiting for us Inside, said
Leroux He had everything prepared
and there was harricade OF chairs
cure said: Remain in the cemetery and
watch for the old boy coming. II ne is
not alone let us know. hid myself be
hind Il tombstone and saw the bellringer
I'M m sin nS.-1y 1p,5 rr,fn into
the church by the side door A few sec
onds afterwards I heard a CRY from the
interior OF the church and then all was
st!ll' hand brusauey shot tho door
that the old man had left open. About
lot came out and said: 1T is all over:
about the cure and Griilot said: He is
In the church. He has something to
Asked why the cure had remained in
ring the AngeIus, so that nobody would
suspect anything. AS a matter Of fact.
while we walked away from The church
wc heard y sound In the ordinary tran
Chorister GrllIot have now been arrested.
II Is said that the cure. who dealt IN
horses owed the bellrinser a considerable
sum of money,
Duke Is an Inventor.
The Due do GuIches. aged about 80
GrGnuhle. is also son OF the Due and the
late Duchess de C;ramont. nee dc Roth
schild. OF Frankfort Military service as
Fl trooper has hardened his fiber and
raised him above the standards Of FASH
ionable society. He is preparing the
sis for the degree Of d. Sc. on the
pressure OF wind on every point of the
arroplaue. "A subject that may he OF
practical interest. as IL VIII give infor-
ma ton as TO the best shape for the
wings of n nyer. Every morning In calm
ther he may be seen driving motor
car al full speed from The chateau his
mother built at Vallere to Fontaine les
Corps Nuds. the residence OF one OF bis
sisters. The car IL 4 singular one. Above
Il ls sort OF wing resembling that OF
an aeroplanc, Every few inches over
the surface Of this sail holes. which
connect IL by a rubber tube with mano-
meters, nr wind gauges. The due has FL
ways with him Photographic and two
engineers OF the Ecole CentTale. The car
s run at every speed. and the plane iS
,ent into all sorts of shapes the record
If pressure being instantaDeously pho
ographed. Hundreds OF photos are thus
aiken In run OF three or four hours.
md the results carefully Iabulated and
;ystematlzed. Due de Guiches's re-
searches Will cost him something Ike
80. 900.