By a curious coincidence, the debate on the supposed cruelty of electrocution (apropos of the exe-caution of Mrs, Snyder, the Amer-tean murderess, and her accomplice) has been immediately followed by fan example of a different kind of extra punishment inflicted on a condemned man, Some months alo, a man and a woman were tried at th Oise Axsizes ut Beauvais for murdering the woman's husband, a crime very similar to the one of which Mrs, Snyder and her lover were found guilty. The Oise jury could not find any extenuating circum. stances, and both prisoners were convicted and sentenced to death. As the woman way horniiprison, there never was any: doubt that she would not be called upon to suffer the extreme penalty, her paramour's fate hung in the balance, He was defended by woman barrister, Mme. Dyvrand Thévenin, and, when all the sources of appeal were exhausted, the followed the usual course of asking the President of the Republic for an audience, so that she might plead her client's cause. M. Doumergue heard what she had to say, and on Saturday he decided to commute the sentence to penal servitude for life.
On the following day, to the prison at Beauvai her client, but, to her great as. tonishment, the oficial in charge forbade her to say anything about the reprieve, on the ground that the prison authorities had not been officially advised, She telephoned to the Ministry of Justice on the Mon day morning and was informed that the official notice of the reprieve had been gent to Amiens, the chief town fof the judicial district to which Beauvais belongs and that, after the decision had been duly registered, notice would be sent to Beauvais Tt would only be a matter of a few days, she. was soothingly told. Although she was ronning the risk of a year's suspension from practice, she was half inclined to convey the news to her client without further delay, but, feeling it her duty to set an example of respect for the institutions of her country, she went to see the Public Prose cuter at Beauvais, who, taking courage in both hands and permitting his feelings ax a human being to get the better of legal principles, authorized her to go and tell the oceapant of the condemned cell that he would not be guillotined. It is to be hoped the permanent officials at the Ministry will not put a black mark against the Public Prosecator's name. jara on Horse-Back Mile, Dorange, the young French woman who rode a horse from Paris to Berlin und back last summer, hae a rival of her own sex. According to the newspapers, Mme. Mary Féraud has sent.a letter to "la plus voile amazone de France," challenge ing her to a rate from Paris to the Riviera. The challenge contains a certain amount of "ginger" or, perhaps one might say, one or two in-pricks. Mme. Féraud, for instance, remarks quite gratuitously that Berlin is the last place she would think of choosing as her destination and that, if she' had to eros the French frontier, it would be to visit the "sunlit and well-organized country of Mussolini."
She then proceeds to propose rather severe conditions for the race.
She suggests that each rider should wash and rub down her own horse, saddle and unsaddle the animal with her own hands, and, in short, dispense entirely with the services fof a groom. She also proposes that each should bind herself to carry 'a dinner dress and wear it in the evening at every stopping-place on the way—a delightfully feminine touch that should round off the angles of this sporting competition. Finally, we read that Cannes. is prepared to give the rivals a cordial reception should the match take place, Perhaps Cannes might do even more, It might pay the competitors' expenses. This #s an age of propaganda.
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