The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-19

ton, But he was in q position to supply
incidentally valuable Information in an
other. For he told Nj. Benad that his
locgers were constantly receiving visits
from number of persona whom he accur-
ately and infinitely described. and from
these descriptions the chief of detectives
satisfied himself that be was on the track
o. none other than the notorious Anarchist,
hoenigstein Ravachoi, and his accomplice,
the woman Rulliere
1t was further elected from the hack
driver that few days after the crimo at
Chanbles he had been called on by an in
suspicious. This man, the back driver
plainly perceived. was in a condition Of dis
quiet even TO the extent of wearing false
beard. he asked the driver if he were not
the same who drove a man and woman
recently TO Chambles, but the drivers -sus-
picions were aroused and he replied eva
sively Then the stranger requested him
to drive him TO Saint-Just-Sur Doire, a
distance of some Ten miles. Believing,
however, with considerable reason, that
everything was not right, the driver re-
fused the offer
This much, then, had been discovered by
NJ Benad and it did not take him long to
add two and two together. He speedily
formed plan for the capture of the re-
coubtable Anarchist, for be WAS convinced
that be knew his man. having maize tue
most careful comparisons OF tho evidence
obtained with official data in his own pos
session. The well devised plan adopted by
NJ. Benad for the apprehension of the man
be believed TO be Ravachol was unfortun-
ately destined To gang 8glee,' snd accom-
plish but half OF its purpose, and inat too,
through no fault of lis udroit originator.
An item of news was inserted in the local
paper through the detectives agency, stat
ing that the murderer of Jacques Brunei
YVES suspected OF having gone TO ClermoDt-
terrand This ,rpse completely deceived
Ravschol, now in hiding among the haunts
OF MS brother Anarchists, and he stupidity
fell into the trap which had been laid for
him. Nj. Benad posted three detectives 10
the house where he bad located the room
occupied by Ravachol II these three Off
GERS had not been subsequently discon
certed by the stupid interference Of g GER
tain ccmmissary of police, they would with
out question have carried the whole plan OF
capture TO a successful conclusion.
The mRrplot in the case was one NJ. ley
chene, commissary Of the twelfth arrondis-
sement Of the Adistrict which comprises the
Viilebpuffe quarter who, in his excess of
wisdom. decided that the detectives were
too clever by half, and that he himself was
the fit and proper person to reap the credit
and glory of the capture. This pompous,
thick-witted parsonage is an almost perfect
type Of the a1itionsl Joseph Prudhomme
I'm ideal representative Of the French
bucolic bourgeois official, pulled up by a
preposterously inflated notion Of his own
Importance and Intelligence. He, there
fore, installed himself with his own sub
ordinate in the house where Ravachol had
hired room. and there were thus five per-
cons in all awaiting the Anarchists ar
rival.
Very shortly after the detectives had
gotten into am bush Ravachol made his ap-
penrance. and the instant he attempted to
enter MS room the landlord gave the signal
and joined the police in the attack. One of
Benadis men seized the Anarchist, while
the others formed circle around him and
endeavored TO put him in irons. They
were met, however, by q stubborn resist
ance on the prisoners part. and one of the
detectives, getting wearied, essayed to
overcome the intractable criminal by re-
sorting TO violent methods. At this point
NJ. Teychene, swelling like bulllrog with
official dignity and grandeur struck a
dramatic attitude, and, shifting his breast
in a ponderously solemn manner, eXclailn-
ed: do no violence in the presence OF the
laws majestyr' The result was that the
detectives all along the road had to contend
as best they could against the fierce strng-
giles of the prisoner, narrowly avoiding the
iufl,ction of serious injury to their persons
from the feroclous kicks and lunges Rava-
chol continued TO make at them.
Wnne descending a narrow street the
party were suddenly accosted, upon round
ing curve in the roadway, rendered OBJ
scure from the darkness, by drunken man
carrying package. Instantly lynx-eyed
Commisssry Teychene made up his mind
that they had lighted on desperate accom-
plice of their prisoner, who, no doubt, had
a bomb concealed in the package he car
red. He, therefore, ordered halt and
proceeded to interrogate the reeling and
beiated citizen, who, after the customary
fashion OF drunken men, at once resented
this interference with his progress by
vOlley of abuse leveled at the head of the
astonished commissary.
The attention OF the detectives was thus
diverted for an instant from their trouble
some prisoner, who. with lightning percep-
ton, took advantage of their momentary
distraction, and forthwith landed violent
kick below the belt upon the policeman
whose hold mad relaxed the least, butted
another In the chest, and thus succeeded in
breaking loose and disappearing in the
darkness Immediately hot pursuit was
begun, but, despite all efforts. no trace OF
the fugitive could be found. The gloom Of
the night The complexity OF the intersect-
Ing SIreets, anu Aue lIItSuiEE HGLute VI tuo
ground-everything favored Ravachol. At
length, aud when the pursuing detectives
arrived at the intersection Of four cross
roans, they found themselves completely
baffied. The search, notwithstanding. was
kept up diligently all through the night.
At dawn the entire party held council Of
war, when some Of the detectives who had
researched Ravachol's house during the in
terval reported that they had discovered
nothing, and the pursuit was then finally
abandoned, much to the chagrin of every
one.