The buildings erected and_ still going up, thinks a section of the! press, constitute an unhealthy sign.
it proves that those with money, of investing in business enterprises, prefer to sink it in immovable property. tomers are getting tired of waiting ind are taking their guns else-here. And all this on account of women who is revenging herself fon me by trying to make Mine. Storm think I poisoned her hus band."
The woman alluded to was the tenant of a flat in the house in which Leprinee had his shop. On. February 2, 1924, she heard 2 report and, going downstairs to the workshop, she saw Baillez at the last gasp, with a ballet wound in his breast. His wife and Leprince stood and looked at the dying man thou trying to do anything for him. The witness from upstairs drew her own conclusions from this attitude but could take no action at the time.
Leprince was originally a cizeus acrobat, who performed under the ame of Iniperator, and Baillez was musical clown attached to the est~ ablishment, Imgerator's principal number was carried out. with ai other acrobat, who met with an 2¢- cident and injured himself so badly' that the partnership had to be dissolved. Leprince eventually—purchased the business of a Dunkirk gunsmith named Carpentier and was joined by Baillez and the latter's pretty wife, One of the newspaper: are following up this myster affair has discovered Carpentie son, who, up to the age of fifteen, assisted int his father's business. The son, Marcel Carpentier, is a musical composer and chorus master, at the Paris Opera. He says that on the day of Bailicr's death he and his father were sitting out-ide a cafe when they received a telephone call stating that a bad accident had occurred in Leprince's workshop.
'Young Carpentier went to see what had happened and found Bail-lex lying dead on the floor. A large 'American revolver was' close at liliand. Te, was "open,—that is to! say, in the position in which the chambers revolve freely—aid was unloaded. Carpentier looked closely at Baillez and noticed that no) marks of powder showed themselves! on his waistcoat, Carpentier picked up the revolver and remarked Leprince that there coald not have! deen an accident with tha revolver, and that is must have been suicide or something else, Leprince made a sneering remark and went away.
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