| Show MURDERESS POSES LONG AS MONK lived in monastery for three decades and kept her identity a secret bucharest july 17 A murder mystery of thirty years standing has been discovered at last in moldavia an old man and his three sons all grown up were discovered ono morning murdered suspicion fell immediately on the wife of the man who was missing and who was known to have lived on exceedingly bad terms with her husband and sons who were in the habit of beating her very cruelly and otherwise illus ill us ing her though a hue and cry was raised she was never found two or three days ago there died in the monastery of an aged monk called vaille when the body was being prepared for burial it was found that the supposed monk as a woman the monk had been thirty years in the monastery and all this time had preserved the secret the authorities had to be informed of the fact in order too it possible establish tho identity of this strange being on inquiry it was confirmed that she was no other than the missing murderess it being found she entered the monastery as a maj the very morning pt the murder which took place only a few hours journey off PICTURE EXPERTS PUT IN THE PILLORY forgeries passed as genuine works bring official appraisers in disrepute paris july 16 the recent prosecution of benders venders of forged pictures has brought to front the question of the responsibility of official experts in regard to the authenticity of pictures sold at auction an art expert in an interview with M jacques seligmann tells how that dealer pair tor a picture as genre da frago nard which afterward proved to bo a modern imitation M seligmann claims that the experts valuation was calculated to mislead him comte manuel de granado was also the victim OL an expert ho pur phased on an experts assurances a small portrait offered as of the venetian school later ho found it to be a forgery propositions are being made to pro hect the public some suggest the suppression of all experts at public sales others would hold them personally liable in most cases where mistakes have been made lawsuits will result |
