A FRENCH REPORTER'S FEAT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1429, 15 February 1888, Page 4

A FRENCH REPORTER'S FEAT.

. One of the most brilliant featß of French reporting happened at the time when the great Tropmann murder was agitating Paris and France, and when everybody was eager for details.

A reporter who had the matter in hand left Paris for Cerenay, where the father of Tropmann resided. He arrived, called upon the justice of the police, and the commissaire de police, invited them to follow him to the maire, took his seat in the judge's chair, and there, with unparalleled audacity, ordered the garde cluwn pUre to go and bring before him the assassin's father. The officials did not say a word ; the reporter had conquered them by his air and demeanour. When the father of Tropmann was brought before him the reporter interrogated him as though officially commissioned to do so. The result of the cross questioning was that the son had written to his father on the eve and on the day of the crime.

"Monsieur la Commiaaaire," says the reporter, "please to go to the witness's house and seize these letters."

The functionary obeyed ; the letters were brought, the reporter read them, found them full of evidence of Tropmann's guilt, copied them carefully with a solemn air. Then, with respect he handed over the originals to the justice of the peace, asked him to seal them carefully and keep them for the further uae of the court.