A French Reporter's Feat.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 248, 21 March 1888, Page 5

A French Reporter's Feat.

One of the most brilliant feats of French reporting happened at the time when the great Tropmann murder was agitating Paris and France, and when everybody was eager for detail?. A reporter who had the matter in hand left Paris for Cerenay, where the father of Tropmann resided. He arrived, called upon the justice of the peace, and tho commissaire de police, invited them to follow him to the maire, took his seat in the judgo's chair, and there, with unparalleled audacity, ordered the yard chain pelre to go and bring before him the assassin's father. The officials did not say a word ; tho reporter had conquered them by Mr air and his demeanour. When the father of Tropmann was brought before him, the reporter interrogated him aa though officially commissioned to do so. The result of the crossquestioning was that the son had writton to his father on the eve and on the day of the crime. " Monsieur le Commissaire," says the reporter, " please to go to the witnesses' house and seize these letters." The functionary obeyed ; tho letters were brought, the reporter read them, found them full of evidence of Tropmann's guilt 5 and copied them carefully with a solemn air. Then, with respect he handed over the originals to the justice of the peace, asked him to seal them carefully and keep them for the further use of the court. The reporter put the copies into his pocket, saluted tho gentlemen, and left.