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Detective Sergeant John W. Maillet said yesterday that he could not make an arrest yet "because we don`t know if we have enough evidence" to make a convincing case in court...
Palestrina to Berlin. The French, numbering 32 boys, wore knee pants and white stockings for the secular half of their program (seven, whose voices had changed, wore long pants), switched to white robes for sacred songs. They performed both with easy professionalism. Led by greying, bearlike Monsignor Fernand Maillet, 59, they bubbled with lighthearted precision in such frolics as Frère Jacques and Alouette, brilliantly worked their way through a difficult cantata written for them by Darius Milhaud, and spun out an incredibly pure, otherworldly tone in the age-old Gregorian chant, Tenebrae Factae Sunt...
...worse for their experiences. The two men had beards a month old and both were clad in Moorish dress, their own clothes having been confiscated by the brigands. M. Steeg disported a flowing burnoose, under which he wore a gaudy pair of red breeches and a pullover sweater. M. Maillet was garbed in a coarse white tunic and velvet breeches. The two small Arnaud girls were literally covered with vermin and also dressed in Moorish costume. They stopped crying when familiar French voices soothed them, but asked repeatedly for their mamma and papa. Baroness Steinheil's first request...
...women were exhausted, but our captors did not show the slightest pity, pricking us men frequently and sometimes the women with bayonets, for the brigands all had French rifles. When we protested they threatened to kill us. Once they put me and Maillet in chains, binding us together by the legs, but, due to the women's weeping, they relented and gave us our liberty...
...Baroness & her daughter were erroneously reported in earlier dispatches to be the wives of MM. Steeg & Maillet...