The hot werther has brought succession of attacks on women and children just ax it did in New York, though on a smaller sale. In every case the criminals were luckily either arrested or put to flight before sccompushing their infamous purpose. At Ivry in the southern suburbs, a little girl was carried off and secreted for two days by a man who did the child no physical harm, but frightened her so much that it has been impossible to obtain an account of the affair from her. Her sy abductor is in prison, but the evidence against him is not quite convincing. Another man was caught in the act of enticing a child into a thicket and was badly mauled by an infuriated crowd headed by the child's father. A girl of eighteen was attacked on the fortifications by two and was saved only by the arrival of an octroi officer who discharged his revolver at. the wretches and put them to flight. Several minor cases of insult to women, tinues to increase to such an extent that the Seine Assize jury for the ninth time has 'a motion for the revival of capital punishment. To put the guillotine into operation again would be an interesting experiment in criminology. If it were followed by a decrease in crimes of violence, we might fairly conclude that in France, at any
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