INFERNAL MACHINE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 3

INFERNAL MACHINE.

Madamo Larroy, who owns & house at Colombes, has Bonnot (the motor Bonnot) on the brain (writes the Paris correspondent of tho "Daily Telegraph"). Every new tenant who wears trousers she suspects of : being a. still active member of the tragic band. A few days ago she gave notice to three of her lodgers, young men whose aversion to collars and neckties had aroused her ever-alert suspicions. Tlie youths left meekly, and in order, but Madame Larrey feared vengeance. Their very meekness made heT anxious. As soon as they were gone she went to inspect the: rooms they had left. In one of them sho noticed that a plank in the floor had been recently displaced. Sho lifted it and peered beneath. With a cry she leapt back. Her intuition had not betrayed her. There lay an infernal machine with its train ■of black powder and sinister and sinuous fuse. Madame Larrey had not read her evening papers for nothing. She fled from the room, crying: "Save yourselves, the house is going to blow tin!" The tenants poured trembling into the street, which was soon in an uproar. Then up came a couple of bold constables, who entered the house, and, with infinite precautions, raised the plank. A moment later they, too, were in the street, their features-con-vulsed, not with terror, but with laughter. Tho good lady had mistaken- coffeegrounds, for powder, and the lusty sprout of a casual potato for a murderous fuse.