"Peeping Tom" Victimised.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7719, 23 January 1905, Page 3

"Peeping Tom" Victimised.

SHAM MURDER SEEN THROUGH A HOLE IN THE WALL,. PARIS, Oct. 21. Breathless and hagfeard, a man rushed into a police station in the Rue la Rochefoucauld the other night and begged an inspector to go at once with him to his house in the Hue Fountaine, where a terrible crime had been committed. He added that some months ago he let two rooms in the house to a couple whose appearance was so suspicious that in order to keep an eye upon them he bored a hole through the wall of his dining-room, which communicated with their living room. ".lust as I was about to have my dinner." he said, "the door-bell rang- T went down and admitted a lrank-messenger, who inquired for m,v lodgers. 1 showed him their apartments, and then took up my position at the hole in the wall. I saw the lodger and his wife give the messenger certain sums of money, after which the man tilled three glasses of wine, and everyone drank. "As the messenger was putting his glass down the husband seized a 'heavy hammer and felled him with one blow. He and his wife then threw themselves on the body, and after taking possession of all the money, thrust the murdered man into a large trunk." Deeply impressed by thip gruesome recital, the inspector, accompanied by a constable and a locksmith, hastened to the house. To their surprise the lodgers' toom was empty, but in the middle stood a Mack trunk. Just as the locksmith was about to opert it, says the .Journal, the inspector saw on the lid a letter addressed to him. He hastily ojx?ned it, and then exploded with laughter. It was a message from the lodger and his wife, stating that they had not taken flight, but had gone to the theatre. "Do not trouble to open the trunk," continued the letter; "it is empty. Wv have killed no one. The hammer was a cardbjoard imitation. "We played the whole comedy in order to throw ridicule on our spying landford, who, to satisfy his incfuisitiveness, bored a hole through the wall of our room, and was 'betrayed by some falling plasteiV Do you dread washing day ? Then buy a tin of Washine and cheer up. See a list of storekeepers who stock it. A6d tin sufficient for a week's washing.* U you do your own washing then here is good news for you. Try « ■ tin of "Washine " ; it will help you and please you. See list of storekeepers who stock it.* A MOST HONOURABLE DISTINCTION. The Western Medical Review, « medical publication of the highest standing, says, in a recent issue ':— 'Thousands of physicians in this and other countries have attested that Sander and Sons' Eucalypti Exi tract (i not only reliable, but that it has a pronounced and indisputable superiority over all other preparations of Eucalyptus."- Your health Is too precious to be tampered with, therefore reject all products foisted upon you by unscrupulous mercenaries, *md insist upon getting Saniir and Sons' Eucalypti Extract, the only preparation rec ommended 0 mmended by your physician and the medical press. In coughs, colds, fevers, diaw rhoea, kidney diseases, the relief is instantaneous. Wounds, ulcers, burns, sprains, etc., it heals without inflammation. As mouthwash (9 drops to a glass of water) it pnx vents decay of teeth, and destroy! dißease germs.* HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS. Reliable Remedies. In wounds, bruises, sprains, glandular swellings, enlarged veins, neuralgic pains and rheumatism, the application of this soothing i ointment to the iilTcctparts not only gives the greatest ease, but likewise cures the complaint. The pills greatly assist in banishing the tenancy to rheumatism and similar painful disorders, whilst the Ointment cures the local ailment. The Pills remove the constitutional disturbance and regulate every impaired function of every organ throughout tho human body. The cure is neither temporary or superficial, but permanent and complete, and the disease rarely recurs, so perfect has been the purification performed by these searching yet harmless preparations. The most delicate may take Holloway's Pills with perfect confidence.*