Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-29
CITIZENS MUST KEEP INDOORS
M. Achille Says Streets Are Given
over to Thugs.
DUEL BEFORE LARGE AUDIENCE
Announced as Private Fight, Became
a Comedy.
TWO THOUSAND TO SEE THE FUN
HeadstrOng Girl Attempts to Murder
Her Father In n Government
office Because Tie Cut Her
Adrlft
BY PAUL vILLIERs.

BY PAUL NllsLiEltS.
PARIS. Jan. %-Cspecial to The Heel
Monsieur .Achlle OF the municipal council
has urged the authorities to increase the
police force Of this city, which he says Is
not large enough to cope with crime. In a
budget report on the subject NJ. Achille
SAYS:
1T is humiliatlng 20 admit that in the
twentieth century the security of our
people here is scarcely better assured than
it was in the days when the watch was
given drubbing every night Respectable
citizens shut themselves up In their houses,
leaving the purse-snatchers and brigands
masters Of the streets. I hope I will not
be accused of exaggeratlng. Read over
the columns in the paper devoted to the
numerous robberies committed daily In the
heart of this city. the burglaries Of un-
heard of audacity and the frequent muir
ders-many of them unpunished-as we'll as
to the innumerabe strikes, the mysterious
sabetages, everywhere"
Duel Before Large Audience.
| One Of the most amusing and interesting
duels In the history grew out Of a letter
which NJ de Jouvenal received from Marcel
HutIn It took place right in the heart
Of the city in the presence Of 1000 men,
women and boys, with reporters moving
picture operator and lunchmen on the side
and also an official photographer
An announcement that nobody would be
allowed to see the duel naturally made
everybody anxious to be present, and when
the encounter began there was a crowd
! OF the ordinary public photographers, and
even an operator present.
| The principals were not expert swords
men. What advantage in skill there was
rested with Jouvenal who touched M.
| Hutin on the chest. and for a moment
everybody was afraid that he had really
been hurt The seconds tore open his shirt,
and found that he was not scratched. M.
de Jouvenal apologized.
At the fourth go Jouvenal succeeded IN
/ scratching NJ tfutins forearm, and the
battle Was over. The two men were re-
conciled. They shook hands embraced each
other, showered compliments on the sec
onds. thanked the spectators for their
presence. Then they rode in an automo-
bile to a cafe, where they and their seconds
dined together.
On the way to the restaurant the party
was met by a policeman, who announced
that he had been sent out to inquire into
the facts. He was treasured, however, that
no one had been injured. The policeman
accordingly.
Girl Tries to XIII Father.
One OF the government offices was the
scene Of an excited attempt on the part Of
a young woman to shoot her father, ar
attendant at the foreign ministry. The
eldest OF his four children is a daughter
% years OF age, who appears to have given
him a good deal of trouble. The younp
] bau haN aho
not obtain work anywhere. She was conse-
quently burden on her father and con.
stantly importuned him for money.
The father had paid for a room for heI
apart. hut as his income diminished ht
could no longer afford It and he gave
notice that he would cease to pay for the
room. The daughter thereupon rushed e
the office where he was employed and
made a scene. The father had to put hel
out. The young woman went to a gun.
smith and purchased revolver with which
she returned to the office. Making he,
way to her father she asked him again Il
he refused to support her. On his reply
that he did. she aimed at him with hel
Irevolver and attempted to fire. But tn,
weapon did not go off and she was sliced
by other employees. The father probably
: owes his life to the prudence of the gun
? such a state OF excitement, so arranged
the revolver that It would not 20 off Tn,
woman was arrested and examined by tn,
police commissioner, who sent her TO tn,
police depot on the charge OF ATTEMPTED
} patricide, which in French law is punish
) able with death.
Dues Held for Trial.
Ferdinand Duez, former llquldator 10
Of -
gregations dissolved by the government
who confessed to the embezlement OF 1900.
! 900. has been held for trial on charges o
breach Of trust and forgery.
Plenty of Sensations.
Victor Regnard, a comic actor, and tn
best Of fellows was a few days ago IA
tally shot In a restaurant by a man Of
whom he had never set eyes. and witt
I whom he had not the slightest quarrel
Public opinion here is clamoring for Sc
we're legislation against the carrying O
firearms.
} Francous Melville, the artist who kille
e his wife for refusing 20 let him see hi
s only living child, Jeanne a l6-year-ol
= girl escaped with sentence of one mont
n for carrying a revolver" He was a
s lowed 10 go home at once, the court hold
s ing that inasmuch as he had been 1
e jail awaiting trial for four months, he ha
d served the sentence.
Wen "A Winner.
Joseph Well has raised successfully
new point Of French jurisprudence. o
July q. 1896. on account OF his alleged e.
. travagance, his family applied to n
courts to place his estate under the car
OF a trustee. Mr.. Weil, then in Americi
: did not oppose the motion. Eightee
months later he took out naturalizatio
papers as an American citizen. He latel
} returned to this city and applied 20 Il
IS civil chamber TO have the trusteeship r
N moved.
e The court adopted Mr.. Wells point
y view. and ordered the trusteeship 20 be r