Fro Ove Own Paris, Aug. 29.
'A remarkable story in which love, hate and money all play their parts, is being investigated by the authorities at Dunkirk. It began, '5 s0 often happens in France, with fan anonymous letter to the police. Inquiries were made, and the conclusion was that the letter must: have been written by a woman named Storm, whose husband, an armourer's workman, died on August 9. She was sent for and questioned, and, after some hesitation, she as-Serted that her husband" (whose death, the, doctors attibated hepatic colies) was, poison employer, @ gunsmith named Leptinea, with whom he had been for ight years. She added; "On February 2, 1924, Leprince's partner, Baillez, was shot through the heart while engaged, it was said, in cle ing a big revolver. Leprince said the fatality was accidental, and it was #0 accepted. My husband, however, had his doubts, because he had himself cleaned this revolver only about 36 hours before the tragedy. A few months later, Leprince married Baillez's widow, who had not left the house, and' my husband became more and more suspicious. One day, he had a vio-Jong quarrel with Leprince and sent him a letter accusing him of being. 'a murderer. Towards the end of Joly, my husband became ill, and shortly before his death he ' said the Leprinces had given him some beer which tasted queer, and he was convinced they had poisoned him to get out of the way."
detective inspector was sent to question Leprince, who said it was quite true that he had several quar- 5 Fels with Storm and had been accuted. by the latter of poisoning him, bus, the gan smith pointed out, Storm had suffered from stomach trouble for many years. He. succumbed by degrees and not rapidly, as would have happened had ko been olsoned, and, according to. Le-Drinee, Storm's chronic il-health made him subject to delusions, one of which was that Leprince would be ged to see him dead. Leprince further remarked that before accasing. him of poisoning Storm it would be better to find out if there Was any poison in Storm's remains. This observation struck the magistrate as full of common sense, he decided to. have the body ex-liliumed. and ® post-mortem eximination carried out. He. tried to communicate with several eminent experts in legal medicine but every tone of them was away on holiday, and he was obliged to fall back on local doctors, who are to perform their ghastly task to-day. The s will of course require some time to ascertain whether the viscera contain poison.
The Woman Behind In the meantime, Leprince keeps a bold front, 'Interviewed in his shop on Sunday morning, he said: "This silly story has done my business a' great deal of harm: Can anyone sup-Pose T would have been such a fool as to murder my workman just when the shooting season is beginning and I had 70 customers' guns to put in order? T cannot find anybody to replace him, and my eust words, it is pointed out, the cities and ports are merely the contact between Japan and the West: the farms and the villages constitute the real Japan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.