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Show Trouble at a French Madhouse. An extraordinary scene in a lunatic luna-tic asylum Is thus described by the Paris correspondent of the Ika'i Scwk There Is uothitig,mad doctors say, more unusual than for lunatics who are together to act on a common com-mon Impulse.I.astSunday,howevcr, six inmates of the Bicelre Asylum weie so irritated and oppressed by the sultry weather preceding the hailstorm as to take an identical course In letting oil their nervou excitement. The outbreak took place in the refectory, wlierea'luna-Uc wlierea'luna-Uc who has olten had to be kept in a padded room, complained that a new keeper had deprived him of a Iiortion of food to which lie was entitled. en-titled. The complaint was well founded. As the dish was being fetched Uie madman lost patience and dashed the plate liefore him against the wall oppo-ile. Five others followed his example, and then ran to pitch everything they could lay their hands upon out of Uie windows. 51. Pinon, the governor, was called, compulsion compul-sion of a violent kind never being suffered unless by hii order. As he entered the refectory a dish was broken on his head, nnd he and a keeper who was with him had difficulty diffi-culty In escaping with their lives. The mad iopIe tore down the iron liars which formed a partition lie-tween lie-tween their part of the hall and a section where other jatieuts were dining. They then got to the keeiers' rooms, and, seizing knives and razors, went to cut the throats of those who denied them their liberty. Troois were summoned mutineers had got possession of the kitchen and courtyard. When twenty soldiers with lixed bayonets entered the Utter there wasa sudden eolla;ise. Tlie six ringleaders dropied their knives and razors, begged jiardon and subnnltted quietly to be taken to their cells. Nearly all the keeperx were seriously serious-ly injured. One, Fournier, was beaten with a chair and his arm broken In two places. A madman named Jolly rilled a desk of bank notes, all of which he ate. |
