Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-23
Beautiful Girl Is Victim of an
Unknown Whose Object
Was Robbery.
ELDERLY MAN WITH GIFT
ADDS INTEREST TO CRIME
Court Overrules Fathers Objection
to Marriage Of Son to an
American Girl.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS. August Is. 1913.
Louise Porret was q girl Of twenty
fve-an unusually pretty girl. by the
way-who came to this city from
Auvergne and who lived In Rue Da-
guerre, in the suburb of Montrouge.
Now that she has been murdered and
famous for half q day. we may see In
the illustrated dailies how pretty she
must have been. A little doll-like crea-
ture, with evident traces Of good breed
ing and education.
Every afternoon between s and
o'clock Louise Porret walked from her
Montrouge apartment and spent the
evening and night in Paris. She was
always to be found on Boulevard st.
Michel, where there are plenty of stu
dents. but where girl may often also
meet a rich admirer. Nor was she un-
known in the subterranean caves.
where you find very young girls
dressed as boys and boys dressed as
girls or in the street Of Ill repute
which runs along Montparnasse ceme-
terry and Is known as Rue de la 0aite.
A rich manufacturer had made her q
present Of some costly jewelry and she
was engaged to and intended some time
to marry an honest soldier, at present
serving his term Of military service in
| a garrison not 1dE xTOm faIlSs anu
whom she spoke Of as her dear Paulot.
Hear a Piercing Cry.
The other afternoon the people living
next to her apartment in Montrouge
heard a piercing cry. then everything
was quiet. Two days later they burst
dead on the floor with her throat cut.
20 ~, o1c
The police were called in and the
usual official farce, with examination
Of finger prints. followed. but no clue
was found, and a policeman was left on
policeman was on guard the incident
happened which gave to the murder the
grand Guignol aspect which makes all
Paris talk about 1t.
The doorbell rang and the policeman
went to answer 1t, but before he reached
| the door he heard mans voice singing
merrily: Cuckoo, Cuckoo" An elderly
gentleman. who later turned out to be q
Of Versailles. living on his means, stood
outside the door with big bouquet Of
roses. He was smiling all over his face,
but his smile disappeared when he saw
IDENTIFY not the first time he had met rivals
in the apartment.
Il suppose you are waiting for her. too:n
he said. I'll sit down and wait with
you"
His Suspicion Aroused.
Something in the policeman's face must
have told him that there was something
wrong. He tore open the door and ran
into the bedroom only to. cry out and
rush downstairs. stin carrying his bou-
quet.
Montrouge, where this grand Guignol
| episode took place, lies In the southern
| part Of Paris, just outside the Porte dor
| leans. and has the most evil repute Of all
| the Paris suburbs.
Yvette Guilbert once, years ago. sang a
song about Montrouge, a nocturnal red
haired girl song, with providers lying in
ambush at every street corner and warn
| ing whistles. When you go there in the
| day time and look across the old fortif-
cations Montrouge lies there ugly and
filthy, enveloped in foul mist. In this
mist human beings love and sell them
selves and cut one another's threats.