The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-22

The Career I'm New York of the False
Prophets Chief Aid.
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Prophets Chief Aid.
lJohn swinton's Paper
One night of May, eleven years ago, 10
gy back room of an old brick house IN
Wooster street, ! met young Frenchnan
who even then had PLAYED part which
doubtless had prepared him for the extra
ordinary adventure in which he Is now en-
esge1. de was MD a group Of his friends
ana had inst reached this country g refu-
gee He had been sn actor in the Paris re-
volt OF Nafcn. 1871; be had esCa ped the
massacre that followed the suppression OF
the Commune; he had sfterIard been ar
rested and condemned 10 death; bis punish
had been changed 10 thst OF Punishment 10
the penal colony of New Caledonia in the
Psct &c; he had there, with few compaa-
ions got up daring plan Of escape; they
had carried out that plan amid dangers as
great as ever we-e encountered; and IN May
of 1874 the little party OF fugiiives had ar
rived n San Francisco, from which Mr.. DIV
Ter Pair FASTENED m New York where he
spent few avs prior 10 his cep rture for
England as place OF safety.
When here ne looked about thirty years of
age. and was tall, 1.-the, and handsome, pos
g sssd of both the vivscity and the gravity
OF an exp erience0 wording OF Paris. He
had done duty on the press as an assailant
of the Empire; he had done service ii the
field during the Franco German war, and
had suffered the hardships OF French convict
life, and was then in tuji fight from one
kind OF peril u another; out, wlthsl, he de-
eaned himself as though his resources had
not yet been tested.
Well accord n 70 the cable dispatches
this young Flenc Gilman, Mr.. Olivier PalB
has for the past year been the military ad-
wiser Of the False Prophet" who is now
leading his wild nordes OF Arabian spears
nsn against the British invaders OF Egypt
and the S0udaa and il is this same French
man who led the storming party that cap
turfd Kbarto, n and put an end to the car or
OF General Gordon. 1t is long distal &c
from Paris 10 New Caledonia, and fr N
Wooster street 10 the Sudan, but Mr.. Pm
has measured it; 1t is queer change from
convict and fugitive to his present rank in
the host of the Faithful" but he has un-
dergone it. AS far back as last year the
dispatches told of mysterious Frenchman
who was reported to be in the Arab camp,
and who was high in the confidence of e.
Nal d.; but it was not till last January that
we were assured of Mr.. PAINS being in com.
mand OF 1900 OF the Mahdi's troops at Ne
tern eh: now we have the news of MS victory
a Khartoum, under which the British Gov
err ment is Keeling.
Mr.. Pain hal q varied experience alter
leaving New York. He went 10 London
AID next to Geneva, where he was concerned
in several newspaper ventures. When the
Turko Russian war broke out he entered the
Turkish service, vas captured by the Rus
sisns and condemned to death spy; bat
the sentence YVES not executed. and De got
out OF prison IL time to return to France aud
u Partisan journalism under the amnesty OF
1850 1t was as correspondent that hs pen
etIated to the camp Of Ell Mahdi, where his
knowledge of the art of war brought aim 10
the front. The EaRlish papers have given
notice that he will be hanged as soon es L 1rd
Wolseley gets hold OF him.