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The golden Shiva is found! Was
the 'Crime of the Century' on the
rue de Crenelle the work of a
madman?
Yesterday, 17 March, between five o'clock and six o'clock in the afternoon, is-year-old Pierre B. was fishing by the Pont des In-valides when his hook became snagged so firmly at the bottom of the river that he was obliged to wade into the cold water. ('I'm not so stupid as to just throw away a genuine English hook!' the young fisherman told our reporter.) Pierre's valour was richly rewarded: the hook had not caught on some common tree root but on a weighty object half buried in the silt. Once extracted from the water the object shone with an unearthly splendour, blinding the eyes of the astonished fisherman. Pierre's father, a retired sergeant and veteran of the Battle of Sedan, guessed that it must be the famous golden Shiva for which ten people had been killed only two days earlier, and he handed in the find at the prefecture.
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