Show CHILDS LIFE SAVED BY CAT sleeping with infant pet received death thrust delivered by insane father in the st germain quarter of parts paris a little french child owes its small ufa life to the liking tf df the family cat for or tho the little ones warm soft bed owing to the animals presence presen eg there beneath the blankets what would have been it ft ghastly tragedy became almost farcical the childs father once a prosperous I 1 merchant ner chant had come down through speculation and by constant brooding aing over his ye reverses verses became insane i ile he imagined that beelzebub had promised to direct him to a spot where hieden hidden treasure was concealed providing the blood of a child wits offered to him accordingly on one night recently grenarde Gre nardi the person in question rose from his bed and with a knife knife in his hold hald went towards his childs cradle the roo poor mother struck dumb by horror sprang out to stop him but the manac was too quick for her shrieking aloud in his frenzy and averting his face he stabbed twice at the child before the frantic mother could intervene and mad with distress snatch her little one from the crimsoning bed clothes her joy was unutterable to find her baby unscathed the child had been saved at the expense of its trespass sing pet which had received both thrusts |