Yaquier seems to have been'n mah of some ability and consummate vanity, and there is no doubt whatever that he has exercised. a great influence on women with whom he has come in con to the last he seems to have ed that he would not be convicted, and when liberated, he was reckon: ing on being allowed to return to France to publish memoirs of his experiences in this country. There is little doubt that he will be executeq, and there are many people who think that the woman, although not concerned in the murder, really adopted a reprehensible- line action throughout.
Vaquier kept his nerve throughout the whole of the trial, save at the end when he broke into a pastionate outburst, while he had showed the most' remarkable courteay_and deference, to all throughout the whole proceedings. The repulsion of feeling which he is un-dargoing is, therefore, not unnatural. Since his arrival Wandsworth prison he has been on a diet of milk. meat extract, and fish, He cannot sleep and his appetite has deserted him. The con-Gemned cell has been, transformed into @ hospital, and itt occupant is never left for a second, night and day. It is learned that he is suffering from nervous collapse, and for hours at a time he sits with his head buried in his hands.
The Blackmailer's Chance.
The Wembley Exhibition seems to have brought to London a considerable number of people of a very undesirable. type, in fact the police clearly authorized statement dealing with blackmailers, who, despite the heavy punishment usually imposed on conviction, are increasing more than ever. "A number of wail-dressed young men, who seem never to work but always to have money, are at present suspected by the police of levying blackmail on innocent people, and their movements are being closely-watched. As The theatre are not doing quite 80 badly as was at one time thought. Although this year is not so good all round as last year, there pro-ably never was a season in which there were so large a number of firm and conspicuous successes accad i Sintens Se a Sense of view. There are a dozen P Eehows" which ave doing good buslness week-in, week-out, and seem, for one reason or another, to be above the influence of the weather: or Wembley. They are:—
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