The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22
GHOULS OPEN VAULT
GRAVE OF BEAUTIFUL ACTRESS
 BROKEN INTO BY THIEVES.
Jewels Which Were Buried With Woman Was Motive for the Crime, Which It Is Known Melted
 No Profit.

Paris.-MIle. LanteIme, the lovely actress who was cut off in the flower of her youth and beauty, was not all lowed to rest quietly even in her grave. Ghouls recently broke into her tomb to steal the jewels which were buried with her and left the broken coffin beneath clouds of smoke
 The outrage was perpetrated at the great Paris cemetery of Pere Ia Chaise. The thieves were unable to find the jewels, which had been placed in a small sack beneath the dead beauty's head, and were found untouched by the authorities. The jewels are two large pearls, a pearl necklace and a pendant consisting of large pear shaped black pearl and emeralds, of a total value of about $10,000
 Mile. Lantelme, one of the most beautiful and most promising act resses of the French stage. was mar ried to M Alfred Edwards, one of the founders of Le Matin. and a promi- nent figure in Parisian life. She was drowned in the Rhine last July while taking a holiday on board kind of houseboat yacht, L'Aimee. with number of friends. After re- tiring to rest one hot evening she fell from the wide open windows of the houseboat into the swift current and was drowned. Her body was drawn up from the river clad in eve ming dress and many jewels.
 The news of her death caused a deep impression as she was famous for her beauty. her marvellous jewels and toillettes and her ready wit.
 The body was brought to Paris for burial in the Edwards family vault at Pere la Chaise, and her husband insisted that her fevorite jewels should be inferred with her. This was done, and the fact evidently ex- cited the cupidity of the authors of the outrage.
 The violation of the vault was dis who. when passing the Edwards chapel, noticed that a stained-glass window had been smashed The door of the little chapel was open and the interior full of smoke. The attendant immediately gave the alarm, and the local police inspector with a number of constables arrived
 The police discovered that the thieves had entered by means of a small stained-glsss window about three feet high at the back of the al- tar. The thieves moved the stout iron bars protecting the window on the outside and broke the thick glass One of them must have cut himself, for blood stains were found every where inside and outside the vault and along the route pursued by the robbers to the cemetery wall, over which they climbed
 Tn order to have more room to work the thieves handed out from the chapel the handsome Byzantine cross which stood on the altar and a num- Der of vases and other objects. Hav- ing gained the floor of the chapel the thieves raised three great flagstones concealing the vault and thus ex- posed the leaden coffin containing the actress remains. Cutting through the shell they unscrewed the lid.
 They then laid bare the body, which was surrounded by lint Find ing that the jewels were not round the neck of the corpse they aban- doned their search. It is possible that the wounded thief was over come by the atmosphere of the place and that his accomplice or accom- plices had to get him away before they were discovered.
 The police found cotton wool all about the floor. It was smoldering. the thieves having apparently dropped a match by accident. and the chapel was full of smoke. Bremen were sent for before further investigations were made, for the impure air and smoke rising from the vault rendered further action impossible.
 The Edwards vault Is narrow lit tie chapel in gray stone with an in- scription over the door running 'Famille Edwards, Requies Aeterna-" It stands in a broad avenue of cy- presses in the new part of the ceme- tery.