One of the most cherished Paris ian institutions ig threatened. From time immemorial it has been the custom for leading actresses! and other persons in the public eye. te attend sensational trials at the Seine Assize Court, simply to show themselves and prove to friends and rivals that possessed the influence necessary to obtain an order for admission, The actresses did no great harm beyond distracting the attention of the Jurymen "and witnesses, but the privileged male spectators seldom took the trouble to restrain the ex-sentiments when occurred, and scandalous seenes in court resulted only too frequently. Only a few months ago, during the trial of Mestorino, a Paris jeweller, for murder, the presiding judge and his wife were hustled and actually assaulted by excited people trying to get into the court, A conflict of authority was at the root of the trouble. The jude had no power to keep order in his own court, the Repul who act as doorkeepers and policemen being under the orders of the Prefect of the Seine. Most of the admission orders came from high officials of the Prefecture who wore tunable to resist the social pressure brought to bear on them on these occasions. Now, we are told, the Procureur de In République and the Prefect of the Seine have put their heads together and agreed that admission to the court will depend future solely on the judicial author ities, and that anyone, having nothing to do with a case, who wants to see it tried, will have to wait outside the public door and take his or her turn for stundingroom.
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