News Items

- A young boy injured by an elevator. Charles Gout, fourteen, living with his parents at 41 rue de la Chapelle, had taken a seat in the elevator of the building located at 15 rue du Croissant. As a result of an incorrect maneuver, the young man, while trying to exit the elevator, found himself trapped between the elevator and the wall of the building. Firefighters were required to free him from this perilous position.
Charles Gout was taken to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in serious condition.

- Eugène Nicou, twenty-two, of 33 avenue Herbillon, in Saint-Mandé, embezzled ten thousand francs from the manufacturer who employed him as a cashier. He is in the depot.

- A bus on the W line caught fire on rue Beaubourg. Passengers were able to evacuate without incident.

- A man in his thirties shot himself in the head with a revolver in a taxi near the Gare de Lyon.

- Mr. Henri Géreux, a fifty-two-year-old roofer living in Vanves, fell from a roof at 4 rue de la Cure and was killed.

- In a zoo at the Decorative Arts Exhibition, a tamer was seriously bitten on the thigh by her lon Menelick.

- The taxi driven by chauffeur Alphonse Joly collided with the sidecar of the Marius Couppez couple on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, and they were thrown violently to the ground, sustaining serious injuries.

- On Rue de Rivoll, police officer Laboirie, from the first arrondissement, was struck by the car of Mr. Leon Gorells, 71 Rue Réaumur, and was taken to La Charité.

- On Rue du Cherche-Midi, Ms. Abot, age 45, of 130 Boulevard de Clichy, struck by a taxi, was admitted to La Charité.

- A pedestrian, whose identity has not been determined, was crossing the Qual de Passy and was struck by taxi 635-G-3 in front of number 12. He was diagnosed with a skull fracture and taken to Boucicaut Hospital in serious condition.

- At the corner of Rue Chardon-Lagache and Boulevard Exelmans, a collision between two speeding cars occurred. One of the drivers, Joseph Blayac, aged fifty-seven, living in Levallois-Perret, seriously injured in the left hand, was bandaged in Boucicaut.