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Evening star., 1927-03-20
Stories of Napoleon's Ghost at Tomb
Cause French Fears of Another Big War

lides' closing hour. Civilians and sol.
dters stand and watch inside the
church beneath the dome in that dim
twilight.
Among obscure shadows, now a
darker shadow seems to reappear and
disappear up there, beneath the dome
or lower down between pillars. Did
1t rise? Do you not see the darker
shadow move among the shadows
gathering to darkness?
There it is" IT'S gone Il saw
it"' Look, now. there it is, diagonally
upward
SO they whisper. Also, they look
around them. If their number Is at
all noticeable around the balustrade'
that shields the tomb below, the whis
pers cease, the throng melts-not to
make show Of the most solemn thing
a Frenchman can imagine, which is
Frances safety and the moving shad
ow Of the great Napoleon.
Outside, after night falls. in the
street beside the high iron railing of
the dome side of the Invalides, the
folks stand as admirable in awed
silence and discretion as they stood
and watched inside. They gather,
whisper. Their eyes seek the dome
and lower down. A woman gasps and
points. A soldier grabs his comrade
by the shoulder and says in low tones,
See, there" Then, awed to this beau
tiful discretion, there is complete
silence.
In particular. if foreigners be visibly
present, the throng melts and disap
pears, while couples walking murmur
OF the danger" of the warning" and
or leader whom they dare not hope
for.
Yet there is hope In the shadows.
Men may say in Paris. But Napo-
leon died at st. Helena. far away, an
island in the ocean" They may even
add. And he was horn. too, far from
Part. on another island-Corsica,
Hucl, objections are nothing. If ever
Q greAk dead came notably to reburial,
q WAA the arrival of Napoleon's re-
Evening star., 1927-03-20
BY STERLING HEILIG.

Paris. March ~, 1927.
"HE ghost of Napoleon Is said to
appear around his tomb In the
Invalides in Winter twilight.
i 1t is a brand soldiers
legend, taken up by civilians.
Some have seen the ghost outside the
church, by night. The authorities,
of course, do not permit any public or
known watching inside after closing
hours. But there are men who can
slip in and stay as long as they
They are the invalided old soldiers
who first saw the ghost.
II il an old soldiers home for in
valided veterans, although no new
ones enter since the World War. Ma
poleon was much attached to the In
yalides-in whose beautiful church
he had Fontanes pronounce George
Washington's funeral eulogy, Febru-
airy 10, 1900, just 1877 years ago.
Napoleon himself was buried in the
Invalides 81 years ago, after being
brought to Paris from st. Helena,
December Is. ls40. And now, 10
years after the World War. the old
Inyalides who live beside his tomb
claim that "after-war dangers to
France are bringing Napoleon out
again"
The mass of the army believes It,.
thinks ii possible, or wonders about ii
with immense interest. You, a civil
ian, will not get a French soldier to
talk about the ghost of Napoleon: the
thing is sacred.
1t is mentioned merely in the pa
pers-scarcely mentioned. But French
civilians whisper a lot about 1t, be-
lieving or not believing. as may be,
but returning to the subject often to
tell each other about the danger
TO France which is supposed TO
bring the appearance OF the mighty
dead To believing eyes. even in the
shadows of Winter twilight.
1t Is almost dark in this season a.
o'clock in the afternoon, the InHAr
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had drunk a lot. and what he next re-
membered was waking up in his room
with splitting head next morning
But the kriminal Archiv card pointed
so unmistakably TO him and his alihi
was so little convincing that the po-
lice felt little hesitation in holding
him.
x = X
THE following week another burg
glary occurred in a well-to-do part
of Berlin. This time it was jewelry
store that was robbed. Ii was the
commission on thefts from jeWelry
stores and pawnshops" that investi-
gated the case and reported on card
the technique Of that particular Job"
The card. as in the other case, was
put into the Meldwesen, and. as before,
il found in q short time a suspect
whose record in the kriminal Archiv
SO closely corresponded to the details
Of this burglary that he was hailed to
police headquarters and without much
ado held for trial
For his attempt at an alibi for the
night of the burglary was so feeble.
although he protested as heatedly as
the other burglar that he was inno-
cent, that he was laughed at for his
story. He had been to visit some
cronies. he recounted. and was on his
way home toward midnight when In
lonely quarter, just after he had
turned a corner, he had been slugged
from behind with black jack. When
he recovered 1t was still dark. But 1t
took him so long to get out of the
cellar where he found himself that
dawn was in the sky when he got
home.
His cronies, of course. corroborated
his statement. and he offered to show
the very cellar where he found him
self on recovering consciousness. But
neither offer of proof was taken seri-
ously enough by the police to free him
from being held for trial.
But one of the commission remarked
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how similar to the alibi furnished py
the burglar in the first case | recordeu
here was the alibi of the suspect IN
the second case. The member OF the
commission remarked this idly as a
sort Of interesting coincidence. Then
he forgot the matter until IL came
back to him with added rorce Two
weeks later
For q veritable epidemic of bur-
elaries seemed to have broken out in
Berlin. and there were features in the
third case that made the member or
the commission who remarked on the
coincidence ! noted above think hard.
Here was a successful burglary
in the home of an antique collector
with we'll defined trade marks or
the burglar who did the Job. And IN
this case the description aiheo
closely with another description found
in the Kriminal Archiv of the Meid-
wesen.
latest burglary corresponded so close
ly was brought to the police chiefs
and questioned as to the night or the
burglary. He grew confused. then
clearly evasive.
FINALLY he broke down and con-
fessed that he had been planning
10 give a party to his friends, but
had run short of funds On the night
i'm question he had broken into the
delicatessen store and taken a quan-
tity of food and sweets for his party.
It was petty larceny to which he con-
fessed and the police saw in this an
attempt on his part to escape punish
ment for the more serious burglary.
His alibi was, of course, investi'
gated and was borne out TO the ex-
tent that the delicatessen store he
Indicated had really been broken into
on the night in question. But the
police held that the suspect may
have heard of the lesser burglary and
remembered it to use 1t as an alibi.
The suspect continued. however, to
protest his innocence and racked his
brains how to convince the police
that he was telling the truth. Sud
denly he remembered something.
You say 1t was not I who broke
into the deIicatessen store on the
night OF the fifteenth. Well. here
is proof. was climbing up on
barrel to reach some of the imported
caviar on an upper self in the store.
room when a nail did not see tore
my trouser leg and gashed my shin.
Here in the mark on my leg still And
there is a rip on my trouser leg. Let
me go with you and l will show you
the nail"
That sounded real, and the police,
looking for that nail, found 1t just
az described by the suspect. That
was not enough for them. They took
| the nail, the point OF which was COW
cred with brown rust, to the chemi
cal laboratory of the Berlin police.
Here the rust was scraped off. A
dilute solution was made OF 1t, and
/ this was analyZed.
1t was found to be rust caused by
blood. A drop OF blood was then taken
from the wrist Of the suspect. A
system of reagents and a count OF
blood corpuscles was then used on the
test Of both the blood solution taken
from the nail and of the suspects s
blood They indicated the same blood
The nolice were puzzled. The
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mendously.
x x 4 #
|ON Friedrichstrasse is a money
changer who does thriving bust
ness in foreign currencies, particular
ly English pounds sterling and Ameri-
can dollars The day before he had
done rushing business up to past
closing time. and his vault was full
of English pounds and American dol
lars The money changer closed the
safe. saw to it that the burglar alarm
was working, himself locked the doors
after the employees had left, then went
home
His office was on the ground floor.
Underneath the office the basement
was occupied partly as storeroom,
partly as engine room. Toward in
the morning, at just about the time
Wehncke left the lokal to play cards
in 'Pfeffer's" room. two men climbed
out of coal bin In the engine part
of the basement.
They then took out of their hiding
place three large satchels. two Of
them empty. From the third they
got out a collection of tools, oddly
fashioned for work no honest work
ingman would have recognized.
A cold chisel, for instance. had its
head we'll padded with leather; so had
the nose of short but heavy ham,
mer. One of the two men marked
with chalk circle in the wooden
ceiling of the basement. Then the
other put the sharp end of the chisel
at one point in the circle of chalk
and hit the padded end with the
padded nose of the hammer. The
sound of the blow did not reach fur
ther than a few feet.
But in the strong wood of the cell
ing a circle began to eat its way up
ward under the assault of chisel and
hammer.
After half an hour the circle was
a hole. 1t cleverly just missed the
iron beams in the floor. Yet the man
would have given an onlooker Pc
culiar impression of working not ac-
cording to his own knowledge. but
after a pattern set for him by some
one absent.
The wood of the floor Of the money
changers Office proved an easy task
for the chisel and hammer. and in
few minutes both men were in the
office.
One of them crawled on the floor
toward the window and street door
and with a tiny pocket torch
searched the woodwork until he
found the wires of the burglar alarm.
With short, powerful pair of teleg-
rapher's shears he cut the wires.
Meanwhile the other opened the tool
satchel and was kneeling before the
money changers sheet-iron safe. II
was not a very formidable affair.
but fairly typical of the safes used
by money changers who. not handling
nearly so much money as a bank. did
not extend themselves in the matter
of invincible safes.
The burglar put together several
pieces of steel into what American
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question. The other. accused of bur
glary of the jewelry store, clung just
as strenuously to his story that he
had been blackjacked~ the night Of
that burglary.
For the first time the police became
eager to believe these two men. For
if their stories were true, it meant
that the newest theory of the police
was likely to be fact.
For now a theoretical but highly
interesting figure began to emerge in
the minds of the chiefs of the Berlin
police. It was that Of sort Of super.
burglar who studied the technique Of
other lesser burglars and then pro-
ceeded to initiate their technique, and
did it so well that 1t fooled the expert
readers, so to speak, of the handwrit.
ing of burglars work
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mains from St Helena to the Inva,
lides, in Paris.
IL was the romantic and generous
young Duke de BONNEVILLE. son of the
then reigning King Louis Philippe
VINO, on December 4. 1910, arrived at
Cherbourg with the remains on board
MS ship of war. La Belle Poule.
Extraordlnary az it may seem, |,
StefhnS Hellig, living at the Hotel
powers In 1895. knew well this same
Duke de BONNEVILLE. Kings son. be.
come an old man. weak in the head
but sympathetic. We used to sit and
chat on the street bench before his
mousse, next door to us, until his valet
would arrive and drag him in. To me
BONNEVILLE would humble, "Yes. YES,
La Belle Poule. The great dead.
Frances protector in danger. Napo-
leon
The old man saw, long years before,
the present danger. 1t was the most
grandiose funeral procession ever seen
in Paris-the true funeral of Napo-
leon. which took place 90 years after
his death.
The wrought-iron monumental lamp
posts with urnS at their SUBMITS
which still line the Champs Elysees
were erected for it. They burned blue
HdIit5 III tIe LeCeHlDef EWluSnt as the
dread procession passed. Napoleon
lay in state beneath his Arch of Tri-
umph. just completed.
Now the body does not lie inside
the magnificent sarcophagus of pol
ished red porphyry from Lake Lagoda,
presented by Gar Nicholas l. The
sarcophagus is merely a part of the
great monument. Napoleon lies in a
separate crypt beside it. where men
can move around him in number be-
hind great bronze door. The body
is inside four collins.
The dead face used 10 be exposed tn
f"lbliC view once year on August IS.
the fete of Napoleon. Interminable
crowds passed before it. The upper
part of the whole thing was raised,
and the man who saved France was
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The little man swept the cards to
the floor and leaped to his feet, his
hand darting to an inside pocket. A
quiet-looking stranger was regarding
him with friendly look
MY name isn't Wehncke," the little
man snarled. while the rest of the
room looked on uneasily at the scene
The other smiled. Then / must
have made n mistake in the name"
he said genially. But my friends.
Red SchultZe, Hanna, the Gabbler,
Chris Fulda. Peter Schnabel and 9th
ers, told me to look up Carl Wehncke
when l got out and he'd shake hands
with me. | got out last week and
I've been looking for you since. How
are you? My name is Pfeffer.''
The little man stared suspiciouslv at
the cordial stranger. But the fact
that he had been admitted here and
Evening star., 1927-03-20

More than 5000 earthquakes have
been recorded in japan during one
period OF seven years, many OF them
doing great damage.
Evening star., 1927-03-20
By Joseph Gollomb

SO Many Clues Pointed to TIE Peculiar
Methods Of Hannus Wehncke That Their Very
Number Constituted an AIbjfor That Notorious
Ind;v;duaAIt Was Subercrook' Game, and
Great One-Wh7e 1t Lasted.
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to his room. There he fell asleep COM
fortably.
But at the time he was playing
cards in Prefers room a scene was
taking place in another part of Berlin
which would have interested him tre
mendously.
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commission at work on the series
of burglaries initiated by the Mock
ing Bird" as the police chiefs now
spoke of the theoretical figure they
had built up.
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"HEILO wEHNCKEr THE OVERLOOKING STRANGER SAID
HIS HAND
TO AN INSIDE COAT POCKET"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-06
Officers Body Found In RiUey
RIGHT OF OFFICER TO
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CENSOR SKIRT LENGTH
= = =
BEFORE PARKS BOARD

WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. g.
R)-The right Of a Washington
policeman TO censor the length of q
woman's skirt was to be tested to-
day in an investigation before the
District of Columbia park author
tiles.
Colonel u. S. Grant, 3rd, director
Of public buildings and public
parks, was designated to preside
over the investigation.
An accusation against Park Po-
liceman Lawter has been brought
by Mr.. and Mrs. Ross w. Keller Of
Washington, the couple charging
the officer with ordering Mrs.
Keller to "pull her dress down"
while she was sitting on n park
bench. Keller at first was ordered
by the officer to pull down his
wife's skirt and refused, directing
Lawer to arrest her IL she had in
fringed the law. Mrs. Keller like
wise refused to obey. Keller said
he wanted the officer either 20
apologize to his wife or place
charges against her in the test in
quiry.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-06

CINCINNATI. o., Oct 6.-tF-
Mrs. n. G. Remus died At Bethesda
hospital today from bullet wound
In the abdomen suffered when she
was shot By her husband. &c orge
Rsmus in . park here this morn
ing.
A charge of first degree murder
was placed against Remus BY
Chief Of Detectives Kirgan. He
will be held withcu tbail-
A few hours before they were 70
get to the divorce court 20 settle
their marriage troubles, Remus.
once King Of boctleggers," shot his
wife when shs tried 70 escape ~ he
pursued her through . Cincinnati
park
Mrs. Remus and her adopted
daughter. Ruth. 10. had left their
apsstmsnt ssxly to - - the sefiee
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-06
MulOtt Concession Is
Cancelled by Mexico

Cancellation Of the concession
granted by the Mexican government
10 Carl Malott and associates OF San
Antoine for the erection Of a bridge
across The Rio Grande touching at
Santa Cruz on the Mexican aide is
announced I'm dispatches received
from officials in Mexico Thursday.
Neither Mr.. Malott, or r. B. Creag-
er, head Of the Gateway Bridge com
pany. which 10 erecting q bridge
across the Rio Grande here, were In
Brownsville Thursday. and could not
be located for d statement on the
matter.
Possibility that q legal battle OF
almost two years duration over the
right to erect bridge across the Rio
Grande between Brownsville and
Santa Cruz may be brought 10 nm end
is seen in this action.
Maiott, ~ head Of the Brownsville
a Mstamoros Municipal Bridge com
pany, has taken the question Of
bridge franchises and permits ON the
American side through state and
federal courts here, I'm m effort 20
prevent erection Of the Gateway com
psny structure, and litigation is still
pending I'm court ON the matter.
The ground In question In most Of
the suits is . strip near the corner
ner Of Fourteenth and Leves. In the
first suits Mslott and his associates
claimed title 10 that part Of the
street, holding that there vas no
street there, and that the property
had been secured by the company.
Later suits charged hat the bridge
would damage property adjacent 20
the street, owned By Malott and as
sociates-
The last suit sought sn injunction
70 prevent the erection Of the bridge,
which has been under construction
for several months. although work
has been held up over long intervals
duo to delays I'm securing federal per-
mits.
No details or reason for eancella-
ticn Of the Mexican eoneession OF
MaIoft and associates II contained In
ths csmnuniestion from Msxice City.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-06
UNFAVORABLE
REPORT MADE
ONPORTM MOVE
Valley Plans Appeal
From Recomme.4da-
ton Of Colonel
Schley, Engineer

The army engineers have rendered
an unfavorable report on the fur-
ther improvement Of the Valleys
harbor ut Point Isabel, according 70
information received Wednesday
from Colonel J. L. Schley, district
engineer, who stated that the pres
ent l6-foot port should receive q
five-year trial before development OF
d 30-foo. harbor il undertaken.
In communication to the Browns
Vile Chamber Of Commeree, Colonel
Schley stated that m appeal from
this conclusion could be taken- -
the Board Of Engineers for Rivers
and Harbors, and at q meeting OF
the port committee. Thursday morn
ing decision was reached to perfect
this appeal and present IL to the
Board OF Engineers for Rivers and
Harbors, and at q meeting Of the
port committee Thursday morning
decision was reached to perfect this
appeal and present IL to the Board,
through a committee Of represents
tive Valley citizens immediately.
The Valley has thirty days in which
to prepare its appeal, Colonel
Schley stated.
Post Committee Meets
At a meeting Of the port COM
mittee Of the Brownsville Chamber
of Commerce Thursday morning the
communication OF Colonel Schely
was discussed and various members
Of the committee expressed consid-
erable confidence In the ability OF
the Valley to secure favorable ac-
ton by the Board Of Engineers for
Rivers and Harbors when the full
facts relative to potential tonnage
and the necessity which exists for
30-foot harbor are presented.
At the meeting TO be held IN Mer-
cedes, d representative committee
is expected to be selected to 90 TO
Washington TO present the matter
10 the board for review. Every phase
az the harbor situation will be pre-
sented at the meeting. and Il u
probable that an effort will be made
(Continued cn page two.)
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-06

Of Mrs. Renus' attorney 20 pre-
pare for her divorce hearing before
Judge Charles Hoffman today.
They were riding in q taxicsb.
As the taxi drove down the park
way, Mrs Remus noticed her hus-
band sitting In his automobile with
a driver at the wheel, tho daughter
said.
As the cars moved into the street
where the traffic Was slow Mrs.
Remus became frightened and
jumped from the taxi.
Remus lesped from his ear,
caught her and pressing q revolver
against her. fired one shot into her
abdomen. Her screams attracted
people In the park and she was
taken to hospital where physicians
said her condition was critical.
Rsmuk entered his ezn car md
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-06
HEADRIDDLED
BY BULLETS;
BURIED HERE
Man Identified as To-
mas Trevino, Mexi-
can Police Stationed
Near Reynosa

Belief that Tomas Tremino,
Mexican officer Of Reynosa whose
bullet riddled body was found In
the Rio Grande here Thursday was
executed was expressed here after
an examination of the body re-
vsaled that five bullets from high
powered rifles pierced the man
head.
The body Of Tomas Trevino, about
20 years old, rural policeman sta
toned at Retemas, near Reynosa,
with five bullet holes in the head,
was found floating in the river here
Thursday morning. The man had
been in the water about 30 hours
and was dead when thrown in, the
investigation revealed.
The body was found shortly after
8 o'clock by Bernardino and Refu-
gio Rocha, laborers in the employ
Of the city water plant, as they were
working on a barge in the river near
the plant in West Brownsville.
Police Lieut.. j. T. Armstrong and
Traffic Officer O'Leary went to the
scene 10 make an investigation to-
gether with Roy Weller, fire chief.
The latter pulled the body from the
water.
An inquest was held at the scene
by Fred Kowalski, justice Of the
peace, who returned q verdict that
the man had been shot to death by
unknown parties.
Identification of the body was es-
tablished by papers found in the
clothing. Customs officers from
Maatmoros were summoned first IN
an effort to establish the identity
Of the victim. They stated immediate
communication with police officials
of Reynosa would be established in
an effort to learn further details Of
the crime.
The body was badly decomposed
and m immediate burial was ordered
by Judge Kowalski. Morris and
Kilcher were given charge Of the
funeral arrangements and burial
services were held in the old city
cemetery.
A cartridge belt and holster were
found on the body, but no gun.
Shells in the belt were for q .36l
caliber rifle.
The bullet wounds in the head had
apparently been inflicted by n heavy
caiiber automatic steel-jacketed bull
lets, Judge Kowalski said. They
had passed completely through the
mans head after entering from the
front. completely riddling IL.
Whether the bullets had been
fired from close range or from q
distance could not be determined.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1927-10-06
Three KMedAs
Auto Hits P ost

FORT WORTH. Texas, Oct. 6.-tR
Three men were killed, another
probably fatally injured and N wom-
an seriously hurt when their auto
mobile crashed into d post on u
concrete viaduct here today.
The dead: Ed r. Henry, former
secretary-manager Of the south
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show.
r. A. Byrd, printer for the Fort
Worth Press.
Unidentified man.
The injured: r. c. Culpepper;
Miss Leta Brewster. ~.