A PARIS MYSTERY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13501, 27 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

A PARIS MYSTERY.

A DYING WOMAN'S DEVOTION. "Jeakxe u REi'fBLiQUE," whose real name was far less picturesque, was, the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph remarks, a young woman whom everybody between the Bastile and the Garde de Lyon seemed to know. She was born and brought up in the quarter, ' had become a popular character, and was regarded with a certain amount of sympathy, because she was known to be very kind-hearted and generous. "Jeanne la Bepublique" will "trot" no more on the pavement around the Bastile. She was found murdered in the quarter where she was so popular. . . A policeman was going round his beat early in the morning, when he saw a dark \ abject' lying on the .pavement on one of the narrow streets. He stooped down, and found it was "Jeanne la Republique," who was stabbed six times and was dying. An ambulance was called, and as she was being conveyed to the hospital she recovered consciousness for a few moments, and murmured, " He stabbed me, he killed me; I always said that.it would end that way." The policeman tried to get her to say who was her murderer. She looked at them with her dying eyes, and said she would not. " What is the use?" she' murmured. "Besides, it is none of your business." So "Jeanne la Republique" died as kind-hearted, even . her murderer, as she had lived. They were her last words, and she soon expired. The police, however, had their suai picions "concerning a young Italian whom they knew had a great ascendancy over her, and with whom she had spent the \ . evening.- "He was arrested in his room at *omv in the morning, and was taken to see the dead body of his friend. He pro- . fessed his innocence loudly, but the police, nevertheless; kent him under arrest-