Show MURDERS IN PARIS ARE INCREASING 1 Citizens Are Be Becoming comet Alarmed at the R Reign eign of Crime t in C City it y r YOUTH KILLS YOUNG GIRL i F T Toll Tolled cf the Death Knell lnell Without I I r Showing Slightest I Emotion I 1 I n BY RAOUL DC DE SAINT T C Republican cnn Special Cable July C. C r- r Murders in France Franc a nod and especially in Paris have increased to Much Huch an alarming extent that all allagree a agree I something must bo hI done clone to chock this avalanche a of oC crime which was at first attributed to he ho unusual heat I we C have ha had this summer bummer That I at may mar have had something something- to do with tho the murderous mania Is not Impossible but the tho majority of or peo- peo 1101 belle e believe ollove it Is Is a result of or the fact tact that for many months not a alii murderer ha has been heen executed although many have been sentenced to lo death r I The prE president who lio is a most humane man mam does docs not believe ve in the death penalty and has refused to lo sign an any death cleath warrants wan so sentences have ha Invariably In- In variably mably been commuted or o Now othere there arises cs all aU over the countr country coun coun- tr try a clamor for the restoration of the death penalty which has never nc been l legally abolished an and a a. nH member of or the tho enate JI 31 1 de do Saint has given the ghen-the the government go notice that he Intends to ask tho minister of Justice E to make n ko an c. c explicit statement In the with rc regard arl to tho the death lentil penal penalty y which ho he considers an absolute lute Necessity under the tho 1 present state of I M Many n people who ho know the great Sarah Sarah's b lovo for COI official honors aro asking themselves why the famous actress has suddenly resigned her pro- pro fe fes or of or dramatic art at the ParIs Paris Paris Par- Par Is conser Conservatoire to which she was appointed In February last year Tho answer Is quite tuft apparent for it a. a practically an open secret that mo l Sarah Bernhardt accepted the professorship blip because o sho thought it ml might Ht be he the means of oC procuring for Cor coveted co distinction dl t of ot tho the cross of tho the l. l Legion Ion g of or Honor which had been refused her hel last January January as an actress although sho silo was recommended by tho the minister of oC public pub pub- lic Instruction t L Light ht has been shed hed upon the murder mur mur- der of the thc year old girl Carolina Plo a I in hr the San Vito forest near Turin through h the tho confession conCessIon of aboor aboy a boy boor of 15 Hi named DomenIco Villa course of or their fn the police found It necessary to search thc home where they disco discovered ered I c a a. number of love Jove letters Jetters addressed addressed ad nd- dressed ed Carolina b bo boho ho to by tho the boy whose c parents ate mc the guardians of or a palatial pala pala- In the neighborhood The brother r of tho the murdered girl then ad- ad tattled having haing acted as the bonier bearer of UIO thole l two lovers un unknown up- up J known to his ills patents parents o n n Vill s home police ponce W t lr nu lons Cl h k bY by liy lh tho fact that the tho 1 boy 0 hart hall he been en sent ent awa away by his parents to relatives s living In the U mountains when he was found Little by IW little he confessed his guilt but as asserted that Carolina In running away from him foil felt over tho the rocks and so met her death The medical evidence C how however o vcr quite ex excludes ox- ox this explanation of or the live li wo wounds on the girls gills back while it equally demonstrates demon gross ross allegations made i h by Villa against ag t his sweethearts sweetheart's character to bo be cruel calumnies Although h it sounds almost incredible ible ihle Ihl the Athe l boy y returned later to to the tho scene bf the outrage and mixed mixer freely Creely with the Iha doctors an and without with with- out ing the slightest Sl emotion ant ami fliter at the parish church of San Vital actually tolled the death knell Imell during tho the Impo imposing public funeral of oC the file b beautiful 1 ch child ho he U had ad mur murdered erea There Thoro is probably in all Paris no moro popular person than SI M Brett Breit- maj maye who has proved himself as chivalrous as a a. Knight hl of or old A Al cries ernes of or stories purporting to Illustrate te lifo life in Iii Portugal have haxo been appearing in the Action The Tho writer writ writ- er a named ue to lO be a tL member of a n noble nohle Portuguese 0 family sought ought under the form lorin of oC fiction to lo attack the tho young oung kind Manuel his father King hang Carlos and the monarchical form forth of or government government govern o ment In that country I In Iii tho latest J issue suc the tho writer wont further stilt still and made malle insinuations against again t the widowed ve Queen Am Amlie Amelie lle a 3 born horn Frenchwoman which so HO so excited cx- cx cHe cited the Ire he of M M. Breitmayer the famous am swordsman and n fc fencing fencing- cl ir l' l who was recently I presented 10 to that he lie wrote to the author and tailed called him a liar lIat and a 11 miserable e coward for attacking a 0 woman who could not defend herself and whose position made mallo it impossible o for or her to for libel Tho LliO letter was as pu published In a n. number num num- hC her ber- berof 1 of Paris papers whereupon tho the author wh wild who posed as a liable fire fire- cat eater crt announced that he would woul chal- chal long pl Breitmayer to a a. mortal duel uel SOD Xane on of ot these ridiculous French pin pin- The challenge challenge chal chal- t affairs lie ho added lenge c. c however never ne came neither did lid nhe he Portuguese carry out his threat to horsewhip the tho master fencing In public and when Breitmayer went to tho apartments It was found Ul that thai t he 10 had hall left fol for lI parts arts rt unknown Th v U chief of or tho Paris police Is rc- rc any number of or complimentary letters letter's letter from foreign visitors to this tilts city for tor ht his Idea of or teaching En English German Cerman awl and Spanish h to a number of or I policemen on dut duty In all the principal thorn working Tho polyglot policemen are arc very hard In indeed cc for COl Paris just jul is In Inthe Inthe Inthe and ami as the foreigners the lands of or the cal 1 heard on are or many malty languages es countries on at atthe there are as a moat U t of at the visitors are aro map hap and mO the much tind finding S 1 out that they get Jet alon along a native their better when they speak peak do not attempt to mal make o lanG languages language's s 's and antl in m what the they understood tood ih outsider r Trench French |