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E. KURTZ, Mgr.
WOMAN HELD
IN CAPTIVITY
AT CHATEAU
PARIS AGHAST AT REPORTS OF
CHARLES SOLLER’S CRUELTY
TO HIS WIFE
FEW GHOST LETTERS
HELD IN SOLITARY CONFINE
MENT FOR THREE YEARS
IS CLAIM
PARIS, August 21. {/?)—The little
village of Chatenay, in the province
of Oise, has suddenly become the
principal subject of gossip in Paris
salons as the result of the disclosure
by the police of the mysterious im
prisonment in an isolated chateau of
the wife of Charles Soller, an emi
nent French explorer and savant.
M. Soller and a woman secretary
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why the Parker If Duofold is
called the 25- fj y e a r point.
That’s why it ft/ is the cheapest
pen on earth /if at $7—because its
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ORLANDER, the Jeweler
r
who is accused of being an accom
plice, are now under arrest, charged
with sequestrating Madame Soller fof
criminal motives.
According to the police the victim
has practically been kept in soliatry
confinement in a room with the shut
ters closed for more than three years.
At any rate, it was three years ago
when Madame Soller was last seen
by her friends and they attributed
her disappearance and silence to a
decision on her part to lead a soli
tary retired existence in the country.
The police would not ever have in
terested themselves in her fate had
they not begun to receive from the
inhabitants of the little village queer
letters, telling how their nights were
haunted by strange piercing cries
from the lonely chateau on the out
skirts of the village. By the style
of some of the letters on the sub
ject the police were convinced the
writers were naive believers in the
ghosts, and did not pay much atten
tion to them. When letters howr
ever continued to pour in, insinuat
ing that some woman was unquestion
ably being submitted to frightful ex
periences in a room in the chateau,
the authorities decided to investi
gate. *
Their first surprise was to discov
er that the chateau was the prop
erty of Charles Soller, the explorer,
and a still greater surprise was to
find that the prisoner who terrified
the neighbors with her cries was none
other than his wife.
The chateau is only a remnant of a
large property which once belonged
to the explorer. Most of the prop
erty he lost through disastrous busi
ness investments. Several years ago
his w7ife made a will by the terms
of which he would inherit the mon
ey and jewelry she had in her own
right. In October, 1922, M. Soller very
quietly took possession of the cha
teau, without, howTever giving the
neighbors the impression he intend
ed to stay, for two servants who
came with him immediately quitted
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the premises.
According to the police it was then
that M. Soller installed his wife in
the chateau, locking her in her room
and taking the key with him.
A strange woman then appeared
in the person of his secretary, Mile.
De La Planque, whose business it was
to attend to the wants of the prison
er. ^During the absence of the hus
band and secretary, it appears the
wife determined to let the world
know of her confinement and raised
cries for help which at times reached
the villagers and made them think
the chateau was haunted.
When the police authorities finally
visited the premises and rescued the
wife of the explorer, she convinced
them by the marks of numerous blows
on her body that her story of fright
ful maltreatment was not all the pro
duct of her immagination as was im
mediately claimed by her husband. In
his own defense the explorer now
contends his wife has been mad for
years and had to be held more or less
under lock and key for her own
safety.
UNDERGROUND ,
ART EXHIBIT
AT KENNECOTT
REVEREND ZIEGLER, FORMERLY
OF CORDOVA HOLDS UNIQUE
ART EXHIBIT IN MINE
The Rev. E. P. Ziegler, who has
spent the past month painting in the
Kennecott district, returned to Coi
dovn last week and tells many inter
esting incidents of the tn4* Jo the
mines, says the Cordova Times.
Contrary to his usual custom of
roughing it, affoot or with pack horse
into the more scenic parts of the
Copper Rivercountry. Mr. Ziegler
made the trip to Kennecott on the
railroad and while at that place stop
ped at the railroad camp there. In
order to gain an elevation at which
the scenic view was the best, Mr.
Ziegler did most of his painting above
their mine which is some distance
above the town of Kennecott, and is
reached by tram cars. His paintings
are landscapes and include several
scenes taken from the country near
the Motherlode property.
Rev. Ziegler stated that one of the
most interesting features of the trip
was the camp dining room which was
1,200 feet below’ the level of the
ground and was very nicely appoint
ed, and could seat 10 men at a meal.
The reason for the singular loca
tion of the dining room was that due
to the fact that most of the men’s
work is done far under ground, much
time ordinarily consume^ in trans
portation to the surface wras. saved
by this plan. During the visit of
the Stannard party, both Mr. Jack
lin and Mr. Stannard were present
at Mr. Ziegler’s exhibition of art can
vasses and scenery which was held in
the dining room, and may be consid
ered the only art exhibition of its no
ture ever held 1200 feet under the
surface of the ground.
■ Mrs. Margaret Clythor of Sydney,
N. S. W., 14 years of old and mother
of two children, is suing for a divorce
from her 16 year old husband. She
was married when 12.
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