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CLINCH COUNTY NEWS
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RACE TROUBLE IN DARIEN
Soldiers Patroi Streets of the Hclntosh Town
to Preserve Order.
DtPlIY SHERIFF KILLED IN DISCHARGE OF HIS DUTY
Hundreds of Armed Negroes Massed in a Swamp and
Ready For An Attack.
The first blood of the Darien, Ga.,
riot was spilled Thursdav night, when
Joseph Townsend, one of McIntosh’s
. best and . most , influential . _ . . lost
citizens
his life from the effect of a shot from a
gun in the hands of a brother of the
negro Delagoi.
Mr. Jos. Townsend and Mr.Octavius
Tlopkins went out near Eulouin to the
home of Heurv Ihil&grel,the negro now
in jail at .Savannah, to arrest his two
sous. Both of tin se negroes had taken
aft.active part in the Darien riot. Air.
Townsend remained outside the house
while Mr. Hopkins went in. The lat
ter found John Dclag.d and told him
lie had come to arrest him and he had
best eline4 give np. The negro seemed in-
to do this for a moment, but
changed his mind when lie saw Mr.
Townsend outside in the moonlight.
A gun wan handed him by a women
and he immediately opened fire on the
two officers. Mr.'Hopkins was struck
iu thfe shoulder and Mr. Townsend in
the nbaowen. Mr. Hopkins, though
painfully wounded, was not complete-
ly disabled, so he took Mr. Townsend
in the buggy and hurried away for
medical aid.
Mr. Townsend expired in Mr. Hop
km s arms before they reached
p'aoe where they could rind a bed.
Jit-gi-oi-B VlHHft 111 Sivamii.
The negroos have practically de
sorted Darieu proper and taken to the
swamp. They aro now massed about
twelve miles from Darien and have
thrown ont pickets to guard against
tbe whites. Word has been sent to
Darien that the negroes will not
to arrest.
Several white families were sent
away from Darien Friday to allow tbe
men timo to tight. A detachment of
soldiers were dispatched to tho Ridge,
Darien’s swell suburb, to guard the
residences there. Soldiers patroled
the streets in Darien.
Kiotors Removed to Savannah.
day The morning towboat for “Iris” Savannah left Darien with Fri- tho j !
riot prisoners on board. It was |
thought best to take them there for j
safe keeping in order to avoid any j
possible attempt to escape and for the
further reason that the jail in Darieu
v/ug getting uncomfortably full.
While passing through a negro set-
dement en route five miles from Darieu 1
HERTILLON CREATED MERRIMENT.
The Noted Handwriting Expert a Witness
In the I>reyfu« Case.
At Friday’s session of the Dreyfus
conrtmartial M. Bertillon, the noted,
handwriting expert, who w as at the
head of the anthroopometric depart-
rneut of tbe prefecture of police of
Paris, was called as a witness. . !
When Bertillon had concluded the
first installment of his so-called dem-
onstration of the guilt of Captain
Drevfus, a prominent Dreyfusord re-
ferred to him as “the fin de siecle
CagUostro ” '
A remarkable feature of M. Bertil-
Ion’s deposition was the heat and ex¬ j
citement he put into what was expect¬
ed to be a calm, dispassionate exposi¬ j !
tion of his theories. He thundered, .
shouted and wavedhis arms, as though j
engaged in some terrible dispute.
The Dreyfusards refuse to regard j
him as anything but a quack.
COMBINE OP GEORGIA MINES. |
Southern Iron Consolidation Is Being Per¬ !
fected in New York. |
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
A new southern iron combination is
being formed in New York by a con-
solidatlon of the Cherokee Iron com-
pany and the Western Mining com-
pany, tho former operating in Chero-
kee eountv, Alabama, and the latter at
Cedartown, Ga. The concern will bo
known as the Georgia and Alabame
Iron company, and will bo capitalized
$1,300,000. 1
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COTTON FIRMS COMBINE.
Fourteen Mills Acqulrei! Bv tlie Continent-
nl Trust Company of 11*11 imore.
A Baltimore special says: The cot¬
ton consolidation, which is one of the
most important industrial combine-
tions of the south, has been completed
and the fourteen mills acquired are
now in the hands of the Continental
Trust Company of Baltimore, tho syn-
dicate manager awaiting their transfer
to the Mt. Vernon-Woodbury Cotton
Duck Cflmpany, which has been in-!
corporated under the laws of the state i
of Delaware, the permanent orguniza- i
tion of which will be completed within
the next few days when the properties
will be taken over by that company, j
HMa.es OfQoial Organ of Clinoh County.
the Darien and Western train was
fired upon. TRis is tho second time
th ° l ™ in has been fir « d Qn - bn ‘ ,orku '
nateiT no one has yet been hurt,
Judge gcalirook has boon generally
commended for his promptness on
calling a special term of court. Solio-
dor Kenan has also beon quite active
in getting the special term and othor-
wlso u8J13tlu « tbe citizens.
Colonel Lawion in Command.
Governor Gaudier was busy all day
Friday receiving and sending tele-
grams in regard to the rioters at Da-
Gen, where tho situation has assumed
a much graver aspect than was at first
thought.
Governor Candler was determined
at all hazards to prevent tho rioters
Bom doing any further damage und
used every precaution toward that
end. *
During the day he offered a reward
SAGO for the capture of the negro
John Delogal, who murdered Deputy
Sheriff Joseph Townsend Thursday
night.
Early in the morning Governor Can-
dler received a telegram from Sheriff
T. B. Blount, of Darien, as follows:
Please order Liberty Independent troop,
to report to me, mounted, at once. Hitua-
critical. One deputy killed; another
id. T, 11. IIuocnt, Sheri IT.
close on the hc-els of this
message Lawton came a dispatch from Colonel
asking that carbines and am-
munition be shipped. Tho guns were
sent by the Southern Express and the
ammunition, 1,000 rounds, was sent
later by a special messenger.
Colonel Lawton has been
with plenary power to u«t in any way
he may soe fit and is in full command
of the situation.
All this in tho outcome of the riot-
ous sitnntion that has prevailed iu Da-
rien for several days following the nr-
rest of one Henry Delegal for alleged
assault on a white woman. Tho no-
groes erroneously eonoeived the idea
that Delegal was to be lynched and
dropped posed everything to go to his sup-
rescue when tho sheriff started
to remove him to Savannah for safe-
keeping.
They surrounded the jail ami two
hundred military came from Savannah
to quell them. Tho duy following,
arrests of rioters began and forty we*e
jailed.
FORECAST OP CARTER VERDICT.
It Is Stated Iii Washington That The
Captain Will Go Free.
It is stated in Washington, on what
is regarded authentic information,that
“ agreement ... has been reached . , where- ,
by Captain Oberlm Carter is not to be
. 8he(1 . , { . . h . ^g«ntie government
P tlu * ^ ' H
steal, according to the verdict of the
conrtmartial, but , is merely , to . , be .ha- ..
™ 188od from the army and a nominal
over t,ne 810 000 It 4 he will /,T be remembered \ 1
that Carter stole, according to the evi-
dencc on which he was convicted, not
less than 81,GOO,000
He will not be advertised in the
papers of his town as ordered in
the verdict,
The statement that the Carter case
wlil bfi Bett ' 8(1 ,tB enta ,, flnds . ,
ln
plausible and ready explanation , . in
Washington. It is accepted there as
meaning a mitigation of the sentence
pronounced by thecourtmartial against
Captain Carter as stated.
It will be recalled that the verdict
of the eourtmnrtial was that CarteT “is
guilty as charged” of conspiring with
Green and Gaynor and other contract-
f >rs to defraud the government of an
amount wbicb the evidence adduced
showed to be not less than one and
one-half million dollars, ihe sentence
was dismissal from the service of the
United States, a fine of $10,000, a term
five years in the penitentiary and
that he he advertised in his native
by public prints as a thief and a
NEGROES FOR PHILIPPINES.
)rc ,i Kegiment to He KnlUteil to Fight
tlie Filipinos.
As a result of the recent consulta-
n between the president and Secre¬
Root, orders were issued Friday
for the establishment of an
regiment of volunteers, to
,e composed of colored recruits. . The
field and regimental officers
ill be white men.
Th e headquarters of the regiment
be McPherson barracks, Atlanta,
a > work of recruiting will
begin at once. The regiment is to be
for duty in the Philippines.
HOMKRVILLK. GA., FlUUAY. SEPTEMBER^. 1899.
TENNESSEE JUDGES CONTEST
Kigrht of tiie Leirislnturo To Kexuove Them
From Oillce.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
supreme court of Tennessee recently
sustained the legislature’s acts, remov¬
ing certain judges and attorneys gen¬
eral, Chancellor H. B. Lindsay, Judge
H. A. Rogers and Attorney General P.
D. Owens have seen fit to eta test the
right of the legislature to remove them
from offioo fo. ihe purpose of cutting
down the number of judicial officers.
Wednesday the eases of these three,
originally begun in London county,
vere tried in the court of chaucery ap¬
peals. The special chancellor in the
lower court held that the acts of the
legislature were unconstitutional. The
ofBciala claim to have grounds differ¬
ent from those presented by the su¬
preme court in cases already decided.
Ihe court of appeal has taken their
cases under advisement.
COl UIM AHTUI, PROCEEDINGS.
Labor! Continue* to Bay Hurt* Weak
I'oints In Prosoentioa'p Evidence.
The session of the Dreyfus court-
martial afc Rennes Weilueeduy was
comparatively uneventful. The depo-
sitious were not productive of any
really thrilling incidents.
Much of the time was occupied in
reading the testimony of Esterhazy
and Mile. Pais before the court of
cassation, during which many of tho
audience left the court.
M. Labori again distinguslied him-
self in laying bare the weak points of
the evidence. He was less fieroe,
however, than Tuesday, though quite
aggressive enough to arouse tho latent
hostility of the judges, which showed
itself in various little ways. M. La¬
bori is no favorite, cither, with Major
Carriere, the government's coramisary,
and the latter makes no serious effort
to conceal his feelings towards the
lawyer.
INJUNCTION CASE POSTPONED,
liftht of State of Gtroi'itia Af-nlott Street
Car Cumpnnlei Went Over.
The caRe of the Rtato of Georgia
! against the Trust Company of Georgia
and others came tip before Judge John
: Candler at Atlanta Wednesday morn-
| j iug. Shortly after the case was called
Judge Candler said that as it has de-
! veloped that there are manyvdemmrers
to the petition and answers to be
heard, and as demurrers could not be
1 heard on their merits in vacation, he
j ! would postpone the whole hearing un-
til the third Monday in October, 1809.
The state of Georgia seeks to enjoin
the Trust company from carrying into
effect the consolidation of the Atlanta
Consolidated Street Railway company
and Atlanta Railway company, which
it alleges lias been made or iB about
to be made under the name of the At-
lauta Railway and Power company.
The ground upon which the injunc¬
tion is asked is that this consolidation
of the two companies is a violation of
article 4 of the constitution of Geor¬
gia in that it lessens competition and
encourages monopoly.
TROOPS QUICKLY SENT.
Gov. Candler of Georgia Promptly Kudu
Impending Klot at Ilarlen,
An Atlanta dispatch says: Governor
Candler was notified by telegram at
noon Wednesday of the imminence of
a riot at Darien, Ga., and was urged
to hurry troops to the McIntosh coun¬
ty town without delay. The dispatch
received at the executive office stated
that as the result of tho arrest of Hen¬
ry Delegal, a negro charged with as-
rault, a mob of 400 negroes from the
surrounding counties had assembled
at Darien and held the town at their
mercy.
Governor Candler acted with his
usual energy and discretion and in
five minutes after the receipt of the
telegram from Darien a dispatch from
him was on the way to Bavannah to
the commander of the First Georgia
regiment, ordering him to Darieu with
200 men. The commander of tho regi¬
ment was instructed not to lose a mo¬
ment and, if necessary, to get a spe¬
cial train for his troops.
BOUGHT 31A USE It BULLETS.
English Firm Receives n I.arfo Order
From Boers In Houth Africa.
A firm of Birminlmm, England, has
received an order far 14,000,000 Mau¬
ser cartridges for urgent delivery to
South Africa.
Secrecy is being observed as to the
exact destination of the cartridges, but
it is said that the Boers alone use
Manser rifles iu that territory.
OLD SUBJECT REVIVED.
Question of General Wheeler'* Seat In
Congress I* Up Once More,
A special to the Chattanooga Times
from Birmingham, Ala., says:
“Since General Joseph Wheeler has
been ordered to the Philippine islands
a renewal of the discussion about de¬
claring vacant-his seat in the house of
representatives from the eighth dis¬
trict has begun. The Montgomery
Journal, which is looked upon as the
organ of the state administration, wss
the first to spring the question. This
leads to the suspicion that it is sound¬
ing public opinion for the governor
with a view^to his declaving General
Wheeler’s seat vacant."
TROOPS WELCOMED.
President McKinley Greets Tenth
Pennsylvania Volunteers,
BOYS RETURN FROM THE PHILIPPINES
1 ‘ittsburg-, l*u., Mario Great Preparations
To KocttivA Them and Occasion Is
Made a Memorable One.
'•At Pittsburg, Pa., Monday, with
ciiry.ion booming, hells clanging, whis¬
tler shrieking, flags waving and mighty
cheers from hundreds of thousands of
, | throats the Tenth Pennsylvania vol¬
unteers were welcomed home, after
mo. e thnji a year’s gallant service in
tho Philippines, and the reception
tendered the returning soldiers will
ulwuys be remembered in Pittsburg as
one of the greatest demonstrations of
patriotism that has over taken place in
this’ country.
eifSzfe'ns vfsuid of $50,000 donated by tho
and the surrounding towns
permitted the committee which had
the affair in charge to make lavish
preparation for the home-coming and
nothing was loft undone that would
show the “fighting Tenth” how well
their services for their eouutry in a
foreign land were appreciated by the
residents of their native state.
The reviewing stand of President
McKinley and his stuff of notables in
Scheuley park was a magnificent work
of art. Governor Stone opened tho
exercises with a graceful speech.
At" the conclusion of Governor
Stone’s address President McKinley
was introduced, and in the course of
his address of wolcomo said:
"i am glad to participate with the
families, friends and fellow citizens of
the Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers in
this glad reunion. You have earned
the plandils not alone of the people of
Poiiusylvaiiia, but of the whole nation.
Yon made secure and permanent the
vietsry of Dewey. You added now
glory to American arms.
“You and your brave comrades en-
curia.gad gagt^Hipi the other fields of conflict have
map of the United States
anA‘Extendedthe jurisdiction of
icftti -liberty. The Eighth army corps
in the Philippines have made a proud
and exceptional record.
"They were not serving the insur¬
gents in the Philippines or their sym¬
pathizers at home. They had no part
of patience with the men, few in num¬
ber happily, who would have rejoiced
te have icen them lay down their arms
in tho presence of an enemy whom
they ish had just emancipated from Span¬
rule and who should have been
our firmest friends.”
“Every stop taken was in obedi-
enoe to the requirements of the con¬
stitution. It became our territory,
and is ours as much as tho Louisiana
purchase, or Texas, or Alaska.
“A body of insurgents, in no sense
representing tho sentiment of tho
people of the islands, disputed our
lawful authority, and even before tho
ratification of the treaty by tho Amer¬
ican senate were attacking the very
forces who fought for and secured
their freedom.
"These loyal volunteers in tho Phil¬
ippines said: *We will stay until tho
hdme government can organize an army at
and transport it to the seat of
hostilities.’
plaining, "They did stay, cheerfully, uncom¬
and sacrificed; patriotically. They suffered
they they fought and fell;
drove back and punished tho
rebels who resisted federal authority
and who with force, attacked tho sov¬
ereignty of the United States in its
newly acquired territory.”
METHODISTS TO RAISE FUNDS.
Interest In the “Twentieth Century Move¬
ment” Grows.
' The Methodists of Atlanta, Ga., will
undertake to awaken an interest in the
Twentieth Century Movement which
proposes to raise $1,500,000 for
Christian education.
At the meeting of the Methodist
ministers Monday morning it was re¬
solved to have a monster demonstation
in the shape of a mass meeting.
This meeting it was agreed should
bo held at the Grand opera house
Sunday morning at an early date, at
which time all of the churches in tho
city of this denomination will be
closed, and the pastors and their con¬
gregations brought together.
DR. DICKENS EXONERATED.
A Female Patient Charged JMm With
Attempted Assault.
Dr. H. T. Dickens, who was charged
with assault and battery on Mrs. M.
L. Whitlock, several weeks ag*, was
arraigned in court at Decatur, Ga.,
Monday morning before Judge John
8. Candler, and ho was quickly exone¬
rated of the charge by the jury.
The alleged assault occurred on
July 4th last. It will be remem¬
bered that on that day Mrs. Whit¬
lock started from her home near
■Tucker with Dr. Dickins, going
to Norcross, where she was to become
the patient of the physician. She
charged that while in the buggy the
physician attempted to assault her.
NEGROES WANT PEACE.
Situation In McIntosh
Well In Hand and Quiet Is
Being Restored.
Barring arrests of eight
of tl^mi ringleaders in last week’s
riots in Darien, Monday developed
but little excitement. The two ring¬
leaders surrendered to the
authorities as a result of a
between negro preachers and politi¬
cians and Colonel Lawton, the latter
of whom suggested a plan of proce¬
dure. Following Colonel Lawton’s
suggestions the negro committees sent
for ringleaders an A la'er issued a cir¬
cular of some longth.
This circular advises all negroes to
exert themselves in favor of restoring
peace and avoid all fear of excitemeut
on account of the soldiers’ presence.
One section in reference to the negro
women iWio are at the bottom of all
this trouble, reads:
“Let every woman abstain from all
words that may incite rashness or may
be abusive. Let them stay at homo
and by all means let every man see to
it that no colored woman shall show
her face at the courthouse or on the
streets adjacent thereto during the
coming session of the court. We em¬
phasize this and earnestly beseech all
onr men to heed it. The respectable
women of our race always remain
away from the courthouse and others
must now be made to do so.”
When interviewed Monday night,
Colonel Lawton said:
“I apprehend no further trouble,
but will keep the military here until
after court merely as a precautionary
measure. Tho negroes are now
peaceable and after a conference with
the leading negroos they issued their
circular calling upon all negroes to
keep quiet. I am satisfied the sur¬
render of the two ringleaders was the
result of that conference and am posi¬
tive that tbe county is now practically
quiet und there will be no further
trouble.”
It is the concensus of opinion that
the situation has simmered down to a
tedious wait for the special term of
McIntosh court. Ho far there are
sixty negroes to be tried with indica¬
tions of more arrests and surrenders
to be made.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List; of Now Inriutrirlo* ICntubllHhori the
l’ast Week.
The more important of the new in¬
dustries reported during the past week
include a bridge and machine works
in West Virginia; coal mines in Ken¬
tucky; copper mines in North Carolina;
cotton mills in Georgia, Louisiana and
Texas; a cotton and woolen mill and a
crate and barrel factory in North Car¬
olina; electrical industries in Florida,
Mississippi and Tennessee; flouring
mills in Alabama, Tennessee, Texas
and West Virginia; furniture factories
in Alabama and Georgia; gold mines
in Georgia; a 150,000-bushei grain
elevator in Texas; a $100,000 hard¬
ware company in West Virginia; a
harness and saddlery works in Ken¬
tucky; an ice factory in Alabama; iron
ore mines in Virginia; a knitting mill
in Tennessee; lumber mills in Louisi¬
ana and North Carolina; phosphate
mines in Tennessee; a planing mill in
Louisiana; a telephone system in Ken¬
tucky; tobacco stemmeries iu North
Carolina; a woolen mill in West Vir¬
ginia. — Tradesman (Chattanooga,
Tenn.)
GOVERNOR CANDLER ELATED
That IwperuUmc Race War In McIntosh
County Has Boon Averted.
An Atlanta, Ga., dispatch says: The
news from Darien is of n very satisfac¬
tory nature at the state eapitol, and
the governor was gratified to hear
Monday morning that order was being
rapidly restored and the danger of a
race war was rapidly fading away.
Inspector General Obeur returned
from the seat of excitemeut, where ho
was with the state troops. His report
to tho governor was highly gratifying,
and the governor feels that all danger
has been passed, for the present, at
least.
THREE THOUSAND BALLOTS
Kvqulvcri To Elect a Chief of Folic© In
Selma, Ala.
After balloting for four months, at
regular and special meotings, the Sel¬
ma, Ala., city counoll Monday night
elected D. P. Uptegraft, a printer,
sixty years old, chief of police.
A total of nearly 3,000 ballots were
taken before any result was reached.
GATHERED IN THE SHEKELS.
Christhui All mice Camp Meeting In At¬
lanta Was Highly Sticcetgfiil.
Eighteon thousand and thirty-two
dollars was raised last Sunday at the
Christian and Missionary Alliance
eampmeeting at Exposition park, At¬
lanta, Ga.
An even sixteen thousand was raised
at the II o’clock service and at the 3
o’clock service an additional two
thousand and thirty-two dollars was
raised.
A similar scene was never before
witnessed in the loath, although many
subscriptions far in excess of tho above
donation has been a matter of record
in the history of the Alliance.
NO. 44.
TIDE TURNS
Handwriting Experts Testify la
Favor of Prisoner.
,. 1
BERTILLON’S THEORY SCORNED
f
Cliaravay Changes Opinions He
Entertained At the Former
Trial of the Prisoner.
Dispatches from Rennes, France,
regarding the progress of the Dreyfus
conrtmartial states that the balance of
the evidence Monday, for a change,
was in favor of Dreyfus. Five wit¬
nesses were for him and two against
him.
The most interesting testimony was
that of Chief Handwriting Expert
Charavny, who had come to declare
ho had changed entirely his opinion,
which, in 189G, was against and now
in favor of Dreyfus, who, he affirms,
was not the author of the bordereau.
His candid confession of error was
received with murmurs of satisfaction
in court, which became discreet ap¬
plause, in spite of Colonel Jouaust’s
patent added: disapproval, when he solemnly
“I declare here on my soul and con¬
science that the bordereau was writ¬
ten The by Esterhazy. ”
most important incident, how¬
ever, was Ooloue! Jouaust’s acquieB-
cenoo to Major Carriere’s requesst that
a rogatory ognunissioa be instructor! to
take Colduel Du Faty de Clam’is de¬
position. The initiative came purely
from the government commissary,
Maitres Labori and Deruauge having
no faith in the measure, because it al¬
lows Du I’aty do Clam to escape cross-
examination, which is the only thing
worth J. having in the present ii'cum-
Bt urine
I)u Fnt-y do Clam being a witness
for the prosecution, Major Carriere
will simply prepare ft list of questions
which an examining magistrate will
put to Du Faty de Clam at his resi¬
dence, ami nobody supposes that the
witness will be very much embarrassed
by the interrogatories.
The central figure in the courtyard
Monday, which is the meeting plueo
for all the leading personages of the
trial during the suspension of the ses¬
sions, was Captain Freystaetter, who
was the subject of many flattering re¬
marks upon bis manly and soldier-like
bearing.
Indeed, the interest in him was so
great that some poisons waited all
night long outside the door of the
court in order to obtain standing room
in the rear part of the court-room, in
(he hope of seeing him at Monday’s
sitting, an impression having gone
around that he might be recalled.
Captain Freystaetter will not remain
until the end of the trial, but will
leave Bonnes in a few days.
M. Faray-Jnvnl, the draughtsman,
called by the defense Saturday to
refute the testimony of Mr. Bertillon,
the famous handwriting authority, re¬
sumed his testimony at the opening of
the court, and with the assistance of a
blackboard proceeded to show the
fallacy of the calculation of M. liertil-
lon and the latter’s unfairness in not
submitting the handwriting of Ester-
hazy to the same tests as the prisoner’s.
He declared, however, that even if
M. Bertillon had done so the results
would not have proved anything. The
witness, however, insisted that M.
Bertillon had adopted a vicious method
in only making a partial experiment.
Continuing, M. Paray-Javal proceeded
to show that the geometric regularities
allegod by M. Bertillon did not in real¬
ity exist.
He pointed out anumbor of irregular¬
ities in the handwriting of the borde-
reau and said tfio same irregularities
hazy’s wore particularly caligraphy. noticeable in F.ster-
He also contended
that the alleged irregularity of the key
word “interest” was only approximate
and proceeded to illustrate his argu¬
ment on the blackboard, showing that
all M. Bertillon’s proofs applied as
equally to Esterhazy as to Dreyfus.
Finally M. * Paray-Javal declared
that M. Bertillon’s measures to the
word “interest,” which served as the
basis for the whole system, were en¬
tirely false, and, therefore, M. Bertil¬
lon’s entire system “falls to the
ground and no longer exists.” (Great
sensation.) This
witness, who had awakened the
interest of his hearers, maintained
that the bordorau could not havo been
traced, adding that it was an utter im¬
possibility.
In conclusion, M. Paray-Javal said
amid luughtor that he thought M. Bor-
tillon was a very intelligent man, but
that his system was false and ho, the
witness, was convinced that only self¬
esteem prevented M. Bertillon from
admitting his error.