Yesterday afternoon, as a funeral cortege was making its way along Rue de Flandre to Pantin cemetery, an individual who had been sitting at the terrace of a bar approached the hearse, grabbed one of the wreaths, and fled in the direction of Rue de Crimée; he could not be caught.

An hour later, the same man mingled with another funeral procession making its way along Rue du Pont-de-Flandre and attempted to steal a wreath of fresh flowers which had been placed on the horse-drawn hearse.

This time, he was seized and handed over to the police.

As the officers led him to the station he struck and bit them in a fit of extreme fury.

The individual had to be restrained, before being taken to the special police infirmary.

He has been named as Louis Martinod, forty years old, of no fixed abode.

L’Aurore, 23 August 1910

    
    
At Le Théatre Sarah-Bernhardt:

As previously announced in this newspaper, Le Théatre Sarah-Bernhardt will re-open on 1 September with a revival of L’Aiglon. The main actors will include Miss Dufrène in the lead role, and Mr Lhéry as Flambeau.

Mrs Sarah Bernhardt has entrusted the part of the archduchess to the delightfully pretty Miss Marie Louise Derval, a role which corresponds perfectly to the wonderful artisitic qualities of this beautiful actress.

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Family drama

This afternoon at around half past one, during an argument opposite number 38 Rue Saint-Fargeau, Mr Albert Auclair, a thirty-five year-old plumber, of 10 Rue Lyannes, fired several shots from a revolver at his wife and his mother-in-law, Mrs Emilie Septier, aged fifty-five, a concierge at 75 Avenue Gambetta.

Hit respectively on the shoulder and on the right flank, the two women were taken to Tenon hospital.

Auclair was arrested and brought before Mr Susset, chief of police.

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Car lost and found

Mr Decrais, a manufacturer residing at 53 Rue Blanche, went to visit his son yesterday at 5 Rue Denis-Poisson in Ternes. After a while, Mr Decrais happened to glance out into the street and noticed that his car had disappeared.

He rushed downstairs, asked local shopkeepers if they had witnessed anything, and learned that the vehicle had been seen speeding off towards Avenue des Ternes.

He jumped into a horse-drawn carriage and, a few hundred metres further along, saw his car broken down in the middle of the street. Two men were attempting to repair it. One of them, upon seeing Mr Decrais, sprinted away as fast as his legs could carry him. The other man, who was lying under the car, was dragged out by his feet; but, when the furious car owner sought to have him arrested by the police, the man protested and, pointing to another car parked nearby, explained as follows:

“That car over there by the footpath is mine. A few minutes ago, the man who just ran off broke down and asked me to help him. I naturally agreed to do so”.

At the local police station, the driver’s explanations were accepted and he was troubled no further. As for the audacious thief, he is still being actively sought.

La Presse, 22 August 1910

   
    

Opera singer escapes through ceiling

An opera singer called François Bernard, known as Henri, born in Toulouse in 1885, had recently left Saintes prison after serving three months’ imprisonment for fraud and deception.

Arrested once again last night at Rochefort train station for the theft of a a bicycle and sundry foodstuffs, he escaped from the room in which he was being detained by smashing through the ceiling and climbing up between two joists. Mr Bernard has sixteen previous convictions.

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A Madman

An individual presented himself at Champs-Elysées police station yesterday morning and demanded to speak to the chief inspector.

Brought before the magistrate, he claimed to be the inventor of an aeroplane able to travel from the earth to the moon. He added that, in order to construct this machine, he needed the 50,000 francs owed to him by Mr Fallieres.

This poor madman, Charles Morel, forty years old, was sent to the prison infirmary.

He is a former inmate of Nanterre hospital.

Le Petit Parisien, 21 August 1910

    
    
A well deserved honour

Cross of Honour for the Séguin brothers

A committee of important figures from the world of aeronautics has approached the Ministry of Public Works to ask that the Cross of the Legion of Honour be awarded to the Séguin brothers, the engineers behind the Gnôme engine, the superb machine which has enabled Leblanc, Aubrun and Legagneux to complete the Eastern Circuit, Paulhan to win the London to Manchester race, and Moisant to fly from Paris to England.

The Séguin brothers have worked for the glory of our nation and fully deserve such recognition. The government looks likely to pin the cross of honour on the chests of the Séguin brothers along with Leblanc and Aubrun.

La Presse is delighted at the prospect of such a thouroughly deserved distinction being awarded to these outstanding engineers.

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La Presse, 20 August 1910

    
    

    

    

So accustomed are Parisian jury members to cases involving vitriol attacks that the odiousness and cowardliness of vengeful assaults with sulphuric acid escape them to such a degree that they often show indulgence towards those responsible for horrific crimes of this nature.

Yesterday, they were required to judge yet another vitriol thrower, thirty-year-old Mrs Laure Simon.

To take vengence against her former lover, businessman Mr. Dubois, who had abandoned her after seven years of cohabitation, Mrs Simon made her way, on the evening of 30 October last year, to Rue du Grenier-Saint-Lazaire, where she knew Mr. Dubois was dining with two friends.

When the three men left the restaurant to board an open carriage, Mrs Simon approached and threw an entire bowlful of vitriol at the vehicle. The businessman and one of his friends were only slightly injured, but Mr. Dubois’s second companion received a droplet of vitriol in his right eye, requiring surgical removal of the eye.

Mrs Laure Simon declared in court that she sincerely regretted her actions of 30 October.

As for Mr. Dubois, in his testimony he told the bar that upon breaking up with his mistress he had allowed her to keep home furnishings to the value of 4000 francs.

Furthermore, he added, I gave Mrs Simon a sum of money, and I made efforts to find her an honourable position to provide for her livelihood.

After the arraignment from prosecution counsel Mr. Octave Martin, Mr. Godreuil presented the defence of the vitriol thrower, who was sentenced to just one year in prison.

Le Figaro, 19 August 1910
    
    

    
    

Up in flames

It seems that the warnings and advice contained in news stories go largely unheeded by those who read them, nor do they learn by example. How many times have we urged caution when using highly flammable liquids for the purposes of lighting!

Carelessness yesterday led to the death of one woman and serious injury to another.

Last night, Mrs Bunaud of 34 Rue Tailbout was in her nightclothes and ready to retire to bed. While she was refilling a petrol lamp, the instrument caught fire and flames spread to the unfortunate woman’s nightshirt. She cried out for help, but assistance arrived too late. Mrs Bunaud died in the conflagration.

Mrs Victorine Lévy, a day labourer of 14 Rue de Birague, was more fortunate. While lighting a spirit lamp, she set fire to her clothes. Help came quickly, but the day labourer was quite severely burned and had to be taken to the general hospital.

L’Humanité, 18 August 1910

    
    

Two Republican Guards passing along Rue des Ecouffes yesterday at around one o’clock in the morning discovered a man lying motionless in a pool of his own blood. Taken to the General Hospital, the injured party, before dying, was able to recount the dramatic events to which he had fallen victim.

He explained that his name was Ambroisini, and that his wife ran a boarding house on Rue des Ecouffes. The couple were on very bad terms, and had separated several weeks earlier. Nonetheless, Ambroisini continued to harass his wife with requests for money. He had turned up at her premises once again yesterday and, faced with her continued refusal, had threatened her with a razor. Mrs Ambroisini then grabbed a revolver and opened fire. Struck by a bullet which penetrated his carotid artery, Ambroisini fell down unconconcious a short distance from the lodging house door.

Mrs Ambroisini has been placed under arrest.

Le Figaro, 17 August 1910

    
    
Two men and three women attacked by five drunkards

An automobile-taxi was travelling along Rue de Ménilmont last night at around one o’clock in the morning, carrying five passengers: two men and three women.

Five drunkards, while staggering home, apparently thought it would be amusing to jump onto the rear of the vehicle, tearing its hood and striking the passengers.

Upon witnessing the scene, customers on the terrace of a nearby café intervened and sought to chase away the drunkards, who responded by lashing out with knives. A violent struggle ensued, and police officers arrived at the double. The scoundrels fled, although not before firing their pistols at one of the officers, Mr Félix Arnaud, who fortunately was not hit.

Four people were injured: Mr Lucien Depoux, thirty-three years old, of 18 Rue Levert, received stab wounds to his head and a gash on his nose. His wife, Emérance, suffered an injury to her right temple. Messrs Félicien Renaux, thirty-two years old, and Louis Weimann, thirty years old, of Rue Delattre, received a number of stab wounds to their arms.

All were treated at Tenon hospital, before being taken home.

Only one of the attackers was arrested: an eighteen-year-old man, Marcel Rahier, of 13 Rue des Maronites. However, due to his good previous record, Mr Deslandes released him without charge.

Le Petit Parisien, 16 August 1910

    
    

A forty-year-old piano teacher, Mrs F....., today shot a doctor named Faure with a pistol, striking him on the neck. He died shortly afterwards. The murderess, who has been arrested, was apparently not in full possession of her faculties.

Le Figaro, 15 August 1910

    
    

Toulon, 13 August. – The Government Commissioner has just dismissed proceedings against the sailor Legars, who slapped a quarter-master on a railway station platform.

The judicial investigation revealed that the quarter-master had made obscene propositions to Legars.

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Suicide in the street – This morning, at around half past nine, a well-dressed man thought to be in his fifties committed suicide on Rue Berton in Passy, shooting himself in the side of the head with a revolver.

No identity papers were found on him.

The lining in his hat shows the initials C.B. and the address of a shop in Buenos Aires.

La Presse, 14 August 1910

                 
                               
An Alcoholic Tragedy

Husband kills wife, then attempts suicide

Nogent-Le-Rotrou

A thirty-four year-old joiner by the name of Velta, originally from Montereau, yesterday used his chisel to kill his wife, born Madeleine Leroy, age thirty, with whom he lived in Nogent-Le-Rotrou.

The murderer had been sacked by his boss a few days earlier. The Veltas, who were both alcoholics, decided to end their lives. On Thursday evening, the husband fetched his chisel, sharpened it, and drove it into his wife’s heart. She died instantly.

Having watched her fall, Velta stabbed himself in turn. However, he caused himself only minor injury, and fainted to the ground.

He was unable to call for help until five o’clock the following morning. Mr. Velta was taken to Nogent-Le-Routrou hospital, along with his wife’s body.

Le Petit Parisien, 13 August 1910

    
    
Castres, 11 August - A bar owner by the name of Fargues stabbed his wife to death after an argument. Fargues then hanged himself. The couple had been quarrelling for several days.

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Toulon, 11 August - Mr. Laurent Mamino, a bar owner in Saint-Maxim, shot his wife with a rifle in a fit of jealousy, hitting her on the right flank. The murderous husband then blew his brains out with the same weapon.

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Versailles - Burglars last night broke into the apartment of Mr Curat, a man of private means, at 21 Rue Saint-Honoré. Mrs Curat, awakened by the noise, called out to her husband and the thieves fled empty-handed.

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Businessman Mr. Henri Beaufils, of Boulevard Saint-Antoine, discovered yesterday morning that thieves had stolen his bicycle during the night.


Le Petit Journal, 12 August 1910

 
 
Man kills son-in-law to defend daughter

Eugène Dorin, a thirty-three year-old former baker residing in Bois-Guillaume near Rouen, returned home last night at around nine o’clock. Surprised to discover his wife absent, he made his way to a nearby café, where he found and threatened her.

A little later, Mrs Dorin arrived back at the door of her house, accompanied by her father, Mr Poret. The former baker, upon seeing her, rushed towards his wife and attempted to strangle her.

Mr Poret, intending to scare off his son-in-law and defend his daughter, fired his pistol into the air, but the bullet struck Dorin on the left cheek and entered his brain. He died instantly.

Le Petit Parisien, 11 August 1910.