The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
CAPTURE ANOTHER
 OF AUTO BANDITS Prince of Poets" Post Left
 Vacant THE SCENERY BALKS Opera Performance Marred by Stage Managers Blunders-Paris Dan eing Masters Hold Their
 Annual Congress
THE SCENERY BALKS
ny GEORGE puFREsNE

Fly GEORGE DUFREsNE
 Paris, July 13.-(Special)-Ye another
 presumed member of the redoubtahe au- tomobile. brigand gang is now in custody,
 and the police are actively in search of
 more. A few days ago four young men were arrested as they were indulging in
 revolver practice on bank of the canal
 at Livry. without the slightest regard for
 the safety of passersby; and during
 the interrogatory which followed the
 magistrate ascertained that q friend of
 theirs, who had also been firing, but had succeeded in escaping, was living in a lodging house in the Rue Montorgueli, in
 Paris.
 NJ. Guichardf the chief of the criminal
 detective depaI%aent, had the place
 watched and last evening. when a cab drew up and it's occupants had alghted and was paying the driver, he was bounced upon and overpowcred. When searched he was found to have on him
 three revolvers and a number of cart
 ridges, a formidable dagger, a whole ar
 ray of burglars tools, a phial containing
 chloroform and a pocketbook In which
 notes relating to the manufacture of
 bombs fwere entered. The inspectors,
 halling a tax promptly conveyed their
 prisoner to the criminal detective de-
 partment- At first the man refused to
 answer the questions put to him, but at last he became more communicative,
 and stating that his name was Foyer,
 that he was a native of Geneva, 21 years
 of age, and 0 mechanic by trade, gave ha aA nf bOnGac in xyl bn
 had dwelt during the past six months. Ii Acting on these clues, the authorities
 discovered that Foyer had been twice con Victed of carrying dangerous weapons, and that he had been fin close intercourse with Bonnot, Garnier and other members of the notorious band. Foyer has been living at hotel in the Avenue Secre- tan, the address of which was among those he gave, and when the police called
 there they discovered something more than they had expected. The landlady told them of the arrival there in March of a smart young man, who called him self Geniellet and described himself as a
 singer His only luggage was a hamper about which he was very particular, ask ing the servant who tldied his room to
 be careful, 1t contained china. So much
 did he harp on this subject that he was nieknamed IL Homme au Panier." His
 persistent reserve led the landlady to won der who he might be. and when there was so much talk about the terrible gang she asked the servant if she did not think that the mysterious tenant bore a strik- ing resemblance to Garnier. When the hamper was opened by inspectors the
 worthy woman nearly swooned away. It contained articles much less innocent than | china. Six revolvers which had all been obtained by the burglary of the gunsmith's s establishment in the Boulevard Rauss- | mann were lying at the top. Next came | three daggers and a sort of pot with a
 cover, which was carefully handled. Then | came a large collection of burglars in
 struments, while at the bottom were a number of papers that proved the mans | connection with the Bonnot band
 It will be remembered that it was with the arms taken from the Boulevard
 Haussmann shop that the crimes of the Rue Ordener. Montgaron, Chantilly and Ivry were committed. and that the seges
 of the villas at Choisy-le-Roi and Nogent-
 sur Marne were resisted
 NJ. Leon Dierz, by his death short time ago, left vacant the post of Prince of Poets." Ever since there has been war
 in the poetic camp as to who shall be elected to the unofficial laurels, which Nerlaine and Mallarmee have graced and by whom? The powers of election are vested in no single body. Everyone has a. right to his say and says if. One even ing the young lions of Montparnassee, in solemn conclave at cafe, proclaimed as | theirs Prince M. Paul Fort, a poet who publishes his yerses-talented enough without lineaton, as if they were prose Montmartre, not to be outdone, elected next evening as prince of the rive droite" genial parodist, M. Georges Touvest
 author of the White Negress."
 Now the papers-journals and reviews are taking a hand, and pressing pet
 poets of their own. Prince and anti
 prince, M M. Fort and Touvest alike
 discaim an honor of which they knew
 nothing till they read their papers M.
 Touvest, laureate of the right band, even suggests a substitute, a, friend of his, who
 is best qualified, he affirms, for the po- sition, seeing that he lives on the left bank, and has never been guilty of verse
 M Raoul Ponchon, a third involuntary candidate is more angry than amused
 In an indignant letter to one of those who proposed his name, he professes him self with modesty, exemplary, though in his own case unjustifiable, a mere third rate rhymester Meanwhile Paris laughs and suggests that the disputed succession should be settled by lot.
 Strange things happened at the opera VI being given under the baton of Herr Felix Weingartner. As everyone remem- bers, in one part of the music drama the scene changes behind stage clouds, while the orchestra continues playing Herr Weingartner and his band did their share of the performance correctly, but some sort of revolution seemed to be happening on the stage. One heard shouts and stamping of feet and explosives
 The orchestra reached the moment when the following scene was due. but the clouds on the stage refused to lift Herr
 Weingartner repeated a few bars to mark time, but the clouds were still there. He then threw down his baton and disappeared behind the scenes, whore he presumably talked pointedly with those in authority. He reappeared, and the stage manager came. in front of the clouds with apologies. The cloth had got hooked up and could not be brought