The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1890-03-22 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

EPIDEMIC OF CRIME.  The Daily Telegraph Pari s correspondent chronicles two more terrible crimes. One took place at No. 70. Boulevard Montparnasse, where lived M. Picard, a clerk in the Ministry of Public Instruction, with a woman named Marie Rebut. M. Picard passed as a model of a Government employe, and his neighbours were under the impression that Rebut was his wife, so closely did the existence of the couple resemble that of steady-going married people. For some time past Marie Rebut had been ill with a dangerous affection in the throat, for which she had to undergo an operation. This preyed on the mind of Picard, who appeared unduly excited, but the friends who had been keeping holiday with him took no notice of his altered manner, end left him with Marie Rebut and her youngest sister. Early on Friday morning the latter was awakened from sleep by the sound of voices, and she saw Picard giving his mistress something to drink out of a bowl. Hardly had Marie Rebut partaken of the drink when she cried out that she was poisoned. Picard made no remark in reply, whereupon the little girl got out of bed and proceeded to her sister's aid. After she had done so Picard produced a big revolver and fired three shots point blank at his paramour. He then went into the kitchen, swallowed some of the stuff which he had given the woman—which proved to be a solution of eopperas—took up his revolver once more and blew the roof of his skull off with the three remaining bullets. Before giving his final gasp he was able to drag himself to the foot of Marie Rebut's bed, where be died. The woman herself was also dead before her little sister returned with the concierge of the house, whom she had roused up. The other drama was enacted in a "regular" houaehold. that of M. and Madame Mayer of the Rue Munge. The husband and wife lived at war with one another, and while the former was at work in his private office, Madame Meyer approached him with a pot full of binning paraffin oil, which she Rung over him. The man, litei:ally on fire from head to foot, rushed upstairs to the rooms of a police-inspector who lived in the house, but the inspector's servant, when she opened the door, recoiled terror-stricken from the sight before her, and retreated inside. Madame Mayer in the meantime armed herself with the revolver and ran after her husband, in whose back she lodged six bullets. Hearing the mounds of the shuts, the woman concierge of the house ran courageously to the assistance of the wounded man, and extinguished the flames that enveloped him: The police-inspector, at the risk of being shot, rushed after Madame May r, who locked herself in her room, and turniiig the loadrd revolver against herself, fired five bullets into her Ineast. She died almost instantsmeously, her husband having lingered • short time before he succumbed to his fearful injuries. The woman, who was 45 years of age,, her husband being 50, is supposed to have give• way to a fit of insanity. These crimes, repellant in heir horror, are only the principal ones that head iie list of the sombre tragedies that have left crimson traces in the annals of the Mid-Lenten festivities of the tin-, y'-sr.  M. Leofanti, the sculptor, has committed suicide in a train between Paris and Brest, by firing three revolver shots in the head and near the heart. The deceased's chief artistic works were "Pro Patria Mori," "Ch rist at the Tomb," the "Devilfish Fisher," "The Holy Virgin," and "CEdiptia." At an examination recently a boy, who was asked to tell what he knew of Jonah, replied that he was cast into a fiery furnace seen times heated, where he was swallowed 'oy a while, and the whale waxed fat and kicked.  A Times correspondent at Canea says that the flmous outlaw. Liapis,who is guilty of wany crimes, was some days ago surrounded by the troops and gendarmerie, but succeeded in cutting his way out. The theatre of his exploits is the district between Sphakia and Retimo. Liapis is a daring chief of outlaws, who holds the mountain country with a band of followers and distinguishes himself by the activity and unexpectedness of his attacks on the Turkish troops. He has already become a hero, and the stories of his viotories and escapes are the literature of the Cretans to-day.  A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Foreign Office. All the Ministers were present except Mr. Balfour. As Atyricing