IN FRANCE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 11 January 1922, Page 8

IN FRANCE.

MOTIVE PURE MALICE. SCURRILOUS ANONYMOUS LETTERS. Per Press Association— Copyright, PARIS, January 9. The town of Tulle, in the Department Correze, has been terrorised for three years by an anonymous letterwriter, who caused the breaking up o* homes through accusations of infidelity and embezzlement. The letters reveal diabolical intimacy with individual lives, and also the secrets of the Prefecture for the past twenty or thirty years. Some victims have gone mad; two are dead. A committee of townsmen collected funds on a lavish scale to track dowu the pereptrator, and Paris detectives have oeen imported all in vain. The Prefect received at the outset a letter of defiance, which declared that the finger prints would fail as evidence, because the writer wore rubber gloves. The mystery reveals no motive of greed or blackmail, or anything but pure malice.