BOULANGERS' SHAME.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3574, 30 July 1890, Page 2

BOULANGERS' SHAME.

Documents Loft by Mj oil Mistress,

Paris, June 21. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the notorious Mme. Julliette. Pourpe, who played so important a role in conneotion with the Boularigor mania. The charges made against her include that of obtaining goods under false pretences' and forgery. Her features are so well known that her escape is regarded as imossibleJ? and her trial will doubtless be use'il V/ for the purposes of dragging still ' deeper in the mire'tbe once honored name of France's brave General,

Madame Pourpe is the owner of the most universally known house of ill repute in Paris. She is certainly one of the.raost extraordinary of the ago, and Ira played a p.rirw rainont part in many of tta political intrigues of the last, few years in France. She accompanied General Foalanger to Tunis, when he was in • command of the French army there, and lived with him in the most flagrant and Open manner as his wife. ' . .

When he became Minister of War he spent most of bis leisure hours in her company or in the company of those whom she had; gathered together, Subsequently it,'was to her that most of his letters were addressed, and it was to' her house that ho invariably hastened on each of his visits to Paris. The financial transactions between the two were of ' the most complicated. nature, for while on one hand the Government possesses ample evidence to prove that Boulanger, while Minister of War, supplied his friends with State moneys taken from the secret service fund,' here are numerous documents showing that the General had dipped freely in the lady's'purse, and that he had borrowed largo portions of ill-gotten wealth in order to be aft? , to carry on his social aud political'* campaign. So hasty was her flight' from Tours, where - she has been residing lately, that she had no time t6 dostroy her papers, whioh are now in the hands of the Government; Amopg tl|em were numerous receipts' and promissory uptes of Bpulanger's, engaging jiitnself to. repay dquble the spis' b'flrrowed as soon as he. had established himself as supreme head of thp Government in -fresjderifc Oarnot's stead, There are also numbers of Doul. anger's letters beginning, "My ■ Darling Juliette," written in a manner that would not bear putting into print, and manifesting an extraordinary amount of depravity. lii'faot, they were the letters of a very debauohed man to a mistress. There were also numerous photographs of the General signed "Thy loving Ernest" and "Thy little Ernest,": While another large portrait, Mtingtho well-known features djr Priuoe Napoleon, jyolept-Plon-Plon, bote the inscription, "To my "dear Juliette, from heraffeotionate Jerome Bonaparte, January 2,1882." ;';-