HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 109, 24 September 1912, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

MAN-HUNTS IN PARIS. SHOTS FIRED IN TWO EXCITING CHASES. Paris enjoyed two exciting man-hunts la«t month. In the Bois de Vincennes a man amused himself by frightening a number of children who were playing under the trees. The children told a park-keeper, who ordered the man off, when he suddenly turned and shot the park-keeper through the chest. Nearly three hundred people chased the assailant, who rushed off into the woods, turning and firing every now and then as he ran.

He got clear through the woods into St. Hande, where a policeman drew his revolver, fired at the fugitive, and broke his arm. His arrest was not effected, however, before an angry crowd had torn his clothes to rags and knocked most of his teeth down his throat.

The other man-hunt took place in Mont-niartre at three o'elock the same morning.

For some time past, the police have been looking lor an "apache" named Lucien Javouhey, a young man of eighteen, who professes the advanced socialism of the Bonnot-Garnier gang. He was wanted for several crimes, and the police found him near the Place Pigalle.

He knocked one detective down, fired at another, and, after being hunted through the streets for nearly half an hour, by policemen and a crowd of men and women in evening clothes, he was captured, after wounding three people one of whom was a policeman.

WIFE'S VENGEANCE. HOW SHE TRACKED IfER RIVAL TO DEATH. The enquirie* nude by the police into the murder of Mn. Bridgeman, alias Mine, iiertrand, by Mme. Block, the authoress and playwright, only serve to reveal the deep pathos of the tragedy.

Mine. Block had left no stone unturned to cause her husband to break off his intrigue with Mrs. Bridgeman. She had even had an interview with Mrs. liridgeman's nine-year-old son, and had implored him to use his influence with his mother to break off her relations with her husband.

As this had no effect, she interviewed Mr. Bridgeman himself, hut the only result of that interview was that he separated from his wife and began divorce proceedings. Then it was that Mrs. Bridgeman took a flat in the Rue Vignon under the name of Mme. Bert-rand. This caused- Mme. Block to lose trace of her rival.

She knew from her husband's frequent absences that he was still under the spell oE her rival. Some days ago she received an anonymous letter giving her :u\ appointment at a Paris railway station.

Here she met a man she did not know, who declared that he knew of her conjugal misfortune, and for 3<Wf. would give her the address of her rival. -He finally gave it for the modest sum of 3f. and a pair of old boots. Mme. Block, in giving an account of her crime, declared that when Mrs. Bridgeman mocked her she "saw red" and fired with fatal effect.