Sunday, November 16, 1924
MISCELLANEOUS EVENTS

A nighttime assault
Place de la Chapelle, around 3 a.m., Mr. Georges Ledrian, residing at 6, impasse du Moulin-Joli, was attacked by three individuals who stole his gold watch and wallet.
Warned officers set out in pursuit and were able to arrest them. They were Paul Loyseau, aged twenty, residing at 4, impasse de Ménilmontant; François Péan, aged thirty-eight, and Emile Thont, aged forty-two; the latter two residing at 19 of the same impasse.

A husband's distraction costs his wife her life
An employee of the S. T. C. R. P., Mr. Bruneau left his home at 29, rue au Maire, yesterday morning at five o'clock to go to work, leaving his young wife, Adèle, aged thirty-two, in bed. But as he left, the employee committed the fatal distraction of not turning off the tap on the gas stove. When he returned home at noon, he was surprised by a strong smell of lighting gas. Sensing misfortune, he headed for the marital bedroom and, mad with despair, saw, lying on the bed, the corpse of his unfortunate wife, dead of asphyxiation.

Arrest of a swindler
On the order of Mr. Jousselin, investigating judge, Mr. Ameline, commissioner of judicial delegations, searched yesterday morning, 17, rue Quentin-Bauchart, the home of a business agent, Mr. Joseph Grünwald, known as Lévy, aged thirty, arrested on charges of fraud and breach of trust to the detriment of a former general.
Responsible for the purchase of a cinema, Mr. Joseph Grünwald had appropriated several hundred thousand francs.

A brawl
A most violent argument broke out, the day before yesterday, around 8:30 p.m., in front of the number of rue du Parchamp, in Boulogne-sur-Seine, between Italian cement workers.
One of them, Rodolfo Perigni, aged twenty-three, who lives at this address, had his door barred by his compatriots who reproached him for his fascist opinions.
Despite his vehement protests, Perigni was knocked down, trampled and finally stabbed twice in the back.
Rushed to the Vaugirard hospital, it was found that the injured man had a punctured lung; his condition is very serious.
The searches carried out by the inspectors of the police station led to the arrest of the perpetrators of this attempted murder: Pietro Garnieri, aged twenty, 11, rue de l'Abreuvoir, and Francisco Ticchi, aged twenty, 5. rue des Fossés-Saint-Denis.
Mr. Mollard, police commissioner, to whom they made full confessions, sent them to the depot.

A corpse in a wood
BAR-LE-DUC, November 15. Hunters discovered in a wood near Autrecourt (Meuse), the body partly gnawed by wild animals of Mrs. Marie Bary, forty-five years old, from Waly, who had disappeared from her home for a month. She had died in a thicket of hunger and cold.

Burglars' exploit CAMBRAI, November 15.

Yesterday evening, in Bertry, while Mrs. Voirin, a butter merchant, was busy with her family in a neighboring workshop, audacious burglars broke the windows and removed from the bedroom cupboard a safe weighing 55 kilos, and containing 75,000 francs in bank notes and securities, and disappeared without leaving a trace.

ROAD ACCIDENTS

-This morning, at 7 o'clock, in Malaucène (Aude), Mr. Auguste Dupont, aged thirty-eight, a bus conductor, who wanted to overtake the bus from Vaison to Carpentras on his motorcycle, skidded and had his head crushed by the heavy vehicle.
Death was instantaneous.

Rue du Transvaal, in Dijon, two cyclists collided. One of them, probably unharmed, sped away from the scene of the accident, without worrying about his comrade who was injured. The latter, a young fitter worker from the Terrot factories, named Jean Benoît, aged nineteen, died almost immediately from a fractured skull.
A search has been launched to find the fugitive, but has not yet yielded any results. The victim was the sole support of his mother, who has remained a widow.

-Young Pierre Porchot, aged six, who, on leaving school, was playing with his friends on the road from Paris to La Charité, was crushed by a merchant's car. The child was killed instantly.

SMALL FACTS

On the danger of throwing banana peels on the public highway: slipping on one of them, rue Saint-Maur, Mr. Raymond Maisonneuve, aged twenty-three, 28, rue de l'Ermitage, fractured his right leg. In Saint-Louis.

Yesterday morning, around 4 o'clock, at the Épluchés station, freight train 6,409, coming from Achères, ran into the engine of freight train 4,606 which was shunting. Three cars of the first train derailed, obstructing traffic for part of the day. Passenger trains on the Pontoise-Beaumont-sur-Oise line have suffered significant delays. No personal injuries.

At the Moulin-Neuf camp, laborer Eugène Coulette, aged forty-eight, was busy cleaning the casings of electric motors with a scraper. To speed up his work, he wanted to use a blowtorch; suddenly, realizing that his clothes were catching fire, he rushed to the back of the workshop towards his comrades, but it was already too late to save him, and, seriously burned, he died during the night.

Yesterday morning, the Cunéa couple, aged eighty-seven and seventy-six respectively, living at 4, avenue d'Italie, were found dead, accidentally asphyxiated by gas.

A traveler named Druon Lutger, a cabaret owner and cinema manager in Villers-Outréaux, fell from a rapid between Busigny and Caudry. His body was found near the Mourois stop. An investigation has been opened. -

After the express from Paris had passed, an employee at the Nogent-sur-Seine station found a package containing a fetus about three months old 400 meters from the station. An investigation has been opened.

The body of Mr. Regnet, a fruit grower in Châtillon-de-Michaille (Ain), who had been missing from his home since October 22, was found in a ravine. Death was due to an accidental cause. -

At 2 o'clock, a fire of unknown causes broke out in a car garage at 18 rue Berthollet. Two cars were engulfed in flames, despite the efforts of the firefighters who only managed to bring the fire under control after an hour of work. -

In a dwelling located in Vitry, 20, rue d'Arnetal, the body of Mrs. Boivin, born Yvonne Ambrois, thirty years old, a seamstress, was discovered yesterday morning. It is believed that this was suicide by taking a strong dose of digitalin. The police commissioner found, in fact, a half-empty bottle of this product at the bedside of the desperate woman. She had lost her husband some time ago and frequently expressed the desire to end her life.

Last night, burglars broke into the offices of the Franco-American laundry, 19, rue Louis-Pasteur, in Boulogne-sur-Seine. They stole the workers' pay, some twenty thousand francs, which the cashier, Mr. Quiry, had, as was his custom, distributed in envelopes and locked in his drawer.
A complaint was filed with Mr. Molard, police commissioner, who opened an investigation. -

Mrs. Blumenthal and her husband, a merchant, Cité Trévise, were yesterday evening in the bar of a music hall on Rue de Clichy, when she suddenly noticed the disappearance of her platinum bracelet, decorated with thirteen large diamonds and two rows of small ones, worth one hundred and fifty thousand francs.
Mrs. Blumenthal, who filed a complaint of theft, assumes that her bracelet having come loose, it must have been picked up by an unknown person.