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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALI, SUNDAY, JUNE 17. 1906. INNOCENT MEN CONVICTED UNDER LAWS OF FRANCE Innccent men have been made to serve long iterms in French prisons because the law of the republic presumes a man guilty until he can establish his innocence. The life of the ex-convict is par- ticularly hard in France, as he must repeatedly register his record. Accused Persons Presumed to| Be Guilty Uutil They Prove Otherwise. 22> : 37/ Remains Even in Cases (" Where Pardons Have Been Granted. pse of Memory Costs One of | Republics Citizens Term in Prison = Stigm g 0 THE CALL country is how tice by the A hcn PARDONED BUT DIiSGRACED. w GauTHIER W CHALES — HAWIS- ny- tted the he was g¢ to | home- turned a small town, ever and then it was.a dark| e was heard to| an to his as- him struggling in but he was ould puil epson were e ad dent ¥ stand saloon and fore- For their defensc last named piece of e w of ma ition to the ¢, they had his the cries. ! riends! . 'm drowning! Ah, my' poor children! What a misfortune! I'm . drowning!” These were surely not e words of a man being Killed by ¥ the children on whom he w B Sy Grimois, however, got frighte Y the xamination and contradict- , ; Loouis -fll'j‘f"fl ed hi and his wife was not al- 1 charged lowed to appear. The - defense. w lost, and judgment passed on the pris- oners. Grim is now dead, but his wife declares herself ready to swear to the evidence which she was barred from giving before, and also swears that her husband wa. haunted by a lifelong remorse for hav- ing allowed himself to be confused in i g kis testimony. But here, again, is refused witnesses who wis tl women Hawi that tréam, was METHOD AROUSES WRITERS. Hawis was| This fact of remaining guilty in the tude for life. | eves of the law has more importance of hard labor than might at first-appear. The free- ed, his term hav- 1 account of exem- dom of the ex-comvict has its terrible irony.” On re-entering the world, where in nine times out of ten he is thrust, tside world he | proken in‘health through the hardshi accusers had | o1 prison Jife, and without fortune, ledged that|is compelled, under heavy b elves in order | show at the Mayor's office of from spitefulness. lin which he settles, and to e Hawis —_— = A the original verdict. | sa applied for revi-|io whom he appiies for work, paper ston, and ¢ rdinary 2s it may seem | from the penitentiary authorities cer- the reopening of his case was refused. 'tifying 10 his-character, to his' offense Such permission would have inferred and to the length of his prison term he possib y of an error, even though The effect is’ natural to .l“’flk“"} original sentence might h prejudice.and’ close against him innu- p med the Judge, Who CON- | mearaple avenues of self-support. No | red his reputation at stake, Would | one wishes to have in his employ an ex. | not admit of a guestion. convict; féw care even to-e ity | VICTIM OF BIG BLUNDER. toward him. Free he'ls in a theoretic | Jean Chales may claim to be the vic- | Sense, but not -in practice. He must| one of the most extraordinary | Suffer still the penalty of the crime | ever committed to his own | Which he has expizted. ce by & man pleading for his| A Frenén criminal must, moraily Scbased’ SR RNNINE certain | SPeaking, drag his ball and chain e Durantin in Agen, had been | through the world as long as he lives, arrested, released from i evi- | and wear for the rest of his existenc dence against him and rearrested on |figuratively at least, his odious and dis- the strength of village gossip. carded stripes.- This s the wrong He was calied upon to explain the |282inst which Victor Hugo cried out in presence of bloodstains in one of his |regard to Jean Valjean of “Les Miser- Jockets. As it happened he was a no- | ables” and Balzac with Farabeche in orious poacher, which faet had more | “Le Cure de Village,” and more recently do with his arrest than anything |Francois Coppee added his protest in connected with the murder. He an- | “le Coupable.” But the wrong contin- swered simply that he habitually used | ues unchanged. his pockets to carry the game he had | HOUNDED BY RECOR 5 DS. & O OMcial stenograsher a | And this is not all. Criminal records chemical examination of the blood- | Ay an especially Important part in stains was ordered and showed that | TcnCh 1aw. The existence of a dossier the blood was not that of fethered | ooy hlaniom terror that follows in the game, but of & mammal. Chales had | 208!€RS of the ex-convict wherever he forgotten to mention that the day be- | PU°%, SUBDOSe Be has been pardoned fore his arrest he had carried a caif's | > e clemency ‘of the state; the veriest suspicion of evil conduct suf- fices to bring down the law upon him, |and woe betide if he be unable to s- tablish his ¥innocence! For a - second On account of ‘this slip of his own | o h memory he was judged guilty and sen- | °fT°nSe, however petty it be, is visited f y ith the harshest severit; tenced to the penitentiary for life. | ™. y. After twenty-five years he has been |, The Franch Parliament, recognizing conditionally released like Hawis, but 106 €71 OF the presumptive guilt theory, nobody is willing to authorize an in- o o - ts application in some quiry into the conditions of his con- pects, only to make it harder in < CH cations o ench EVIDENCE IS BAREED. | jurisprudence. It permits a judge i Louis Gauthier, now 54 years of age, respite a convicted man if it be his was condemned when a lad of 16 for|first offense, and the assumption ap- alleged complicity with his mother, | pears reasonable that his moral regei®- who received a life sentence to hard|eration would be better assured if he labor, in the murder of his stepfather, | were not subjected to the ignominy of named Allegrain. After a violent|imprisonment and degrading associa- scene Allegrain, who often got drunk | tion with criminals. and beat his family, had endeavored The sentence is duly passed and re ‘0 hang himself. Upon failing he had|istered, but, at the discretion of the art in his usual game bag: his reply 7 SEIHLE i JOIZEITANT ¥ VICTIMS OF FRENCH LEGAL SYS- TE WHICH ASSUMES THAT AC- CUSED MAN I8 GUILTY. Judge, the condemned man may walk out from the courtrqom unmolested. Let him, however, commit any pecca- o afterward and not only will he to undergo the imprisonment was originally spared him, but hi¢h the second sentence will be harsher if he had not been treated merci- ly the st time. That is, if two | men condemned for theft, one of whom s prison and the other left virtue of the Beranger law, ed again .under ances both will receive heavier s than the first time, but the e will’ receive a further additional punishment for hav- ing abused the relative clemency shown him. REPARATION DELAYED. Though, like Loizemant, a man may be acknowledged guiltless even by those who pronounced him guilty, when presumption without proof was against him, he remains subject to this rigorous judicial treatment so long as a decree of the courts has not broken And, as has been absolute revision is so diffi- it is almost-vain to hope th that tance in point is that of Kirail, a released convict, who for Seven years past has been seeking to have his ac- knowledged innocence officially recog- nized. The Chamber of Deputies is al- =paring” to examine into his s, in truth, a singular one. nty-three years ago Kirail was ar- ted for complicity in a rurder, the rge being brought against him by two men, Abadie and Knobeloch, who were caught red-handed. The three were ‘condemned to penal servitude for life, Kirail's protestations of innocence being overweighed by the accusations pposed accomplices, though he red proof that on the day of the crime he was confined ‘to his bed with injured foot. thirteen years of hard labor in Caledonia, Abadie and Knobeloch confessed one day that they had per- jured themselves to incriminate Kirail. One of them bore him a grudge: both wished to perpetrate a ‘“good joke at the expense of the law.” The affair was carefully investigated and Kirail's innocence conclusively proved. He was released and returned to France. He has neither been able to obtain work, since he must show his certificate from the penitentiary, nor has he suc- ceeded in having his case brought up. French Judges and lawyers generally resented a remark of Abadie and Knobeloch, to the effect that they had “played the Judges like so many monkeys on sticks,” and the dignity of the profession will apparently not ad- mit of officially establishing the ac- curacy of the statement. —_—— Morgan Gives Paris a Scare. PARIS, June 16.—Although the rumor that J. Pierpont Morgan had bought for $5,-..,000 the itudolph Kahm collection of paintings (one of the most valuable in Europe) proved to be untrue, it alarmed French lovers of art, who rec- ognize the possibilities. Henry Roujon, writing in Figaro, deplores the all-pow- erful ealth of ..merican capitalists, “who, Sith one wave of the hand, de. prive the Louvre galleries of its treas- ures.” o ' “One time,” he writes, “the making of a4 museum was a matter of centurles, Now they spring up under the auction- eer's hammer.” But he assures French amateurs that “the precious Kahn collection would have been purchased by the Minister of Finance if he had .ad the ready money at his disposal. Fortunately, apprecia- tion of beauti-ul Lwngs in France does way the same | WILL TEAH USE OF HAND LOON. English Woman Is Coming to America to Instruct in the Art of Weaving. Miss Charlotte Brown Is Soon to Have Classes in the Quaker City, SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. LONDON, June 16.—Miss Charlotte Brown, the champion hand-loom weaver of England, will start for ®hiladelphia about the middle of this month to take charge of the weaving department in the Arts Settlement which is to be es- tablished there with the aid of the financial backing of Franklyn George Bates. Sir Thomas Lipton, basing his opinion | on his own experience, once told me that the best way to train a man for a suc- cessful career was to send him to America when young and let him learn how to hustle there. Miss Brown is proof that the same method may be applied with good results to women. Though English by birth, most of her education and training in practical life | has been obtained in the United States, | and it is to this that she attributes her | success in the branch of utilitarian art | which she,has adopted. “When I returned to England in 1899,” she told me, “I looked around for something to occupy my time. It was during a visit to Canterbury| Cathedra]l that I first made the ac-| quaintance of a hand loom. In the| old cathedral city descendants of the Flemish weavers who centuries ago found refuge there still work at the same trade. So interested did 1 find myself in the work of the hand loom that 1 felt at once my future career| was settled. The simplicity of lts} mechanism and the artistic work it| was capable of producing both aston-| ished and delighted me. I then and there became a pupil.” Such remarkablé aptitude did she show for the work that in six lessons she had mastered all her instructor| could teach her and carried on the rest| of her training unaided. She had now | too, that became a jail during the Rev- | PARIS, June 16.—Americans who are! in Paris this summer, and who do not| want to miss seeing one of the most interesting old structures in the French capital, should pay an early visit to| the Rue de Sevres, where stands the | famous Abbaye-aux-Bois, soon to fall a vietim to the housebreaker's pick. The ancient abbaye, which will give| way to modern apartment buildings, is| well worth a visit as one of the oldest| convents in Paris—a religious refuge, ; olution. Its best claim to the interest| of American visitors, however, lies in| its close association with the cele-| brated Madame Recamier, with whose | name, in fact, it is inseparably con-| nected. In the time of the restoration the ab- | baye, which then had heen restored to| its first use, was transformed by the | nuns into & sort of pension, where women of the upper classes retired to | taste the sweets of solitude and calm| repose, and@ here Madame Recamier, “the friend of great meén,” came to re-| tire after her husband's ruin and the death of her friend, Madame de Stael.| Here it was, too, that she held her fa-| mous salon—the most envied in Paris— where Chateaubriand reigned as king, and to which all the illustrious ones of the restoration solicited the honor o being received. It was in this historic salon that La- martine read his ‘“Premieres &!Pdlla~; tions” and that, as a young man, Victor | Hugo was called “a sublime child” by Chateaubriand. The balladist, Beran- ger, came once, brought by Eugene De. lacroix, but he felt ill at ease, and never came again. “I did not feel at home there,” he said secured every honor that the Guilds of Arts and Crafts in the United Kingdom can bestow upon her. Although she is| at the top of her craft, she still adheres | to the strenuous life, a habit which she says shé contracted .in America and| cannot shake off in the more somnn!enti English atmosphere. She frequently | puts in as much as ten hours a day at| her loom and is continually evolving new designs and making fresh discov- eries in the manipulation of warp and woof. % She enjoys the “distinguished patron- age”—as the English phrase goes— of the Queen and other members of the royal family, the Duchess of IMarl- borough, the.Duchess of Somerset, the | Duchess of Leeds, the Countes: of | Warwick and a host of other ser stars in the social firmament, but there is no suggestion of the spoiled favorite of fortune about her. She gives her- self no airs and indulges in no senti- mental ravings about ‘“art for art's sake.” “I am a weaver,” she says, “not be- cause T am particularly in love with it, but because it provides an honest means of employment and combines art with a decent income.’ The fact that she maintains a fash- ionable establishment in one of the most aristocratic thoroughfares of South Kensington indicates that her earnings from her loom must be con- siderably in excess of what most folk regard as a ‘“decent income.” Her work is prominently displayed at the various exhibitions of the arts and crafts asoclations throughout the coun- try. - The growing popularity of the hand Joom and the superiority of its products over machine-made goods are attracting many women of culture to this branch of industry, with the result that Miss Brown has seéveral pupils who can af- ford to pay substantial fees for their tuition. Among her pupils is Mrs. is greatly interested in the founding of the Arts and Crafts Settlement in that city. FRENCH WRITER HAS GREAT PRAISE FOR WIFE OF PRESIDENT She Finds Mrs. Roosevelt All Grace, Diplomacy and Finesse. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. PARIS, June 16.—There has been a large harvest in France in the last few months of books on America, the latest being “The Impressions of a French Woman in America,’ by Mlle. Therese Vianzone. The volume is dedicated to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, and the writ- er sings her praises without stint. Mile. Vianzone says the President's wife affords the greatest possible con- trast to her distinguished husband. She found him all force and energy, while | Charles Thompson of Philadelphia, WhoI Mrs. Roosevelt was distinctly the oppo- site. To the writer “the first woman of America” appeared to be all grace, finesse and diplomacy. The President and his wife, according to Mlle, Vian- zone's impressions, supplement each other perfectly, and therefore live in the utmost harmony. \ From beginning to end the volume is a song of gratitude to the American people. The writer found the hospital- ity of that country unsurpassed, both individually and collectively. She goes into personalities with the greatest freedom, and tells just what she thinks of Secretary Bonaparte, Car- dinal Gibbons, Julia Ward Howe, the Fierces, Turnbulls, Litchfields and M Cormicks. The personal characteristics of all these people, and many others, are commented upon most favorably, and little stories of their home life are given to show how charming is their hospitality. ; The interest in the United States at this time is manifested by the fact that all France highly praises this volume for its accuracy. Some of the most notable of this book's predecessors, in recent months, concerning American life and things, are entitled ‘“Women of America, “American Things,” “Letters on Amer- ica,” “American Reflections,” “An Em- pire at Work,” “The Other Side of the United States,” and “American Impres- sions.” e g Willlam Waldorf Astor Hl. LONDON, June 16.—Wiiliam Waldort Astor is in a very enfeebled state fol- lowing the attack of grip which pre- vented his going to his son’s wedding. He is not a tractable patient, and re- bels against the ways of fashionable London physicians. The result is t z; is threatened with serious complica- to his editor and friend, Perrotin. “I saw that I lacked elegance. My coat was too long, as well as my hair and my beard. away.” VME. RECAMIER'S SALON SOON TO DISAPPEAR. INTERESTING BUILDING DOOMED. Celebrated as Place Where the Nota-| bles of Paris Were Wont to Gather. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. I felt frightened and went | thing uncommonly | QLS DANGER GENT 10 JAt Eugenie Fougere _Con- victed of Shoplifting in London. Noted Fre—n—ch Actress Comes toGrief in Brit- ish Metropolis. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. LONDON. June 16.—There is some= pathetic in the downfall of Eugenie Fougere, the fa- o In 1848, the hostess of the Abbaye-| .. .¢ parisian dancer and songstress, aux-Bois, who was then in her seventy- third ¥ear, received a visit from a man still young, but with slightly stooping shoulders, tired features and whose | of his Majesty's 'jails. who has just left the music hall stage in one a to undergo enforced seclusion M. Girault, steel-blue eves had a strange look. This | French actor, who played a very minor afterward Napoleon III, who, just ar- rived in Paris, came to visit Madame Recamier as one of the celebrities of the capital. He wanted to see at close quarters, even in her decline, the wo- man who had bewitched with her beau- ty and charm for two-thirds of a ccn- tury. 4 Madame Recamier was not, however, quite unknown to him. He had seen her in Rome in 18183, where she was the great friend of Queen Hortense, his mother. He had seen her again in 1840, when, after the foolish enterprise of | was Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, | part in her sketches, | fortunes before Boulogne, she came to visit him in his | prison. I have heard that the future Emperor made great promises to his mother's old friend—promises, how- ever, that never were fulfilled, as Ma- | dame Recamier died in the following year, 1849. The “Society of Old Paris,” which has saved many historic buildings in the city of light, is trying to preserve the Abbaye-aux-Bois, which is truly de- scribed as a “nest of memorie but it is not likely to be successful. Of late years, by the way, some of the outer rooms of the abbaye have been let as apartments, and one of the tenants is a well-known American writer, Elwyn | Barron, fornierly dramatic critic of one of the principal Chicago papers, author of “Maidens,” a novel that attracted much attention; of “In Old New York, which was written with Wilson Bar- rett, and of 'a number of successful plays. BEERBOHM TREE MAKES HIT AS GOL. NEWCOME British Actor Wins High Praise From Critics in the First Production. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. LONDON, June 16.—Coquelin is over here, full of activity. Yesterday, for instance, he was reciting at the French | Embassy, also at Miss Alexander's mu- | sical matinee. Later in the evening he‘ played at the new Royalty Theater inj Capus’ “Notre Jeunesse.” | By the way, Miss Alexander, with her | darky dialect recitals, brought down| the house in the entertainment at the| New ..oyalty. Her impersonations are | unique. | Beerbohm Tree's ascent from the plane | where he had been the object of severe criticisms to the ‘pedestal of unquali- filed praise was the most notable event of the week in the theatrical world. In his presentation of Michael Mortan's play, “Colonel . ewcome,” adapted from Thackeray's story, he scored a success which called forth favorable comment, even from critics who a fortnight ago were relentless in their denunciation of his ability as an actor. The storm of criticism ended in the proverbial burst o. sunshine, but Tree's most ardent ad- mirers are not denying that he has been very fartunate in the selection of a vehicle with which to combat the re- cent attacks and to remove the stigma placed upon his reputation. Mr. Morton's adaptation of the quaint, pathetic story of a gallant soldier, whom Thackeray describes as a man with the heart of a little child, is a highly creditable piece of work. From the wealth of material which the book affords he has chosen incidents in con- structing the play which give an intel- ligent outline of the original plot and at the same time are not disjointed. To the story, which is almost devoid of dramatic interest, has been given the luster of intense situations which dis- pel what might otherwise prove a tire- some portrayal of that lovable, sim- ple character, the Colonel. Each act is so dependent on what comes after that the interest of the audience continues, and when the denouement is reached its conception is found to be aavork of art. Tree's style of acting is peculiarly well suited to the portrayal of the role of the Colonel. In voice, figure and mannerisms he has the combination of elements that produces a splendid and typical impersonation of the character as described by Thackeray. His deline- ation breathes the spirit of that age of chivalry in which Colonel Newcome lived. He acts the part naturally, with- out effort, although it would be easy to make the role forced, stilted and awk- ward. There is every promise of the play having a bright future in store. » INGIENT GURE FOR INEBRIETY Drunkard’s_(lloak inWay Resembles Strait- jacket. LONBON, Jube 1o Soma o44 5rture relics of the past have just been sold at auction here. Quaintest among them was a device known as the “drunkard's cloak.” It is made of wood and in shape resembles a huge inverted flower- pot. Through the small circular ap- erture in the top was thrust. the neck of the imprisoned inebriate. The weight of this ancient counterpart of the straitjacket fell on the victim’s shoul- ders and was sufficlent to make every ‘With his hands practically pinned to his sides and the nrmtatq;.%hlng als most to the ground, the only motion allowed him was a slow shuffle of his weary feet as he KAISER TAKES KEEN INTEREST IN AMERICANS Emperor Watches Conflict of Capital and Labor in the United States. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. BERLIN, June 16.—“It is with sym- pathetic eyes that Kaiser Wilhelm re- gards the titanic struggle in America between capital and labor,” said Pro- fessor J. Laurence Laughlin of the University of Chicago, who left Ber- lin today at the conclusion of a series of lectures given by him in Berlin un- der the auspices of the Prussian Min- istry of Education. “Something of a similar problem he has to face in his own country. There is a class struggle on his hands—not of capital and labor, but of the aris- tocracy against the rising ambitions of the materially successful. Family and inherited official position have heretofore ruled in Germany, but now the aristocracy of the past is becom- ing poor and the wealthy industrial clasges, who already have power, de- sire recognition. Because of their humble ancestral origin they are looked down upon by the high caste, and they are tiring of it. “I believe the Kaiser is himself fore- most in recognizing the force wielded by the industrial leaders and he is de- sirous of breaking down the artificial barrier which has withheld from them recognition. Though his title is the war lord Emperor Wilhelm has been a far greater leader in the industrial battlefield and he is desirous that his captains in that field should be hon- ored. This is not from the Emperor's own lips, but it is well known at court. “He conceives that the career of America can be seriously injured by the struggle between capital and labor. He is full of sympathetic and extreme- ly intelligent interest in conditions in the United States. “The Kaiser also told me that the practical Christianity contained in the recent lectures of Professor Peabody of Harvard University brought a need- ed message to Germany. He remarked, forcibly, that Dr. Peabody kept away from dogmatic theology and empha- sized the practical relation of religion to conduct. ‘That is what I myself have always preached,’ he said.” Professor Laughlin was impressed by the mental alertness of the Crown Prince and particularly by his insight in the affairs of industrial America. “The Crown Prince,” said the profes- sor, “expressed a desire to see those phases of our life which ‘Uncle Henry's strenuous, banqueting rush across the country did not permit him to investi- Zate’ " Professor Laughlin will stay in Eu- rope until September. His Berlin lec- tures will shortly be published in Ger- many in book form. Lt ST e e Mrs. Shonts in London. LONDON, June 16.—Mrs. Shonts of Chicago, wife of Theodore Perry Shonts, chief engineer of the Pgnama canal, has brought over her' two daughters, who have just finished their education in Paris. They were pre- sented by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid at the court a few nights ago. Their mother is about to give several dinners for them under the tutelage of Mrs. George ‘West, who met the family in Paris. ard’s cloak” would be very apt to come to the conclusion that a high old time was not worth naving at the price. Many who saw it at tne auction sale expressed the opinion that its revival in these modern days would have a most salutary effect in promoting tem- perance. Before it was put up for com- petition a plucky man was induced to undergo incarceration in it and submit to the ordeal of being photographed. There happened to be no American relic-hunters around and it was knock- ed down for $5. An iron “foot-squeezer” sold for the same figure, and a persuasive instru- ment in the shape of an iron boot, in which the victim's naked foot was in- cased while bolling ofl was poured into it, fetched only $3 and the same price was d for a set of ancient branding irons. An old chair from the Castle of Nuremberg, in which people were se- cured. for torture, brought $450. A substitute for a collar In the 5 R T RO R | but alway very her husband, ht, It ury the much: in evidence as never permitting her out of his sig shares her retirement with her. took a stolid, unemotiortal British j just ten. minutes to decide that pair were guilty of shoplifting. Fougere has made and spent se\'e;‘al the footlights. i‘» was one of the triumvirate—the T two being Sarah Bernhardt and Yvette Guilbert—whom all visitors to Paris considered it their duty to see. Her art was not of the kind that would command the approval of these who take Puritanical views of the mission of the stage—far from it—but it paid her all the better for that. At the time of her arrest she was receiving a salary of $400 a week from the Ox- ford Music Hall—with her husband thrown in as a chromo—and at vari- ous other variety theaters in the mod- ern Babylon at which she has been appearing during the last five months she commanded equally high figure: In the dock while awaiting the ver- dict she presented a woeful contrast to the handsome, self-possessed young woman in her stage triumphs with which London is familiar. Her cheeks were pallid, her big black eyes were dim with tears, her frame shook and she swayed from side to side, clutch- ing at the railing for support. It was her first appeayance in tragedy and if it had been only acting it would have brought down the house. When the foreman of the jury pronounced the fateful word she collapsed utterly and was carried nerveless and unconscious to the cells below. And thus, so far at least as London is con- cerned, ends her stage career. Fougere and her husband were in the habit of shopping together in the West End, and on one of these ex- cursions the things happened which had for her such a tragic sequel A $20 nightdress and various other ar- ticles of lingerie “found themselves in madame’'s possession, the police found madame and madame and mon- sieur found themselves in a nasty fAx— so nasty that they could not even anybody to go bail for them when they were remanded for trial. In the witness box Fougere gave her evidence with- much volubility, breaking forth frequently in French, although ordinarily she has no diff- culty in making herself understood in English. She told how she went out shopping with her husband—“ever: where where I go my husband go tod; he cannot bear to let me out of his sight for an instant.” They visited many shops and saw oh! so many beautiful , things, but some too ex. pensive, “and my husband he shake his head, so.,” and she gave an imitation of the gesture. “As for this terrible charge of being a robber,” she went on, “it was an accident, a big, big acei- dent.” “How did it happen?” she was asked. She replied in a whirlwind of words. She and her husband had gome to Lewis & Allenby's and when they left madame had a large parcel con- taining a stage hat and a very big muff in her hands. She had only just Jeft the shop when she discovered the lingerie “all mixed up™ with her muf and her parcel. “Oh: mon Dieu!™ she cried to her husband. “I have had an accident. Here is a nightdress which is not mine rolled up in my muft—and other things, too. What shall I do?” Her husband, she said, suggested that she should go back and return them. > “But T did not like to go,” she plained. “At the shop they might understand. It was a great misfor- tune.” She did not go and explain matters to the firm next day because she was far too busy with rehearsals and per- formances. “What time did you get up In tha morning?" asked the Judge. “Eleven o'clock, monsieur.” “Couldn’t you get up earlier, especial- 1y on this occasion?" “No, I should be much too tired.™ “And you would rather stand the chance of being arrested on a charge of theft than get up a little earlier in the morning and go and make a clean breast of the matter, and explain how it was an accident?" Fougere's response was an expres- sive French shrug of her pretty shoul ders. Her husband, when his turn came, said that he would have taken the things back at once himself, only ag he couldn’t speak English he would have been powerless to explain things. “Then why did you not insist on madame taking back the things her. sel erhaps it was due to my great love for my wife and my weakness in allow- ing her to have her own way—even the spending of every sou she earns,” was the sad response of monsieur. The explanation did not satisfy the jury, as it was shown that other things which Fougere had not paid for hag disappeared from other shops she her husband had visited, and were - sequently found in her possession. And the little matter of having given a false address was not satisfactorily account ed for. Albert Gilmer, the manager of the Oxford Music Hall, said he had never had occasion to call her nonmesty in question. “But I must say,” he added, “that she was crazy on ding money. I woul pay her on Saturday night and on Mon . day she would come back to me and borrow a few pounds on her next week’s salary. I would ask her What M: b;como ];t he: last week's salary and she would r » ‘Ot all that!" " L s o —_— LONDON, J 16. e . June —DMilss Nightingale receatly m.»r.fig"m eighty-sixth anniversary of her birth, She is an invalid, confined to her bed at her house on South street, Pari lane, where thousands of congraty- latory messages were the “angel of mercy,” as the soldiers called Miss Nightingale, st takes an active interest in the Night- ingale Home for the Training. _of Nurses. which she founded in 1§ with the $250.000 grant made by the British Government o :er.v;l:.u in the Crimea. for Florence Night! ' e gt ghtingale's