The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28
PARIS POLICE WORK
 ON NEW MYSTERY Well Dressed Woman Is Peculiarly Attacked MUSTACHE IS TABOOED Young Girl Commits Suicide by Jump ing off Eiffel Tower-Criminals
 in French Army Are
 Causing Trouble
MUSTACHE IS TABOOED
By PAUL vILLIERs


 On arriving there the man entered, leav- ing the woman in the cab
 Just as the door closed behind him two men and a boy, all on bicycles came up back of the taxi and the men took a look at the woman passenger. That is she,p they said, whereupon the boy pulled out a bottle of corrosive sublimate and hurled half of it at the chaffeur and the rest at the woman. Then he joined his two companions and pedaIled away at top speed. The chaffeur was too badly burned to start his machine in pursuit and the crowd that came running to answer the woman's screams found that the left side of her face had been burned to the bones. She, however refused to make complaint and as the people in the Boulevard house denied all knowledge of the man who entered there, the authori- ties have been unable to do anything.
 Many names have been whispered in the case, principally those of an Austrian nobleman and prominent concert singer, but no specific facts have come out for the enlightenment of the public.
 A fashionable Hungarian who is said to have frequently passed himself off as Count Berchtold the Austrian minister for foreign affairs has been arrested in consequence of the complaints lodged by various tradesmen at flat in the Hohceau district which has been lent or sub-let to him by an English lady now in Riveria. The concierge admitted him a fortnight ago, on receipt of letter from her, and noted nothing unusual.
 Great, therefore, was his surprise when an inspector called, and showed him portrait of the alleged nobleman, with the query, 'Is this parsonage staying at your house?" The door of the flat was pointed out to the official, who said T am aware that he has not gone out yet, so while l go and take him fetch me a taxicab.' He knocked at the door, and, aiming a revolver at the tenant, who was still in bed, he ordered him to get up. The shutters of other rooms from which the man might have escaped were being closed by policeman outside the house, and he promptly obeyed, dressed quickly, anc quietly submitted to being hand cuffed. Then with q strong escort the pris- oner was driven to the prefecture, while a big crowd watched his departure.
 According to one story, the so-called nobleman was married some time ago to an English lady, whom he induced to purchase a mansion in her native land, after mortgaging which he decamped. It is also affirmed that years ago he was running as many as a dozen horses in races at Brussels and Ostend, and it is likewise alleged that bringing eight horses to Paris last year, he took house at Passy, to which he had goods sent, which he sold without having paid for them; that he left surreptitously, and that all trace of him was lost until he turned up at the flat in the Monceau quarter.
 The theory that NI Noziere, the play wright that the typical lady killer must rot wear a beard or mustache Is support ed by number of actresses who have been asked if they preferred men with boards or mustaches or those who were clean shaven.
 Seven replied and none of them favored the abolition of the razor. Mile Polaire. expressed the opinion that a mustache was exeusable only to hide an ugly mouth and teeth.
 The Effel tower has had another tragic suicide added to it's list. A young lady, heavily yelled, went in the elevator to the second platform and reaching the rail- ing stopped and dreamily contemplated Paris, stretched beneath her in the sun light. Then suddenly. before anyone could prevent her she climbed the railing and threw herself into the air with shriek. After the body had been taken into the offices of the tower. some papers were found in the girls retcule, proving her to be Mile Mathilde Paulan, 20, daughter of NJ. Paulian, a high official of the cham Der of deputies, and granddaughter Of M. Frederick Passy, who is best known to Englishmen as one of the first and most enthusiastic champions of the peace movement Mile. Pauian had been great ly troubled of late by her grandfather's i'll health, and had also been over worked in preparing for an examination.
 Five years experience has convinced the French military authodities that the ad- mission of criminals into the home army has had results which do not justify the continuation of the experiment. It Is stated in Le Temps that eat last we shall soon be without apaches in the French army The chamber has passed, without discussion or dispute, a bill presented by the minister of war with a view to re- straining the number of common law criminals admitted to the army. The near-do-wels will rejoin the African bat talions, which they must never leave. An experience of more than five years has sufficiently proved that progress had wandered too far down the path of un- thinking charity.
 Anything more wanton than the willful damage to a picture on exhibition at the