The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-23


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the men some words in German, and one
Of them said to him: go
''You are military man, are you
not?'':sH.rs' 2.f}1.vr T., s.s.E >zalz.s :sE,Sa.
He replied that he had the honor to be
SO, retreating at the same time toward
the door, when suddenly, without further
parley, the two rufians sprang upon him.
Believing robbery and murder to be their
objects, he struggled with them as we'll
as he could, but Intellectually, as one of
them held him by the elbows from be.
hind, while the other despoiled him of his
purse, rings, and even of pocket-knife.
with round-pointed blade, which he had
been in the habit of carrying. The woman
mixed in the melee, seemingly taking his
part, at which one Of the robbers furious
" attacked her, knocking her over on
the bed, aud there striking her with the
knife again and again. This division of
the enemy's force was in so far favorable
| to Captain Saint Clair that he succeeded
| in telling the robber with whom he was
still engaged, and then, Getting out Of
the door, ran, and did not stop until he
reached the Cafe de Europe. In re-
counting these adventure second time,
he represented the robbers as fleeing be.
tore him, after clutching their booty, aud
he pursuing them to the street, where
one ran to the right and the other to the
left, and no one noticed his cries Of ''Stop,
thief and assassin
The little variation in his narratives
was,attributed to his bewilderment and
excitement in going through such peril
Gus adventure, and the people Of the Cafe
de Europe lavished attentions upon him.
One Of his shirt sleeves were partly torn
off. They tore away still more to bind
up an ugly cut which his right hand had
received, and they dressed his other
| wounds and remedied the disorder Of his
clothing. They then recommended him
to lodge a complaint with the police, and
he set forth to do so. Before going to
Commissioner Of Police, he diverted his
steps to make call upon man named
Barthelemy, keeper Of little jewelry.
shop in the Palais Royal, who was one of
his friends, and to him and his wife..relat-
ed his adventure. While telling his story
he was overheard by two agents of the
secret rolice,who listened closely to his
narration. Once before, on that same
evening, Captain St. Clair had visited the
Barthelcmy family to tell them on that
succeeding day he was going to Lyons.
They sympathized with him, and told him
that two rascals had been arrested in the
Palais Royal that evening who might be
the same ones who had robbed him.
They went together to the guard-house
to see the fellow. Only one was there.
The other had been sent to his barracks,
being soldier. Captain st. Clair could
not identify the one who remained.
Then Barthelemy and his wife accom-
panied the captain to the office of the
Commissary of Police. They didn't
find that functionary. He had gone to
No. II Rue Neuve des Petits Champs.
Thither they followed him, and the two
secret police agents closely logged their
footsteps. AS they went along Captain
Saint Clair told his story over again. and
with new variation. Now his terrific
combat with the robbers took place not
in the woman's room, hut in the water
closet on the seventh floor, whittier he
had assembled. The detectives made a
mental note of the discrepancy.
Arriving at the scene of the tragedy,
the captain recognized the house as the
one TO which he had been enticed, and he
also recognized the corpse of the beautiful
Holland girl who had lured him to this
den Of assassins. He denied ever having
seen her before that night, but his vari-
Gus stories had awakened suspicion, and,
upon his being arrested and searched, a
little memorandum book, in which with
rare frankness of detail, he noted down
his receipts and expenditures, was found
in his pocket, and, from the entries there
in, it was learned that he had twice be-
fore visited the girl, and paid her small
sums of money on each occasion. Con.
victed thus of one direct falsehood, his
whole story was deemed fantastic and
improbable invention, and he was believ.
ed to be guilty Of the girls assassination.
The bloody knife he identified as his, and
his affirmation that it had been forcibly
wrenched from him by the murders who
robbed him was not at all credited.
But what motive could he have for
such crime! He was young man of
good sense and excellent character, &C.
cording to public repute. 1t was i'm.
possible that he could have had any emo
tions Of jealousy connected with this
woman of the town. He could not have
intended to rob her, for in her purse,
loose pieces of gold and silver and some
jewe]ry, were found lying about the room
| when the no1ico took peccoee;o, Ro