Milford chronicle., 1885-02-27
Ell MAHDPS RIGHT HAND.
A"o career In New York of the False
Prophets Chief Aid.
[From John Swinton's Paner

lFrom John Swintons Paper.l
One night Of May, eleven wears 400
In dingy back room of az old bricR
house in Wooster street, I met
Frenchman who even then hed p,,,,,,. -.
part which doubtless had. ,frepared him
Tor the extraordinaTv- -.s,iiyenture in ,yLioI1
he is now engage He was 8 anil 49, q
| group of--ba Il friends. and had i1sf
reached New York city as a refpSee
de had been an actor in the Paris re-
volt OF March, 1871; he had escaped tba
massacre that followed the snnnyees;o,,
ol the Commune; he had afterward
Deen arrested and condemned to death.
ms punishment had been changed to
t9at OF Punishment to the penal colony !
OF New Caledonia in the Pacific: he had 4
there, with few companions, got M a |
daring plan Of escape; they had carried
out that plan amid dangers as great os
ever were encountered; and in Nav of
1874 the little party of fugitives had ar
[lVed n IN San Francisco, from which Mr..
OilVler Pain hastened to New York
Where he spent few days prior TO his
departure for England as a place of
safety. F@'o u
When here he looked about 30 wears
ot age, and was tall, 1.-THE. and hand.
some, possessed of both the vivocitv
md the gravity of an experienced worli-
ing OF Paris. He had done duty on fine
press as an assailant of the Empire. he
lad done service in the field during tbe
'ranco, '+erman war, and subsequently i
urlng tne revolt of Paris; he had snf. 1
cred the hardships of French convict C
re, and was then in full flight from one ii
ind OF peril to another; but. witbal he o.
emeaned himself as though his re- Il
ources had not yet been tested.
Well, according to the cable dis
iitcnes, this young Frenchman. Mr. hi
lIVler Tam, has for the past year been
le military adviser OF the "False
roPhet,. VINO IS now leading his wild to
'rdes OF Arabian spearmen against fbe ee
rltlsh invaders of Egypt and the ce
'udan; and 1t Is this same Frenchman W
40 LED the storming party that cap- tn
red Anartoum and put an end to the
reer OF Gen. Gordon. It is a lopg
stance from Paris to New Caledonia
d from Wooster street, New York. To Bu
Soudan, but Mr.. Pain has measured
II IS queer change from convict and
sltlve to his present rank in the host Wit
the Faithful, but he hasunderoone
As far back as last year the dis
ches told of a mysterious French
n who was reported to be in the Arab Or
1p, and who was high in the conf
ICE of Ell Mahdi; but it was NOT I'm vt;
January that we were assured of ~
Pains being in command of I3 000
ne Mahdi's troops at Metemneh: now
have the news of his victory Of p
lrtoum, under which the British gov. wos
nent is reeliDg. ooa "ss
II. Pain had a varied experience f5e fSe
r leaving New York. He went fo '--0
don, and next to Geneva. where he
concerned in several newspaDer go,,,
ures. When the Turko Russian war an an, y
e out he entered the Turkish ser ras,,. ,,es I.
was captured by the Russians. and on +
emned to death as a spy; but the h A. i,
ence was not executed, and he gof " VA
II prison in time to return to France
to Partisan journalism under the y
,sty Of 1880. 1t was as a eorre- mani
dent that he penetrated TO the party
OF I'll Mahdi, where his knowledge gu'
e art Of war brought him TO t6e pose
The English papers have given the a
that he will be hanged as soon az
Wolseley gets hold Of him. forciI