Truth About the Case The Paris Detective Goron Diary
Ex chief M. Goron narrates how he solves a years old murder case by matching an escaped convict to a financier using Bertillon measurements. Berger, Vernet, and Simon intertwine as Goron exposes the killer, forces a confession, and ends with Simon’s suicide before transport to Cayenne.
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Charles Vernet
Paris
Cape
Detective Police
M. Clement
Pantin
Moulin
Simon
Rue Des Abbesses
Aymard
Cayenne
Charle Vernet
Berger
Rue Des Saints-Peres
Samson
Delilah
Saint-Andre-des-Arts
Madame Delilah
Belleville
Las Saint-Fargeau
Rue de Belleville
Marson
M. Goron
Vernet
Gaillon
M. Bertillon
Monsieur Goron
Madame
Ile de Re
Savages’ Serpent Test Becomes Missionary Trial
In a humorous excerpt from James Francis Dwyer’s The White Waterfall a missionary visiting a northern Queensland tribe is asked to inspect a line of snakes. The chief, with a wink, tells him the snakes were sent by Adam to trouble them, suggesting the tribe’s clever interpretation of biblical tales.
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James Francis Dwyer
Queensland
Garden of Eden
Adam
Woman Captured With Rifle in Homs Frontline Skirmish
A Tripoli dispatch reports Italian troops captured a European woman near Turkish lines in Homs who was beside her wounded horse. She carried a rifle and about one hundred cartridges and refused to reveal her identity. She is being held as a prisoner of war.
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M. Goron
Madame S
Larcey
Daudet
Charles Vernet
M. Vernet
Homs
Tripoli
Mahogany Used as Fuel in Mexican Copper Mines
In Mexico mahogany and rosewood are plentiful enough that copper mines timber with rosewood and use mahogany as fuel for engines, reflecting the wood's industrial utility.
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Mexico
Meeting Report: Two Ladies Speak at Mrs Bacon’s Gather
At the meeting Mrs Bacon notes that two ladies delivered speeches. The exchange hints at modest discussion with no lengthy oration recorded.
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M. F. Goron
Albert Keyzer
J. B. Lippincout Co
A. K
Karstens
Camille
Madame O
Durand’s
Paris’ Assembly
Madame S——’s
Ing
Anthropometrical Department
Ner
Rue de la Faisanderie
Camille L
Pailleron
Lucien March
Alphonse Daudet
Meissonnier
Puvis de Chavannes
Lamoureaux
Francisque Sarcey
Benjamin Constant
Sardou
Sorbonne
Socretaire
Comedie-Francaise
Stock Exchange